DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #488 - 3rd May 2020
Several architecture posts this week, along with posts looking at modern continuous deployment tools, shell scripting, complexity and more.
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News
A detailed summary of modern deployment tools, looking at Jenkins-X, Flux and ArgoCD. A nice mix of facts and opinions.
https://blog.container-solutions.com/fluxcd-argocd-or-jenkins-x-which-is-the-right-gitops-tool-for-you
A well documented set or security architecture antipatterns, mainly focused on the risks of management access.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/whitepaper/security-architecture-anti-patterns
A set of posts looking at Tekton, explaining what it is (a platform for building CD tools) and why it’s important.
https://medium.com/relay-sh/whats-going-on-with-tekton-part-1-9c3e006d39fc
https://medium.com/relay-sh/whats-going-on-with-tekton-part-2-ab39176c9c45
Bash (or shell scripts in general) are still incredibly useful. This post points out a few common problems, and pointers for writing better bash scripts.
https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/01/23/Anybody-can-write-good-bash-with-a-little-effort
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While it can be easy to think everyone already has automated deploying applications, it’s definitely not the case. This post contains a good list of benefits for those still making the business case.
https://octopus.com/blog/the-five-big-benefits-of-automated-deployment
A useful look at extracting binaries from container images without needing to pull the full image. Another example of the flexibility of the OCI spec.
https://medium.com/@thomas.shaw78/extracting-a-single-artifact-from-a-docker-image-without-pulling-3fc038a6e57e
A look at adding policy controls (using Open Policy Agent and Conftest) to Terraform deployments using Atlantis.
https://marcyoung.us/post/atlantis-opa/
Something that has a lot of bearing on operations is complexity, and I think this post points to one issue with seemingly simple services being complex to operate in aggregate.
https://ferd.ca/complexity-has-to-live-somewhere.html
Jobs
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Tools
Kubexit is a command supervisor for coordinated Kubernetes pod container termination. The README has a nice set of use cases that explain where it’s useful.
https://github.com/karlkfi/kubexit
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