I’m in Barcelona in the run up to DockerCon, so this weeks issue is a little abbridge. Still, several interesting posts on choosing serverless tooling, how we could make documentation a more first-class part of out development practices and more.

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News

A good argument for starting your serverless journey using a developer framework that takes away some of the configuration complexity.
https://winterwindsoftware.com/serverless-newbies-should-use-framework/

The recent HashiConf had a wide range of talks on Consul, Vault, Nomad and tools often used together with them. All of the videos from the talks are now available and worth browsing through.
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/video-recordings-from-hashiconf-2018

A well argued case for making documentation a first-class part of how we build container images, with some neat ideas for the user experience. I’d love to see this sort of feature.
https://medium.com/@lperkins/the-state-of-docker-container-documentation-some-workarounds-and-a-vision-for-a-possible-future-693d6ca5baaf

A good detailed explanation of what really is a Docker image. It shows with simple examples how to dive into layers and what happens when you run the image.
https://cameronlonsdale.com/2018/11/26/whats-in-a-docker-image/

There have been a number of serverless vs containers discussions recently, this post makes some good arguments about it being the wrong framing in many cases.
https://blog.atomicinc.com/2018/11/26/serverless-vs-containers-silly/

A discussion of rollback strategies for immutable infrastructure, looking in particular at patterns on AWS ECS.
https://medium.com/@eraclitux/deployment-rollback-in-a-containers-world-aws-ecs-edition-4bc8e34c0d5a

Tools

Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant containers and functions-based services. It’s used to provide fast booting but isolated VMs.
https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

Cloud Discovery is a new tool for finding out what you have in your various cloud environments. Just provide your API credentials and cloud disocvery will provide useful lists and detect some known security-related mis-configurations.
https://github.com/twistlock/cloud-discovery/

Quack is Mutating Webhook Admission Controller for Kubernetes which introduces the idea of server-side template rendering. Quack is intended for templating cluster-wide environment values such as the cluster name, region and environment.
https://github.com/pusher/quack

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