Tips, Tools & Resources
🚀 Tutorial: Create a Kubernetes Pod Security Policy
Running K8s in prod but not using PSPs? Stop what you’re doing and read. It’s easier than you think and is crucial.
🚀 Have you patched these top 10 routinely exploited vulnerabilities?
If you’re spending money on things like WAF, SIEM, and threat intelligence but can’t run a report that shows you’re covered on these 10 vulnerabilities, you’re doing it wrong. Try again.
🚀 I’m new to Engineering Management, what books should I read?
These awesome books speak for themselves. If you are or want to be a manager, read them all.
🚀 Oncall and COVID-19 Survey Results
Like us, many on call teams had to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances this spring. This study looks at the impact it had on those teams. It turns out the impact was small. That doesn’t surprise us, because a good ops team is always on its A game when the shit hits the fan.
🚀 Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide for Security
One stop shopping for how to properly run K8s in production. Most of these steps apply to any managed K8s solution like GKE and AKS, so this is a good read no matter where you’re running your clusters.
🚀 Deploy your pull requests with GitHub Actions and GitHub Deployments
At Rhythmic, May was “start using GitHub Actions for real month”. We didn’t plan it that way, but it happened anyway. Actions can be maddeningly opaque at times, but they’re also a super cool way to work. External execution frameworks like CircleCI and Travis are nice, but having it in the repo itself is nicer.
🚀 Tutorial: Logging with journald
Okay, sure, systemd was foisted on us with the promise of solving a problem we didn’t think we had. But, we got journald out of it. So it’s okay.
🛠️ Windows Package Manager Preview
If you didn’t think 2020 could get any weirder, Microsoft has released an official package manager. And, it wouldn’t be Microsoft if they didn’t go about it in a very Microsoft-y way.
👨💻 What’s the best way to manage Helm charts?
Not going to lie. We struggle with this question too.