Everyone can contribute! Learn DevOps and Cloud Native in our cafe ☕

General

• Agenda
• Guests: Niclas Mietz, Carsten Köbke, Kevin Honka, Peter Rossbach, Bernhard Rausch, Michael Friedrich, Michael Aigner, Nico Meisenzahl, Greg Campion
• Next ☕ chat #13: 2020-08-13 - Agenda

22 members, 12 Kaeffchens, and so many ideas :-)

Highlights

• Niclas tamed the wolve making it a nice live demo
• Running Vector and thinking about Loki with Tracing
• We could help improve the Vector docs for Label key-value configuration ❤️
• Vector allows to use LUA for transform hooks
  • Change into embedding languages into other languages (Perl, Python, Lua, Rust, WebAssembly, etc.)
  • eBPF explanation: Kubernetes and Cilium
• Thoughts on MFA, service users, ACME and webservers

Recording

Enjoy the session!

Here’s the intro.

Insights

• Google Analytics alternatives:
  • https://usefathom.com/
  • https://matomo.org/
• Docs PR for Vector: https://github.com/timberio/vector/pull/3335/files
• Initial Lua integration in Vector
• Vector daemon user permission problem, shared on Twitter
  • Open Policy Agent: https://everyonecancontribute.cafe/post/2020-06-23-opa/
• WebAssembly WASI
• Embedded Perl in C++ - technical deep dive
• Create your own full-text search engine
• MFA
  • 1.5 factor auth with 1Password
• GitLab Service Users/Bots
• ACME and Certificates (topic pitch for next time)
  • https://smallstep.com/certificates/
  • https://caddyserver.com/

News

• An inside look at the Rust programming language
• Understand Kubernetes terminology from namespaces to pods
• Boosting your kubectl productivity
• Not putting logs into Elasticsearch but from it by Philipp Krenn
• Monitoring demystified: A guide for logging, tracing, metrics
• How to use Prometheus for anomaly detection in GitLab
• GitLab Workflow for VS Code now with more Official
• The road to Gitaly v1.0 (aka, why GitLab doesn’t require NFS for storing Git data anymore)
• DM on GitLab Slack: I need your DNS skills!
• 10 most common mistakes using kubernetes
• Deploying GitLab to Anthos GKE on-prem to configure and run a CI/CD pipeline

Bookmarks

• Move the Three Pillars of Observability (+Alerting) to Core
• Learning Git Twitter thread by Emma Bostian
  • Git/GitLab training created by Michael Friedrich
  • A Hacker’s Guide to Git
  • Getting Git
  • Git for ages 4 and up
  • Learn Git Branching

---

Date published: August 5, 2020