DevOps "Office Hours" (2026-01-21)

Cloud Posse holds public "Office Hours" every Wednesday at 11:30am PST to answer questions on all things related to DevOps, Terraform, Kubernetes, CICD. Basically, it's like an interactive "Lunch & Learn" session where we get together for about an hour and talk shop. These are totally free and just an opportunity to ask us (or our community of experts) any questions you may have. You can register here: https://cloudposse.com/office-hours Join the conversation: https://slack.cloudposse.com/ Find out how we can help your company: https://cloudposse.com/quiz https://cloudposse.com/accelerate/ Learn more about Cloud Posse: https://cloudposse.com https://github.com/cloudposse https://sweetops.com/ https://newsletter.cloudposse.com https://podcast.cloudposse.com/ #officehours,#cloudposse,#sweetops,#devops,#sre,#terraform,#kubernetes,#awsdevops Timestamps: [00:00:00] Intro [00:01:04] Announcements [00:01:12] cURL removes bug bounties https://etn.se/index.php/nyheter/72808-curl-removes-bug-bounties.html [00:05:33] Building robust helm charts https://www.willmunn.xyz/devops/helm/kubernetes/2026/01/17/building-robust-helm-charts.html [00:06:33] Fast, modern traceroute with real-time TUI, per-hop stats, ASN/geo lookup, ECMP detection, and MPLS label parsing. A better mtr. https://github.com/lance0/ttl [00:08:07] Meshery Estensible Kubernetes Manager https://meshery.io/ [00:09:33] Docker Releases Kanvas for Compose to K8s https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/docker-kanvas-cloud-deployment/ [00:12:16] Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting [00:13:09] Claude Agent Skill for Terraform and OpenTofu (Anton Babenko) https://github.com/antonbabenko/terraform-skill [00:16:36] Amazon ECR now supports cross-repository layer sharing https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-ecr-cross-repository-layer-sharing/ [00:18:10] Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments reduces downtime to under 5s https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-rds-blue-green-deployments-reduces-downtime/ [00:19:52] Uniform Kubernetes API server access using clientcmd (golang) https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/19/clientcmd-apiserver-access/ [00:20:34] Other News & Announcements [00:21:03] OpenKanban https://github.com/TechDufus/openkanban [00:32:22] CoverToCode - AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-Co1) Study Guide: In-Depth Exam Prep and Practice https://www.youtube.com/@CoverToCode https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Practitioner-AIF-C01-Study-Depth/dp/B0F78DNCF4/ref=pd_vtp_d_sccl_1_2/137-9824499-5817152 [00:35:57] Q&A [00:36:01] Grafana Annotations Challenges [00:43:21] GitHub Actions: TypeScript vs Bash Discussion [00:52:44] Dev Containers and VSCLI Discussion https://github.com/michidk/vscli [00:55:51] Outro