PagerDuty Community Update August 26, 2022
Tags: devops, incidentresponse, automation, news
Published: 2022-08-26 17:11:09

Happy Friday everyone! Welcome to the PagerDuty Community Weekly Update! Here you’ll find what’s going on in PagerDuty land.

## Cool Stuff
The [PagerDuty Life Hacks](https://community.pagerduty.com/forum/t/introducing-pagerduty-life-hacks/3845) challenge is open until September 9th. Do you have an interesting or unusual use for PagerDuty? Does it help you run your smart home, or alert you when a product becomes available at your favorite retailer? Let us know!
 
## Setting the Standard
[Service Standards](https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/service-directory#service-standards) are now available in all PagerDuty accounts. Ensure that all of your team’s services meet your organizational configuration requirements. Find out more on the [blog](https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/introducing-service-standards/)!

## Find us in person!
We have live in-person sessions coming up! 
- In September, Mandi will be at DevOpsDays [Charlotte](https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-charlotte/welcome/) the 8th and 9th to present *Plan for Unplanned Work: Game Days with Chaos Engineering* and DevOpsDays [DC](https://devopsdays.org/events/2022-washington-dc/welcome/) the 15th and 16th to co-present *Reducing Trauma in Production with SLOs and Chaos Engineering* with Julie Gunderson. 
- Kat will be at [Dreamforce](https://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/) (!), September 19-22 in San Francisco, to present *Automate Incident Response Between Operations & Customers*, and at [ElevateCX](https://elevatecx.co/) September 29 & 30 in Denver, to give her talk *Happy Agents = Happy Customers*.
- Tara will be presenting *Stories Make Meaning. Meaning Makes Change* at [Drupal Diversity & Inclusion Camp](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drupal-diversity-inclusion-camp-2022-tickets-318864982747). Join Tara for a deep dive into storytelling & how it can help you at work. Yes, even if you're an engineer. 
- Scott is taking his talk *Built-in Testing in Go is More Than Just Passable* to [GoLab.io](https://golab.io/) October 2-4 in Florence, Italy **and** at [Indy.Code()](https://indycode.amegala.com/) October 19!

We hope to see you! 

## We’re also virtual!
Scott will be hosting the quarterly [Terraform Round Table](https://meet.pagerduty.com/terraform6) on August 30. If your team uses Terraform to manage your PagerDuty environment, or you’d like to, sign up!

Mandi will be part of the *Community of Practice Roundtable* session at [ChefConf](https://www.chef.io/chefconf) on September 13.

## New in the Terraform Provider
The PagerDuty Terraform provider [v2.6.0](https://github.com/PagerDuty/terraform-provider-pagerduty/releases/tag/v2.6.0) was released last week. This release adds a new [data source for pagerduty_users](https://github.com/PagerDuty/terraform-provider-pagerduty/pull/545) along with other changes. 

## On the Podcast
Did you know we have a podcast? Add [Page it to the Limit](https://www.pageittothelimit.com/) to your favorite podcast app, or listen to all of our episodes online. Our most recent episode features Barak Brudo from Scribe Security, giving us all the details on [Software Bills of Materials](https://www.pageittothelimit.com/sboms-with-barak-brudo/). 

We have upcoming episodes on Runbook Automation, Service Mesh, and other great topics!

We publish new episodes about twice a month, so make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss any.

## On Twitch
We’re on [Twitch](https://twitch.tv/pagerduty) three times a week, covering all things PagerDuty. Our regular shows are:
- PagerDuty Garage, the show about the PagerDuty API: Mondays at 10am Eastern / 7am Pacific
- Terraform Time: Mondays at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific
- HowTo Happy Hour: Fridays at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific. 
Follow our channel for alerts when we go live! You can also view our most recent episodes on [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/pagerduty/videos). You can see some of our earlier streams on the [YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW0xKyjystaOwwYODuuvKdte7STOpU6jt).

The Process Automation folks will be back with us on September 13th at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific to talk about the 4.6.0 release! Missed the 4.5.0 stream? It’s on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZqSPUrT5IU)!

## Other Stuff
Find out what Process Automation can do for you! There’s a new customer story about Process Automation up now on the [PagerDuty website](https://www.pagerduty.com/customer/brinks/). Brink’s took a long, hard look at their workload and found they were spending a lot of time on manual processes. They used [PagerDuty Process Automation](https://www.pagerduty.com/platform/automation/process-software/) to help them save time and resources!

Did you miss PagerDuty Summit 2022? All the sessions are now on our YouTube Channel! Check out the [Summit 2022 Playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW0xKyjystaM-oexmtI7aWb79A8T89eHt) for great sessions from PagerDuty, our partners, and our customers.  

## Get in Touch
If you have a question about PagerDuty, check out our [Community Forums](https://community.pagerduty.com) for advice from friendly folks. If you’d like to be on our podcast or Twitch, or just say hi, email us at **community-team@pagerduty.com**. We’d love to hear what you’re doing with PagerDuty!