#65: The True Cost of Kubernetes

🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

In this episode of "The New Stack Makers", Webb Brown, CEO and co-founder of KubeCost, talked with The New Stack about opening up the black box on how much Kubernetes is really costing 💸 And costs aren’t just about money. Even with unlimited money, looking at cost information can provide important information about performance issues, reliability or availability.

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

Learn Postgres at the Playground
Wait?!?!? Postgres in the browser? Yep. You can jump right over to the playground and check out some of the tutorials right away. Or read on to learn a bit more on what you can do.
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"The TTY demystified" - The TTY subsystem is central to the design of Linux, and UNIX in general. Unfortunately, its importance is often overlooked, and it is difficult to find good introductory articles about it but not anymore - Read more »

"Scaling Kubernetes to thousands of CRDs" - Over the past few months Crossplane has pushed the boundaries of Kubernetes with the number of Custom Resources it supports. In this post you'll explore the limitations the team have discovered and they overcome them - Read more »

"I have complicated feelings about TDD" - Maximal TDD isn’t nearly as important as the maximalist would believe. TDD is better used in a portfolio of methods. Since there’s way more useful methods than one person can possibly master, you pick what you want to get good at. Often TDD doesn’t make the cut - Read more »

"Manage secrets on Kubernetes with ArgoCD and Vault" - In this article, you will learn how to integrate ArgoCD with HashiCorp Vault to manage secrets on Kubernetes - Read more »

"SSH tips and tricks" - The following articles lists some of the various tips and tricks learned about SSH. This is by no means an exhaustive list - Read more »

"Understanding basic networking in GKE" - In this article you'll explore the networking components of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and the various options that exist - Read more »

"Keptn: Getting started" - Keptn is an event-driven orchestration engine for cloud-native apps. This post explores decoupling tools from workflow, automating multi-stage delivery, reducing manual testing and validation and many more - Read more »

"Introduction to the World of Data" - When done reading this article you should have a decent understanding of the roles of Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Data Scientists and the technologies that empower them (OLTP, OLAP, Data Warehouses, Data Lakes) - Read more »

"6 Docker Compose best practices for Dev and Prod" - Docker Compose is an excellent tool for optimizing the process of creating development, testing, staging, and production environments. This post is about the best practices of Docker Compose for development and production - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

I picked this book randomly but mostly because it was recommended by a friend. I think this book shows how life is random and how a lot of people can use random data to fool others by disguising/ignoring half of the data.
I simply loved this book! It really helps you to understand and think about probability not only in markets but everywhere 💯

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

This operator scans all SBOMs from a git-repository for vulnerabilities using Grype. The result-list can be emitted as JSON-file served via an endpoint and/or as Prometheus metrics. The scans are done periodically - Read more »

Velero (formerly Heptio Ark) gives you tools to back up and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. You can run Velero with a public cloud platform or on-premises - Read more »

Open Source Insights is an experimental service developed and hosted by Google to help developers better understand the structure, construction, and security of open source software packages - Read more »

TAWSGoat is a vulnerable by design infrastructure on AWS featuring the latest released OWASP Top 10 web application security risks. AWSGoat mimics real-world infrastructure but with added vulnerabilities. It features multiple escalation paths and is focused on a black-box approach - Read more »