The end of May looms large on the horizon and a busy June is ahead for a lot of us. This is about that time of year I wish it were the holiday season. It’s hot, people’s patience wears down faster, and there is always something to do. Here are some tips for the days ahead: Remember to pace yourself; you don’t have to live a full life every day. Remember to be kind; you have no idea if the person standing next to you in line at the airport is going on vacation or to a funeral. This is why my typical response when interacting with folks in a customer service capacity is, “Thank you very much!” So rare is appreciation for their work shown directly to them. A little kindness goes a long way and the good news is, everyone has within them the capacity to have infinite kindness. But, don’t be a doormat, please. Also, if you’re sweaty af don’t hug me; it’s June you filthy carbon-based life forms. I’ll be in Durham, NC 28-30 May and Raleigh 3-7 June. If you want to get together in the coming weeks, let me know. Stay safe out there and don’t forget to drink water. ...

No. Contrary to what everyone I’ve talked to this week thinks, I’m not going to KubeCon Barcelona. I don’t think I was really planning on it at the beginning of the year. I believe it was added to my schedule right before my Shingles diagnosis. Let me tell you, Shingles is bullshit. I’ve been battling a flare-up of the nerve pain today and it’s gnarly af. I was going to discuss the use of the term “best practice” this week but, I need to go get some rest. Instead, lend me your thoughts. The Tweet of the Week this week provides the thinking behind modifying or eliminating the use of the phrase “best practices”. I asked for clarification from the greater community this week and the conversation was insightful. Check it all out and let me know what you think (Twitter, email, Telegram, etc.)! Thank you to everyone that helped pushed the newsletter to over 3,000 subscribers! DevOps’ish Last Week’s Top Five 10 Mistakes You Should Avoid During Your One on One Meetings Do These 5 Emotionally Intelligent Things Within 5 Minutes Of Meeting DevOps is Dead with James Turnbull How to Stop Worrying About What Other People Think of You Oops, We Forgot to Build a Managed Kubernetes Service! People Your career needs more than a search bar. — Get matched with tech opportunities from leading companies, rising enterprises, and startups. Cut time, effort and stress with a 5-minute application to reach 1000s of companies—connecting you directly to tech roles that fit your profile. Join for free today! SPONSORED ...

Happy Mother’s Day! To the single moms, this day should be yours two times over. I’m sorry if you don’t even get so much as a bathroom break to yourself today. To the almost moms, this day is yours. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise; if they do, send them my way. To the moms that have lost a child, this day is especially yours. For those of us whose toxic moms have been extricated from our lives, this day might be a little heavier. That’s okay too; do what you need to do. No one says you can’t celebrate someone else’s awesome mom either. For example, Emily Freeman’s mom is the human embodiment of DevOps, honor her. Regardless, I hope everyone has a marvelous Mother’s Day. Ready for your dream tech job? Say goodbye to tech recruiter spam. Indeed Prime matches you with companies that fit your career goals and sends jobs right to your inbox. You’ll also have free access to technical career coaches who are here to help you with interview tips, resume best practices and more. Join for free today! SPONSORED ...

Friday afternoon (US east coast time), some oddities around git repos being taken for ransom started to pop-up. Safe to say, I’m paranoid af when it comes to the software delivery pipeline (GitHub and GitLab are both used to manage DevOps’ish). I immediately changed passwords everywhere I have code stored (and you should too if you haven’t already). GitLab chimed in on the issue to confirm it did not appear to be a total loss of data on affected repos and provided potential fixes. GitLab also provided extensive incident details I recommend checking out. The cause? The age-old problem of exposing version control dot directory when deploying a web site. Don’t publicly expose .git or how we downloaded your website’s source code. Find your next tech job No more inbox spam from recruiters! Indeed Prime matches you with top tech companies and only sends tech job opportunities that match your career goals, technical skill set, location, and salary preferences. Join for free today! SPONSORED ...

NOTE: Please read my Disclaimer before breaking out the tar and feathers. What a series of unfortunate events for Docker in 2019. In what appeared to be a massive talent flush due to what looks like a potential earnings miss, the Great Docker Culling of 2019 happened. Docker appears to have laid off the vast majority of its well-known talent. Andrea Luzzardi, Sam Alba, and Gareth Rushgrove are among a slew of recent Docker layoffs discussed in this newsletter earlier this year. According to one source teams were, “killed,” and Docker, “missed their number, and by a lot.” Fast forward to Friday night on the US east coast (like we weren’t going to notice?!?). Many people (myself included) received an e-mail from Docker about a Docker Hub breach impacting at least 190,000 accounts. According to the e-mail, “Data includes usernames and hashed passwords… as well as Github and Bitbucket tokens for Docker autobuilds.” Audit any Docker Hub tokens right now. Docker also, “revoked GitHub tokens and access keys. This means your autobuilds will fail.” Nothing like a page on a weekend because Docker broke your builds. Check your Docker Hub Linked Accounts and re-link them. You’ll then likely have to do a weird do-si-do in the Build config of one of your image pages to get everything working as is. ...