Compass Communique: June 2022

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Hello Compass alpha beta adopters,

You’ll see the new beta label throughout the product but your access to Compass remains the same, and product usage will continue to be free throughout beta. The entire Compass team at Atlassian sends a huge thank you for your feedback, ideas, and enthusiasm as we continue to help you understand and improve your distributed software architecture. Join us for a look back at where we’ve been and what’s to come with Compass.

The future of Compass looks bright with beta

Since Day 1 you’ve shared your ideas and feedback making one thing very clear - there is a need and desire for a product like Compass to help bring order to your distributed software architecture! This move to beta signals our commitment to Compass and Atlassian’s mission to build a better DevOps experience.

DevOps health, the component catalog, and extensibility will continue to be huge areas of focus. New features, customizations, and integrations to further support your diverse tools will expand the rich experience Compass offers. So out with the alpha, and welcome to beta! Visit our blog to learn more.

Git pumped - the list of SCM integrations keeps growing

We know SCM is at the heart of development. Whether you use Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab, Compass has you covered. Compass empowers you to use the tools that work best for you, and you’ll see that approach in action with the latest integrations we support.

Now you can navigate your way with advanced search

Navigating distributed architecture is complex, but we’re making it easier with our new advanced search. Navigate components, scorecards, labels, and more with sorting & filtering, and easily repeat your queries with saved searches! Click here to learn more.

And so much more to come

That’s just the beginning - during Compass beta you can expect to see new features like:

1. Search & Dashboards

2. Scorecard improvements

3. Component overview re-design

4. CheckOps improvements

5. Expanded Team Dashboard

6. Even more integrations

It’s all part of Atlassian’s mission to improve the developer experience and demystify your distributed software architecture. Visit our beta release Community post to learn more, and thank you for joining us on this journey!

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[Deleted user]

Great news :)

I'm looking for a way to generate compass.yml to my components from your dashboard (Based on configured properties that were made).

I'm also looking for automatic updates to compass.yml (Webhooks or directly to Github) after changes through the UI.

How can we do it?

Thanks,

[Henry Olson]

Hi @[deleted] ! Once you've set up your SCM app (sounds like you may be using GitHub?), navigate to any existing component and click on the "Component Settings" tab to get instructions on how to generate the compass.yml and add it to your repo.

Once a component is managed with a compass.yml, you will no longer make updates in the Compass UI (and in fact, most of the fields will be locked). You will need to make changes manually in the compass.yml to update the component. We've discussed the possibility of adding a two-way sync so that you can continue to update the component UI and see changes in your compass.yml, but that's not currently on our roadmap.

Hope that helps!