Welcome to All Cloud, No Cattle Weekly #14: The Ever Given Edition
Tech
Managed OpenShift on AWS
AWS:
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) provides an integrated experience to use OpenShift. If you are already familiar with OpenShift, you can accelerate your application development process by leveraging familiar OpenShift APIs and tools for deployments on AWS.
I wonder what my last 3 years would have been like if this had already been available…
We are very far from a better Heroku for production apps in a hyper cloud
Michael Friedrich on the Gitlab blog:
This blog post covers the basic learning steps with Heroku and the 5 minute production app. A typical web app requires a database, storage or caching backend, which can get complicated to run with Heroku. We will explore the setup and production experience in future blog posts. In addition to backends, we will also look into TLS certificates and production environments in CD workflows.
Michael got a lot of (righteous) flak for originally titling this post “We are building a better Heroku” before backing off to the current title. Even so, this is some really cool stuff.
Being Just Reliable Enough
Andrew Ford on the Indeed Engineering Blog:
It was way before I thought about getting the tweezers. When I started raking, my definition of a successfully raked yard was too vague. I did not have a service level objective (SLO) specifying the percentage of my yard that could be covered in leaves and still be considered well-raked by my clients.
If you’ve worked closely with me, you know that this is my bag. People demand all these nines, but most of the time they have no idea how much effort those nines cost nor do they even know the difference in what they’d see with 4 or 5 of them. Or sometimes even 2 of them.
Four Prerequisites for Chaos Engineering
Courtney Nash:
Chaos Engineering isn’t adding chaos to your systems—it’s seeing the chaos that already exists in your systems. This particular myth is in part driven by the perception that Chaos Engineering is a form of new, cutting edge technology. Instead, however, it is borrowing from a long tradition of using experimentation to confirm or refute hypotheses you form about your system.
Jeff Palmer’s CI/CD Cost-Benefit Data
Following up on this tweet, Jeff Palmer threw together a great spreadsheet on the benefits of CI/CD for skeptical orgs.
Grab Bag
Dungeons and Directories
Dungeons and Directories is a short text adventure game that you play in your file browser.