news​

• KeyConf24 program announced & livestream.
• Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again (AGPL) .
• Halliburton cyberattack linked to RansomHub ransomware gang.
• Proposal for llms.txt (e.g. like robots.txt).
• Figma Moves from ECS to Kubernetes to Benefit from the CNCF Ecosystem and Reduce Costs.
• Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes.
• Amazon DynamoDB announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control.
• CloudFormation simplifies resource discovery and template review in the IaC Generator.
• OpenTofu Registry Blocks Russia due to US sanctions. PR discussion.

news​

• ArtiPACKED: Hacking Giants Through a Race Condition in GitHub Actions Artifacts.
• Amazon S3 no longer charges for several HTTP error codes.
• Amazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumes.
• StackExchange abused to spread malicious PyPi packages as answers.
• macOS Sequoia adds weekly permission prompt for screenshot and screen recording apps.
• System Initiative is now open source.
• Announcing 500 Kubestronauts.

toolings​

• terrahash: Create and store a hash of the Terraform modules used by your configuration.

news​

• AWS:
  • Karpenter 1.0 release
  • Amazon S3 adds additional context to HTTP 403 Access Denied error messages.
• Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source.
• Folders for GitHub Action Workflows will not be supported this year.
• HashiCorp/IBM’s regulatory scrutiny could focus on cloud infrastructure management solutions.
• OpenTofu added to ThoughtWorks Technology Radar.

toolings​

• helm-charts-oci-proxy: transform Helm Chart into OCI images on the fly. Address any Helm Chart as OCI image.

news​

• Kubernetes 1.31 was released on August 13.
• PSA: Zero click RCE vulnerability on MS Windows, CVE Score 9.8, please patch now if you are using IPv6.
• Cyber insurers are winners from the biggest ever IT outage.
• The best hacks and security research from Black Hat and Def Con 2024.
• .internal is now officially a reserved TLD.
• Slack develops Bedrock Operator for Kubernetes StatefulSets.
• Proposal: terraform plan -light.
  • terraform plan -light.
  • tofu plan -light.
• Russ Cox steps down as tech lead of Go programming language.

news​

• Google's online search monopoly is illegal, US judge rules.
• Crowdstrike drivers are a prime target for RCE and LPE.'
• Coinbase awarded a $500k bug bounty via hackerone.
• Coming soon to K8s: mount a docker container as a volume.

toolings​

• aws-icons: SVG and PNG AWS icons for your architecture diagrams.
• logu: Extract patterns from (streaming) unstructured log messages.