#51: Manage Your K8s Cluster From Your Phone

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🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

For most software projects, the source of truth for how developers can configure their local environment is paragraphs of "Getting Started" documentation inside a hopefully-maintained README file. This historically-necessary practice requires many manual steps and results in environments that are messy, heavy and fragile, but this is no longer necessary today. Declarative configurators, containers and cloud orchestrators are here to help! Learn how to upgrade your projects from "Local As Documentation" to "Local As Code", and see how it benefits both individuals and teams to do so 😮

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

How to save on costs with Spot Instances on Kubernetes
Cost-saving has always been one of the important objectives for organizations, but now it is more important than ever before. Because of the uncertainty in the business world, the earlier motto of "growth at all costs" has been replaced with "responsible growth". This post will focus on how you can leverage spot instances of AWS for cost saving in Kubernetes clusters without compromising on stability 🔥
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"Tools that use AWS Logs to help with Least Privilege - This article explores a few tools that use AWS logs to help you create least privilege policies. Getting to the right policies can be an ongoing game of whack-a-mole and no tool can generate perfect policies with no effort. They all require you to put thought into your approach and do last-mile tweaking but they can help with the toil - Read more »

"An orchestrator and code generator for Terraform" - Terramate is a tool for managing multiple Stacks containing Terraform code supporting change detection and code generation. This is a hands-on tutorial on how to use it - Read more »

"Stop using Alpine Docker images" - Everybody loves Alpine images because they are light and have a smaller attack surface, but maybe they are not the best option anymore - Read more »

"Managing Kubernetes clusters from your smartphone" - Ever imagined someone managing Kubernetes clusters from a phone? Well, kubenav makes it feasible! Have a look at it and compare its features with a default Kubernetes dashboard - Read more »

"Scaling containers on AWS in 2022" - Great post that compares how fast containers scale up in 2022 using different orchestrators on AWS - Read more »

"How to use API Gateway to process 1 billion traffic daily" - The post's name says it all :) - Read more »

"Storing state in the URL" - If you are developing a web application, sooner or later you will face the problem of saving the local system state for the user - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Enjoyed reading how Reddit started and the pitfalls and hurdles Alexis had to overcome to reach his goals. Also, a great look back at the last decade of the Internet through a contagiously optimistic lens. Overall, I found it to be highly funny, nostalgia inducing and incredibly inspirational.
As Alexis says, don't ask permission. Just start. There are too many good bits to put in a review....just read the book.

🛠 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 »

Kubernetes Goat is a "Vulnerable by Design" cluster environment to learn and practice Kubernetes security using an interactive hands-on playground. Kubernetes Goat is used for educational purposes only, do not test or apply these attacks on any systems without permission - Read more »

Robusta is a troubleshooting and automations platform for Kubernetes. It streamlines everything that happens after you deploy your application. It is somewhat like Zapier/IFTTT for DevOps, with an emphasis on prebuilt useful automations and not just "build your own" - Read more »

Terramate is a tool for managing multiple Terraform stacks that comes with support for change detection and code generation. It provides ways to keep your Terraform code DRY and allows to define relationships between stacks and supports you to orchestrate Terraform commands in those stacks with minimal effort to get started in a non-intrusive way - Read more »

Akeyless is the no bullsh*t secrets management platform to secure your credentials. No config or deployment. Built-in HA & DR. Integrates with all your DevOps Tools - Try the no bullsh*t SaaS Secrets Vault completely free - Read more »

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK