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Byte Sized Updates about Containers, Cloud & Tech

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​Is it still running​

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

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​Apple, CloudFlare, and others want to make DNS more secure​

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

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​GitHub announcements, Dark Mode and Companies can also now contribute to Sponsorships​

From my point of view not very many announcements for this years event. Dark Mode is definetly 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​

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​LinkedIn School of SRE​

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

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​CentOS will no longer track RHEL releas​es​

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.

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SpaceX Starship Launch and Land...Crash.

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…That’s this week’s theByte newsletter!

I’m Brian Christner, Docker Captain, Traefik Ambassador, and DevOps engineer. If you’ve enjoyed reading this, tell your friends to sign up for theByte newsletter or post a link in your company Slack.

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-Brian

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