Welcome to the 600th issue of this newsletter! That’s certainly a strange thing to write, nearly 12 years of sharing posts and tools on the evolving world of operations and devops.

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News

A new report on Devops and Cloud trends. Observations on eBPF and WASM, software supply chain security, low code, serverless and more.
https://www.infoq.com/articles/devops-and-cloud-trends-2022/

A post with tips for building out a devops team, considering skills, budgeting, organisational buy-in and more.
https://devops.com/untapping-the-potential-of-devops-part-4-tips-for-launching-a-devops-team/

An argument that devops (or at least certain approaches to improving collaboration between operations and developers) has failed.
https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2022/06/21/devops-is-a-failure

A post detailing the handy kubectl scale command line, which can be used to change the number of Kubernetes pod replicas.
https://www.containiq.com/post/kubectl-scale

A look at a Python DSL for drawing systems architecture diagrams, with built-in primitives for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes and more.
https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/

Tools

GitGat is a tool to help secure your GitHub configuration, using a set of Open Policy Agent policies that can make assertions against GitHub permissions.
https://github.com/scribe-public/gitgat
https://scribesecurity.com/blog/evaluate-your-source-control-security-posture-with-gitgat

Spin is an open source framework for building and running fast, secure, and composable cloud microservices with WebAssembly
https://github.com/fermyon/spin
https://spin.fermyon.dev/

Ratchet looks like a handy tool for improving the security of CI/CD workflows by automating the process of pinning and unpinning upstream versions. It’s like Bundler, Cargo, Go modules, NPM, Pip, or Yarn, but for CI/CD workflows.
https://github.com/sethvargo/ratchet

Keploy is an API testing platform that automatically generates test-cases and data-mocks from API calls.
https://github.com/keploy/keploy