#92: Infrastructure Drift

Welcome to this week's edition of DevOps Bulletin newsletter. Here's a roundup of the latest topics in the world of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and continuous delivery.

First up, we take a look at managing drift in cloud infrastructure. Next, we delve into how Medium uses Kubernetes and a complete container network guide. I also cover several other important topics, including EC2 instance naming conventions, building CI/CD pipelines for single-page applications, optimizing AWS SQS queue configurations, and how FinOps empowers developers and reduces cloud spend.

If you're interested in learning from the experiences of others, I have a story about a $300K bill shock after an AWS account hacker. This cautionary tale highlights the importance of securing your cloud infrastructure.

In addition to these posts, I have some exciting open-source projects of the week. Kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls, while Kubefirst is an open-source GitOps infrastructure & application delivery platform. Finally, I have a CLI that writes your Git commit messages for you with OpenAI's GPT-3 and more 🔥

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

Drift management in cloud infrastructure
Infrastructure drift occurs when the configuration of the infrastructure deviates from its IaC state. I've recently written a blog post about the various tools available for detecting and managing infrastructure drift.
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"Kubernetes infrastructure at Medium" - How the folks at Medium use Kubernetes to manage micro-services - Read more »

"Amazon EC2 names explained" - Understanding EC2 naming conventions is a nightmare even for AWS folks - Read more »

"Enabling CI/CD for SPA with S3, AWS CodePipeline, and Terraform" - A hands-on tutorial on building an end-to-end pipeline for a single page application - Read more »

"Necessary configuration for AWS SQS" - SQS queue’s configurations you need to be aware of - Read more »

"3 ways to manage concurrency in Serverless applications" - How to use reserved concurrency, EventSourceMapping and dynamic currency control - Read more »

"How to practice FinOps with Komiser" - If you want to bring accountability to cloud spend, a blog post I recently wrote about usage of open-source tool for FinOps - Read more »

"Mastering container networking" - A series of blog posts to understand container networking - Read more »

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

1️⃣ kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls - Learn more »

2️⃣ Kubefirst is an open-source GitOps infrastructure & application delivery platform - Learn more »

3️⃣ Tool to import your Apple Health Data in Influx and visualize them in Grafana - Learn more »

4️⃣ A CLI that writes your Git commit messages for you with OpenAI's GPT-3 - Learn more »

5️⃣ Awesome Docker Compose examples of self-hosted FOSS and proprietary projects - Learn more »

6️⃣ Side project that uses an event-based serverless architecture to run Christmas lights - Learn more »

📰 NEWSWORTHY STORIES

"Don't be fooled by serverless" - Read more »

"A role for all your EC2 instances" - Read more »

"Save time with automated security checks of your Terraform scripts" - Read more »

"How we manage incident response at Honeycomb" - Read more »

🎥 VIDEO OF THE WEEK

A hands-on video on how to build multi-tenant solutions with AWS serverless computing models.
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📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

A must-read for any aspiring technical leader, "Dare to Lead" by Brené Brown is a short book for courageous leadership in today's complex world. Brown emphasizes the importance of vulnerability, empathy, and courage while providing tools and strategies for developing these skills. The book challenges traditional notions of leadership and provides a roadmap for creating a more compassionate and effective workplace culture.

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK

Senior DevOps Engineer @Seqera Labs
AWS, Terraform, Docker
🌎 Remote, europe
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Data SRE Manager @Mozila
AWS, BigQuery, MySQL
🌎 Remote, USA
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Platform Engineer @SUSE
Linux, Kubernetes, Git
🌎 Remote, India
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Hand-picked DevOps opportunities to work from home, remotely, freelance, full-time, part-time, contract and internships - See more »

💡 QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Damn 😱

😂 MEMES OF THE WEEK

Looking forward to seeing how DevOps teams can take advantage of AI

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