Yet Another DevOps Newsletter Volume 3

Welcome back to the third edition of the Plural Monthly Newsletter, YADN!

Every month, you’ll get content about all things cloud-native DevOps, as well as useful content from experts in the open-source/Kubernetes communities. We’ll also give you a quick update on what’s been going on at Plural.

If you see a piece of content that you like and want to have included in our monthly recap, please reach out to us. We’re an open-source company and we prioritize content from our community. Join us on Discord to stay up to date with what we are working on.

Thanks!

P.S. We'll be hosting our biweekly product demo this Thursday, August 4th, 2022 at 12:00 PM (ET). We'll be demoing some of the latest apps we have onboarded and will go over our roadmap for August and the rest of the quarter.

Sign up here: https://app.livestorm.co/pluralsh/demo-day

Cloud-Native DevOps

Check out the latest product release from lakeFS. Highlights include templating capability in the lakeFS web server and OIDC support to manage lakeFS users externally.

Release v0.69.0 · treeverse/lakeFS

Notes This release contains performance and security improvements to the authentication mechanism. After upgrading to this version, all current browser sessions will become invalid and users will ...

GitHubtreeverse

If you are a GitLab user or in the process of evaluating GitLab, you should know about some platform changes they made recently. One of the key improvements is the release of live preview diagrams in the wiki WYSIWYG editor. As you write your diagram in a specialized code block, GitLab will detect the type of diagram and then display a preview, ensuring that it’s the right format and the output is what you expect. Check out the rest of the release below.

GitLab 15.2 released with live wiki diagram previews and redesigned merge request reports

GitLab 15.2 released with Live preview diagrams in the wiki WYSIWYG editor, Incident Timelines, Group and subgroup scan execution policies, Change failure rate chart for visualizing software stability, and much more!

GitLabSam Kerr

Our CTO and Co-Founder Michael Guarino discusses the motivation behind a cloud shell and the underlying architecture of the cloud shell as well. The founding team heavily relied on elixir to build the cloud shell. Check out Michael’s latest below.

How we Created an in-Browser Kubernetes Experience

Building a in-browser Kubernetes experience is a fairly unusual product decision. Here’s how and why we did it.

PluralMichael Guarino

Open-Source Space

In this article, the author assembled ngods (next-generation open-source data stack) as a potential open-source data stack for companies that deal with data anywhere from a few GBs to a few hundred. During the past few months, he already found it to be much cheaper than cloud data stacks that utilize usage-based pricing (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery). The author was kind enough to share a Github repository and demo of the project for you to get started with today. Check it out: https://github.com/zsvoboda/ngods-stocks

Iceberg + Spark + Trino + Dagster: modern, open-source data stack demo

I assembled the ngods (new generation open-source data stack) two months back and have used it for two projects since then.

Dev GeniusZD

Contributing to an open-source project for the first time can feel like an intimidating task. However, if it’s a product that your organization is already utilizing and you are a heavy user of the software yourself, it’s a win-win for everyone involved. You improve the open-source project and also help your organization along the way. Check out the latest from the Wix engineering team.

Open Source Contributions and You — The Platforms Engineer Perspective

As a Platform Engineer, your task are varied. In this post, I will try to show you that open source contributions should be one of them.

Wix EngineeringAlex Kruchkov

We often get asked why companies should build and operate an open-source data stack on Kubernetes. To help organizations get started we created a guide to building and operating their open-source data stack on Kubernetes. In Michael’s article, you’ll learn about some of the most common open-source tools to choose from at each layer of the data stack, why you should self-host your data stack, the challenges in doing so, and how to overcome them.

How to Build and ​​Operate an Open-Source Data Stack on Kubernetes

The current consensus is to deploy your open-source data stack on Kubernetes, as it provides the ability to scale seamlessly and operate complex infrastructure using standard tooling.

PluralMichael Guarino

Product Updates

Here’s what we have been up to the past month.

Plural Update July 2022

During the month of July we focused on improving the user experience, ironing out bugs in our application, and improving testing for our apps.

PluralAbhi Vaidyanatha

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