AWS open source news and updates No. 33

• Contribute-to-opensource-the-right-way

  2 124 2.3 Shell

  Be a part of the open source world can be the 21 century skills that you deserve?

First up is a blog post from Daniele Scasciafratte announcing An Open-Source Book About the Open Source World, which I am currently working through (the pdf version) and is a kind of hybrid book in such that it reads like an autobiography about Daniele's open source journey. Along the way he shares what he has learnt, and it kind of works as it makes it easier to read than many of the books on this subject. You can start reading via this link here. Nice work Daniele!

• citysim

  1 54 0.0 HTML

  Example city simulation for autonomous vehicles in Gazebo Classic.

  

Some more resources that you can use when creating your simulation worlds to test your robots and robotic applications. Welcome to PUCRS Campus on Gazebo provides some excellent resources to create a Gazebo simulation of the Pontifical Catholic University campus. Then we have some suburban/house objects you can put into your worlds, which you can find here and here. These can be useful if you are planning autonomous vehicles or robots that need to navigate these kinds of environments, as you can see in these videos.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• cdk-ecr-sync

  1 52 3.8 TypeScript

cdk-ecr-sync a project from Philipp Garbe, that provides a CDK Construct to synchronizes Docker images from Docker Hub to ECR. The project provides some examples to get you going, and this Tweet from Philipp Garbe provides some additional background to this.

• mutato

  1 23 0.0 TypeScript

  Repo formerly known as mu-cdk. A.K.A Mu2. Pronounced: mew-tah-toe

  

Mutato this open source project from Stelligent is an open-source framework for building containerized micro-services on the AWS ecosystem, and making it easier to do deployments. You can find documentation on how to get started with examples here. Look out for the rather unusual project mascot/logo (can't decide which it is). If you like what you read, then why not check out Michael Neil on this podcast, DevOps on AWS Radio: Mutato and Open Source at Stelligent (Episode 27)

• eks-auth-sync

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eks-auth-sync is an open source project from Polar Squad to help manage EKS cluster authentication configuration. This project will help you automate the ConfigMap updates, you can use eks-auth-sync to automatically pull changes from various sources and update the ConfigMap. Check out their blog post, Announcing a new open source tool: eks-auth-sync for more details on what this is and how you can use it.

• govuk-aws

  3 418 9.0 HCL

  Legacy AWS infrastructure for GOV.UK. Gradually being updated and moved to govuk-infrastructure.

  

Architectural decisions found this link via Corey's weekly newsletter, and it provides a detailed set of design documents that are made publicly available on how they setup and deploy services on AWS. There is an old blog post dating back to 2011 that shares some of the rational and thinking behind this, which you can read at Documenting Architecture Decisions

• appsmith

  233 31,450 10.0 TypeScript

  Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.

  

Check out Appsmith, an open source (Apache 2.0) low-code application that lets you start building dashboards, workflows, or internal tools. Check out the project repository (great docs!) and this walk through from CTO Arpit Mohan, One open source project for admin panels, CRUD apps, & internal tools

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• aws-cost-saver

  4 299 0.0 TypeScript

  A tiny CLI tool to help save costs in development environments when you're asleep and don't need them!

aws-cost-saver a project from Aram Alipoor that provides a CLI tool to help save costs in development environments when you're asleep and don't need them. Aram provides some nice documentation, including some best practices or 'Tricks' to make sure you can reduce the cost of running your development environments. There is also a great thread on HN where Aram answers many questions that people had on this project. Check out the thread here.

• amazon-s3-encryption-client-dotnet

  1 15 4.1 C#

  An encryption client that allows you to secure your sensitive data before you send it to Amazon S3.

  

Amazon S3 Encryption Client for .NET The Amazon S3 Encryption Client for .NET provides an easy-to-use Amazon S3 encryption client that allows you to secure your sensitive data before you send it to Amazon S3. The AmazonS3EncryptionClientV2 client automatically encrypts data on the client when uploading to Amazon S3, and automatically decrypts it when data is retrieved. You can use the client just like the regular S3 client, working with things like multipart uploads and the Transfer Utility with no additional code changes required besides swapping out the client used. Code samples and API documentation are available at the following https://aws.github.io/amazon-s3-encryption-client-dotnet/index.html

• aws-rfdk

  1 103 7.5 TypeScript

  The Render Farm Deployment Kit on AWS is a library for use with the AWS Cloud Development Kit that helps you define your render farm cloud infrastructure as code.

  

RFDK provides constructs for the AWS CDK that deploy and configure components of your cloud-based render farm, making it faster to manually deploy for your farm on AWS by reducing ten thousand of lines of AWS CloudFormation code to two hundred lines in Python. Read the post for all the details including links to the documentation, and you can find the project repository here.

• service-workbench-on-aws

  1 177 8.2 JavaScript

  A platform that provides researchers with one-click access to collaborative workspace environments operating across teams, universities, and datasets while enabling university IT stakeholders to manage, monitor, and control spending, apply security best practices, and comply with corporate governance.

  

Service Workbench on AWS is an open source project aimed at providing researchers with one-click access to collaborative workspace environments operating across teams, universities, and datasets while enabling university IT stakeholders to manage, monitor, and control spending, apply security best practices, and comply with corporate governance.

• thingpress

  1 15 0.0 Python
  

Thingpress this open source project from AWS provides a way for customers to simplify and automate the provisioning of thousands/millions of certificates for IoT devices. If you are looking for a solution to simplify how you vend certificates to your devices, look no further.

• redimo.go

  4 30 0.0 Go

  Use the power of DynamoDB with the ease of the Redis API

  

Redimo this open source project from Sudhir Jonathan that provides a library that allows you to use the Redis API on DynamoDB and bridges the two and translates the Redis API operations into space / time / cost-efficient DynamoDB API calls. Redimo is especially well suited to serverless environments, since there is no pool of connections to handle and DynamoDB is purpose-built for near-zero management use. Read the detailed README.md file to understand the nuances of this project.

• evb-cli

  3 22 5.3 JavaScript

  Pattern generator and debugging tool for Amazon EventBridge

  

evb-cli - an open source project from Lars that is a pattern generator for CloudWatch Events / EventBridge. You might recall a project a few weeks ago called evb-local. This new open source project from Lars which supersedes and incorporates the functionality from that project. Check out this thread from Lars which covers some of the key things you can do with evb-cli.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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