#50: Testing Helm Charts

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🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

For Docker beginners: In this hands-on webinar, you'll learn how to create a web app built on Node, React, and MySQL, all ready to be deployed as containerized services. By the end, you’ll have an app ready to be launched with a single command 🚀

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

Usage and best practices of kubectl patch
With Kubernetes, sometimes you need to change the config of a running resource. kubectl patch can help you out, and this guide will teach you everything you need to know about it.
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"1h30 downtime on a Saturday morning" - How 4 YAML lines brought down 3 APIs... Yet another Helm chart misconfiguration, 2 settings were conflicting with each other - Read more »

"Advanced test practices for Helm Charts" - Detailed learnings and experiences of finding a good way to write automated tests for Helm charts to detect issues upfront - Read more »

"Collecting system information from a bunch of Kubernetes clusters" - When maintaining a large fleet of Kubernetes clusters (150+), you might have dreamed of having a handy tool for viewing what their overall state is - Read more »

"Towards a modular DevOps stack" - In this article, you will learn how to modularize your infrastructure using Terraform and ArgoCD - Read more »

"SSH Bastions break your zero trust model" - 74% of data breach results from unauthorized access. Meanwhile, it’s a common practice to set up a bastion server to provide access to the host and then use that as the gateway for SSH connectivity - Read more »

"Terraform configuration ingestion" - Methods of ingesting configuration into your Terraform code or modules to help you deliver infrastructure in a more consistent and repeatable manner - Read more »

"A guide to zero downtime migrations" - This guide will go through the step-by-step process of migrating tables in PostgreSQL. While the examples are for a PostgreSQL table migration, the same steps can apply to almost any migration - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

This book continues the Lean Startup Approach, which means a) Do less than ideal plan b) Test c) Learn and Improve. But with Blitzscaling methodology, all these in tremendous speed. The idea is that companies should grow fast, dominate a category, and then find an ancillary way to make money. For example Facebook is a massive social network that makes money off advertising. Google is a massive search engine, also makes money off advertising (and other products) 🚌💨💨

🛠 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 »

ktail is a tool to tail Kubernetes logs. It's like kubectl logs, but with a bunch of features to make it more convenient. Detects pods and containers as they come and go, tail multiple pods and containers at the same time, based on names and labels and recovers from failure - Read more »

Kube No Trouble (kubent) is a simple tool to check whether you're using any of deprecated API versions in your cluster and therefore should upgrade your workloads first, before upgrading your Kubernetes cluster. It supports local manifest files, kubectl, Helm v2 and v3 - Read more »

Cuber is an automation tool that can package and deploy your apps (written in any language and framework) on Kubernetes. Unlike other tools that add more options and more complexity to K8s, Cuber is made to simplify and reduce the complexity. You just need to create a Cuberfile, with ~10 lines of code, and then deploy your app on any K8s cluster - Read more »

Mermaid lets you create diagrams and visualizations using text and code. It is a Javascript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically. The main purpose of Mermaid is to help documentation catch up with development - Read more »

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK

Site Reliability Engineer @Check
AWS, Terraform, Python
🌎 Remote, USA
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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

📅 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