#80: Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2022

This week's newsletter highlights top AWS re-Invent announcements, the legal risk of GitHub Copilot, what actually happens when you use Docker to publish a port, Kubernetes v1.26 updates and its secret management tools, Helm best practices, how to harden Prometheus for production usage, collection of free resources to grow as an engineering manager, open source platforms for cloud thread detection and K8s session management, why Google should be worried about ChatGPT, and more.
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📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2022
Here's a handy page where you can find updates of top announcements at AWS re:Invent2022, including Lambda SnapStart, AWS application Composer, Amazon CodeCatalyst and more.
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"GitHub copilot isn't worth the risk" - Copilot may be a glimpse into the future of AI, but it comes with a lot of legal and security baggage especially with recent lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft (its parent company), and OpenAI - Read more »

"What actually happens when you publish a container port" - Have you ever wondered what actually happens when you ask Docker to publish a port? How to publish a port with containerd? How nerdctl and Lima implement port forwarding? - Read more »

"Kubernetes version 1.26: everything you should know" - This article focuses on some highlighted enhancements, important deprecations, and removals so that you can be confident before upgrading your clusters - Read more »

"Helm security and best practices" - This post explains the benefits of using Helm, the pitfalls, and offers a few recommendations for Helm security - Read more »

"State of Kubernetes secrets management in 2022" - The evolving Kubernetes Secrets landscape now provides development teams with many choices for storing, managing, syncing, and injecting secrets into containers - Read more »

"Cloud, why so difficult?" - As the cloud evolved from ”I don’t want servers under my desk” to ”my app needs 30 different managed services to perform its tasks”, we kind of lost track of what a great developer experience looks like - Read more »

"Drag and drop from terminal" - A hands-on tutorial using dragon and tmux to get a better terminal drag and drop workflow - Read more »

"Hardening Monitoring: a step-by-step guide" - This article will walk through how to serve metrics-server, prometheus-server and prometheus-adapter securely - Read more »

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

A collection of inspiring resources (posts, books, podcasts, slides) related to engineering management and tech leadership - Learn more »

Bettercap is a swiss army knife that offer to security researchers, red teamers and reverse engineers an easy to use, all-in-one solution with all the features they might possibly need - Learn more »

Wazuh is an open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. It is capable of protecting workloads across on-premises, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-based environments - Learn more »

Score is an open source, platform-agnostic, container-based workload specification. You can define your workload once with the Score Specification and then use a Score Implementation CLI to translate it to multiple platforms, such as Helm, Docker Compose or Google Cloud Run - Learn more »

100+ open-source clones and alternatives of popular sites like Airbnb, Amazon, Instagram, Netflix, TikTok, Spotify, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc. List contains source code, tutorials, demo links, tech stack, and GitHub stars count. Great for learning purpose! - Learn more »

Kubesess is kubectl plugin managing sessions. Why isolated context? Typically when you switch context in kubectl (with ex. kubectx), the change happens on all terminal instances - Learn more »

📰 NEWSWORTHY STORIES

"Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst, a unified software development service" - Read more »

"The biggest preinvent serverless announcements you may have missed" - Read more »

"A snapshot of modern DevOps practices today" - Read more »

"Announcing AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java functions" - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

The engineering management career isn't an easy one, but there are maps available to help navigate it. What if you want to advance your career without becoming an engineering manager? Staff Engineer is your guide to building your career towards a Staff engineering role, receiving the title, and succeeding within the role.
Highly recommended for any senior engineer trying to grow into the next step that isn't keen on Management track.

🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

Manoj Awasthi is the CTO at JULO and previously the SVP of Engineering at Tokopedia. In this episode, Manoj shared his engineering leadership lessons, that include describing the role of a senior engineering leader, scaling up engineering team, and maintaining engineering productivity.

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK

Site Reliability Engineer @Sticker Mule
AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres
🌎 Remote, anywhere
💰 $120k+
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CloudOps Engineer @Aqua
AWS, Postgres, Git
🌎 Remote, India
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Senior DevOps Manager @Prime Trust
Terraform, AWS, Docker
🌎 Remote, anywhere
💰 $70k - $120k
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Hand-picked DevOps opportunities to work from home, remotely, freelance, full-time, part-time, contract and internships - See more »

🌎 EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Unblock is Buildkite’s annual CI/CD conference. The two-day virtual conference brings together engineering and infrastructure leaders solving some of the most interesting challenges in software - Register now

This talk will describe how Kubernetes CAN be the core orchestrator for our future edge-overlords, why WebAssembly is likely to aid that usage, and will have tons of quick demos to show how it feels - Register now

Get key Salesforce DevOps insights in this webinar with Mitch Spano (Google), David Reed (Salesforce), Jason Lantz (MuseLab) & Rob Cowell (Gearset) - Register now

🐦 TWEET OF THE WEEK