Welcome to this week’s edition of the DevOps Bulletin!

This week, I’ve lined up some useful tutorials for you. Start by learning how to turn existing cloud resources into code with Massdriver. Also, check out a cool method to map where those sneaky login attempts are coming from on your Linux server.

For those tweaking Kubernetes, "7 Kubernetes Hacks" guide offers some clever tricks to try out. Need to run tasks more frequently than once a minute on AWS? I'll show you how to set up 30-second triggers.

For Terraform enthusiasts, I’ve got a deep dive into the new CI/CD testing framework and a look at how to beef up security on your API Gateways using AVPs.

This week’s projects are worth a closer look too. Gitleaks helps you keep your codebase secure by spotting hardcoded secrets, and Databend offers a cost-effective alternative to Snowflake. Lynx provides a solid Terraform backend, and Portr lets you expose local connections to the internet safely.

In the news, find out what IBM’s purchase of HashiCorp means for the cloud landscape, explore challenges in site reliability engineering, and discover how teams are minimizing burnout with smarter alert systems.

My top post this week: AWS Data Transfer isn’t a black box anymore. You can now track your egress fees by resource, service, region, or any cost center.

Tutorials of the week

• Infrastructure as Code Generation: Discover how to generate infrastructure as code from existing cloud resources with Massdriver.

• Visualizing malicious IP addresses: Cool tutorial on mapping the origins of malicious login attempts on a virtual server using Linux.

• 7 Mind-Blowing Kubernetes Hacks: These are not your everyday tips but profound insights into making Kubernetes do amazing things.

• How to trigger events every 30 seconds in AWS: Cron jobs let you set recurring events down to 1-minute intervals. But what if you need more?

• Terraform CI/CD Testing: Guide into the new Terraform Test Framework for CI/CD and testing on AWS.

• Amazon Verified Permissions: Learn how to protect your API Gateways using AVPs.

• Serverless Image Object Detection: Using Amazon Rekognition to rapidly build an image object detection feature at a high-scale social media startup.

• Terraform Cost Savings with AWS: This tutorial is all about how you can make your terraform deployments faster and reduce your AWS billing using AWS CodeBuild's Lambda Compute.

• CDC with PostgreSQL, Debezium, Kinesis, and EventBridge: Capture data changes in source databases and deliver them to downstream systems in real-time using an event-driven approach.

• Data Migration Between Existing AWS DynamoDB Tables: Traditional approaches, such as backup and restore operations via S3 buckets fall short when we want to move data to a pre-existing table.

• Cloudflare vs Vercel: This article explores Vercel features, comparing them to similar products from the Cloudflare Ecosystem.

• Terraform Static Code Analysis Tools: Key features and comparisons of top Terraform static code analysis tools.

• A Logic Language for Distributed SQL Queries: A comprehensive look at the design of Polar, and how it operates over distributed data.

Projects of the week

Highlighting cool DevOps projects to keep an eye on:

• Gitleaks is a SAST tool for detecting and preventing hardcoded secrets like passwords, API keys, and tokens in git repos.

• Databend is an open-source cloud data warehouse that serves as a cost-effective alternative to Snowflake.

• Lynx is a fast, secure, and reliable Terraform backend.

• Portr is a tunnel solution that allows you to expose local HTTP, TCP, or WebSocket connections to the public internet.

• h5ai is an HTTP web server index for Apache httpd, lighttpd, and nginx.

• Code Interpreter SDK allows you to run AI-generated Python code and each run shares the context.

Newsworthy Stories

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

• IBM's Acquisition of HashiCorp: A New Chapter in the Cloud Infrastructure War?

• Exploring Alpine Linux: A BSD User's Perspective

• Microsoft Repo URLs Exploited to Spread Malware via GitHub Comments

• The Greatest Unresolved Challenges in SRE

• Slack Journey: Transition to AWS IMDSv2

• Behind the Scenes: Developing Text-to-SQL at Pinterest

• Boosting SQLite: How Performance Tuning Skyrocketed Bencher's Speed by 1200x

• Minimizing On-call Burnout through Alerts Observability

Post of the week

AWS Data Transfer is no longer a black box. You can now easily monitor your egress fees by resource, service, region, or any cost allocation center 🌎