Hey Everyone, I'm trying to understand the real-time platform engineer project. I'm facing little issues with the project. Someone please help me?

Is anyone using or exploring Waypoint and/or Dapr? I’d love to hear any stories good or bad.

AWS Elastic Container Registry costs tend to grow over time - the more images you store, the higher the cost. There are ready-to-use solutions like ECR lifecycle policies but they are not checking if the images are still being used - it can be dangerous for your applications' health! We decided to write our own ECR cleaner. It checks if images are still used by ECS, Lambda, or App Runner before removing: https://github.com/devopsbox-io/aws-ecr-cleaner This is another useful tool that we are publishing for free, enjoy!

Hello friends! Is anyone using https://www.tonic.ai/ for non prod environments?

anybody have a great language agnostic monorepo tool? most of the ones I've found are js focused and I dont want to have a yarn install as a req. I mostly need a differential task runner, ie tell me which services have changed vs the trunk

I wrote a little bit about Tekton Triggers and the interceptors concept in a context of working with a monorepo. https://medium.com/@keska.damian/tekton-vs-monolithic-repository-how-to-trigger-a-pipeline-when-given-directory-changes-527ad8963c30

Building high quality software systems is what powers Picnic’s mission to revolutionize online groceries. In this post, Rick shows how we empower our Java developers using

Error Prone

, an extensible static analysis tool for Java code. What does this bring us? Catching more bugs, ensuring we have a consistent codebase, but moreover enabling us to execute large-scale automated refactorings! In fact, Picnic loves

Error Prone

so much we heavily invested in

Error Prone Support

, a new library that extends the usefulness of Error Prone itself. https://medium.com/@rick.ossendrijver/b8a566be6886 Want to see it in action? Join us next week @ Devoxx (Belgium), or the week after @ Java One (SF)! We’ll demo the tooling, explain in-depth how we use it at Picnic, and share the future of

Error Prone Support

.

I wrote about in my opinion important practices in ArgoCD at a scale. ArgoCD is an important element of my IDP. https://medium.com/@keska.damian/hygiene-of-argocd-built-automation-at-a-scale-cf63ee459510

We recently held an Adobe IDP workshop with the community during ArgoCon 2022 to discuss best practices and pain points around an Internal Developer Platform. In this post, we’ve outlined our learnings from the panel discussion (featuring · Viktor Farcic — Upbound, Nima Kaviani — AWS and Edward Lee — Intuit) and group breakouts. Our goal is to formalize the components of an IDP with the open-source community and feed these into our own IDP at Adobe. Here's a link: https://blog.developer.adobe.com/argocon-community-learnings-from-the-adobe-idp-workshop-2adb1e09303f. Would love your collaboration!

Hey folks 👋 thought i'd share this tech talk happening tomorrow on code repo ownership. we'll pass around the recording via email after if you can't join for the live version. 🙂

Found recently a cool article about the Golden Path. I found out that I'm actually developing a very similar approach for months already https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/designing-golden-paths

Curious if anyone is building platform on top of Azure, would love to learn more about what's going well and what isn't 😀. (Full disclosure: I work as a PM in Azure)

Have anyone built a self-service platform, where teams can deploy their infrastructure autonomously e.g. on a cloud, with some limits defined on the scope what they can do? I'm just curious how this looks technically? Are teams happy with this? Are teams doing it fully by themselves or using a e.g. Terraform prepared from shared repo? How the standard is keeped (or it is not 😛 )?

Since the recent launch of the HCP Waypoint public beta, I found this article briefly going over the history of Waypoint, and its new features and challenges. the point made about Waypoint's approach to PaaS, as "the glue" between different platforms stuck with me. the plugin system working with the core of Waypoint makes the switch between building and deploying to different platforms pretty seamless. it's still

waypoint up

to get your app up and running regardless of the platform

Does a product exist that helps you update Java/.Net/etc? Like something more than renovate or dependabot?

Hi, everyone! I was wondering could someone please recommend me a web-platform maker? (With not much coding). Situation: I have a project in which, I would like to have a web page in which people (customers) can order environments for work/demos etc. In this page there would be a login page, page where database and cloud would be chosen, multiple choice possibilities, summary and finally a JSON result of the environment. And a great feature would be if possible to sync this page with a google sheet or excel file. In simple words this would just be a customer self-service page in which they request an environment. I saw a platform named "*Backstage.io*", maybe someone knows how it is and if it would be good for me? Or maybe some other recommendations. 🙂 I will look through every suggestion and advice. 🙂

The Waypoint team at Hashicorp is having office hours tomorrow! Come check it out 😎 cc @Gerald Yerden https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6988884597140766720-mrbU?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

Hey folks! Is there anyone on board that has experience with setting up and maintaining openstack? I would love to chat and have some experience exchange!

We just launched Service Creation with OpsLevel (service ownership platform) yesterday - check out the announcement 🎉

I just wrote about the some practices with ArgoCD on shaping the cluster, to make a ground for CI/CD at scale. Hope it is not much chaotic 🙂 That's a first part in series. https://medium.com/p/dc95e7c49eb6

for those interested in backstage

Is anyone using Azure DevOps? I have pulumi scripted repo creation and I'm about to start automating a base template. Seems harder then it should be and I'd love feedback before I roll my own

Azure DevOps is slick, but if you're not already using it I wouldn't start now. Use GitHub Actions instead. Now that Microsoft owns GitHub, I expect them to standardize on Actions. ADO isn't officially deprecated, but I don't think it has much of a future.

Do you like GitOps? As in flux & argocd.. As a practitioner, you probably saw that much of it comes down to implementation.. How is it working out for you? What is working well, what is most annoying?

Hello all, in adevinta we have been running an idp for a while, we are a company with several marketplaces across Europe and the biggest ones has also some platform teams dedicated to the marketplace. Some of those platform teams wants to contribute to the idp, so adding operators to the cluster fleet. As you might imagine the platform team is still in charge for the cluster fleet and hence we need to find the right boundaries and tools to allow them to extend kubernetes clusters this way without being admin of those clusters. Is there anyone out there that has a similar setup? How did you implemented it (argocd with limited privileges? Vclusters? ) What are the challenges and lessons learned. Thanks in advance !

we built a runtime abstraction (for our CD product) to solve this exact problem. Its not simple if you want to do it in an elegant way for the upstream consumer

hey folks 👋 we're hosting a build vs. buy talk in a couple of weeks. join us!: https://www.opslevel.com/page/build-vs-buy

👋 elllo folks, Geoff here from Coder. We make a self-service portal that provisions software development environments via Terraform on Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD (soon), X86, ARM, and of course, Kubernetes. I see some familiar names in this chat of people who already use us 😉. Would love to catch up with other platform engineers and chat about all things related to developer platforms or even nerdier topics such as nix/nixos 😛 https://ghuntley.com/integrate/.

We published a blog post yesterday which details how we dogfood our own product - https://coder.com/blog/how-our-development-team-shares-one-giant-bare-metal-machine