Monthly Archives: December 2020

Amazon Lambda Containers – How to Package AWS Functions as Container Images

Amazon now supports container images as the deployment package format for its AWS Lambda Functions as a Service (FaaS) offering. Containers are finally replacing ZIP files.

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Copilot – What AWS ECS and Fargate Container Management Should Have Been All Along

The setup of a development environment tends to be complicated, time-consuming, and expensive.

Gitpod changes the way we think about development environments. It gives us an IDE to write code, all the tools we need to compile our applications, run tests, and do whatever else we might be doing. It gives us the infrastructure we need. It allows us to onboard anyone into any project instantly.

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Gitpod – Instant Development Environment Setup

The setup of a development environment tends to be complicated, time-consuming, and expensive.

Gitpod changes the way we think about development environments. It gives us an IDE to write code, all the tools we need to compile our applications, run tests, and do whatever else we might be doing. It gives us the infrastructure we need. It allows us to onboard anyone into any project instantly.

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Kaniko – Building Container Images In Kubernetes Without Docker

How do we build container images inside containers running in a Kubernetes cluster? Docker is a bad option since it cannot run inside containers. Using it requires communication to the Docker engine running in cluster nodes. Even if that security concern is not enough, Dockershim is deprecated in Kubernetes 1.20 and will be (or already is) removed from 1.22. That means that alternative container engines like ContainerD will take its place. In other words, using Docker is not even an option anymore.

Kaniko comes to the rescue. It is a tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster.

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Snyk – Shifting Security Left Through DevSecOps Developer-First Cloud-Native Solutions

Typically, security tools that are loved by security teams are hated by developers, or they are shifted so much to the left that security teams find them insufficient. Snyk is trying to change that through a plethora of tools and integrations aimed at both security professionals and developers.

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