---
title: "Kubernetes 1.12 Released"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 186
published_at: "2018-10-03"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/186"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#186 — October 3, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/186)   

Web Operations Weekly  

[Kubernetes: A 'Surprisingly Affordable' Platform for Personal Projects?](http://www.doxsey.net/blog/kubernetes--the-surprisingly-affordable-platform-for-personal-projects) — A developer makes the case that Kubernetes shouldn’t be reserved for the domain of large-scale projects, but you could use it for rolling out smaller side projects too. 

Caleb Doxsey   

[Kubernetes 1.12 Released](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/09/27/kubernetes-1.12-kubelet-tls-bootstrap-and-azure-virtual-machine-scale-sets-vmss-move-to-general-availability/) — _“Today’s release continues to focus on internal improvements and graduating features to stable in Kubernetes. This newest version graduates key features such as security and Azure.”_ 

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Percy sponsor   

[How One Site Exploited Amazon S3 to Outrank Everyone on Google](https://blog.usejournal.com/how-one-affiliate-used-amazon-s3-to-outrank-everyone-on-google-9744c8e7322f) — An interesting tale of leaning on someone else’s domain reputation. We don’t recommend you try this for yourself, however. 

Seth Kravitz   

[Microsoft's Azure Data Box Family](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/expanding-the-azure-data-box-family/) — Microsoft has made generally available a set of products for getting data into Azure, including the 1 petabyte _Data Box Heavy_ for large scale migrations and _Data Box Edge_, an on-premises appliance. 

Dean Paron (Microsoft)   

[TLS Token-Binding Standard Gains a Foothold on the Web](https://thenewstack.io/tls-token-binding-standard-gains-a-foothold-on-the-web/) — Token Binding is an extension to TLS to provide stronger web authentication and more robust sessions. 

Mary Branscombe   

[Developing .NET Core AWS Lambda functions](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/developing-net-core-aws-lambda-functions/) — A complete introduction to creating a simple Lambda function that can be called via the Amazon API Gateway, including how to design your code to allow for easy debugging, logging and tracing. 

Mark Easton  

💻 Jobs  

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Hired  

📘 Tutorials  

[Using HAProxy as an API Gateway](https://www.haproxy.com/blog/using-haproxy-as-an-api-gateway-part-1/) 

Baptiste Assmann   

[How to Easily Boost the Delivery of Static Websites in AWS](https://blog.kylegalbraith.com/2018/09/16/how-to-easily-boost-the-delivery-of-static-websites-in-aws/) 

Kyle Galbraith   

[Modernizing Applications for Kubernetes](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/modernizing-applications-for-kubernetes) — A guide that focuses on migrating and modernizing stateless applications, with persistent data offloaded to an external data store. 

Hanif Jetha   

[Service Imports Make Config Management Easier Than Ever](https://www.manifold.co/story/configuration?utm_campaign=WebOps&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_content=Oct3) 

Manifold sponsor   

[RPKI: The Required Cryptographic Upgrade to BGP Routing](https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/) — RPKI offers a way to prevent BGP route leaks and hijacks though its use needs to be promoted more widely. 

Martin J Levy   

[Optimizing Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix](https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images) 

Graham Christensen   

[Creating a Data Enabled API in 10 Minutes with MongoDB Stitch](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/creating-a-data-enabled-api-in-10-minutes-with-mongodb-stitch) 

Michael Lynn (MongoDB, Inc.)   

[A CI/CD Pipeline for Hugo Deployments on AWS](https://digilution.io/posts/ci-cd-pipeline-for-hugo/) — Tooling for deploying sites built using the Golang-powered static site framework. 

Ric Harvey  

💬 Stories  

[Production Secret Management at Airbnb](https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/production-secret-management-at-airbnb-ad230e1bc0f6) — A look at Airbnb’s approach to protecting its API keys and database credentials in production. 

Kaiyi Li   

[A Kubernetes Migration Tale](https://medium.com/unbabel/unbabel-migrated-to-kubernetes-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next-b39f082def1c) 

Pedro Arvela (Unbabel)   

[Lessons from the UK Government's Digital Transformation Journey](https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/09/lessons-uk-government) 

InfoQ   

[Looking Inside the Technology That Powers Pinterest](https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/looking-inside-the-technology-that-powers-pinterest-2e8bd1cfc329) 

Vanja Josifovski (Pinterest)  

🔧 Code & Tools  

[Running WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers](https://blog.cloudflare.com/webassembly-on-cloudflare-workers/) — Cloudflare has extended its Workers platform with support for WebAssembly which is an interesting development. 

The Cloudflare Blog   

[3 Open Source Distributed Tracing Tools](https://opensource.com/article/18/9/distributed-tracing-tools) — Explanations of Zipkin, Jaegar and Appdash. 

Dan Barker   

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GoCD sponsor   

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Sourcegraph   

[Announcing 'Limited Availability' of DigitalOcean Kubernetes](https://blog.digitalocean.com/announcing-limited-availability-of-digitalocean-kubernetes/) — DigitalOcean is joining the Kubernetes train and making it easier to deploy worker nodes there. 

Phil Dougherty   

[Introducing HaloDB, A Fast, Embedded Key-Value Storage Engine Written in Java](https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/178262468576/introducing-halodb-a-fast-embedded-key-value) 

Yahoo Engineering   

[Kubespy: Tools for Observing Kubernetes Resources in Real Time](https://github.com/pulumi/kubespy) 

Pulumi         

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