In this episode, we focus on some of the key messages when we are setting up monitoring. We should consider monitoring as the centerpiece of our DevOps pipeline and a single source of truth. When getting started with monitoring consider the following:

Don't limit to infrastructure

Run separately from workload

Set resource limits on your containers

Aim for actionable information

Test for failures

Don’t overlert yourself

Start small

The Microsoft Visual Studio Code Docker extension was updated recently adding a bunch of new features from view and interacting with networks and volumes to more possibilities to interact with images and containers.

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iTerm2 is like the default macOS Terminal application on steroids. iTerm2 is an Open Source tool that has a ton of customizations, features, and automation tricks to make our workflows even more efficient. WIth the possibility to add triggers on keywords to trigger an event, paste and command history, instant replay, and capture output are just some of the many features.

DevDocs.io is a single interface to all the documentation you use on a daily basis. DevDocs combines some speedy keyboard shortcuts, and all the Docker, Terraform, or any other technology documentation all available in a single browser tab. DevDocs saves a lot of time from searching Google, etc for documentation.

A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose. With Lazydocker it is now possible to run and manage all things Docker from a single Terminal window without having to know or remember all the Docker commands and flags. This great Command Line UI (Yes, a CLI-UI) has a great UX and is absolutely easy to use.

ifconfig.co is an amazing utility which will save you time by looking up all the details about your public IP address including Public IP address, County, City, ASN, and is available via curl, httpie, GNU Wget and fetch.

When we search websites on the internet our DNS communication is insecure meaning our employer, ISP, and Country we live in can monitor which websites we visit. WIth DNS over HTTPS (DoH) we can now secure the transport of our DNS queries directly to our preferred DNS server. This secures our connection, removes the possibility of man in the middle attacks, and adds an extra layer of security.

Firefox is the first browser to implement DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Check out how to setup DoH and check your other browsers to see how secure they are. I don't see Chrome adding this feature anytime soon but possibly Safari would as they are more security conscious.

I'm back to a regular schedule once again and that calls for a recap of the last few weeks. We hosted our first Säntis Systems Summit up at the top of the Swiss Alps and the Traefik Meetup. A lot more in the pipeline.

BitBar is a tiny program that allows you to display the output from any script or program in the Mac OSX Menu bar. I have taken this program and used the IP Address script to display my Public IP address as well as network statistics in my menu bar. This is really a helpful tool if you are always looking for the same information over and over. Now, we can output the status of our scripts into the menu bar. I will expand on this in the coming weeks and add some Docker status here and share with the community.