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2022-02-17 12:50:21 I had an idea of writing something about Terraspace for quite some time now. I might have even had a draft somewhere! But of course, someone wrote it before me :)

Here's an article about Terraspace - a part of series about Terraform ecosystem. Other parts are:
- From Terralith to Terraservice with Terraform
- Terragrunt cheat sheet
- Another part with the comparison between Terragrunt and Terraspace is coming soon, but there are already some source files

I got this article from the Terraform Weekly subscription. It's curated by a proud member of our community - Anton Babenko. If you use Terraform in your work, you should definitely subscribe!

P.S. If you still think I should write something about Terraspace, let me know by putting emoji on this post. If you have more specific suggestions, you're always welcome in our chat (chat is in Ukrainian and Russian)!

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2022-02-16 12:00:59 Good engineers ship good software, great engineers empower others to do so.

Become a +10% engineer explores some ways of how one can influence others in a good way and ease the work of entire team.

Yes, the name of this article is a word game with the "10x engineer" phrase. Yet, the main idea is that "Productivity of the team > Productivity of the individual"

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2022-02-15 16:00:52 CatOps exists for almost five years already as a non-profit hobby project. Yes, at some point we were advertising some technical events here, but we never took money for that.

In my opinion, keeping it independent of ad money is what makes all the fun. I'll be honest with you, from time to time I get ideas of starting a Patreon or something similar, but each time it turns out to be too complicated.

However, there is a way to support CatOps financially! Even though this is an indirect support!

Consider subscribing to the Patreon page of the "Come Back Alive" Foundation or you can, of course, donate directly. They have all the details on their website. Unfortunately, not all the information on the website is translated to English, but the main things are there.

This Foundation supports Ukrainian army as well as establish re-integration programs for the veterans.

By supporting people, who take care of us, you empower us in doing our day-to-day jobs and providing some platform engineering content here.

With love
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2022-02-15 13:20:22 GitHub presented Mermaid - a tool to include diagrams into Markdown files.

Basically, it allows to output a diagram in JS-enabled environments and a Markdown syntax in non-JS environments.

I haven't checked if it already works in READMEs on GitHub, but I assume it should.

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2022-02-14 12:06:57 There has been silence on this channel for a while now. I'm sorry for that. I didn't post anything, because I was not in the mood of doing so.

However, I have a formal excuse as well: I started processing the result of Kubernetes Cluster Operations survey that I had issued a few weeks before. So, expect a write-up soon! I would say "this week", but let's see.

In the meantime, you can read a short fiction story about two students, who are trying to figure out, what it actually means "to listen on a port"?

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2022-02-07 12:38:48 From our subscribers.

A postmortem by Mozilla on the recent Firefox outage.

For those services hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) these load balancers have settings related to the HTTP protocol they should advertise and one of these settings is HTTP/3 support with three states: “Enabled”, “Disabled” or “Automatic (default)”. Our load balancers were set to the “Automatic (default)” setting and on January 13, 2022 at 07:28 UTC, GCP deployed an unannounced change to make HTTP/3 the default.

Lessons Learned...

GCP’s deployment of HTTP/3 as default was unannounced. We are actively working with them to improve the situation. We realize that an announcement (as is usually sent) might not have entirely mitigated the risk of an incident, but it would likely have triggered more controlled experiments (e.g. in a staging environment) and deployment.

I'm yet to read this postmortem through.

P.S.: If you want to suggest any interesting materials for this channel, you can always do it in our chat. The chat itself is Ukrainian and Russian speaking. Открыть/Комментировать

2022-02-05 19:01:11 Docker Desktop had already became a paid option for corporate users and not all the companies are willing to pay. Some just haven't bought the licenses yet. This is bad news for Mac user stations, which are likely a majority in the corporate world.

However, there are projects out there, which aim to solve the problem of virtual machine to run your Docker containers.

This article tells a story of migration to Lima from Docker Desktop on MacOS.

There is also a complimentary project with a funny name - Colima, which simplifies the migration even further.

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2022-02-03 20:47:27 We will start in 10 minutes

Youtube -



Zoom - https://www.meetup.com/Kyiv-HashiCorp-User-Group/events/281541295/

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2022-02-03 14:57:26 This post will be interesting to those, who run Java application in Kubernetes. Specifically, if you use OkHttp client for Java.

Kubernetes network load balancing using OkHttp client - the name speaks for itself. Basically, the problem is that OkHttp uses persistent connections to communicate with the peers. Therefore, IPVS - the default K8s load balancer - is unable to properly balance those connections. Thus, you may have all the connections served by a single replica of your downstream service!

This article provides some useful insights on how to trace down this issue and how to fix it in your code, as well as it mentions tradeoffs of such fix.

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2022-02-02 17:10:00 ​​​​​​​​​​​​HUG Kyiv #13: Q/A session with HashiCorp co-founders in 1 day!

When: Thursday 3rd February, 19:50 (Kyiv TZ)
Where: Online
Language: English

Feel free ask and vote for questions here

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