Coming quickly to the end of 2018, if anyone has any summary blog posts or predictions for next year in the world of devops please let me know.

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News

Having a full Private Key Infrastructure (PKI) setup has lots of advantages for securing infrastructure, but is typically regarded as a lot to understand. This post does a great job of explaining all the concepts, along with examples of the involved artefacts.
https://smallstep.com/blog/everything-pki.html

It’s always worth considering the business drivers behind any technology programme, especially one as pervasive as cloud adoption. This post, the first in a series, looks at why and when not to opt for a cloud migration.
https://container-solutions.com/whats-in-it-for-me-whats-the-business-case-for-cloud-native/

The State of Open Source Security Survey is open at the moment, if you’re using open source tools at all then please take a moment to complete it. I’ll post a link to the results when they’re published too.
https://snykteam.typeform.com/to/NaTJFW

A good list for anyone adopting devops practices. Part strategy, part tactics, this covers quite succinctly things like a maturity model and set of specific practices for evolving how an organisation runs software systems.
https://github.com/jdumars/agileops

A writeup of moving to adopt the envoy proxy application. A practical look at the advantages of service mesh technologies, and how to move from existing tools over time.
https://redditblog.com/2018/12/18/envoy-proxy-at-reddit/

Another detailed migration story, this time discussing moving from MongoDB to PostgreSQL. Lots of details about technology and architecture choices and tradeoffs.
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres

A detailed analysis of the serverless space using an approach called Emerging Technology Analysis Canvas. It includes a little on definition but also delves into potential impact, ease of adoption, potential risks and likely timelines.
https://github.com/wso2/ETAC/blob/master/outlooks/serverless_outlook.md

Lots of interest at the moment in tools to bridge the local development loop with a Kubernetes cluster. This post explores one of those tools, Tilt, and shows how it’s enabling a fast feedback loop even with the cluster in the mix.
https://medium.com/@dbentley/28ddffe2d79f

Not quite the end of the year yet but here’s one prediction post for 2019. More consolidation, China and AI, multi-platform and more adoption amongst the largest organisations.
https://medium.com/@ab415/2019-the-year-lightning-strikes-the-cloud-market-6f5dc0683b0d

An interesting take on project management and system safety, as well as blame and understanding of complex systems.
https://itrevolution.com/project-product-software-safety-getting-plane/

Tools

Airship is a nice looking Terraform module distribution which provides a set of modules for creating a fully-managed AWS ECS cluster.
http://airship.tf/

Cloud Native Development (CND) is another inner-loop development tool which automatically syncs your local code with a Kubernetes cluster, minimising the manual commands you need to run when building your app.
https://github.com/okteto/cnd

fx is a new CLI parsing tool for JSON. Similar to jq, it supports using Javascript to write extensions and simple parsing programmes. Lots of interesting examples in this post.
https://medium.com/@antonmedv/discover-how-to-use-fx-effectively-668845d2a4ea

KubeDB is a high-level project providing a CLI tool and Kubernetes operator for running databases (including Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, ElasticSearch and Memcached) on your cluster.
https://kubedb.com/

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