Cloud Posse DevOps "Office Hours" (2020-10-28)

Cloud Posse holds public "Office Hours" every Wednesday at 11:30am PST to answer questions on all things DevOps/Terraform/Kubernetes/CICD related. Basically, it's like a "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 any questions. You can register here: cloudposse.com/office-hours

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00:00 Introduction
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01:17 AWS ALB Ingress v2 Finally Released!
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02:13 AWS Lambda Extensions to Securely Retrieve Secrets From HashiCorp Vault
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05:07 Microsoft’s Kubernetes Threat Matrix and What’s Missing
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08:03 EKS Fargate and why you need snowflake sidecars
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09:34 AWS OpenTelemetry distro available for public preview
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/public-preview-aws-distro-open-telemetry/
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11:22 Do you need local Kubernetes development tools or is Docker Compose good enough?
https://tilt.dev/
https://skaffold.dev/
https://microk8s.io/
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15:48 What are the challenges working with polyrepos vs monorepos and is there a middle ground?
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30:03 How useful are buildpacks?
https://buildpacks.io/
https://github.com/pivotal/kpack
https://www.waypointproject.io/plugins/pack
https://digital.hashiconf.com/on-demand-videos/opening-keynote-KNwDxYvfS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK6e_ZatOaw
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38:49 Past failures and lessons learned
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47:45 Choosing the right monitoring tool and why open source options aren't free
https://acloudguru.com/blog/engineering/the-future-of-ops-jobs
https://www.honeycomb.io/
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56:59 How to reduce costs of NAT gateways