Weekly news | 2024-02-14

news

• Pending OpenTofu PR: Added templatestring function similar to templatefile.
• Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial.
• In 2023, operations for the .GOV TLD transitioned from Verisign to Cloudflare. .
• AWS launches CDK Migrate and CloudFormation IaC Generator for IaC adoption.
• Speedtest Reaches 50 Billion Tests!.

tooling

• glasskube: a new package manager for Kubernetes.
• apisix: a cloud-native API gateway from Apache with a range of traffic management features including load balancing, dynamic upstream, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability and more.
• mirrord: Connect your local process and your cloud environment, and run local code in cloud conditions.
• llrt (Low Latency Runtime) JavaScript runtime by for fast and efficient Serverless applications.
• Stages of Terraform adaption and why atmos was created.
• cekit: Dockerfiles as YAML.
• GitOps Bridge: a community project that aims to showcase best practices and patterns for bridging the process of creating a Kubernetes cluster to subsequently managing everything through GitOps. It focuses on using ArgoCD or FluxCD, both of which are CNCF-graduated projects.

blog

• Images as Code: history of declarative container image builds, and the complexity of build systems as they grow.
• MavenGate: a supply chain attack method for Java and Android applications.
• Leaky Vessels: Docker and runc container breakout vulnerabilities (January 2024).
• Introducing an Accessibility Linter for Marko from eBay: integrating accessibility testing into developer workflows.