Many years in a row we organize the DevOps Days Kyiv conference for you!

This year isn't an exception. Tomorrow at 17:00 Kyiv time (14:00 UTC) we meet online once again online to talk about AI and its role in the software development industry.

We have open space afterward, so it's not a one way road: you'll be able to share your thoughts and experience there as well!

The conference is free, all you need is to register on the website:

https://devopsdays.com.ua/

See you there!

#event #devopsdays

A new CatOps Digest is out:
https://newsletter.catops.dev/p/catops-digest-2025-09-06

These digests are great reminders for me, how little I post to the channel lately 😔

#digest #newsletter

​​For today's Donations Monday, I'd like to remind you about the UA Responders foundation. They work in the medical and rehabilitation field.

We cooperate with them for the DevOps Days Ukraine conference since the beginning of the full scale invasion.

Here's the direct link to donate:
https://uaresponders.org/donate/

#donations #Ukraine

Learnkube is a great resource, because they explain how Kubernetes works not only within its own abstractions, but in relation to other technologies.

Im this article they explain, how Kubernetes’ Security Context maps to the Linux primitives.

Tires article would be useful even if you’ve worked with both Linux and Kubernetes for some time, since recalling basic things from time to time is important.

#kubernetes #security #linux

If you use KEDA in production, make sure you monitor it :)

Here are some useful Grafana dashboards for that.

#observability #grafana #keda #kubernetes

They thought the Cloud was easy, predictable and Serverless is a best option... for become a truly horror!

Serverless Horrors is a collection of true thriller stories. Confusing settings, crashes, and unexpected traffic turn serverless accounts into a bloody mess for your wallet. Read on to avoid becoming the hero of the next horror story.

Happy Friday, btw 😈

#serverless

If you don’t like debugging the certificate issues, why not make the machine do it for you?

cert-manager-mcp-server is an MCP server from one of the members of our community.

I guess, we are in our “fuck around” phase with MCP servers and real-world AI applications. So, check it out and see, if it’s helpful!

#mcp #ai

​​For today’s Donations Monday, I’d like to remind you once again about the UA Responders foundation that works in the medical and rehabilitation field.

We cooperate with them for the DevOps Days Ukraine conference since the beginning of the full scale invasion.

Here's the direct link to donate:
https://uaresponders.org/donate/

#donations #Ukraine

​​I'm back from a brief vacation, hence there was no newsletter last Friday. While, I'm catching up with things, you can help our friends from DOU and complete their survey about Ukrainian companies (in Ukrainian).

https://jobs.dou.ua/questionary/

The next issue of the newsletter comes tomorrow 🤞

A new issue of the CatOps Digest is here:

https://newsletter.catops.dev/p/catops-digest-2025-09-26

#digest #newsletter

As you may have already guessed from the newsletter, a recording of my talk alongside the other talks from FW Days DevOps is available now on YouTube.

So, like, subscribe, and so the rest of the YouTube dance for the great FW Days team :)

#slides

​​A friend of mine helps raising funds for the telecommunication equipment for the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade.

https://send.monobank.ua/jar/ACxqFDBnmp

This jar works with Apple Pay. I’ve tried it myself (since many Monobank jars do not support Apple Pay for whatever reason).

#donations #Monday

A bundle of book bundles!

1. Cybersecurity Month bundle by O’Reilly.
2. Cisco Networking book bundle for certification preparation.

I recall, that having CCNA was a badge of honor when I was a student. I never had one. Mostly, because I was a bad student.

P.S. When dealing with HumbleBundle, always check what books you have already! I think, the Cisco bundle was featured before.

#books #humblebundle

Is it the first supply chain attack in the MCP world?

A fake Postmark MCP was secretly BCCing all the emails.

Postmark is an SMTP provider. They have already put a statement that it was not developed by them.

The moral of the story is not to blindly trust 3rd party software that doesn’t come from your vendor. Another interesting thing is that the attack itself has nothing to do with LLMs, but the attackers are using the hype around everything AI to embed their malicious code.

#security #ai

Speaking of MCPs. 2 new MCPs from AWS are available:

- AWS API MCP
- AWS Knowledge MCP

News via AWS Feed

#aws #ai

An idea worth nothing without the implementation, they say. But what to do, if your ideas are discarded at your company, so you are never given the time and resources for the implementation?

In his article "Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering", one of our subscribers shares an approach of convincing your management of ideas worth trying.

At some point in the career, skills like that are getting more and more important. So, it's very limiting to ignore the people skills for one's progress.

#culture #mgmt

​​For today’s Donations Monday, I’d like to share with you a standing jar of one of the UAV units in which serves a guy from my wife’s small town.

They use this jar continuously to cover their needs for different equipment such as FPV drones, etc.

https://send.monobank.ua/jar/4WLw91UqFe

Card number:

5375 4112 2187 4204

#donations #Ukraine

These days, you can use Kubernetes for the same things you used to use OpenStack.

In this short video Volodymyr Tsap - a member of our community - shares a quick demo of their recent project - Kube-DC.

#kubernetes #self_hosted

You may have seen this news already, but it's still worth sharing in my opinion.

Terraform adds a new language concept called "actions". It's interesting, because while HCL evolved through time, basic concepts such as resources, data sources, variables, and locals remained the same.

In nutshell, Actions are basically provider-approved local-execs: provider developers can add specific imperative tasks, such as invoking an AWS Lambda, that you can later attach to your resource's lifecycle.

The concept is not new, you were likely already doing this with provisioners, local and remote execs, and other hacks. Now, it's just more universal and straightforward.

The only thing is that actions are up to provider developers to implement, so do not expect many of them available from the get-go.

#terraform #hashicorp

A small article about goroutines leaks in Go and the ways to detect that.

Another tip is from Dave Cheney himself: never start a goroutine without knowing how it will stop.

#programming #go

There’s a lot of fluff around about how one should be a technical leader, yet the exact understanding of what is leadership is rather vague.

Here’s a nice Friday read on the topic that resonated with me.

Here’s a great quote:

>>>
The more comfortable you become with not being the expert, the more effective you become as a leader.
When you stop trying to out-expert the experts, you can focus on what expert teams actually need:
- Clear problem definitions
- Context for decision-making
- Translation between different perspectives
- Protection from unnecessary complexity
- Space to do their best work

#culture