news​

• OpenTofu Releases 1.7.1.
• Alerting issue: Social Engineering Takeovers of Open Source Projects.
• AWS Operating Revenue 3x in YoY Growth due to AI.
• Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose.
• The market for alternative clouds is booming.
• 2024 DORA survey now live: share your thoughts on AI, DevEx, and platform engineering.
• AWS S3 team is working on a fix for the s3 unauthorized request charges.
• TFLint now infected with BUSL.
• Pulumi pollutes Google SERPs with AI generated documentation.
• 30% of all Log4J downloads still affected by Log4Shell vulnerability.

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.