#103: Run Any Linux Distribution Inside Your Terminal

Welcome to this week's DevOps digest! Today, we'll roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty with Terraform and Packer as I walk you through the deployment of a Jenkins cluster on AWS. We'll also shed light on a 'clean code' approach to architecting Lambda functions, keeping things lightweight and efficient.

Ever wondered about managing a monorepo setup with numerous projects and Terraform modules? We'll dive into the organization and management of such complex structures, tackling deployments spanning across AWS accounts and even Azure subscriptions.

Adding a fun twist to our regular programming, I'll be guiding you through the process of learning Git by crafting your very own Git server in Python! I'll also show you the ropes of integrating the ChatGPT module into Terraform code to produce a Vault cluster.

Is Serverless overpriced? Let's see what we can learn from the experience of the PrimeVideo team. We'll also pull back the curtain on Coinbase's expenditure on Datadog, revealing how they spent more than $65M per year 😵

As always, we're featuring the most interesting open-source projects of the week. Get ready to explore Time Machine-style backups using rsync, running any Linux distribution inside your terminal, and FerretDB - a MongoDB alternative. And that's just the beginning!

Prepare to dive deep into another week of DevOps insights, tutorials, and discussions.

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

"Deploy a Jenkins cluster on AWS with Terraform and Packer" - Learn how to build a Jenkins cluster on AWS with Terraform and Packer, and how to build a CI/CD pipeline for a Serverless app on top of it - Read more »

"Serverless lightweight clean code approach" - An opinionated example of a lightweight ‘clean code’ Lambda function architecture, with code examples written in the AWS CDK and TypeScript - Read more »

"Manage multiple Terraform projects in monorepo" - How to organize and manage a monorepo setup with multiple projects and Terraform modules, and deployments spanning across AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions - Read more »

"Is Serverless overpriced? What can we learn from the PrimeVideo team?" - What should have been an interesting case study for “evolution architecture” turned into a social media shitstorm - Read more »

"Terraform new provider : ChatGPT" - How to apply ChatGPT module in Terraform code that produces a Vault cluster - Read more »

"Orchestration and choreography in AWS" - This article will guide you through the possibilities for leveraging Orchestration and Choreography to governate your Distributed Systems, while keeping the architecture completely Serverless using AWS - Read more »

"DIY Git in Python" - Learn Git by implement your own Git in Python - Read more »

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

1️⃣ KubeLift CLI is a cross-platform tool to quickly spin up a self-hosted Kubernetes appliance in your Azure subscription for testing purposes - Learn more »

2️⃣ FerretDB is an open-source proxy, converting the MongoDB 6.0+ wire protocol queries to SQL - using PostgreSQL as a database engine - Learn more »

3️⃣ Quickwit is the fastest search engine on cloud storage. It's a great fit for log management, distributed traces, and any immutable data - Learn more »

4️⃣ Bytebase is a Database CI/CD solution for the devs and DBAs. It's the only database CI/CD project included by the CNCF Landscape - Learn more »

5️⃣ Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal. Distrobox uses podman or docker to create containers using the Linux distribution of your choice - Learn more »

6️⃣ Time Machine-style backups using rsync. It creates incremental backups of files and directories to the destination of your choice - Learn more »

📰 NEWSWORTHY STORIES

"Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved" - Read more »

"Infrastructure security: a personal perspective" - Read more »

"How to improve incident triaging for better organization-wide incident response" - Read more »

"Tuning EMQX to scale to +1M concurrent connection on Kubernetes" - Read more »

💡 THREAD OF THE WEEK

😂 MEMES OF THE WEEK

Hand-picked DevOps opportunities to work from home, remotely, freelance, full-time, part-time, contract and internships - See more »

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