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May 12, 2018 (Last modified on October 26, 2021)

#devops #git #python #security #tabs #terraform

Currently I have about 30 tabs open in the browser on my phone. Quite a bunch of them I have open because I want to read the article in the future, already have read the article and want to reread or act on it, or a combination of the above. In this article I list the open tabs (and some notes) so I can close them on my phone, but still have a reference to them.

Development

Better Git configuration: Some tips from Scott Nonnenberg to improve your Git configuration.
My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition: A good description by Jacob Kaplan-Moss of how he uses pyenv, pipenv and pipsi for Python development.

Operations

BorgBackup documentation: Something I want to play around with—and perhaps use—to make backups.
Ops School Curriculum: A very comprehensive resource to learn to be an operations engineer.
Serverless Ops: What do we do when the server goes away?: Tom McLaughlin writes about the changing role of DevOps/Operations engineers in a ‘serverless’ world.
Ask HN: How do you back up your site hosted on a VPS such as Digital Ocean?: A bunch of comments with suggestions on how to arrange backups for a VPS. (I need some inspiration for my own VPS.)
Securely Using Amazon S3 Buckets For Server Backups: See above; this is one of the candidates.
Awesome Sysadmin: A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.

Security

Automatic Server Hardening: Server hardening tips plus Chef, Puppet and Ansible modules. (Source: Cron weekly, issue 94)
Decent Security: Information on how to secure your devices (Windows, routers).

DevOps

DevOps README.md: A curated list of things to read to level up your DevOps skills and knowledge by Chris Short. (Source: DevOps’ish, issue 043)
Monitoring and Observability: A great post by Cindy Sridharan explaining the difference between monitoring and observability.
A Model for Scaling Terraform Workflows in a Large, Complex Organization: An article by Ryan Lockard and Hibri Marzook about scaling your Terraform working practices.
Site Reliability Guide for mybinder.org: This might contain useful information about how mybinder.org sets things up and how to write this kind of documentation.
Terraform, VPC, and why you want a tfstate file per env: Another Terraform article, this time by Charity Majors.
Testing in Production, the safe way: Lots of information in this article by Cindy Sridharan.
Working with Terraform: 10 Months In: Perhaps this article by J.D. Hollis might save me some headache (if I get around to read it in time :) ).

Miscellaneous

Dark Matter: A book recommendation that I still need to check out. This was the first link that popped up when I Googled the title.
Raspberry Pi Data Logger with InfluxDB and Grafana: An article by John Whittington as input for my (almost dead) side project to collect and graph data from my smart meter.