#49: Running Pac-Man on K8s

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🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

In this video, Marcia talks about how to choose the right storage solution for your Lambda function. She covers AWS S3, AWS EFS, Lambda layers and ephemeral storage. Also, she talk about what exactly each of them are, what benefits and tradeoffs they have, and what are good use cases.

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

Kubernetes: Statistics in Your Console
In this article, you will learn how to use the kubectl resource-capacity plugin to inspect nodes CPU and memory limits/requests/utilization as well the namespaces usage.
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"Testing your Infrastructure as Code using Terratest" - This post discusses how to use Terratest for testing Infrastructure as Code before deploying the changes to production - Read more »

"Accessing kube-dns from your desktop" - This small tutorial explains how you can test Kubernetes DNS resolution from your desktop. This technique can be used for other services as well - Read more »

"Common errors found in Kubernetes manifests" - Exhaustive list of common errors while writing Kubernetes manifests and how to troubleshoot and fix those issues - Read more »

"Why you shouldn't use SQLite" - While SQLite databases are very convenient for storing application data, you should not store any significant amount of data in them - Read more »

"How to write a Git commit message" - I keep posting this type of content over and over but I still see folks writing terrible/awful commit messages... - Read more »

"Running Containers on AWS Lambda" - How to build and run a container on top of AWS Lambda, where you're only billed for the milliseconds it runs, with a full deployment pipeline - Read more »

"Best practices to keep your projects secure on GitHub" - These days software is subject to an ever-changing threat landscape. Check out the many ways you can keep your projects secure on GitHub today - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

I bought this book few months ago before I finally started reading it. I am so glad I finally found time to read it, though. The book is about a reporter, Joshua Foer, who was covering a world memory competition and then decided to see if he could learn the techniques to improve his own memory.
What follows in the book is an incredible journey into the history of memory and how it can be a huge help or hindrance, and how one is able to achieve such a memory 🧠

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

If you manage AWS Cloud accounts you might be interested in forwarding all your EC2 logs with ease to 3rd parties through Kinesis Firehose from one centralized place – if this is the case – check out this Rsyslog Server product made by 0x4447. The company 0x4447 builds products to increase standardization and security in AWS Organizations. They do this with automated pipelines that use well structured projects to create secure, easy to maintain and fail tolerant solutions - Read more »

Yacht is a web interface for managing docker containers with an emphasis on templating to provide 1 click deployments. Think of it like a decentralized app store for servers that anyone can make packages for - Read more »

Explore the Go language by writing tests, Go is a good language for learning TDD because it is a simple language to learn and testing is built-in. I highly recommend this project for people who are interested in picking up Go - Read more »

Online resources that will help you prepare for taking the CNCF CKA 2020 "Kubernetes Certified Administrator" Certification exam. If you are planning to take your CKA exam, check out the resources curated. Ensure you have the right version of Kubernetes documentation selected (e.g. v1.21 as of June 2021 exam) especially for API objects and annotations - Read more »

KubeOrbit is an open-source integration testing tool that connects your local environment to a Kubernetes cluster for easier testing and troubleshooting. From now on, stop testing your application in local infra naively. Also, no more endless efforts in managing various cloud-based test environments - Read more »

mirrord lets you easily mirror traffic from your Kubernetes cluster to your development environment. It comes as both Visual Studio Code extension and a CLI tool. The extension automatically detects which local port your debugged process listens on and directs the mirrored traffic to it - Read more »

You might not be a hardcore gamer, but it is worth keeping some small games on the devices that you use so that you can play them between work or to stimulate your mind before you start something afresh. Pac-Man the classic arcade game - deployment files for VMware Tanzu and other Kubernetes distributions - Read more »

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK

Site Reliability Engineer @Swile
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
🌎 Remote, France
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AI Infrastructure Engineer @Scale
AWS, TensorFlow/Kubeflow, Spark
🌎 Remote, USA
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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer @Confluent
Terraform, Prometheus, Kubernetes
🌎 Remote, USA
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🐦 TWEET OF THE WEEK

Great list of folks to follow on YouTube if you need extra materials on DevOps ✅

📅 EVENT OF THE WEEK

DevOps Enterprise Summit Virtual - Europe is coming up in a few weeks. You will learn from amazing talks and you'll be surrounded by the best in the DevOps space. Grab your pass for free with the EUR22DEVOPSBULLETIN code - Read more »

😂 MEMES OF THE WEEK