Weekly news | 2024-01-31

news

• Spacelift releases native Kubernetes WorkerPool operator: Technical Overview.
• OpenTofu CNCF Sandbox Application and discussion on if Atlantis merge with OpenTofu.

tooling

• tenv: OpenTofu / Terraform / Terragrunt version manager
• Octoherd: a toolset for manipulating lots of GitHub repositories at once.
• TypeSpec: a language for describing APIs and generating other API description languages, client and service code, documentation, and other assets.
• Prodzilla: a synthetic monitoring tool.
• seabird: new Native Kubernetes desktop client (Lens alternative).
• k8studio: A Cross-Platform IDE To Manage Kubernetes Clusters
• Ubicloud: Managed runners for GitHub Actions, 10x Cheaper (with ARM support).
• inkdrop-visualizer creates diagrams to visualize your Terraform configurations and visualize dependencies.
• terravision creates Professional Cloud Architecture Diagrams from your Terraform code automatically. Supports AWS, Google and Azure.

blogs

• Why the AI Boom is a Windfall for Tiny Anguilla: The Caribbean island is reaping millions from .ai website registrations.
• A post on the move from people-managed deployments to a fully automated system where an application is deployed 30-40 times a day with contributions from a large number of teams.
• An updated long-form post on continuous integration.
• A post on definition of microflows, the difference to workflows, and why the distinction is useful in building distributed systems.
• A guide to using containers to run Llamafile, a project for running open source Large Language Models such as Llama-2-7B or Mistral 7B.
• Some predictions for Devops in 2024.
• Terraform ANSI Escape.
• Terraform to OpenTofu upgrade.