DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #537 - 11th April 2021

A few specific, practical posts this week on container image tags and getting started with CINC Auditor. Plus discussion of the relevance of operating systems, ARM price/performance, DNS propagation and more.

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News

A good introduction to the pros and cons of tags for Docker images and how to implement repeatable builds using digests.
https://blog.atomist.com/docker-image-tags/

A nice write-up of progress with the Tinkerbell open source project, which provides a full toolchain for bare metal provisioning.
https://metal.equinix.com/blog/tinkerbell-momentum/

A purposefully provocatively titled post with some good observations; nobody cares about the operating system anymore.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/nobody-cares-about-the-operating-system-anymore/

A quick post on getting started with CINC Auditor, the open packaging for Chef Inspec.
http://www.anniehedgie.com/my-new-friend-cinc-auditor

A post explaining the concepts behind policy as code and how the author came to appreciate the idea and the open policy agent project.
https://blog.container-solutions.com/what-is-policy-as-code

A case study of adopting the new ARM-based Graviton instances in AWS, and the resulting price and performance improvements.
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/graviton2-one-year-retrospective

A post on building decision trees for threat modelling with Graphviz. It’s a nice graphviz DSL tutorial as well.
https://swagitda.com/blog/posts/security-decision-trees-with-graphviz/

Every discussed DNS propagation? As this post points out, It doesn’t exist and it’s a matter of layered caches.
https://www.nslookup.io/blog/dns-propagation-does-not-exist/

An interesting service management survey looking for input. The post has some good data points from the previous years survey too.
https://itsm.tools/state-of-service-management-survey/

Tools

Ledokku is a web frontend for the Dokku minimal platform as a service.
https://www.ledokku.com
https://github.com/ledokku/ledokku

Volcano is a Kubernetes-native batch processing system for compute-heavy workloads like machine learning or bioinformatics.
https://volcano.sh/en/
https://github.com/volcano-sh/