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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.
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Weekly news | 2024-01-24

chalk: captures metadata at build time, and can add a small ‘chalk mark’ with that information to any artifacts (like compiled binaries or container images).
dynamic-environment: rapidly spins up custom testing/dev environments for complex microservices architecture, streamlining workflow and boosting team agility. A blog about dynamic-environment.
Kener: Open-source Status Page System
terrac: another minimal private terraform module registry supporting cloud storage.

pgxman: package manager for PostgreSQL extensions.
AWS Region Comparison Tool.
atuin: Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands.
e1s: easily manage AWS ECS resources in terminal (~k9s for ECS).
vanna: Accurate Text-to-SQL Generation via LLMs.
repository of modules for CI tool Dagger.

gvisor: Process-based Application Kernel for Containers by Google.
Maestro: a Unix-like kernel and operating system written from scratch in Rust.
Arc: New Chrome-based browser with better tab management, integrates with GitHub.
OrbStack 1.3 released.

hermitcrab: Terraform Provider network mirroring service.
Radius: Radius is a new application configuration tool. Using Bicep to define the components of an application, and use reusable recipes to run that on various infrastructure platforms.

Amazon EKS introduces upgrade insights.
otf (An open source alternative to Terraform Enterprise) archived on Dec 26, 2023.
GitHub promotes LICENSE (if available) as a tab with the README in the UI.

snk: generate a snake game from a GitHub user contributions graph
gh-dash: a GitHub CLI extension to display a dashboard with PR and issues by filters
Latacora (SecOps for hire) published recommended SCPs in Terraform.
CNCF Incubating HeadLamp: A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible.
GitHub Action to install GitHub Releases binaries.
Neosync: Open source Test Data Management. HackerNews post.
danswer: OpenSource Enterprise Question-Answering. Connects to tools like Slack, GitHub, Confluence, etc.

Some of the best blog posts and articles we've seen in 2023:

A post on using open source LLM models, in particular focused on engineering for performance, including details of benchmarks and optimisation techniques.
A detailed, technical, post on embracing eBPF for monitoring at the network layer and providing better control of a large microservice and infrastructure platform.
A look at applying some of the DORA findings to improving incident management practices.
Having a formal lead role for incident management is a common pattern. This post explains what that role should do, and why it’s important.
A great post with tips for being on-call. Covering why on-call is hard, and what you and your team can do to make it suck less.
A set of collected views on how generative AI can aid incident response. Lots of great observations and ideas, some of which will undoubtedly become features and products in the future.
How InfoSec and risk management teams can support FinOps.
Post on moving to Bazel, including local and remote instrumentation, parallel running and staggered rollout.
Treating observability instrumentation as a first class part of software development.
Second wave of devops tools. Some good observations here about what’s changed over the last 10+ years, and what hasn’t.

HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO. Backed by IBM.
Terraform 1.7.0-beta2 adds mock providers support to terraform test
Top 50 Terraform Cloud Interview Questions and Answers
Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller launches zonal autoshift
TIER Mobility releases their own Terraform Registry - boring-registry
Alpine 3.19.0 removes all HashiCorp BSL licensed tools (Consul, Nomad, Packer, Terraform, Vault)

AWS:
- AWS FIS: fully managed fault injection service
- Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals provides Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- AWS Lambda functions now scale up to 12X faster
- New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources
GitHub Actions: Feature request: allow workflow configuration in sub-folders: may be next quarter
HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Stacks explained
Your unused gmail account may be permanently deleted last Friday