DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #570 - 28th November 2021

A few posts this week on on-call processes, as well as project management tools, using version control systems for compliance purposes and more.

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News

A great post on the tension between managing work with tickets and the management need for visibility and reporting.
https://www.echoeshq.com/post/the-ticketing-conundrum

A good set of tips for anyone involved with building processes around on-call.
https://ably.com/blog/best-practices-for-on-call-processes

Another post covering on-call, this one looking at the challenge of single points of failure and how to distribute on-call load.
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/devops-on-call/

Git, and the concepts and tools around version control, have lots of potential uses in compliance.
https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2021/11/19/notes-on-gitops-potential-role-in-compliance/

A walkthrough of using Gatekeeper to verify container image signatures in Kubernetes.
https://medium.com/@LachlanEvenson/verifying-container-signatures-on-kubernetes-with-gatekeeper-19a4519c3016

Tools

tf-manage is a tool and set of conventions for writing and managing Terraform code in a scalable manner.
https://github.com/adobe/tf-manage

Squzy is a high-performance open-source monitoring and alerting system. It’s composed of several services covering host monitoring, metrics collection, dashboards and more.
https://github.com/squzy/squzy

Textual looks like an interesting way of building rich CLI user interfaces, modelled on modern web interface building using CSS.
https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual