#20 DevOps Diary: Kubernetes and Community Resources

Anais Urlichs -

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Community 👥

This is for both, those, who are already familiar with the cloud-native ecosystem and those, who are just getting started. The CNCF runs a mentorship program the entire year around. If you have time to get involved and help others onboard, or you are currently in the onboarding process, have a look.

Book Picks Of The Week 📚

I think it is really important to remember that we are not reinventing the wheel but that we can get inspiration from existing projects to improve our own.

Have a look at "Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams" by Janet Vertesi to learn more about formal structures, decision-making techniques, and informal work practices in the day-to-day process of mission planning between the involved teams.

Blog Posts (and other written content)🗞️

This week's theme is Prometheus and monitoring. I highly enjoyed the series on Prometheus by Sysdig. It is really comprehensive and provides you with further details on the setup.

More resources

Videos🎥

Do you want to get started with Prometheus to monitor your deployments? Have a look at this presentation "Prometheus Project Intro by Julius Volz", and my overview on getting started with Prometheus.

I am learning more about the shift from a monolithic architecture to Microservices. Not having come from a traditional infrastructure or engineering background, I am not too familiar with "the struggle of not using" Microservices and all the fancy cloud-native tools. Similarly, it is sometimes difficult to see the downside of those technologies. Have a look at this overview by Dave Farley on "The Problem With Microservices".

And lastly, I am hosting weekly Friday Tips for Codefresh. The last one provides an overview of Kubernetes naming conventions and making the best out of it. I mentioned that you want to use Helm instead of having your YAML go crazy — here is a really nice 8min introduction to Helm by Donovan Brown.

Sticky-Content 📌

Events 📣

Join me at International Women's Day Sweden Summit 2021 where I will be talking about my Kubernetes Experience https://www.bevycares.com/events/details/bevy-cares-magenta-codes-presents-international-womens-day-sweden-summit-2021/#/ Mar 24, 2021

If you have any event recommendations, I would love to hear from you 🙂

Tweet of the Week 🐦

This week's tweet of the week is by Florian Clanet

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