2024
Weekly news | 2024-05-22
news
- HashiCorp dusts of State Encryption proposal, seems like competition is good for the ecosystem.
- Upgrade Argo CD to fix security issue.
- Amazon EKS announces native support for autoscaling CoreDNS Pods.
- Digital Ocean adds their Provider Key to OpenTofu.
- Two Santa Cruz students uncover security bug that let anyone do their laundry for free.
- Atlantis website gets a makeover.
- GitHub no longer killing Node16 in June.
toolings
Weekly news | 2024-05-15
news
- OpenAI announces ChatGPT app for Mac, GPT-4 for free, and more.
- Oracle goes vegan: dump Terraform for OpenTofu.
- Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes.
- Andy Jassy makes AWS leadership announcement.
- Meta is shuttering Workplace, its enterprise version of Facebook.
- Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls.
- HashiCorp turns to Reddit for feedback.
- GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment.
toolings
- helmper: import Helm Charts to OCI registries, optionally with vulnerability patching.
- aicommits: a CLI that writes your git commit messages for you using AI.
- markdown-badges: Badges for your personal developer branding, profile, and projects.
- pug: interactive terminal application for working with Terraform. You can view the output of plans and applies, manage state resources, work on tasks in parallel and more.
- flox: tool for managing a local development environment. It’s powered by Nix, but provides a nice high-level interface based around the local directory.
- dolt: Git for MySQL data.
Weekly news | 2024-05-08
news
- OpenTofu Releases 1.7.1.
- Alerting issue: Social Engineering Takeovers of Open Source Projects.
- AWS Operating Revenue 3x in YoY Growth due to AI.
- Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose.
- The market for alternative clouds is booming.
- 2024 DORA survey now live: share your thoughts on AI, DevEx, and platform engineering.
- AWS S3 team is working on a fix for the s3 unauthorized request charges.
- TFLint now infected with BUSL.
- Pulumi pollutes Google SERPs with AI generated documentation.
- 30% of all Log4J downloads still affected by Log4Shell vulnerability.
Weekly news | 2024-05-01
news
- An informal study on Takehome assessments.
- Why didn't one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp?.
- Homebrew deprecates Terraform.
- How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode?.
- Arc for Windows is now GA.
- OpenTofu 1.7 officially shipped and migration guide.
- OpenTofu reachs 20k stars (more than pulumi).
Weekly news | 2024-04-24
news
- HashiCorp introduces the Infrastructure Cloud.
- OpenTofu Backend Encryption in 1.7.0.
- IBM to acquire HashiCorp.
- Slack rolls out its AI tools to all paying customers.
- BoostSecurity.io announces 'poutine': An Open Source Build Pipelines security scanner for GitHub Actions.
- AWS is using "module" approach with CloudFormation.
- GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs.
tooling
- Index Advisor: A PostgreSQL extension for recommending indexes to improve query performance.
- nfpm: nFPM is Not FPM - a simple deb, rpm, apk and arch linux packager written in Go by GoReleaser.
Weekly news | 2024-04-17
news
- AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage.
- Amazon CloudWatch Internet Weather Map.
- Neon database is GA.
- HashiCorp terraform 1.9 plans "deferred actions" - good bye to "count of" errors.
- HashiCorp terraform 1.8 is ~3x slower than v1.7.x.
- Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source.
tooling
Weekly news | 2024-04-10
news
- Google Public DNS’s approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks.
- Teleport Community Edition will adopt a commercial license.
- Apparentlymart submits developer key to OpenTofu Registry .
- Negative PR campaign against OpenTofu:
- HashiCorp sent OpenTofu a C&D letter.
- OpenTofu's response
- OpenTofu post.
tooling
- runtipi: Homeserver management made easy.
- hermitcrab: Terraform Provider network mirroring service.
- Gource: awesome visualizations of contributor history.
Weekly news | 2024-04-03
news
- AWS now supports Slack Connect for AWS sales to collaborate with customer and partners.
- CloudFlare introduces Python to Workers using Pyodide and WebAssembly .
- Redis fork emerges. Backed by AWS, Google and Oracle .
- The otherside of the Redis story: Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals.
- checkov IDE integration now paywalled by Palo Alto?. Workaround: a fork of the extension.
tooling
- lynx: Fast, secure and reliable Terraform backend in Elixir.
- Bytesize Architecture Sessions: a workshop format for 45 to 90 minutes that help teams understand the systems they work on.
Weekly news | 2024-03-27
news
- AWS Control Tower now supports APIs in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
- GitHub’s latest AI tool can automatically fix code vulnerabilities.
- Podman Desktop 1.8 just released with it's own Kubernetes GUI.
- Atlantis and OpenTofu: The Future of Open-Source IaC by Jose (PePe) Amengual.
tooling
- kubeconform: A FAST Kubernetes manifests validator, with support for Custom Resources.
- difftastic: a structural diff that understands syntax.
- Spot Instance Availability Map: displays real-time Spot instance interruptions, insufficient capacity events, and pricing across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- ActionForge: a VS Code extension to Build GitHub Workflows visually.
- garnet: remote cache-store that offers strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, cluster sharding, key migration, and replication features. Redis compatible.
- retina:cloud-agnostic, Kubernetes network observability platform based on eBPF that provides a centralized hub for monitoring application health, network health, and security.