DEVOPS WEEKLY
ISSUE #395 - 22nd July 2018
Service mesh, digital transformation, chaos engineering and some advanced tips for commonly used tools like Terraform and Docker.
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News
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A good introduction to service mesh, focused on the patterns and the problems solved rather than specific implementations.
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/do-you-need-a-service-mesh
Some good tips for anyone looking to change an organisation, focusing on flow, quality, happiness, safety over banners.
https://medium.com/@jonathansmart1/want-to-do-an-agile-transformation-dont-focus-on-flow-quality-happiness-safety-and-value-11e01ee8f8f3
A good case study of one team adopting Kubernetes as part of addressing stability concerns. Details of build strategies, feature flags, autoscaling and more.
https://medium.com/netlify/migrating-netlifys-continuous-deployment-infra-to-kubernetes-and-everything-we-learned-along-the-1e5989254269
Lots of people have heard of chaos testing but it's only more recently that tools have started to emerge to help people implement it. This post steps through an experiment testing Kubernetes deployments.
https://medium.com/chaosiq/exploring-multi-level-weaknesses-using-automated-chaos-experiments-aa30f0605ce
A good discussion of the design details of a CI/CD implementation, including the rationale for centralising release and deployment tooling.
https://medium.com/nuvo-group-tech/the-nuvo-group-ci-cd-journey-132ab70bf452
A look at using Terraform for application deployment on top of AWS ECS, using AWS CodePipeline. Some advanced Terraform patterns too.
https://medium.com/build-acl/docker-deployments-using-terraform-d2bf36ec7bdf
An interesting discussion around the term serverless. I'm not sure there is much chance of the community moving away from the term, but definitions are still important.
https://stacksense.io/krishnan/thought-leadership/let-us-just-retire-the-term-serverless/
Useful tips for using multi-stage builds for Docker applications to create a workflow that works for building images suitable for local development and for production deployments.
https://blog.mikesir87.io/2018/07/leveraging-multi-stage-builds-single-dockerfile-dev-prod/
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Tools
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Heighliner is a new continuous delivery, specifically for GitHub and Kubernetes It enables automatically deploying previews of GitHub pull requests to your cluster and use GitHub Releases to deploy to staging and production.
https://github.com/manifoldco/heighliner
Nabla containers provide a new container runtime that uses unikernel library OS techniques to cut down the syscall interface, providing additional isolation for container applications.
https://nabla-containers.github.io/
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