DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #660 - 20th August 2023

Several posts this week on the Terraform licence change, covering the spectrum of opinions. Plus posts on attestation framework, actions from incident management, monitoring CoreDNS and more.

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News

A three part series on incident management, and in particular the different actions we might decide to take following an incident.
https://medium.com/@jpaulreed/a-spectrum-of-actions-part-i-d768c56ed5f7
https://medium.com/@jpaulreed/a-spectrum-of-actions-part-ii-a4cad1acd952
https://medium.com/@jpaulreed/a-spectrum-of-actions-part-iii-f242b5d25d90

Terraform, and other Hashicorp tools, are changing their licence terms, adopting the BSL and moving away from the open source MPL licence.
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license

With the changes to Terraform’s licence, lots of folks are thinking about what this means for them? This post takes the view of a CTO and breaks down a few areas of interest.
https://www.scalefactory.com/blog/2023/08/16/what-saas-ctos-need-to-know-about-the-terraform-licence-change/

Some in the Terraform community are looking at what they can do, with a proposal for a fork under a new open source foundation if the change goes through.
https://opentf.org/
https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-terraform-must-be-open-ab0b9ba65bca

Running CoreDNS? This set of posts is a good review of the metrics you should be caring about, and how to monitor them.
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/coredns-metrics/
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/coredns-monitoring-tools/

Cold start times are still a topic of discussion for serverless applications. This post discusses using AWS Lambda and API Gateway to debug problems, using a Node application example.
https://www.technoblather.ca/aws-lambda-nodejs-debug-apigw-cold-start-timeout/

Tools

Amplification is an opinionated platform for building Node.js apps. It’s intended to remove a lot of repeated work on application infrastructure, generating APIs, tools for data modelling and more.
https://github.com/amplication/amplication
https://amplication.com/

TACOS is a framework for attesting to the development practices of open source projects. It’s intended to solve some of the requirements in the NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF).
https://tacosframework.dev
https://github.com/tacosframework/TACOS-spec