DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #558 - 5th September 2021

Error budgets, managing ransomware, SRE, observability, handy Git tools and more this week.

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News

A good introduction to error budgets and using them to make trade-offs between risk and stability.
https://medium.com/jump-start/data-driven-negotiation-with-slis-slos-and-error-budgets-2-2-e52ebd5a9d4f

An interesting post on modern ransomware and malware attacks and now to mitigate and deal with the fallout.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/rise-of-ransomware
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/mitigating-malware-and-ransomware-attacks

A handy pattern for when you need to create new repositories based on a template and some variables, using GitHub repository templates, Actions and the python cookiecutter tool.
https://simonwillison.net/2021/Aug/28/dynamic-github-repository-templates/

A look at the security profile operator for Kubernetes. This exposes a first-class interface for configuring seccomp profiles amongst other useful features including exposing metrics and enriching logs.
https://medium.com/@LachlanEvenson/managing-kubernetes-seccomp-profiles-with-security-profiles-operator-c768cff58b0

The first two parts of a series on building an analytics platform based on Druid. Background on technology choice and lots of technical details about the implementation.
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/pinterests-analytics-as-a-platform-on-druid-part-1-of-3-9043776b7b76
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/pinterests-analytics-as-a-platform-on-druid-part-2-of-3-e63d5280a1a9

A post looking at the role of an SRE team in adopting observability tooling. A lot of this depends, in my experience, on the reality on the ground of roles vs the titles.
https://rootly.io/blog/the-role-of-sres-in-observability

Events

Kubernetes Community Days UK is coming up on the 15th and 16th September. A virtual event over 2 days, with talks on supply chain security, secrets, scaling, getting started with Kubernetes and lots more.
https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-uk-presents-kubernetes-community-days-uk-2021/

Tools

There is so much interesting information in Git and GitHub metadata. Askgit is a CLI tool for exposing that data via a SQL interface to make it easier to use.
https://github.com/askgitdev/askgit

Monika is a nice and simple monitoring tool. Define probes for URLs in a config file, what failure looks like and how you want to be notified of any issues. It also supports Postman and HAR files as input.
https://github.com/hyperjumptech/monika
https://monika.hyperjump.tech/quick-start