Hacker News with Generative AI: DevOps

Accelerating Docker Builds by Halving EC2 Boot Time (depot.dev)
We at Depot like making shit fast, whether that's Docker image builds, Github Actions runners, Bazel caching, Turborepo, or even our own infrastructure.
Ship Code to Kubernetes in Seconds: How mirrord kills 30-min CI Loops (metalbear.co)
For cloud-native applications, moving code from a developer’s local machine to a staging or testing environment is rarely straightforward.
Tell HN: The Hetzner Experience - Invisible Outages (ycombinator.com)
I'm a DevOps engineer at Schäfer Shop GmbH, and we've been running into recurring quirks with Hetzner's cloud infrastructure.
Self-Hosting Moose with Docker Compose, Redis, Temporal, Redpanda and ClickHouse (fiveonefour.com)
Deploying a Moose application with all its dependencies can be challenging and time-consuming. You need to properly configure multiple services, ensure they communicate with each other, and manage their lifecycle.
Show HN: Forge – Secure, Multi-Tenant GitHub Actions Runners on K8s or EC2 (github.com/cisco-open)
Forge is a scalable, secure, and fully automated multi-tenant platform for running ephemeral GitHub Actions runners on AWS — designed for platform teams, by platform engineers.
Helm and YAML templating was a mistake: A Makefile Manifesto (github.com/avkcode)
Demonstrably Secure Software Supply Chains with Nix (nixcademy.com)
Maintaining secure software development environments, especially those that require high levels of integrity guarantees, often comes with significant overhead.
Show HN: Req Update Check (github.com/ontherivt)
A Python tool to check your requirements.txt file for package updates, with optional file caching for better performance.
Bento gets a makeover (warpstreamlabs.github.io)
Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
Pg-Schema-Diff – Diffing Postgres Schemas and Generating SQL Migrations (github.com/stripe)
Computes the diff(erences) between Postgres database schemas and generates the SQL required to get your database schema from point A to B with minimal downtime & locks. This enables you to take your database and migrate it to any desired schema defined in plain DDL.
Show HN: Kubetail – Real-time log search for Kubernetes (github.com/kubetail-org)
Kubetail is a real-time logging dashboard for Kubernetes (browser/terminal).
Tilt: dev environment as code (github.com/tilt-dev)
Kubernetes for Prod, Tilt for Dev
We got tired of duct-taping .env, tunnels, and Git configs — so we built a CLI. (devexp.pro)
Developers today are drowning in fragmented tools: secrets in .env, tunnels in ngrok, keys in ~/.ssh, Git identities per repo, and scripts duct-taped across folders...
Flox: Dev environment everywhere (flox.dev)
Create development environments with all the dependencies you need and easily share them with colleagues. Work consistently across the entire software lifecycle.
The Problem with Modern Engineering Isn't Speed. It's Chaos (earthly.dev)
Last year, our team spent a lot of time interviewing fellow Platform, DevOps, DevEx, CI/CD, and SRE engineers, as well as engineering leaders, in order to better understand their day-to-day challenges.
Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run (atuin.sh)
Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.
Launch HN: Infra.new (YC W23) – DevOps copilot with guardrails built in (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, we’re Caleb, Michael, and Josh, the founders of infra.new (https://infra.new/), a DevOps Copilot that can configure and deploy apps on AWS, GCP, and Azure using Terraform and GitHub Actions.
Immortal: A *Nix cross-platform supervisor (immortal.run)
Ansible: Pure (Only in Its) Pragmatism (andrejradovic.com)
Opinionated and outspoken as we programmers are, I feel that Ansible gets an outsized amount of hate, not all of which is warranted
Ansible: Pure (only in its) pragmatism (andrejradovic.com)
Opinionated and outspoken as we programmers are, I feel that Ansible gets an outsized amount of hate, not all of which is warranted.
Show HN: Attune - Build and publish APT repositories in seconds (github.com/attunehq)
Attune is a tool for securely publishing and hosting Linux packages.
Show HN: Opsmate - LLM Powered SRE Assistant (github.com/jingkaihe)
Opsmate is an AI SRE teammate to free you from the toils of production engineering.
EKS Auto Mode: Simplify Kubernetes Operations (spacelift.io)
Kubernetes has revolutionized container orchestration, but managing production-grade clusters can be complex and time-consuming. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that simplifies running containerized applications on AWS. It eliminates the need for users to operate their own Kubernetes control plane.
Our Best Customers Are Now Robots (fly.io)
We’re Fly.io, a developer-focused public cloud. We turn Docker containers into hardware-isolated virtual machines running on our own metal around the world. We spent years coming up with a developer experience we were proud of. But now the robots are taking over, and they don’t care.
Show HN: Koreo – A platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes (koreo.dev)
Koreo is a new approach to Kubernetes configuration management and resource orchestration empowering developers through programmable workflows and structured data
Stop Treating YAML Like a String (theyamlengineer.com)
Koreo is a data structure orchestration engine. Although it's primarily designed for Kubernetes resource orchestration, Koreo's core functionality can orchestrate and manage virtually any structured data. What Koreo provides today, however, is a new approach to Kubernetes configuration management empowering developers and platform teams through programmable workflows. This approach draws upon the strengths of existing tools like Helm, Kustomize, and Crossplane while addressing some of their limitations.
In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea (rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea.
In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea (rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea.
Nelm, a Helm 3 alternative, is generally available now (github.com/werf)
In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea (rethinkingsoftware.substack.com)
In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea.