In this week’s DevOps Digest, I’m thrilled to bring you a curated selection of tutorials and insights that cover everything from fine-tuning ALB's request routing to deploying Super Mario on Kubernetes 🍄. As your solo navigator through the vast DevOps universe, I'm here to spotlight the magic of AWS Fargate and the wonders of on-demand containers, not to mention diving deep with Terraform for Google's infrastructure and Azure's security enhancements.

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Tutorials of the week

• Advanced Request Routing with ALB: Learn how to leverage Application Load Balancer’s advanced request routing to route application traffic across multiple Amazon EKS clusters efficiently.

• Kafka on EKS: Get insights on deploying and scaling Apache Kafka on Amazon EKS for robust messaging solutions.

• Terraform as a Service with Google: Dive into managing Google's infrastructure using Terraform as a service.

• Infrastructure Automation: See how to create infrastructure using Backstage templates, Terraform, and GitHub actions for streamlined operations.

• Running Selenium on Steroids: A step-by-step guide to setup a Selenium server on AWS Lambda.

• Cost Savings with AWS Fargate On Demand: On-demand container solution using AWS Fargate, CloudFront, and Lambda.

• Layerless ESBuild Lambda: Learn how to structure your serverless projects to share code between Lambda Functions using ESBuild instead of Lambda Layers.

• Testing Terraform with LocalStack: How to use LocalStack and GitHub Actions to test Terraform AWS deployments.

Super Mario on Kubernetes: A fun and educational tutorial on using Kubernetes to deploy a Super Mario game:

• Using Amazon Textract to gain personal financial insights: Learn how Amazon Textract can be used to extract text and data from financial documents for better personal finance management.

• Adding OpenTelemetry to Container Stacks: An in-depth guide on integrating OpenTelemetry into your containerized applications for improved observability.

• Terraform, Azure Policy, and CAF: Explore how to enforce security and compliance in your Azure environment using Terraform.

Projects of the week

Highlighting cool DevOps projects to keep an eye on:

• Mlinfo is the Swiss army knife for deploying scalable MLOps infrastructure. It aims to make MLOps infrastructure deployment easy and accessible to all ML teams.

• Prodzilla is a modern, open-source synthetic monitoring tool. It allows testing complex user flows in production environments and optimizes for human readability of system behavior.

• Octoherd allows you to run a script against multiple repositories in parallel.

• Sendenv is a CLI tool to easily and securely share select environment variables with someone else.

• Terraform to be used in AWS Organizations is a collection of AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs) written in Hashicorp.

• sqlite-web is a web-based SQLite database browser written in Python.

• CDK Notifier is a lightweight CLI tool to parse a CDK log file and post changes to pull request requests.

• Embrasure is a lightweight, open-source tool for managing application secrets across a small development team.

Newsworthy Stories

Stay informed with the latest news impacting the DevOps and SRE world:

• I looked through attacks in my access logs. Here's what I found.

• SRE governance at Zurich.

• How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox.

• The risks of automated deploys from Slack engineering team.

• GitLab password reset bug leaves more than 5.3K servers up for grabs.

• What motivates DevOps & SRE engineers, based on our 2023 survey.

• Minimal Linux Bootloader debugging story.

• Pinterest’s transition to HTTP/3: A boost in performance and reliability.

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