DevOps & SRE notes

Library for managing git hooks

https://github.com/greenbone/autohooks

Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners

https://github.com/actions/actions-runner-controller

Mark Tinderholt's latest blogpost provides a comprehensive walkthrough on setting up a Jekyll blog using Azure Static Web Apps and Azure Storage. This piece is a great resource for anyone looking to establish a low-cost and scalable personal website.
https://www.marktinderholt.com/infrastructure-as-code/terraform/azure/cloud/2024/10/24/setup-blog-jekyll-azure-storage.html

This insightful article explores the complexities of managing long-lived connections within Kubernetes, offering solutions for ensuring they remain stable and reliable. The author delves into the technical challenges and provides practical examples to overcome them.
https://learnkube.com/kubernetes-long-lived-connections

Hwameistor is an HA local storage system for cloud-native stateful workloads.

https://github.com/hwameistor/hwameistor

The CloudKitchens tech publication examines the powerful self-healing mechanisms built into Kubernetes. It highlights how features like readiness probes and replication controllers enable the creation of resilient, automated systems.
https://techblog.cloudkitchens.com/p/kubernetes-self-healing

An AWS author provides a helpful review of using Terraform to provision and manage AWS IoT Things. The text demonstrates how to automate the lifecycle of IoT devices using infrastructure as code.
https://builder.aws.com/content/2iJVs17s7drNneJiB9GdYrNszWw/using-terraform-to-create-aws-iot-things

Simple but still extremely powerful K9S alternative. An interactive explain command. Security scanning based on trivy. Supports multiple envs. Midnight commander like interface. Custom hotkeys

https://github.com/pymag09/kubecui

This item serves as a practical walkthrough for managing AWS EKS Access Entries with both Terraform and OpenTofu. It provides the necessary code and configuration to streamline Kubernetes user access management.
https://dev.to/aws-builders/managing-aws-eks-access-entries-with-terraform-and-opentofu-414

The Agoda Engineering team details their "private cloud first" approach to load shedding in this feature. They explain how this strategy helps protect their most critical systems by gracefully degrading services during traffic surges.
https://medium.com/agoda-engineering/load-shedding-private-cloud-first-81ddd5ab53ac

Prometheus-based Kubernetes Resource Recommendations

https://github.com/robusta-dev/krr

A terminal OpenTelemetry viewer inspired by otel-desktop-viewer

https://github.com/ymtdzzz/otel-tui

This dispatch explores how eBPF maps can be used to synchronize state across multiple nodes in a Kubernetes cluster. It delves into the technical details of leveraging this capability for advanced networking and observability.
https://medium.com/all-things-ebpf/ebpf-maps-state-synchronization-across-multi-node-kubernetes-cluster-d0c075810fa7

Gergely Orosz's story offers a look inside the engineering culture at Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform. He explores how a small, autonomous team is working to build a viable alternative to established networks.
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky-engineering-culture

Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)

https://github.com/slimtoolkit/slim

Kubernetes performance and scale test orchestration framework written in golang

https://github.com/kube-burner/kube-burner

Anvesh Muppeda provides a hands-on analysis of Kubernetes Endpoints and their modern, more scalable counterpart, EndpointSlices. The content uses practical examples to explain their crucial role in Kubernetes service discovery.
https://medium.com/@muppedaanvesh/a-hands-on-guide-to-kubernetes-endpoints-endpointslices-%EF%B8%8F-1375dfc9075c

This report demystifies the frequently misunderstood metric of Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR). It clearly defines the four key "mean time" metrics and outlines their significance within a DevOps framework.
https://www.causely.ai/blog/mttr-meaning

Chaos and resiliency testing tool for Kubernetes with a focus on improving performance under failure conditions. A CNCF sandbox project.

https://github.com/krkn-chaos/krkn

Kepler (Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter) is a Prometheus exporter that measures energy consumption metrics at the container, pod, and node levels in Kubernetes clusters.

https://github.com/sustainable-computing-io/kepler