Plan

Planning for a DevOps Cycle

Architecture

• Platform Engineering: Home for Platform Engineers. Includes a comprehensive tech library of stacks/solutions.
• Redhat Demo Central - Architectures for a wide range of cloud infrastructures and problems.
• Who Cares If It Scales - Avoiding pre-mature optimization.

Statistics

• Github Release Download Stats: For public projects, perhaps useful to gauge how popular certain packages are - espcially if one is NOT collecting telemetry data directly from users.

Tech Debt

• We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here’s what happened

Post-Mortem

Post mortums are the basis of planning for future improvements.

General

• Kubernetes Fail Stories and Source
• Danluu’s Post Mortem Repo

2023

• CircleCI Security Breach
• NameCheap Spam Email
  • Details based on spam I received - third party provider most likely Sendgrid
• Reddit Pi Day Outage - Great overview of a Kuberentes outage centered around an upgrade from 1.23 to 1.24

2022

• Incident.IO - Intermittent Downtime: Discussion of analysis and resolution in a Heroku app
• Gitpod - Sustained Workspace Performance Degradation
• How A Single Developer Dropped AWS Costs by 90% Then Disappeared - Good story/retrospective about why you whould always have software peer reviewed.
• Lastpass Security Breach
  • Root Cause: APT against Sr. DevOps Engineer Though Plex Media Player
  • Why Not to Use Lastpass, and use 1Password and Bitwarden Instead

2020

• Amazon Kinesis Aug 25 2020

2019

• Matrix Apr 2019
• Google Cloud June 2019

2017

• Monzo Payment Outage
• First Kubernetes Outage - Helm Related

Small Environment/Home Lab

Small Environment/Home Lab Planning resources

• k8s-at-home
• k8s-at-home Search - Search FluxCD based HelmReleases of software