#random - August 2023

Hey folks, CFP is now open for cdCon Japan December 4 🇯🇵 for those that wanna submit a talk https://cd.foundation/cdcon-japan-2023/?hss_channel=lcp-19100461&utm_content=258948670&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bradmccoy

What was that article featuring fancy bear goes Phishing, and asking if security is even possible?

Does anyone have a way to get the editor window at gist.github.com to be larger?

Hi Team,
I share different posts on linkedin regarding devops updates.

Here is my linkedIN profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhil-jain-83444b106/
Please do follow #devopswithakhil on linkedin to get daily dose of devops updates.

Regards,
Akhil

The new Terraform check block was a bit confusing and the existing posts that were out there on the topic weren't the best, so we wrote our own: https://masterpoint.io/updates/understanding-terraform-check/

Does anyone know what Jira Work Management is? It looks like it's just basic jira features as far as I can tell...

Hey folks! We’re happy to invite you to DevOpsDays Ukraine: Disaster Recovery on September 14-15th ⚙️

Get ready for a two-day journey with Cultural Talks, Ignites & Tech Talks, from top speakers like Charity Majors, Iaroslav Molochko, Manuel Pais, Adriana Villela just to name a few.

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Can't wait to see y'all!

My unsolicited hot take is that Hashicorp is showing its age, and has been in the final horizon of growth (don't worry too much about this maturity model vs other maturity models, it's an idea that's echoed in all kinds of frameworks, the essence of which is that the most mature phase of growth focuses on efficient extraction of profit as opposed to innovation and market fit) for some time. This latest action is merely a symptom of this phase. To me, I am therefore pessimistic about the future growth and development of Hashicorp products.

As I've noted in past office hours, I've been categorizing IaC tools by their state machine, and most have the same one: [build a manifest, display a plan, get approval, deploy ( with a 50% chance of failure upon integration), and merge]. Automation frameworks work around this fundamental order of operations. Terraform is like this, but so is Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK, and others.

Only one stands out in my perspective: SystemInitiative. It is cofounded by Adam Jacobs (of Chef fame). It features resources which leverage relationships to pass attributes dynamically to downstream resources in a visual interface.

“Visual Interface?!” I thought as past traumas of clicking through no-code GUIs surfaced.

But, then I read that each resource is aware of its own deployment state across different environments (including native integration testing). The interface restricts collaboration to within the portal, because the application is managing the state of deployment in real time. SystemInitiative is the first and only option I know of that actually does something different with the state machine.

If they can manage to polish the product for enterprise use, it may represent the first in a new paradigm for infrastructure management.

SystemInitiative has the heart of the product I was thinking of when I exclaimed that Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Pulumi, were all the same thing. I’m keeping an eye on development there and eagerly anticipate a GA release.

Hmmm.... Credentials are PII. Data regionality is a thing. How does accounts.google.com resolve submitted credentials if user account data is stored in different regions?

A very good repo to visualise your cloud infra made by terraform
https://github.com/patrickchugh/terravision

Hi forks! https://medium.com/@xpf6677/store-share-and-pull-your-kubernetes-configuration-package-on-the-github-container-registry-7b6ba32d96ff Let me introduce you to the KPM tool, which allows you to share KCL and Kubernetes Configuration code on the Github Container Registry, which is regarded as a OCI registry. In addition, KCL is a configuration language mainly targeting Kubernetes scenarios, and its documentation is here. https://kcl-lang.io/ Welcome to provide feedback ❤️

On a scale of 1-10, how hard is it on average to add a region-lang slug (eg: /us-en/) to a url schema? I've seen it done in a day in the past, but wonder what others have experienced.

https://medium.com/@xpf6677/5-minute-gameplay-with-helmfile-kcl-plugin-for-easy-management-of-kubernetes-helm-charts-dab750c5c687 I just published a blog on medium about Helmfile KCL PLugin. Welcome to read and provide feedback ❤️