DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #599 - 19th June 2022

Lots of tools this week, from Linux distributions specifically for Kubernetes to tools for deploying in air-gapped environments. Plus posts on reliability engineering, enterprise cloud strategy and more.

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News

A post on designing for reliability, unknown unknowns and learning from the James Webb space telescope.
https://flyingbarron.medium.com/known-unknowns-webb-struck-by-meteoroid-fde752dec87a

More of a management post, from the CIO of a large enterprise discussing their evolving cloud strategy and open source adoption.
https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/target-cio-mike-mcnamara-multicloud

A talk from the recent GOTO Copenhagen conference on diagramming software architecture in code.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za1-v4Zkq5E

A timely post on debugging tools for containerd, as it becomes the default container runtime for Kubernetes.
https://zendesk.engineering/debugging-containerd-a20f28a2a8bf

A detailed breakdown of configuring and managing logs for RabbitMQ.
https://sematext.com/blog/rabbitmq-logs/

Tools

Hoppr is a tool to help install applications in air-gapped environments, using an SBOM of components and some packaging tooling.
https://lmco.gitlab.io/hoppr/hoppr/

Network Service Mesh is a hybrid/multi-cloud IP service mesh that supports implementing zero trust L3 networks in Kubernetes.
https://networkservicemesh.io/

Takos is a Linux operating system specifically for Kubernetes. It’s designed to be secure, immutable, and minimal.
https://www.talos.dev/

Robusta describes itself as Zapier/IFTTT for systems automation on Kubernetes, with a focus on a library of pre-built components.
https://github.com/robusta-dev/robusta