I’ve had a rough week, please forgive me for not laboring over an intro.
Event Call for Papers The GitOps Working Group is putting together a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Day 0 event! Come share your experiences, practices, and challenges with us at #GitOpsConEU2021! Call for papers open through April 16, 2021.
People The woman who took on Google and won
“Google signed a document saying its employees ‘have the right to discuss wage rates, bonuses, and working conditions.
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An old headline rears its ugly head again this week. The company that now owns the remnants of The SCO Group (whose claim to fame was going bankrupt in suing Linux distro makers until their dying breath), Xinuos, has decided to try this strategy out for itself in hopes of a different outcome. Xinuos is suing IBM and Red Hat for using Linux.
Talk about bringing back ancient memories of trying to keep up with a new and essential thing to me back in the early 2000s: Linux.
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Well, what’s it like living in the last throes of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)? Many companies came out against the FSF’s recent decision to re-add he who was mentioned in DevOps’ish 145. Red Hat probably gave the most scathing repudiation. I can think of no worse strategy than bringing back someone who for so long abused, criticized, belittled, harassed, and bullied the people (especially women) around them. I used to support FSF and only did so after he who was mentioned in DevOps’ish 145 (droves of others are denouncing the decision too).
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The idea for the subject of this week’s intro came from K Rain Leander. Rain asks, “The past year has been one of lockdowns, increased security and decreased travel. DevOps became DevSecOps became DevSecOpsBiz. And the world embraced the work / life balance culture of DevOps. What are your favourite cultural shifts from the last year? What do you want to let go of forever? As we take a look at the latest updates in the DevOps world, also take a look at you and yours and let us know how you’re doing.
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In a first, there are two DevOps’ish Indexes in flight right now. I did not want this day to ever happen but here we are. Solarwinds and Microsoft both have their hands full. DevOps’ish has your back. Here’s all the data points for both incidents so far.
NEW DevOps’ish Microsoft Exchange Hafnium Compromise Index DevOps’ish Solarwinds supply chain compromise Index What a time to be alive.
Also, DevOps’ish is 101 subscribers from officially passing the 5,000 subscribers mark.
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This week I heard about and witnessed some pretty disgusting behavior in the greater cloud native community. First, I saw a tweet from a CNCF Ambassador saying KubeCon was pay to play (the tweet is gone now but, you better believe they lost a follower that day). If KubeCon were pay to play, I’d have spoken at the last three years of KubeCons. Red Hat spends a shitload of money sponsoring KubeCon and the Linux Foundation.
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DevOps’ish is in a state of spring cleaning. First, I’ve found a tool that I like more than Pocket to bookmark and save pages in Raindrop.io. All the Recommended Reads automation is now pulling from Raindrop.io. Then three Zapier rules ferry everything off to the appropriate places. I made that transition midweek.
Next is the newsletter service itself. I’ve been unhappy with the current provider ever since doing the never-easy switch from Mailchimp (how forward-thinking that was) to the current provider.
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Sometimes you don’t know what the world needs until someone tells you. On Monday this week, a friend asked if I had any additional books to point them to for Kubernetes help. I have a mile-long list in my head. I said, yeah, let me punch that up for you real quick. But, instead of creating a locked down doc or dust bin email, I built a website. Behold, Kubernetes README.
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First off, Happy Valentine’s Day. I hope you’re enjoying it as best you can.
This week I learned that an organization in the healthcare industry is working on a large project involving Kubernetes Pod Security Policies as a mainstay in their project. In case you haven’t heard, Pod Security Policies (PSPs) will begin the Kubernetes deprecation process in the 1.21 release. Kubernetes 1.21 releases on or about Thursday, April 8th, 2021.
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This week’s biggest stories (my opinion):
Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Jassy in charge of the juggernaut come Q3.
Deserted Island DevOps 2021: Call for Speakers/Papers @ Sessionize.com
I gotta hype this event. It was a very well done event last year.
KubeCon EU Registration Now Open
$10 for a limited time.
The Next Cyberattack Is Already Under Way
A few nits, but otherwise accurate.
People Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk
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