Devops Week News — Issue #157
This week we start with Conquering Microservices Complexity at Uber with Distributed Tracing. In the articles deploying ansible tower with terraform, best practices for production cloud services, API gateway security risk, the new configuration to postgresql replication, how Linkedin customize kafka, kubernetes vulnerability, and how Monzo handles secrets.
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Video of the week
Yuri Shkuro presents a methodology that uses data mining to learn the typical behavior of the system from massive amounts of distributed traces, compares it with pathological behavior during outages, and uses complexity reduction and intuitive visualizations to guide the user towards actionable insights about the root cause of the outages.
Articles & News
Deploying Ansible Tower and Terraform | Enable Sysadmin — www.redhat.com
Are Terraform and Ansible an unlikely pairing, two star-crossed lovers, or just the right technological marriage to simplify workflows for sysadmins, developers, and users? Find the right answer here.
Eight essential best practices for production cloud services — medium.com
This post will help you identify the gaps in your production cloud platform, and plan a roadmap for your cloud strategy.
The API Gateway security risk you need to pay attention to | theburningmonk.com — theburningmonk.com
Do you know that when you an API Gateway throttling is enabled by default?
Replication configuration changes in PostgreSQL 12–2ndQuadrant | PostgreSQL — www.2ndquadrant.com
This article provides an overview of the changes and potential issues that may be encountered when migrating replication configuration to PostgreSQL 12.
How LinkedIn customizes Apache Kafka for 7 trillion messages per day | LinkedIn Engineering — engineering.linkedin.com
In this post, Jon Lee and Wesley Wu will share more details of the Kafka release that LinkedIn runs in production, the process workflow we follow to develop new patches, the way we upstream the changes we make, a brief summary of some of the patches we maintain in our branch, and how we generate releases.
Analysis of Two Newly Patched Kubernetes Vulnerabilities — blog.paloaltonetworks.com
A new vulnerability was found and fixed on Kubernetes, and this post will give you all the details about the issue.
How our security team handle secrets — monzo.com
In this post, you will see how Monzo handles secrets.
