SRE / DevOps / Kubernetes Weekly Collection#11(Week 16)
- In this blog post series, I collect the following 3 Weekly Mailing List I subscribe to, leave some comments as an aide-memoire and useful links.
- Actually, I have already published the same content in my Japanese blog and am catching-up in English in this series.
- I hope it contributes to the people browsing this kind of information as a reference.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #485 April 12th, 2020
SRE Weekly Issue < It was not issued this week. Perhaps due to Easter?KubeWeekly #212 April 17th, 2020
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #485 April 12th, 2020
News
- The title is “De-risking custom technology projects”. Article dated August 5, 2019 on GitHub page.
- At the beginning, the issue “only 13% of large government software projects in the United States are successful” is introduced, and methods to reduce the risk of project failure, its checklists, and key questions to work or not are introduced.
A look at one company’s deployment pipeline to Kubernetes, using a GitOps pull approach and FluxCD.
- The title is “How we do GitOps @ Mettle”. Kubernetes pipeline example article at Mettle, which realizes GitOps using FluxCD.
- An introductory article on the OSS tool “Rangefinder” that analyzes users affected when making changes to Puppet modules. Click here for the GitHub page.
- The title is “Scaling containers in AWS”.
- An article that reflects my curiosity: “How to scale containers on AWS the fastest way?” It seems that the comparison of Fargate on ECS, EKS, Fargate on EKS was carried out by escalating the ticket to the people in charge of AWS.
- The title is “Accelerating with Serverless!”.
- An example of how LEGO moved from a monolithic architecture to a microservices and 100+ Lambda Function and other AWS services architecture in July 2019.
- The title is “Kubernetes: A Rusty Friendship”.
- The following one of Deis’s article “Introducing Krustlet, the WebAssembly Kubelet,” which was featured in KubeWeekly #211 in the blog last week.
- An article that explains the wonderfulness of choosing to write an application focused on Kubernetes in Rust.
- I would like to deepen my understanding of WASM (WebAssembly) and WASI ( The WebAssembly System Interface).
- An article explaining the efforts to standardize the Docker Compose format and apply it to other platforms. Click here for the io page.
- Two articles, Datadog’s collection of Kafka performance metrics (link above) and monitoring one.
- Like the product, Datadog’s article is easy to read, so you can read it with confidence. I want to improve my writing.
Tools
- A GitHub repository that contains extensions to the “Tilt” OSS tool focused on managing the complexity of microservices, and the “Tilt’s web page of extensions”.
Krustlet aims to make it easier to run WebAssembly code on Kubernetes, by providing a custom Kubelet implementation.
- The io page and GitHub page about “Krustlet” mentioned in the News above.
KubeWeekly #212 April 17th, 2020
The Headlines
Editor’s pick of the highlights from the past week.
Join the Kubernetes Release Team: learn from and give back to the community
By Karen Chu, Microsoft
Thinking about joining the Kubernetes Release Team? Curious what it even is? Read the latest blog from Karen Chu. Karen started as a shadow on the Communications team for the 1.16 and 1.17 Release Team and eventually became the Communications Lead for the 1.18 release. In the blog, she shares what she learned from this journey and answers questions about the Release Team.
- The company’s OSS Community PM at Microsoft’s Open Source Blog, Karen Chu introduced Kubernetes Release Team and encouraged the participation citing the benefits. Unfortunately, the application for Shadow version 1.19 seems to be closed on April 14th(at that moment). If you are interested, check out future trends for the next version 1.20 or later.
10 developer skills on the rise — and five on the decline | CIO
By Sharon Florentine, CIO
Developers remain in high demand, but the skills they need to succeed are in constant flux. The recent article from CIO includes Kubernetes as a top skill on the rise. Read the full article to ensure your programming chops are on point and sharp.
- An article by Sharon Florentine, Senior Write at CIO, which introduces “10 skills that developers need to succeed and 5 skills that they need to succeed.”
- Kubernetes says Average salary: $115,000 ~. I’m wondering how PayScale.com is investigating, but it’s not enough to investigate. Because this is only a guideline.
- Welcome to hear disagreement for this article. I’m not sure how to decide these skills.
CNCF Project News
It was an exciting week in the realm of CNCF Project News! We bubbled up all of the latest updates below. Please help us congratulate each project on these great milestones!
containerd 1.3.4
Helm v2.16.6
Envoy 1.14
Linkerd stable 2.7.1
gRPC, meet Kotlin
- Update information from each project.
- There was a comment that gRPC Kotlin 0.1.1 is the first release of the project, so it needs to be checked for new releases , and if you have any issues please feedback them here.
ICYMI: CNCF Webinars
Weekly recap of CNCF member and project webinars that you might have missed.
You can view all CNCF recorded and upcoming webinars here
CNCF Ambassador Webinar: Introduction to Service Mesh Interface
Lachie Evenson, Principal Program Manager @Microsoft Thomas Rampelberg, Software Engineer @Buoyant Stefan Prodan, DX Engineer @Weaveworks
- An interactive Q&A session between presenters and explanations.
- The impression that the vendors are not in line here, and they are not in line for the time being.
Adrian Goins, Director of Community and Evangelism @Rancher Labs, Dax McDonald, Software Engineer @Rancher Labs, and Jacob Blain Christen, Principal Software Engineer @Rancher Labs
- A video introducing the new OSS project of Rancher Labs, “System Upgrade Controller”.
Roland Barcia, CTO Solution Engineering @IBM and Sean Sundberg, Lead Architect, Cloud Native Toolkit @IBM
- A video introducing the code and implementation patterns used by the company’s team.
Chris Merz, Principal Technologist @NetApp and George Tehrani, Product leader for Kubernetes + Cloud Native Data @NetApp
- Video to share, showcase inside transformations, end-user Kubernetes integration requirements, and cloud native storage capabilities.
The Technical
Tutorials, tools, and more that take you on a deep dive into the code.
Monitoring Kubernetes Workloads: The Sidecar Pattern
Kubernetes blog
- Sensu CEO Caleb Hailey recap article of CNCF webinar.
- In addition to his discussion of “Popular patterns (like Prometheus) for monitoring existing Kubernetes and why traditional methods aren’t enough in the cloud-native world,” as well as monitoring current Kubernetes workloads. An article that explains best practices with monitoring sidecar patterns.
Human-friendly Domains with Knative
Sergei Egorov, Pivotal
- A story of touching Kubernetes and Knative triggered by receiving the free tier of Oracle Cloud. I want to have the lightness and technical ability to “contribute to the default configuration” when something I touch does not meet my expectations.
Please don’t evict my pod; priority & disruption budget
Abhishek Sharma, RBC
- The third work in a series about pod eviction. The first one is Please don’t evict my pod; QoS class , the second one is Please don’t evict my pod; eviction policy.
- Explains the pod priority class, pod disruption budget, and the relationship that they build a pod eviction.
Graceful shutdown in Kubernetes is not always trivial
Flant staff
- An article that explains the importance of Graceful Shutdown to utilize Kubernetes in the CI/CD process. I would like to verify the preStop hook with delay setting by referring to the knowledge.
Getting started with writing Serverless workloads on Kubernetes using Fission — 1
InfraCloud Team
- An article explaining serverless architecture while deeply diving into “ Fission “ which is a framework of Serverless Function running on Kubernetes.
Kubernetes API Operator: Apply API Management for Istio Microservices
Pubudu Gunatilaka, WSO2
- An article that describes three approaches to applying API management to microservices under Istio by the Kubernetes API Operator.
- Personally, I like the way this article is written and the color tones.
Announcing the Compose Specification
Ben De St Paer-Gotch, Docker
- An article announcing a new OSS community to develop Docker’s Compose Specification , linked as one of the Docker Compose standardization efforts mentioned in DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #485 above.
Istio telemetry V2 (Mixerless) deep dive
Zsolt Varga, Banzai Cloud
- A deep dive article focusing on “Istio telemetry V2” from the perspective that Istio’s most popular and robust feature is its high degree of observability.
- There is also an introduction of the product “Backyards” that is automated and runs on Banzai Cloud’s Istio. The illustration is detailed with many components, but it is easy to see when enlarged.
Kubernetes Node Local DNS Cache
Povilas Versockas, Utility Warehouse
- When the author was playing around with his “ Home Kubernetes Cluster”, he came up with the idea of trying the beta function NodeLocal DNS Cache , so he tried it. This is my homework because I want to dig deeper into the contents.
Understanding Kubernetes Objects
David Essien, Magalix
- An article that explains the benefits of using each object of Kubernetes. An article that guides the environment of Katacoda to make it easier to install.
The Editorial
Articles, announcements, and morethatgive you a high-level overview of challenges and features.
Kubernetes Podcast: kpt, with Morten Torkildsen
Adam Glick and Craig Box, Google Cloud
- Kubernetes Podcast by Google employees. The current co-hosts are Craig Box and Adam Glick.
- Guest is Morten Torkildsen , a Google Software Engineer who is responsible for the company’s new OSS Kubernetes packaging tool “ kpt “, configuration management, and workload APIs.
- The topics of interest in News of the week are: There were quite a few, but most of them were already covered.
Amazon launches Fargate platform v1.4.0
* Version primer
* Data plane, under the hood
* Elastic File Server (NFS) support
Rook 1.3
* Write-up by Vanilla Kola
Is there a Helm and Operators showdown?
Matt Butcher, Microsoft
- Oh!? I mentioned it in the same editorial section of KubeWeekly #211 in the blog last week ? I did not know the reason why it reappeared, the difference, but I will skip it.
Kubernetes Logging and Monitoring Explained
Slava Koltovich, Kublr
- Kublr categorized into four categories based on “Why traditional monitoring methods do not work in a cloud-native world?” with an IP address, and “The address of a machine that operates is constantly changing and dynamic.” It explains with the option of the group that did.
- This article makes me feel deja vu.
Fluentd Project Journey Report
CNCF
- A report evaluating the status of the Fluentd project and how the CNCF impacted its progress and growth.
- By January 2020, you can see the numbers of commits and contributors, and it seems that they are growing steadily.
Upcoming CNCF webinars
You can check some Recorded Webinars and Upcoming Webinars here. The following are posted as Upcoming CNCF webinars at that moment.
Announcing Open Source gRPC Kotlin
James Ward, Developer Advocate @Google Cloud Platform
Project webinar
April 17, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Ensuring compliance, without sacrificing development agility and operational independence, in K8s
Sertaç Özercan, Software Engineer @Microsoft
Lachie Evenson, Principal Program Manager @Microsoft
Member webinar
April 21, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
KubeCarrier: The Operator of Operators
Nico Schieder, Software Engineer @Loodse
Member webinar
April 22, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
如何让你的Windows应用运行在Kubernetes平台
杨雨 Alex Yang, 解决方案架构师 Solution Architect @Mirantis
张文墨Larry Zhang, 解决方案架构师 Solution Architect @Mirantis
Member webinar
This webinar will be delivered in Chinese.
April 23, 2020 10:00 AM China Standard Time
Kubernetes 1.18
Kubernetes team
Project webinar
April 23, 2020 9:00 AM Pacific Time
KubeCarrier: the Operator of Operators
徐嘉诚 Jiacheng Xu, 软件开发工程师 Software Engineer @LoodseKubernetes team
Member webinar
This webinar will be delivered in Chinese.
April 29, 2020 10:00 AM China Standard Time
Best Practices In Implementing Container Image Promotion Pipelines
Baruch Sadogursky, Head of DevOps Advocacy @JFrog
Member webinar
April 30, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
How AWS uses Firecracker and Fargate to run serverless Kubernetes pods in Amazon EKS
Mo Ziyuan 莫梓元 解决方案架构师 @AWS
Member webinar
This webinar will be delivered in Chinese.
May 7, 2020 10:00 AM China Standard Time
Data Services for Cloud Native Workloads
Diamanti
Member webinar
May 12, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Piraeus: Dynamic Provisioning, Resource Management and High Availability for Local Persistent
DaoCloud
Member webinar
This webinar will be delivered in Chinese.
May 13, 2020 10:00 AM China Standard Time
Pivoting Your Pipeline from Legacy to Cloud Native
Tracy Ragan, CEO of DeployHub and CDF Board Member
Member webinar
June 30, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
How about those articles? Do you have any interest in any?
Actually, I have some contents which I can not digest at this stage, I’ll make use of this aide-memoire and links for catching-up for myself too.
Bye now!!
Data Services for Cloud Native Workloads
Diamanti
Member webinar
May 12, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Piraeus: Dynamic Provisioning, Resource Management and High Availability for Local Persistent
DaoCloud
Member webinar
This webinar will be delivered in Chinese.
May 13, 2020 10:00 AM China Standard Time
Pivoting Your Pipeline from Legacy to Cloud Native
Tracy Ragan, CEO of DeployHub and CDF Board Member
Member webinar
June 30, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
How about those articles? Do you have any interest in any?
Actually, I have some contents which I can not digest at this stage, I’ll make use of this aide-memoire and links for catching-up for myself too.
Bye now!!
