Lawrence Jones discusses the challenges of ensuring that an incident management system can alert its own team during outages.

https://incident.io/hubs/building-on-call/who-watches-the-watchers

In the article discusses the challenges of maintaining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in a microservices environment. The team redefined their Critical User Journeys (CUJs) and implemented end-to-end (E2E) testing to automate SLO maintenance, resulting in a 99% reduction in maintenance time and immediate impact assessment during incidents.

https://engineering.mercari.com/en/blog/entry/20241204-keeping-user-journey-slos-up-to-date-with-e2e-testing-in-a-microservices-architecture/

Local development for AWS Lambda's and Terraform

https://github.com/uatec/teleform

NVIDIA device plugin for Kubernetes

https://github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin

In December 2024, AWS introduced a visual deployment timeline feature for CloudFormation, enhancing the infrastructure-as-code service with real-time visualization of resource provisioning sequences. This timeline offers a graphical representation of the order and duration of resource deployments, providing insights into dependencies and potential bottlenecks.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/cloudformation-visual-deployment/

In the article "The Karpenter Transformation," Nadav Buchman from Fiverr Engineering discusses the company's migration of their Kubernetes compute nodes to Karpenter, an open-source Kubernetes node lifecycle manager developed by AWS.
https://medium.com/fiverr-engineering/the-karpenter-transformation-1c278294bd9b

Intelligence for Kubernetes. World's most promising Kubernetes Visualization Tool for Developer and Platform Engineering teams.

https://github.com/KusionStack/karpor

Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing

https://github.com/kptdev/kpt

In his article "Kubernetes CRD: the versioning joy," Joel Takvorian shares the challenges encountered while evolving the CustomResourceDefinition (CRD) versions for the Network Observability operator.

https://dev.to/jotak/kubernetes-crd-the-versioning-joy-6g0

An extensible framework for application-level data management on Kubernetes, Kanister is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and was originally created by the Veeam Kasten team.

https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister

Find directories where changed terraform_remote_state data source is used

https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/tfrstate

In the article "Run security scans on Terraform and OpenTofu projects with Trivy and GitHub Actions," the author provides a hands-on tutorial on integrating security scans into infrastructure-as-code (IaC) workflows using Trivy and GitHub Actions.

https://janik6n.net/posts/run-security-scans-on-terraform-and-opentofu-project-with-trivy-and-github-actions/

The blogpost explores the integration of GitHub Actions with AWS CodeBuild to create self-hosted runners. This approach leverages AWS CodeBuild's managed environment to execute GitHub Actions workflows, offering benefits such as enhanced security, scalability, and cost efficiency.

https://kieranlowe.io/implementing-self-hosted-github-action-runners-using-aws-codebuild

tfocus is a super interactive tool for selecting and executing Terraform plan/apply on specific resources. Think of it as an "emergency tool" - not for everyday use.

https://github.com/nwiizo/tfocus

Kube Startup CPU Boost is a controller that increases CPU resource requests and limits during Kubernetes workload startup time

https://github.com/google/kube-startup-cpu-boost

Managing stateful workloads in Kubernetes can be challenging, especially when ensuring smooth rollouts. This post explores how Slack optimized stateful application deployments to enhance reliability and performance.

https://slack.engineering/kube-stateful-rollouts/

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Virtual environments can deceive users in subtle yet impactful ways. This article delves into the complexities of perception and trust in digital spaces.

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/12/07/your-lying-virtual-eyes/

Plan and apply Terraform/OpenTofu via PR automation, using best practices for secure and scalable IaC workflows.

https://github.com/OP5dev/TF-via-PR