Digest #156: AWS Billing Views, Cloudflare’s Free Tier, API Strategy, DevOps Handbook, Terraform CI/CD

Optimize cloud costs, rethink API strategies, accelerate builds with Vercel MicroVMs, manage Terraform in CI/CD, improve Kubernetes security, and explore top DevOps projects.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the DevOps Bulletin!

AWS just introduced Custom Billing Views—but will it actually simplify cloud cost management? Cloudflare Pages continues to offer a surprisingly generous free tier, but what’s the real reason behind it? If you think your API strategy is solid, you might want to reconsider—find out why industry experts are urging a rethink. Meanwhile, PostgreSQL continues to thrive with the power of open-source contributions, and Vercel is making headlines by slashing build times with MicroVMs.

In tutorials, we’re covering everything from handling Terraform conflicts in Azure to anonymizing Postgres data and cost-effective log archiving in S3. Plus, if you’ve ever struggled with git, we’ve got a guide that might just save your day.

For open-source enthusiasts, this week’s projects are must-sees: an open-source GitOps CI/CD platform, a policy-as-code framework, a Kubernetes cluster management tool, and a cross-platform network traffic monitor. And if you’re looking for a free DevOps book, we’ve included one.

All this and more in this week’s DevOps Bulletin—don’t miss out!

Newsworthy Stories

• Introducing AWS Custom Billing Views

• Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier?

• Why your API Strategy Needs a Rethink

• The Power of Open Source in PostgreSQL

• Optimize your Container Workloads for Sustainability

• Vercel Cuts Build Times with New MicroVM Infrastructure

• AI Datacenters putting Zero Emissions promises out of reach

Free Book for DevOps Engineers 📖

The DevOps Engineer’s Handbook is a practical guide to improving software delivery speed and quality through DevOps practices, processes, and culture.

Tutorials of the week

• Hijacking Azure Machine Learning Notebooks

• Oh Shit, Git!?!

• Anonymization & Data Masking for Postgres

• Terraform with GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipeline

• Understanding Memory Management

• Container Capabilities: A Short Tour

• Cost-Effective Log Archival in S3 with s3tar

• Handling Terraform Resource Conflicts and Failures in Azure

• How to Set Up a Kubernetes Cluster on Docker Desktop

Fannie Mae’s process for building policy as code:

Projects of the week

Highlighting cool DevOps projects to keep an eye on:

• Terrateam is an open-source GitOps CI/CD platform for automating infrastructure workflows. It integrates with GitHub to orchestrate Terraform, OpenTofu, CDKTF, and Terragrunt operations via pull requests.

• CISO Assistant is a one-stop-shop for GRC, covering Risk, AppSec, and Audit Management and supporting +70 frameworks worldwide with auto-mapping: NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC2, and so much more.

• Gardener provides automated management and operation of Kubernetes clusters as a service. It enables the creation and management of homogeneous Kubernetes clusters across various cloud and infrastructure providers.

• SQLFluff is a dialect-flexible and configurable SQL linter. Designed with ELT applications in mind, It also works with Jinja templating and dbt.

• Sniffnet is an application to comfortably monitor your Internet traffic cross-platform, intuitive, and reliable.

• etc-k8s-extract takes in an etcd data directory or db file used in Kubernetes, extracts the Kubernetes resources, and then writes the resources to disk in YAML format.

Meme of the week

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