May 2021

What’s New?

Testing Your Infrastructure With Terratest

Terratest is a Go library that provides patterns and helper functions for testing infrastructure, with first-class support for Terraform, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Helm, and more.

In Terratest, you have the possibility to use Terraform locally or on your account to deploy and test the infrastructure quickly and destroy them, making all kinds of validations to ensure that your infrastructure and deployment are working properly. Topics covered include unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests, test parallelism, retries, error handling, static analysis, and more.

https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terratest

AWS ES 7.10

Amazon Elasticsearch Service announced support for Elasticsearch version 7.10 and its corresponding version of Kibana on April 21, 2021. This minor release improves indexing speed by up to 20% for certain use cases and more space efficient indices through higher compression of stored fields making this a reasonable upgrade.

With this release, there is also support for composable index templates. There are now two types of templates, index templates and component templates. Component templates are reusable building blocks that can be used for configuring index mappings, index settings and index aliases.

For full details visit AWS ES 7.10

The Actually Useful DevOps Cheat Sheet

There are a lot of DevOps cheat sheets out there, but most of them probably include commands you already know.

This cheat sheet is our handy reference for Linux and network troubleshooting tasks.

 

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