Issue #1

Monica Colangelo
November 22, 2022

Hello CloudMakers!

Today we shall see:

a very popular post on the equally popular discussion on Platform Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and the cognitive load required to operate on modern cloud platforms
a way to bootstrap infrastructure with Helm charts, keeping versions updated
a powerful CLI with a huge set of autocomplete

Enjoy!

Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Cognitive Load: a Summary of Community Discussions

Over the past years, we’ve seen a lot of discussions about how to reduce cognitive load as developers work. The questions vary from project to project, person to person, team to team and even from project to platform. In this blog post, Matt Campbell summarizes some of these discussions.

Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Cognitive Load: a Summary of Community Discussions

Operations engineering is moving in the direction of platform engineering according to Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb. Majors sees platform teams tending to work higher up the stack than operations, DevOps, and SRE teams do. This shift in focus enables organizations to focus their limited development resources on their core product to drive maximum business value.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/platform-devops-summary/

Stop cloning helm charts! Enough!

In this article, Andrii Abramov demonstrates how he bootstraps infrastructure using helm charts without actually downloading the chart source code, and how he makes sure helm charts are kept up to date in VCS without having to fetch the code.

Stop cloning helm charts! Enough!

Stop cloning helm charts! Learn how to use published charts as dependencies for proper versioning and maintenance. With only a few steps!

https://blog.devops.dev/stop-cloning-helm-charts-enough-b40fb5d67ac7

The next-generation command line

The command line can be daunting for individuals and for collaborative teams. Fig integrates with every major terminal, shell, and IDE!

Fig

The next-generation command line.

https://fig.io/

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