50 Best DevOps & SRE Blog Posts & Tutorials Of 2017

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This list enumerates the best links that I shared during the year 2017. I shared an average of 50 links per issue.

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There is no particular order in this list.

Docker, containers, orchestration, DevOps best practices and AWS are the most visited articles.

Cloud Native Part 1: Definition

This article was originally published on Heptio's blog by Joe Beda. With their kind permission, we're sharing it here…

blog.codeship.com

A three-step approach to applying DevOps - SD Times

Everyone seems to be talking about DevOps but, if you are new to it, it might all seem a little overwhelming. For an…

sdtimes.com

8 Components You Need to Run Containers in Production

NOTE: Download our eBook with the full version of this text, including our own war stories. Docker, Compose, Kubernetes…

blog.cloud66.com

Common DevOps Mistakes " ADMIN Magazine

From industry metaphors, to agile processes, to DevOps, software development is evolving into a mature enterprise. We…

www.admin-magazine.com

7 Habits of Highly Successful Site Reliability Engineers

In a recent post, we examined the rise of the Site Reliability Engineer in modern software organizations. But it's one…

blog.newrelic.com

50+ Useful Docker Tools | Caylent

The container ecosystem is growing and expanding faster than ever, and with so many Docker tools and services it can…

caylent.com

A Great Vim Cheat Sheetvimsheet

A Great Vim Cheat Sheet Note: If you're decent at Vim and want your mind blown, check out Advanced Vim. I've compiled a…

vimsheet.com

Go cheatsheet

package main import "fmt" func main() { message := greetMe("world") fmt.Println(message) } func greetMe(name string…

devhints.io

10 layers of Linux container security

Containers provide an easy way to package applications and deliver them seamlessly from development to test to…

opensource.com

Analyzing Docker Container Performance With Native Tools · CrateDB

Containerization is changing how organizations deploy and use software. You can now deploy almost any software reliably…

crate.io

10 common beginner mistakes in Python. Py.CheckiO - python coding game

Python is an easy language to learn. And there are many self-taught programmers who don't really go with the best…

py.checkio.org

Are you stuck in the new DevOps matrix from hell? - SD Times

If you google "matrix from hell," you'll see many articles about how Docker solves the matrix from hell. So, what is…

sdtimes.com

HAProxy vs nginx: Why you should NEVER use nginx for load balancing!

Load balancers are the point of entrance to the datacenter. They are on the critical path to access anything and…

thehftguy.com

2 awesome open source apps to share your terminal over the web - nixCraft

Want to share your terminal over the web for demo, learning or collaboration purpose? Try these two applications to…

www.cyberciti.biz

30 interesting commands for the Linux shell - Víctor López Ferrando

List of 30 interesting commands and tips for the Linux shell that I have collected over the years.

www.lopezferrando.com

The Definitive Docker Cheat Sheet

Docker Cheat Sheet from PainlessDocker.com Course - Join the Fun

dockercheatsheet.painlessdocker.com

The DevOps Checklist, Docker, SaltStack, aws, Becoming a DevOps Professional and DevOps Books

I recently published Docker, Rancher, EFS, Glusterfs, Minikube, SNS, SQS, Microservices, Traefik & Containerd .. My…

medium.com

Docker, Rancher, EFS, Glusterfs, Minikube, SNS, SQS, Microservices, Traefik & Containerd ..

Since I start working on Painless Docker project, I used blog posts as prototypes for the lessons I am sharing with my…

medium.com

3 open source projects that make Kubernetes easier

Clearly, Kubernetes is an elegant solution to an important problem. Kubernetes allows us to run containerized…

www.infoworld.com

BinaryAlert: Real-time Serverless Malware Detection

medium.com

20 Linux commands every sysadmin should know

In a world bursting with new tools and diverse development environments, it's practically a necessity for any developer…

opensource.com

The Roadmap to Becoming a DevOps Professional — From Server to Serverless

The DevOps ecosystem is growing fast since the last 5 years but I’ve always seen the same question that is somehow hard…

hackernoon.com

2017 Ops Salary Survey

Operations professionals, we'd like to hear from you! Please take next year's Ops Salary Survey here. The operations…

www.oreilly.com

Running LinuxKit on AWS Platform made easy

With around 2800+ GITHUB stars, 54 contributors, 28 external, 50+ commits per week since the DockerCon launch, LinuxKit…

collabnix.com

Creating a Heroku-like Deployment Solution with Docker

Learn how to build your own deployment solution similar to Heroku, without the need to use any specific cloud provider…

semaphoreci.com

How Did I “Hack” AWS Lambda to Run Docker Containers

Why didn’t Lambda ship Docker out of the box? Is it because of security concerns? Why even bother, let’s do it…

hackernoon.com

5 laws every aspiring DevOps engineer should know

"A good engineer is a lazy engineer," some will say. And to a certain extent, it's true: Laziness is a great quality if…

opensource.com

30 common challenges to DevOps and how to resolve them | TechBeacon

30 common challenges to DevOps and how to resolve them As DevOps becomes mainstream, many teams are asking themselves,…

techbeacon.com

5 Docker Utilities You Should Know

You can find a lot of cool Docker utilities on the web. Most of these are open source and available on Github. Over the…

blog.xebialabs.com

Our First Kubernetes Outage

This is public postmortem for an a complete shutdown of our internal Kubernetes cluster. It’s shared with you all so…

engineering.saltside.se

A Hacker's Guide to Kubernetes Networking - The New Stack

The platform we built at Iguazio is cloud native, using Docker-based microservices, etcd and home-grown cluster…

thenewstack.io

Exploring the Most Effective Product Workflows in Tech

I recently tweeted: I see this over and over again. Nailing down an efficient product workflow is one of the biggest…

producthabits.com

A Machine Learning Approach to Log Analytics - DZone Big Data

Opening a Kibana dashboard at any given time reveals a simple and probably overstated truth - there are simply too many…

dzone.com

So you want to be an SRE?

A description of SRE, compatibility quiz and resources to get you started.

hackernoon.com

My favorite command-line utilities

How I stopped worrying about GUI and learned to love the terminal

hackernoon.com

5 Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS

Dorothy, you’re not in Kansas anymore.

medium.com

7 Essential Cloud-based Load Testing Tools

Do you know how much load your website can take concurrently? Check out with these tools to perform a load test on your…

geekflare.com

Linux Container Hardening

A project focused on future proofing the Linux kernel primitives that are used to make containers.

containerhardening.org

Thoughts On Gitlab Data Incident · Xargs.io

On Feb 1st, Gitlab suffered a irrecoverable data loss for a period of 6 hours. https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01…

blog.xargs.io

How Google builds web frameworks

It’s public knowledge that Google uses a single repository to share code — all 2 billion lines of it — and that it uses…

medium.freecodecamp.org

Shell scripts run via secure web API

What if you could turn a shell script into a web API in seconds?

medium.com

Easier, Better, Faster, Safer Deployment with Docker and Immutable Containers

Summary Jerome Petazzoni explains in detail the advantages of immutable servers, then how to implement them with…

www.infoq.com

9 Awesome Open Source Web Performance Software For Linux and Unix-like Systems - nixCraft

Web performance is nothing but the speed in which web pages are downloaded and displayed on the user's web browser…

www.cyberciti.biz

The Must Know Checklist For DevOps & Site Reliability Engineers

Disclaimer: This work was done by both Sahil Sharma and me and it’s part of a project we are working on called 31skills…

hackernoon.com

7 signs you're doing devops wrong

Devops is a transformative ethos that many companies are putting to their advantage. As with anything that hinges on…

www.infoworld.com

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