DevOps Bulletin #81: ChatGPT Extension for VSCode

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Headline Tutorials:

🧪 “Testing Serverless applications on AWS” — This guide discusses methodologies for testing serverless applications, describes the challenges that you might encounter during testing, and introduces best practices.

🎮 “DIY Minecraft dashboard to manage your kids games” — This post outlines how to build a real-time Minecraft Server dashboard using AWS Amplify and AWS Appsync to cost-effectively manage Minecraft Servers deployed on EC2 instances.

📊 “3 metrics to optimize continuous integration pipelines” — Which metrics should you monitor to optimize the performance of CI pipelines? This article highlights those key metrics including change failure rate, test coverage and more!

🚀 “Running Workflows on windows with Jenkins pipeline and Kubernetes” — A tutorial on how to add windows worker nodes to your EKS cluster and then run windows workflows on the top of it.

🧠 “Bringing a product mindset into DevOps” — Adding a product mindset to DevOps capabilities is a key ingredient to finding this balance between desirability, viability and feasibility.

👀 “A beginner’s guide to Jaeger” — Jaeger is an open-source distributed tracing system created by Uber. This guide covers everything you needed to know about Jaeger Tracing.

💡 “SLSA dip — At the source of the problem!” — This article is part of a series about the security of the software supply chain. Each article will be analyzing a component of the Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) model in depth.

Latest open source projects

ChatGPT for Google

A browser extension to display ChatGPT response alongside Google (and other search engines) results, supports Chrome/Edge/Firefox.

GruCloud

GruCloud is a low/no-code infrastructure as a code tool. It can generate code from live infrastructure, and deploy resources to the cloud from code.

ChatGPT Extension for VSCode

This Visual Studio Code extension allows you to use the unofficial ChatGPT API to generate natural language responses from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to your questions, right within the editor.

Nova

Nova scans your cluster for installed Helm charts, then cross-checks them against all known Helm repositories. If it finds an updated version of the chart you’re using, or notices your current version is deprecated, it will let you know.

YATAS

YATAS (Yet Another Testing & Auditing Solution) is a simple tool to audit your AWS infrastructure for misconfiguration or potential security issues with plugins integration.

AWS Lambda Live Tuner

AWS Lambda Live Tuner tests memory configurations based on real incoming events instead of a single test event. Using different incoming events instead helps you test the actual behavior of the Lambda.

Tweet of the week

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Meme of the week

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