TLDR DevOps 2024-05-06

Administrators using GitHub.com accounts now have the option to activate Dependabot update jobs for their repositories and/or organizations as a GitHub Actions workflow using both hosted and self-hosted runners. Utilizing Dependabot does not contribute to GitHub Actions minutes - Dependabot usage remains free for all.

Rust 1.78.0 introduces a new diagnostic attribute mechanism, adjustments in handling assertions around unsafe blocks, and additional changes.

This article provides a comprehensive guide on how to integrate a Spring Boot application with Kubernetes, Vault, and Postgres to manage dynamic credentials.

This blog post provides a detailed explanation of Container Runtime Interface (CRI) streaming in Kubernetes, focusing on the functionality and history of Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs).

Since the first half of 2021, large-scale malware campaigns have infected millions of repositories on Docker Hub. Approximately 2.8 million compromised repositories were detected containing content ranging from spam to links to more dangerous malware and phishing sites. JFrog and Docker, Inc. collaborated to remove the malicious content, which was injected into repository descriptions and documentation on Docker Hub.

This article demonstrates some of the challenges with building full text search and the use cases that are easy to handle and those that are tricky to handle.

OpenTofu would be open to merging with Terraform if it were reverted back to open source. Discussions are underway between OpenTofu and IBM regarding the acquisition, suggesting potential collaboration under the Linux Foundation. IBM's plans for its acquisition of Terraform remain undecided, but early indications point towards utilizing the HashiCorp stack for a hybrid cloud offering, potentially in partnership with Red Hat's enterprise software.

DigitalOcean now offers Premium Memory-Optimized and Premium Storage-Optimized Droplets to deliver enhanced performance for memory-intensive applications and large data set applications.

The Internet Weather Map AWS introduced within CloudWatch enables users to view a 24-hour global snapshot of internet latency and availability outages, facilitating analysis of performance and availability issues across different regions and service providers.