DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #552 - 25th July 2021

A set of posts on Devops transformation, SRE and Kubernetes tools and practices this week. Congrats to everyone involved in the 10th year of the State of Devops report too.

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News

The latest State of Devops report is out, with some interesting observations based on this years survey around cultural blockers holding up adoption of mature devops practices.
https://puppet.com/blog/2021-state-of-devops-report/

Discussion of the importance of team structures and communication when it comes to devops transformation. Promises, feedback and customer centricity.
https://www.sussna-associates.com/blog/after-team-topologies-getting-past-the-devops-middle

It’s easy to have an SRE team or function that feels siloed from other engineering teams. This post examines why, and what you can do about it.
https://rootly.io/blog/de-siloing-incident-management-how-to-make-reliability-engineering-everyone-s-job

A look at solving the thundering herd problem after clearing a higher level cache.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/obqtfm/solving_the_three_stooges_problem/

A look on designing useful altering systems, with a good list of dos and don’ts.
https://hceris.com/monitoring-alerts-that-dont-suck/

A reasoned argument for not using Kubernetes.
https://ably.com/blog/no-we-dont-use-kubernetes

A look at the Headlamp Kuberneters dashboard and why you may consider using it.
https://loft-sh.medium.com/kubernetes-dashboards-headlamp-3743e1bc3c4f

If you’re managing the nodes under a Kuberntes cluster you might find some nodes causing problems. This post looks at using the Kubernetes API and extension points to make the cluster self-healing.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatic-remediation-of-kubernetes-nodes/

Tools

SchemaHero is a Kubernetes-native implementation of declarative database schema management.
https://schemahero.io/learn/
https://github.com/schemahero/schemahero

Ortelius is a platform for managing microservices. It provides a central catalog of services with their deployment specs, application teams can easily consume and deploy services across a cluster.
https://ortelius.io
https://github.com/ortelius/ortelius

N8n is a tool for connecting services together, with a visual editor, command line tools, and commons clause self-hosted version available.
https://n8n.io/
https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n