DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #655 - 16th July 2023

A mix of topics this week, with DevopsDays coverage, a few posts each on both monitoring and Kubernetes, and tools for managing your CLI tools and implementing software supply chain security.

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News

DevopsDays is still going strong. Here are notes from the recent DevopsDays Amsterdam, covering hands-on workshops, talks on sociotechnical systems, survivorship bias and the open spaces.
https://engineering.silverfin.com/devopsdays-amsterdam-2023/

A look at the status of API Gateways for Kubernetes. A bit of historical context, the role of an API gateway, and thoughts on standardisation around envoy.
https://wso2.com/library/blogs/the-future-of-api-gateways-on-kubernetes/

Static websites are popular for lots of reasons, but how best to monitor one? Lots of good practice here for websites in general, especially those with a build process and CDN.
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/static-web-application-monitoring-best-practices/

A monitoring post, on the pyramid of alerting. Infrastructure/operational to data to semantic/business alerts.
https://dev.to/karelvandenbussche/the-pyramid-of-alerting-1g48

Some optimisation tips for workloads running on OpenShift/Kubernetes. Covers node selectors, affinity, taints and toleration.
https://medium.com/@GranulateIntel/advanced-optimization-techniques-for-red-hat-openshift-6b8884efd329

A reminder that cloud native capabilities, in this case autoscaling, are useful for many use cases but not all, and assumptions in the cloud often lead to surprise costs.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3702111/downsides-to-using-cloud-autoscaling-systems.html

Tools

Aqua is a declarative CLI version manager. Specify CLI tools in a config file, and then install with a command, or use the lazy install feature to install when first run.
https://aquaproj.github.io/

Macaron is a supply chain analysis tool, aimed at helping with the implementation of the SLSA supply chain security framework. It currently supports Maven, Gradle and Python based projects.
https://github.com/oracle/macaron
https://oracle.github.io/macaron/