DevOps Weekly #1
We have come up with this new way of knowledge sharing platform where we will be writing updates in the DevOps community and industry. If you want to share your interesting reads and learning, feel free to mention us. Enjoy this first weekly reading!
News
Helm Graduation: Helm, a package manager for Kubernetes has graduated from the incubating level as a CNCF project. Helm makes it super easy for installation, upgrade, and deletion of bundles of Kubernetes resource definitions. Also, it makes redistribution of application easier, you can consider it as Docker :). Read more on: https://helm.sh/blog/celebrating-helms-cncf-graduation/
New in Market
GitHub Codespaces: Github has brought cloud hosted development environment right on your browser. The newly announced Codespaces will give full Visual Studio Code experience without leaving GitHub. You can signup for Beta from this link: https://github.com/features/codespaces/signup
Podcast
Kubernetes Podcast with Matt Butcher: This week’s Kubernetes podcast is with one of the maintainer of Helm, Matt Butcher. In this interesting podcast Butcher talks about history of helm to path of helm3. Listen to the podcast #102: https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/102-helm-graduation/
Culture
How to transition from DevOps to DevSecOps?: Throughout the process of build, deploy, test, release process, security is missed often but with the hype of DevSecOps, can it be achieved by using few security tools? How ShiftLeft pattern helps in implementing security on DevOps lifecycle? Prabhu Subramanian shares his thought on Security Boulevard: https://securityboulevard.com/2020/04/how-to-transition-from-devops-to-devsecops/
When teams gets measured and rewarded based on velocity and are allowed to fail fast and often, there will be some corners getting cut and security will be one of them.
Book
Container Security: Liz Rice, VP of open source engineering at Aqua Security has come up with a book on “Fundamental Technology Concepts that Protect Containerized Applications”. The ebook version is available free on Aquasec site: https://info.aquasec.com/container-security-book
The book includes fundamental concept of container of system calls to cgroups, namespaces, build-storage-deployment time security along with strengthening the container isolation.
That’s it for this first weekly. See you next week!
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