Welcome to this edition of Ctrl+Alt+Deploy 🚀
I’m Lauro Müller and super happy to have you around 🙂 Let’s dive in right away!
Hey there! It's Lauro again 👋 There were quite a few interesting articles that caught my attention these last few days, so I thought it would be great to share them with you 🙂. In this edition, we're diving into what to focus on when starting your DevOps journey, looking at the common pitfalls when building SaaS platforms, and exploring how giants like Netflix and Airbnb are tackling infrastructure challenges at scale.
We'll also touch on the ever-present topic of AI security, with a real-world example of how AI agents can be exploited, and check out a cool new tool from AWS that makes local serverless development a lot easier. There is a lot of cool stuff to share, so let's get right into it!
⚠ Important Notice
If you are part of my Helm course, I’d like to call your attention to the fact that Bitnami did a really s**tty move adopted a quite inconsiderate posture regarding their Docker images. They removed all the tags from their Docker repositories, and are now pushing to sell “security hardened” images. Therefore, you might start encountering ErrImagePull errors when installing their charts. I have added several articles in the course on how to tackle this. Here are the links:
Helm Fundamentals section: IMPORTANT! Changes to Bitnami Charts and Images (I'd suggest reading this first)
Managing Chart Dependencies section: IMPORTANT - PostgreSQL Changes to Bitnami Charts and Images and What To Do
Advanced Topics section: IMPORTANT - Breaking Changes to Bitnami Charts and Images and What To Do
Please bear with me as I redesign the lectures and re-record them to use other charts; the entire process does require some time 😅 I'd also kindly ask for your patience and support as we all figure out the extent of the failing commands and the necessary adjustments. If the instructions in the articles are incomplete or you are still facing errors after following them, please reach out in the Q&A with the error you are facing, and we'll find a solution together. I'll also update this reference document as we find out more about all the necessary adjustments. Thank you once again for your amazing support and understanding 🙂