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Jamstack Trends: How will we develop in 2023?
Some predictions from the Netlify blog. I am sad to see that Web 3 is not doing well, and of course, serverless is poised to grow more.
https://www.netlify.com/blog/jamstack-trend-predictions-2023/
Announcing SvelteKit 1.0
SvelteKit, the full stack framework for Svelte (like Next.js to React), just hit its official 1.0, meaning no more questions about whether it is production ready.
https://svelte.dev/blog/announcing-sveltekit-1.0
The security state of the Azure DevOps Marketplace
This report focuses on the Azure Pipelines extensions in the Marketplace. At the time of compiling the report, there are 1460 extensions in the "Azure Pipelines" category. More than 500 have one or more vulnerabilities or vulnerable dependencies.
https://jessehouwing.net/security-state-of-the-azure-devops-marketplace/
The top 5 kubectl plugins by GitHub stars
https://home.robusta.dev/blog/top-kubectl-plugin-list
#1 Making a technical platform…
A post on the evolution of a platform, moving to the cloud, adopting site reliability engineering practices, and modern observability.
https://medium.com/@chussenot/making-a-technical-platform-aeb9338f47ad
Mastering Local AWS Lambda Development
A nice tutorial for a local Lambda development environment for Python, using SAM.
https://dev.to/skabba/mastering-local-aws-lambda-development-18mg
Organize your AWS Serverless code to prevent merge conflicts
Some tips on avoiding merge conflicts with CloudFormation and OpenAPI specifications.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/organize-your-aws-serverless-code-to-prevent-merge-conflicts/
Announcing Rust 1.66.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/12/15/Rust-1.66.0.html
Faster CI builds for Rust with pre-baked builder images and sccache
https://vadosware.io/post/faster-ci-builds-for-rust-with-builder-images-and-sccache/
HashiCorp 2022 Year in Review
Most important moments for HashiCorp in 2022.
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-2022-year-in-review
Kubernetes 1.26: Pod Scheduling Readiness
Kubernetes 1.26 introduced a new Pod feature: scheduling gates. In Kubernetes, scheduling gates are keys that tell the scheduler when a Pod is ready to be considered for scheduling.
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/12/26/pod-scheduling-readiness-alpha/
Kubernetes 1.26: Support for Passing Pod fsGroup to CSI Drivers At Mount Time
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/12/23/kubernetes-12-06-fsgroup-on-mount/
Kubernetes v1.26: GA Support for Kubelet Credential Providers
Kubernetes v1.20 introduced alpha support for kubelet credential providers plugins, which provides a mechanism for the kubelet to dynamically authenticate and pull images for arbitrary container registries - whether these are public registries, managed services, or even a self-hosted registry. In Kubernetes v1.26, this feature is now GA.
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/12/22/kubelet-credential-providers/
Kubernetes 1.26: Introducing Validating Admission Policies
Validating Admission Policies are a declarative alternative to admission webhooks.
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/12/20/validating-admission-policies-alpha/
2022's top 10 monitoring tutorials for sysadmins
RedHat has put together a very useful list of the best tutorials of this year.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/top-monitoring-2022
10 Podman guides that show the container engine's evolution in 2022
Another list from RedHat, this time on Podman.
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/top-podman-2022
Linux Foundation Announces Overture Maps Foundation to Build Interoperable Open Map Data
Open-sourcing Anonymous Credential Service
Meta has open-sourced Anonymous Credential Service (ACS), a highly available multitenant service that allows clients to authenticate in a de-identified manner.
https://engineering.fb.com/2022/12/12/security/anonymous-credential-service-acs-open-source/
Ansible Contributor Summit
Ansible Contributor Summit 2023.02 will be held on the third day of CfgMgmtCamp 2023 on February 8, 2023, where participants will be able to join both in-person (in Ghent, Belgium) and online.
https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/
Announcing MySQL HeatWave Read Replicas with Load Balancer
Finding the next Log4j – OpenSSF’s Brian Behlendorf on pivoting to a ‘risk-centred view’ of open source development
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) recently adopted Microsoft’s Secure Supply Chain Chain Consumption Framework (S2C2F) to help reduce vulnerabilities in open source software – a once unthinkable partnership given Redmond’s former animosity to open source.
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