The blog post discusses the integration and enhancement of Grafana OnCall within the broader Grafana ecosystem. The article highlights the improvements made to streamline incident response and management by connecting Grafana OnCall more closely with other Grafana tools, thereby reducing redundancy and context-switching. This development promises a more efficient workflow, allowing users to address incidents more quickly and effectively.
https://grafana.com/blog/2024/03/29/a-better-grafana-oncall-seamless-workflows-with-the-rest-of-grafana-cloud/

Testing in Production - Synthetic Monitoring on Rust
https://github.com/prodzilla/prodzilla

The blog post on Palark's website delves into the advantages, architecture, and real-world applications of using Vector for log collection in Kubernetes environments. Authored by Maksim Nabokikh, a software engineer with extensive experience in utilizing Vector, the article shares insights into efficient log management, enhancing observability, and streamlining operations within Kubernetes platforms. It emphasizes Vector's lightweight, ultra-fast capabilities for building observability pipelines and its adaptability across different data types, particularly focusing on log collection.
https://blog.palark.com/vector-log-collection-kubernetes/

The article by Arsh Sharma provides a beginner-friendly guide to integrating Argo CD with GitHub Actions, illustrating a seamless workflow for continuous deployment on Kubernetes. It explains how to leverage the strengths of both Argo CD for Kubernetes deployment management and GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines, offering practical steps and insights for setting up a robust deployment process.
https://arshsharma.com/posts/2023-10-14-argocd-github-actions-getting-started/

A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig
https://github.com/stakater/Reloader

🔦 Alerts for Kubernetes
https://github.com/searchlight/searchlight

E1S - Easily Manage AWS ECS Resources in Terminal(~k9s for ECS) 🐱
https://github.com/keidarcy/e1s

Subscribe to AWS Morning Brief Podcast
https://news.1rj.ru/str/AWSMorningBriefPodcast

Peirates - Kubernetes Penetration Testing tool
https://github.com/inguardians/peirates

The article explores the concept of local-first software. This approach advocates for software that ensures user ownership and control over their data, emphasizing principles like offline functionality, device independence, secure and private data handling, and long-term data preservation. Through examining various data storage and sharing models and the potential of Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs), the authors propose a shift from cloud-centric to local-first applications, aiming to combine the benefits of cloud collaboration with the sovereignty of personal data ownership.
https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

The article is a reflective piece by Jack Lindamood, detailing his experiences and lessons learned from managing infrastructure at a rapidly scaling startup. Jack discusses his decisions regarding various technologies and practices, such as AWS services, Kubernetes, GitOps, and more. He categorizes these decisions into ones he endorses, regrets, or feels ambivalent about, providing insights into the practical implications of each choice for startup infrastructure development.
https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/

Grafana has deprecated Grafana agent and launch a new Alloy project for replacement

Grafana Agent, our existing OSS telemetry agent, and Grafana Agent Operator are now deprecated and will enter into Long-Term Support (LTS) beginning today (April 9, 2024)

Commercial support will end after the LTS phase, which we anticipate will extend for about 18 months until October 31, 2025. End-of-Life (EOL) phase for Grafana Agent and Grafana Agent Operator will begin once LTS ends. Grafana Agent and the Grafana Agent Operator are expected to reach EOL on November 1, 2025. 

https://grafana.com/blog/2024/04/09/grafana-alloy-opentelemetry-collector-with-prometheus-pipelines/

Kubernetes driver extension of the Chaos Toolkit probes and actions API
https://github.com/chaostoolkit/chaostoolkit-kubernetes

Good article about average-load testing
https://grafana.com/blog/2024/01/30/average-load-testing/

🔭 Tracetest - Build integration and end-to-end tests in minutes, instead of days, using OpenTelemetry and trace-based testing.
https://github.com/kubeshop/tracetest

KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices.
https://github.com/stackrox/kube-linter

Render's blog post noscriptd "How Render Scaled Knative to 100k+ Web Apps" explores their journey of scaling infrastructure to support over 100,000 web applications using Knative. Faced with a surge in demand after Heroku ended their free offering, Render tackled the challenge of efficiently managing a rapidly growing number of free-tier web services. The article details the technical hurdles encountered and the innovative solutions implemented to optimize Kubernetes networking, ultimately enhancing the scalability and reliability of their platform. This case study showcases Render's commitment to providing a robust, developer-friendly cloud service.
https://render.com/blog/knative

Asynchronous data replication for Kubernetes volumes
https://github.com/backube/volsync

A FAST Kubernetes manifests validator, with support for Custom Resources!
https://github.com/yannh/kubeconform

In the evolving landscape of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), security remains paramount. This article delves into a sophisticated technique involving ANSI escape sequences that could be exploited to evade detection within Terraform noscripts. With an emphasis on demonstrating the intricacy of such vulnerabilities and providing actionable insights for mitigation, the discussion navigates through the conceptual underpinnings, practical implications, and strategic defenses against such evasion tactics. Aimed at developers, security professionals, and IaC practitioners, it underscores the necessity of vigilant security practices in the face of evolving exploitation techniques.
https://hackingthe.cloud/terraform/terraform_ansi_escape_evasion/