news​

• An informal study on Takehome assessments.
• Why didn't one of the big clouds buy HashiCorp?.
• Homebrew deprecates Terraform.
• How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode?.
• Arc for Windows is now GA.
• OpenTofu 1.7 officially shipped and migration guide.
• OpenTofu reachs 20k stars (more than pulumi).

news​

• HashiCorp introduces the Infrastructure Cloud.
• OpenTofu Backend Encryption in 1.7.0.
• IBM to acquire HashiCorp.
• Slack rolls out its AI tools to all paying customers.
• BoostSecurity.io announces 'poutine': An Open Source Build Pipelines security scanner for GitHub Actions.
• AWS is using "module" approach with CloudFormation.
• GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs.

tooling​

• Index Advisor: A PostgreSQL extension for recommending indexes to improve query performance.
• nfpm: nFPM is Not FPM - a simple deb, rpm, apk and arch linux packager written in Go by GoReleaser.

news​

• AWS kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage.
• Amazon CloudWatch Internet Weather Map.
• Neon database is GA.
• HashiCorp terraform 1.9 plans "deferred actions" - good bye to "count of" errors.
• HashiCorp terraform 1.8 is ~3x slower than v1.7.x.
• Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source.

tooling​

• Open Source Implementation of Apple Code Signing and Notarization.
• OpenTofu + HashiCorp registry AIO (by Scalr).

news​

• Google Public DNS’s approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks.
• Teleport Community Edition will adopt a commercial license.
• Apparentlymart submits developer key to OpenTofu Registry .
• Negative PR campaign against OpenTofu:
  • HashiCorp sent OpenTofu a C&D letter.
  • OpenTofu's response
  • OpenTofu post.

tooling​

• runtipi: Homeserver management made easy.
• hermitcrab: Terraform Provider network mirroring service.
• Gource: awesome visualizations of contributor history.

news​

• AWS now supports Slack Connect for AWS sales to collaborate with customer and partners.
• CloudFlare introduces Python to Workers using Pyodide and WebAssembly .
• Redis fork emerges. Backed by AWS, Google and Oracle .
• The otherside of the Redis story: Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals.
• checkov IDE integration now paywalled by Palo Alto?. Workaround: a fork of the extension.

tooling​

• lynx: Fast, secure and reliable Terraform backend in Elixir.
• Bytesize Architecture Sessions: a workshop format for 45 to 90 minutes that help teams understand the systems they work on.