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GitHub enables Dark Mode 🕶️

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Brian Christner
December 09, 2020

This is a cool project pushing the boundaries of eliminating DevOps roles entirely. Jim Angel created an Auto Git-Ops deployment that performs unattended upgrades for Docker, Kubelet, Kubeadm, and Kubectl. But that's not all. It publishes the results to the website https://isitstillrunning.com/, displaying the current health as well as previous and current versions of Kubernetes. This is the future, folks!

Earlier this year, in pre-pandemic times, Firefox already started baking in DoH (DNS over HTTPS). It was received with mixed reviews. Users were super excited to have more security and encrypt their DNS requests all the way to the DNS provider, while ISPs and governments were not happy that it would be more difficult for them to snoop on traffic. Now enter ODoH, which is Oblivious DNS over HTTPS, which further secures the traffic between your computer and the DNS provider, preventing providers from seeing requesting IPs and URLS—great progress but still early days.

I believe there are not many announcements for this year’s event. Dark Mode is definitely cool, and companies being able to contribute to GitHub repos as sponsors should help maintainers keep the lights on. To switch Dark Mode on, go to your settings here​

SRE, when you mention this term outside of tech circles, you get a deer-in-the-headlights glance looking back at you. DevOps is at least mainstream enough that people outside of tech have at least heard the term. LinkedIn realized this struggle during recruiting new engineers and created this great overview of what Site Reliability Engineering means at LinkedIn.

It was only a matter of time before the IBM accountants broke out the red marker and start X'ing out services from the Red Hat catalog. CentOS is one of the Top images on Docker Hub so this will leave a lot developers scrambling to look for replacements.

SpaceX Starship Launch and Land...Crash.

…That’s this week’s theByte newsletter!

-Brian