Hacker News with Generative AI: DevOps

Argo: a new documentary on the tool simplifying K8s deployments (cncf.io)
GitOps provides a pathway to stable, dependable, and predictable cloud native infrastructure and workflows. Over the past few years GitOps and Argo have grown hand in hand as ArgoCD has become a reliable solution for consolidating and extending GitOps inside Kubernetes environments.
The Ancients Had Ops (reedmeyerson.com)
While the “Dev” and “ML” parts of DevOps and MLOps are new1, the “Ops” part is ancient, and the properties of good Ops have remained constant from antiquity to present.
Building Observability with ClickHouse (cmtops.dev)
This is a summary of my experience in searching for and implementing an optimal observability stack at my workplace.
Show HN: Railway – A better way to build software. Period (railway.com)
For too long, deploying cloud infrastructure has been the most painful part of the developer toolchain.
Platforms Need New Building Blocks (junctionlabs.io)
Junction Labs’ mission is to empower platform builders with a service to service networking platform that bridges the developer-operator divide.
Docker Compose Isn't Enough (tealok.tech)
Docker Compose creates problems as you scale a single server to many applications. We should learn from it and build something better.
Upbound Elevates Platforming with new developer tooling for Crossplane (upbound.io)
It's the eve of Kubecon in North America, and Upbound is celebrating by unwrapping a significant new release of capabilities. Chief among these are a brand new software development lifecycle (SDLC) for Crossplane with `control plane projects`, a raft of new core platform services that improve the security and robustness of control planes, and new free and low-cost access plans. Let's dig in.
Show HN: Varse – Simple remote application config (github.com/varse-io)
Varse is a tool for updating application variables at runtime. It has a dashboard for managing variables and an SDK for reading variables. It has built-in team managment for sharing configs across a team.
We're Leaving Kubernetes (gitpod.io)
Kubernetes seems like the obvious choice for building out remote, standardized and automated development environments. We thought so too and have spent six years invested in making the most popular cloud development environment platform at internet scale. That’s 1.5 million users, where we regularly see thousands of development environments per day. In that time we’ve found that Kubernetes is not the right choice for building development environments.
Mirrord Mirrord on the wall, who's most processed of them all (vibhavstechdiary.substack.com)
In today’s post, we are going to explore mirrord. Mirrord is a process mirroring tool which mirrors your local running process and related dependencies to a Kuebrnetes cluster. We will see how to quickly get started with mirrord, and how it works.
CodSpeed – integrated CI tool for performance testing (codspeed.io)
Backed by<h1>Unmatched performance testing in your CI</h1><p>Measure and optimize software performance consistently and before any release to avoid production issues, improve UX and save on infrastructure costs.</p>
Ask HN: Looking for Good Articles on CICD/Release-Engineering (ycombinator.com)
Hello all.<p>Am an SRE who has been tasked to make my Org's (2k+ devs) CICD Infra more robust, updated, further scaled and automated.
Show HN: I built a tool that helps people scan and clean any repo for secrets (securelog.com)
Scan, clean, and prevent leaked secrets in your codebase, team’s logs, build environments, repos & CI pipelines.
NGS – Next Generation Shell (ngs-lang.org)
Next Generation Shell is a modern programming language that focuses on "DevOps"y use cases.
Logging Best Practices: An Engineer's Checklist (honeycomb.io)
The best DevOps and SRE teams have shifted their approach to monitoring and logging their systems.
Terraform Provider for Dominos Pizza (terraform.io)
Komodo: A tool to build and deploy software across many servers (github.com/mbecker20)
Stop using "GitOps" to sell your products (lepape.me)
Hello there, and welcome to the first rant on this blog. No, deploying infrastructure from Git doesn't mean you are doing "GitOps". It's called Infrastructure-as-Code on Git.
Platform Engineering vs. DevOps (masterpoint.io)
I really like platform engineering as a term, especially when compared to devops. So much of software delivery comes down to “how are we accurately describing what we're doing?
Show HN: Valv – Formally Verified KMS Alternative to HashiCorp Vault (github.com/molnett)
Gitpod Flex: Automating the software development lifecycle (gitpod.io)
Five years ago, we introduced automated and standardized development environments. Over 1.5 million users later, we are the leading cloud development environment (CDE) platform. Developers use Gitpod for an average of 36 hours a week. Our enterprise revenue has grown tenfold since last year. Today, we launch our Act 2: Gitpod Flex.
Show HN: Visualenv: store env variables in image (github.com/ersinesen)
Store your env variables securely in images using steganography.
Roll Up Terminals into a Knowledge Base (runme.dev)
About a decade ago, some wise guys (myself included) tried to convince you to Trust the Source, Luke and make the code your docs—just ditch documentation entirely. BDD, Terraform, GitOps, a couple of Ruby-DSLs, and years later, we found that, yes, for certain things, code is a better solution than documents: unit tests, delivery pipelines, smoke tests, IaC at scale, etc.
System Intiative is generally available (systeminit.com)
I’m incredibly proud to announce the general availability of System Initiative. It’s a revolutionary technology that is the future of how you will build DevOps automation.
Ask HN: Is running your own servers becoming a lost art due to the cloud? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Is running your own servers becoming a lost art due to the cloud?
pgroll: PostgreSQL zero-downtime migrations made easy (github.com/xataio)
pgroll is an open source command-line tool that offers safe and reversible schema migrations for PostgreSQL by serving multiple schema versions simultaneously.
Show HN: Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform (inngest.com)
Inngest's durable functions replace queues, state management, and scheduling to enable any developer to write reliable step functions faster without touching infrastructure.
The "R" in MTTR: Repair or Recover? What's the Difference? (causely.io)
There are so many ways to measure application reliability today, with hundreds of key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure availability, error rates, user experiences, and quality of service (QoS). Yet every organization I speak with struggles to effectively use these metrics.
Show HN: A CLI tool I made to self-host any app with two commands on a VPS (github.com/MightyMoud)
Bare metal to production ready in mins; your own fly server on your VPS.
Kubesafe: Never run Kubernetes commands on the wrong cluster again (github.com/Telemaco019)
Kubesafe 🔁 Tired of accidentally running dangerous commands on the wrong Kubernetes cluster? Meet kubesafe — your safety net for cluster management.