A newsletter covering DevOps, containers, and other things Developer Advocate Tao thinks are neat
KubeCon was a blast: your Garden team was out there attending talks, enjoying some sunshine 🌞 and conducting interviews with some of the brightest minds in cloud native software today.
In this month's The Inner Loop, we dive in to your author's favorite projects on the showfloor and save you from ever having to memorize long shell-fu scripts with Copilot's new CLI release.
Tell the terminal what to do
In plain English
If you've ever done any non-trivial editing of a text file, you've likely inscribed to your grimoire a funky Frankenstein of Stack Overflow piped commands. With GitHub's new Copilot for CLI, you just tell the terminal what you want it to do and watch it spit out the right commands with explanation.
Stop writing complex time-series queries with Groundcover
Some of may already know your author runs an OpenShift cluster from inside his electrical closet. When something goes wrong with my cluster, all I want to know is what's wrong without writing reams of PromQL and setting up alerts. I spoke to Noam Levy of Groundcover at KubeCon who told me how eBPF delivers instrumentation-free monitoring anywhere.
I like Canonical's products because they try and deliver a maximum of utility as simply as possible. Charmed Kubeflow dramatically reduces the time to train ML models with just 3 commands 🧨
Try out Garden's new Bonsai community alpha release!
I've been using Garden's newest Bonsai release over the last few weeks and I can tell you this is spicy-hot goodness you're going to need a fire brigade of smokejumpers to put out. Bonsai introduces new Action blocks that simplify the composition of any part of the Software Development Life Cycle.
Remember LAN parties? When I was a teenager in Seattle I'd pilgrimage to 24 hour LAN parties fueled by bright blue bottles of Bawls energy drinks. Merritt K has published a memorial to these hedonistic trials by virtual fire 🧑🏿💻
Terrible neck and back pain were once my constant companions. One of my favorite yoga teachers, Jason Crandell, created a sequence for releasing lower back tension that's perfect for computer professionals. I do it every morning 🧘
I'm a big fan of outsider artists, due in no small part to an arts education that didn't give me any direct exposure to formal methods. Austin Osman Spare was a British occult and outsider artist who drew and painted phantasmagoria that bends the mind of the viewer. He died, as many outsider artists before him, destitute.
✍🏻 By Tao Hansen
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