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k8s-config-connector
- Infrastructure as Code Tool Recommendation for GCP
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It's worth apply the CFT (Cloud Foundation Toolkit) with terraform in an gcp org that is already running workloads?
If your company is k8s centric and the developers are most comfortable with k8s, you might want to focus more on something specific to k8s such as helm, or even if you don't get into helm you may want to use config connector in your yaml to manage GCP resources in an IaC compliant method. You can manage k8s resources with terraform, but if your developers are currently comfortable working directly with k8s you are going to see significant pushback getting them to add terraform as a middleware. You probably still want to manage your GKE clusters and VPCs with terraform since you can't really use config connector.
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Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
Config Connector [1] is also an option in this space for GCP, it supports many GCP resources and thus far our experience with it has been largely positive.
[1] https://cloud.google.com/config-connector/docs/overview
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As Argo CD momentum grows, Codefresh launches hosted GitOps
We use it heavily with GCP's Kubernetes Config Connector to provision architecture. It could similarly be used for Cloud Functions, etc. given a repo URL that GCP can access. GitOps + operator pattern is a pretty powerful mechanism to let k8s continuously seek state towards your ideal. https://cloud.google.com/config-connector/docs/overview
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What should I learn to improve as a data engineer?
For K8s, we were using Cloud Composer to do it for us but wanted more fine control over CI/CD, so we decided to go with Airflow on K8s. That's all hosted in GKE now and deployed using ArgoCD with helm. This also led down the IaC rabbit hole which has been a ton of fun too. We use the GCP ConfigConnector resources for that which is a little challenging at first, but gets a lot easier as time goes on.
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Best IaC platforms
Terraform is 90% of cloud IaC. But there are newer Kubernetes Operators like Config Connector that can create cloud specific resources.
- What is the story with Google Deployment Manager? Is Google going to abandon it at some point?
- Infra Provisioning, what do you guys use today?
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K8s pods security in GCP
It works particularly well with Google Config Connector as then it's all just manifests.
- We’re the engineers rethinking Kubernetes at Spotify. Ask us anything!
backstage
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# Enable Developers on SAP BTP with Terraform, GitHub Actions and Backstage
apiVersion: scaffolder.backstage.io/v1beta3 # https://backstage.io/docs/features/software-catalog/descriptor-format#kind-template kind: Template metadata: name: sample-btpsubaccount-remote-template title: Remote Template for SAP BTP Subaccount Setup description: A remote template that creates a basic SAP BTP Subaccount setup tags: - sap - btp - basic - javascript spec: owner: user:guest type: service
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APIMatic SDKs in Backstage Developer Portal
Backstage is an open-source platform developed by Spotify for managing the entire lifecycle of developer infrastructure, including services, APIs, documentation, and more. Backstage streamlines the development process through its centralized and customizable platform, offering a unified dashboard that consolidates information on projects, services, and infrastructure. Acting as a service catalog enhances transparency by allowing teams to document and discover internal services easily. Backstage's extensible architecture supports a robust plugin ecosystem, enabling teams to tailor the platform to their specific workflows and preferences. The platform promotes collaboration, accelerates onboarding through standardized documentation, and integrates seamlessly with various DevOps tools.
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
It’s also well understood that having a k8s cluster is not enough to make developers able to host their services - you need a devops team to work with them, using tools like delivery pipelines, Helm, kustomize, infra as code, service mesh, ingress, secrets management, key management - the list goes on! Developer Portals like Backstage, Port and Cortex have started to emerge to help manage some of this complexity.
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Ask HN: How do you organize software documentation at work?
We use Confluence and markdown files in GitHub. I think we are moving a lot of our docs to Backstage [0] soon.
One process that ends up being really valuable for documentation purposes is our "Architecture Review Documents". This is a standard document that team leads fill out before starting work on a new Saga/Epic/Feature/whatever. It includes the scope and business value of a new feature or large block of work, high level technical architecture of implementation, the impact on existing database schemas and service APIs, etc. This document is presented in a meeting with technical leadership in our organization who deep dive on the topic and explore potential pitfalls in the plan.
The document and recording of that meeting live on forever, and this information is very useful when getting acquainted with a certain part of our product/codebase. You are able to read and hear clearly the intention of a certain service or module, and you can identify several relevant points of contact to ask questions to.
[0] https://backstage.io/
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Tools used by the top 1% of Platform Engineers and their Commercial Open Source Alternatives
Check the Backstage repo on GitHub
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10 open source tools that platform, SRE and DevOps engineers should consider in 2024.
Backstage - An open platform for building developer portals. [Internal Developer Portal]
- Backstage: An open platform for building developer portals
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Champion Building - How to successfully adopt a developer tool
So you've just bought a new platform tool? Maybe it's Hashicorp Vault? Snyk? Backstage? You’re excited about all of the developer experience, security and other benefits you're about to unleash on your company—right? But wait…
- Terraform Self-Service platform / Internal Developer Platform solutions
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Developer productivity for fun and profit - Part 2
The idea is to have a central point where people can find standards, documentation, and designs. The team can do this with a specialized tool like Backstage, Confluence, Github, Google Docs, or some internal implementation. The software is not the most important thing here, but having an easy way to find what is needed for the person to be more productive.
What are some alternatives?
crossplane - The Cloud Native Control Plane
cookiecutter - A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects.
plural - Deploy open source software on Kubernetes in record time. 🚀
atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation
nydus - Nydus - the Dragonfly image service, providing fast, secure and easy access to container images.
api-management-developer-portal - Developer portal provided by the Azure API Management service.
community - Kubernetes community content
C4-PlantUML - C4-PlantUML combines the benefits of PlantUML and the C4 model for providing a simple way of describing and communicate software architectures
docker-volume-hetzner - Docker Volume Plugin for accessing Hetzner Cloud Volumes
gitops-flux-helm
cloud-foundation-training
Clutch - Fast iOS executable dumper