Digest #162: IBM Acquires HashiCorp, No TCP/UDP, GitHub Data Theft, FinOps Future, Postgres Graph, AWS Config, Airflow, Kubernetes, Nginx, Terraform & More!

GitHub data theft, SQL injection court, and sky-high CPU use. Plus, learn about the future of FinOps, using Postgres as a graph database, saving with AWS Config and Airflow & handling Kubernetes logs!

Welcome to this week’s edition of the DevOps Bulletin!

IBM just completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, and we ask: what would happen if we stopped using TCP and UDP? Learn how thousands of GitHub mods and cracks might be stealing your data, see what happened in a SQL injection court, and explore a world where logs rule—with CPU usage up by 3,200%.

Our featured podcast looks at the future of FinOps, giving you a fresh look at managing cloud costs for tomorrow.

In our tutorials, find easy guides on using Postgres as a graph database, automating cost checks with AWS Config, and cutting an AWS Glue bill from $10,000 to $400 using Airflow. Learn about Kubernetes audit log gotchas, slicing up SLOs, advanced Nginx hardening, Amazon EKS auto mode with Terraform, GitHub Copilot for Azure DevOps, and mastering infrastructure provisioning.

We also spotlight cool open-source projects:
• Yaak – a simple desktop API client
• Telescope – a web app for exploring log data
• AtomixDB – a mini database written in Go
• PG Capture – a lightweight tool for PostgreSQL CDC
• TFBuddy – for smoother Terraform Cloud workflows
• Globstar – a toolkit for code checking
• Tach – a Python tool written in Rust

All this and more in this week’s DevOps Bulletin—don’t miss out!

Newsworthy Stories

• IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

• What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?

• Thousands of GitHub "mods" and "cracks" stealing your data

• I went to the SQL injection court

• It's a log-eat-log world!

• 3,200% CPU utilization

Podcast of the week

Tutorials of the week

• Postgres as a graph database

• Automating cost optimization governance with AWS Config

• How I reduced $10000 monthly AWS Glue bill to $400 using Airflow

• Kubernetes audit log “Gotchas”

• Slicing up and iterating on SLOs

• Advanced Nginx hardening

• Amazon EKS auto mode with Terraform

• GitHub Copilot for Azure DevOps users

• Platform Engineering: Mastering infrastructure provisioning

Projects of the week

• Yaak is a desktop API client that interacts with REST, GraphQL, Server Sent Events (SSE), WebSocket, and gRPC APIs.

• Telescope is a web application designed to provide an intuitive interface for exploring log data.

• AtomixDB is a mini relational database that is fully written in Go.

• PG Capture is a lightweight and modular CDC (Change Data Capture) utility for PostgreSQL.

• TFBuddy allows Terraform Cloud users to get apply-before-merge workflows in their Pull Requests.

• Globstar is a fast, feature-rich, and open-source static analysis toolkit for writing and running code checkers.

• Tach is a Python tool to enforce dependencies and interfaces, written in Rust.

Meme of the week

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