Linked List # 3

8 October, 2019

In an effort to inject some life back into this blog, I’m opting to do something relatively lazy and start posting semi-regularly with the odd link to anything that I’ve found of value or interest, but which don’t seem to have percolated their way up to the usual places. I’ve stolen the name (although it’s an obvious one) from Daring Fireball and it’s inspired to some degree by Scott Lowe’s “Technology Short Takes”.

• Practices and Lessons Learned operating a large-scale distributed system in a reliable way.

• Linux PTY: Linux PTYs explained in the context of what powers Docker’s attach functionality.

• Dive: A tool for exploring a docker image, layer contents, and discovering ways to shrink your Docker image size.

• Curlie: A front-end for cURL that provides the ease-of-use and aesthetic goodness of HTTPie but without sacrificing the power and flexibility of cURL itself.

• An analysis of common federated identity protocols, specifically OpenID Connect vs OAuth 2.0 vs SAML 2.0. Would’ve been extremely handy to have had this resource whilst working on Federated OpenStack at StackHPC.

• Nu Shell: A modern shell written in Rust.

• kuberNix: Kubernetes development cluster bootstrapping with Nix packages.

• Kubernikus: Kubernetes as a Service for OpenStack, developed by the folks at SAP.