DevOps Bulletin #76: Publish Helm Charts in DockerHub

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Headline Tutorials:

❓ “When to use a Lambda function, and when not?”- With the increasing number of direct integration between AWS services, AWS Lambda is not as essential as it used to be. This post tells you when to use one and when not.

🌎 “How we use Terraform at Slack” — Slack uses Terraform for managing their infrastructure running on AWS, DigitalOcean, NS1 and GCP. This post covers how they deploy the multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform.

🐳 “Announcing Docker Hub OCI artifacts support” — Learn how you can both store and distribute any artifact including Helm Charts, WebAssembly, Docker volumes, SBOMs and others using Docker’s registry.

🔎 “Understanding Helm upgrade flags” — Every now and then you’ll need to use the — reset-values and — reuse-values flags when running helm upgrade. Dive into how they actually work, and also look at a gotcha when the values of a chart have changed in-between upgrades.

🔗 “Visual guide to SSH Tunnels” — SSH port forwarding explained in a clean and visual way. How to use local and remote port forwarding. What sshd settings may need to be adjusted. How to memorize the right flags.

🔧 “Go code generator for Kubectl plugins” — This tutorial will walk you through on how to design a Go command line generator for Kubectl plugin using Cobra CLI.

🚨 “Verify the resilience of your workloads using Chaos Engineering” — This blog post gives early access to the updated implementation guidance on Chaos Engineering included in the new AWS Well-Architected content.

Latest open source projects

Helm Dashboard

The Helm Dashboard plugin offers a UI-driven way to view the installed Helm charts, see their revision history and corresponding k8s resources.

djkube

Tool for Django Developers to setup full stack EKS Kubernetes with all necessary tools including DevSecOps in 40 minutes.

Kestra

Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines.

Sturdy

Sturdy is an open-source version control platform that allows you to interact with your code at a higher abstraction level.

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