Synthetic monitoring can be a great tool for proactively identifying performance problems, checking availability of servers, monitor DNS resolution and much more.

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/95

The initial author of Ansible has created a new configuration management tools like Ansible - Jetproch.

To make things easy for IT users with Ansible familiarity, jet uses a YAML dialect similar to the Ansible playbook language. While our playbook language is different than classic Ansible, an analogy might be to consider UK vs American English. Glacier! Aluminum! Schedule!

So it's like the Ansible but written on Rust.

https://www.jetporch.com/

The namespace-configuration-operator helps keeping configurations related to Users, Groups and Namespaces aligned with one of more policies specified as a CRs

https://github.com/redhat-cop/namespace-configuration-operator

The OpenTofu (An Open Source alternative the Terraform) has been released (alpha) https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/tag/v1.6.0-alpha1

Sveltos Kubernetes add-on controller programmatically deploys add-ons and applications in tens of clusters. Support for ClusterAPI powered clusters, Helm charts, kustomize ,YAMLs. Sveltos has built-in support for multi-tenancy.

https://github.com/projectsveltos/addon-controller

Google Spreadsheet comparing different type of ingresses https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191WWNpjJ2za6-nbG4ZoUMXMpUK8KlCIosvQB0f-oq3k/edit#gid=907731238

Use Kubernetes to make a home router!

https://github.com/routernetes/routernetes

Since version 1.6 Terraform has introduced a new test framework
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N73chhccmo8

Open-source backend development platform. Build production-ready services without wasting time on repetitive coding.

https://github.com/amplication/amplication

The blog post at technoblather.ca is about solving cold start timeouts with AWS Lambda and API Gateway. The author maintains and operates a set of Lambda functions on AWS, most of which provide the implementation for an API Gateway depended on for an internal tool

https://www.technoblather.ca/aws-lambda-nodejs-debug-apigw-cold-start-timeout/

The post discusses key metrics for monitoring CoreDNS, including throughput, performance, scaling and resource, Go, and cache metrics.

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/coredns-metrics/

The post discusses how to collect and visualize CoreDNS metrics using the CoreDNS Prometheus plugin, which exposes metrics in the OpenMetrics format

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/coredns-monitoring-tools/

The blog post by Lee Briggs, a senior software engineer at Pulumi, who shares his thoughts and principles on how to structure infrastructure as code (IaC) projects in a scalable and maintainable way.

https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2023/08/17/structuring-iac

blog post by Robusta, a company that provides multi-cluster observability and auto alerts for Kubernetes. The post discusses the controversy and trade-offs of how different cloud vendors and Kubernetes providers handle burstable CPU instances, which are nodes that can temporarily increase their CPU performance beyond their baseline level. T

https://home.robusta.dev/blog/fairness-kubernetes-pricing-and-burstable-cpus

In recent years, cellular architectures have become increasingly popular for large online services as a way to increase redundancy and limit the blast radius of site failures.

https://slack.engineering/slacks-migration-to-a-cellular-architecture/

The article is a blog post by Nathan Peck, a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS, about rethinking infrastructure as code from scratch. In the post, Nathan discusses his thoughts on the current state of infrastructure as code and how it could be improved. He suggests that the current tools and practices for infrastructure as code are too complex and error-prone, and proposes a new approach that focuses on simplicity and ease of use.

https://nathanpeck.com/rethinking-infrastructure-as-code-from-scratch/

Bash noscript to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time

https://github.com/johanhaleby/kubetail

Kubernetes Monitoring Collector

https://github.com/ma-ha/k8s-mon-collector