CatOps Digest 2022-09-11

What was on CatOps in the last two weeks...

Condolence to all the victims of horrific terrorist attacks in New York on this day 21 years ago and their relatives.

Glory to the Ukrainian fighters, who fiercely battle terrorism at this very moment!

Posts from 29th of August till 10th of September

• Comparing External Secrets Operator with Secret Storage CSI as Kubernetes External Secrets is Deprecated - overview of different technologies to get secrets from external storage into your Kubernetes cluster. More specifically: External Secrets Operator and Secret Storage CSI. View on Telegram.

• How to write a loop in a GitHub Action YAML file - practical material on automatic creation of parallel jobs in GitHub Actions using matrix.View on Telegram.

• Get changed files in GitHub actions - obtaining a list of changed files in GitHub Actions without 3rd party actions. View on Telegram.

• Ubuntu Linux 18.04 systemd security patch breaks DNS in Microsoft Azure - well, *it happens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. View on Telegram.

• Building a CLI application in Go: Part 0 - original content! I have started a series of articles on writing CLI applications in Go! This is a prologue article, where I describe my motivation behind this project. More parts to come! So, stay tuned! View on Telegram.

• mariabak - a CLI helper tool for MySQL and MariaDB backups. View on Telegram.

• Vulnerability Management for Go - a new tool in the Go ecosystem to scan codebase for vulnerabilities. View on Telegram.

• Monitoring at scale with Victoria Metrics - a repost from the Sysadmin Tools Telegram channel. A story of a company that switched from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics. View on Telegram.

• Introducing Ambient Mesh - a new architecture for the Istio service mesh revealed. View on Telegram.

• The Grug Brained Developer - the most useful developer’s guide of the year! > you say: complexity very, very bad. View on Telegram.

• Data Mesh — A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix - a story about the evolution of data streaming pipelines at Netflix. View on Telegram.

A tank of the Ukrainian army advances to the fronts in the northeastern areas of Kharkiv city on Sept. 8, 2022. (Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)