Some real-world examples on how to smoke test infrastructure.
gVisor on ECS
Google’s gVisor exists to provide a true sandbox for your Docker containers. It replaces runc, the default Docker runtime which recently had a serious vulnerability 1.
In theory gVisor is a drop-in replacement for runc, but does it actually work with Amazon ECS?
Google SRE Book Takeaways
SRE is what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations team.
I just finished reading through the (first) Google SRE book. While a lot of it is what we take for granted today, there were a few worthwhile takeaways for me.
ECS Autoscaling Tips
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS.
Autoscaling your container orchestration system introduces some complexity. Here are some tips for creating robust autoscaling for your ECS Cluster.
Mass CloudFormation Template Validation
Ever needed to do CI on a centralised CloudFormation repository, and struggled to get template validation done quickly? Here’s how you can do it.
Serverless Plugins
Here are some cool plugins for Serverless: serverless-log-forwarding >I want a log solution that is both durable and has powerful search capabilities CloudWatch Logs is reliable, but that's about it. You need something that you can search and analyse logs with, and this plugin is the bridge between Lambda and your log aggregation system. serverless-plugin-aws-alerts Building a full suite of alerts for a Serverless application is not simple, but this gives you a big head start.
Portable Virtualenv
Ever wanted to move a Python virtualenv around but found it didn’t work? Here’s how you can create a portable virtualenv for Python 3.6.
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