---
title: "Vault 1.0, Passenger 6, FreeBSD 12, and some ops podcasts to enjoy"
publication: "StatusCode Weekly"
issue: 195
published_at: "2018-12-12"
canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/195"
---

The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news       

#195 — December 12, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/195)   

Web Operations Weekly   

Do you like podcasts? We do, and this year we've found a handful that you might find interesting. Scroll down to check out our special section dedicated to them and get your headphones on :-)
 — _The WebOps Weekly team (Peter, Chris, and Za'e)___   

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/tmsuyyl8w01busmkrmwf.jpg)](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/vault-1-0)  

[HashiCorp Vault 1.0 Released](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/vault-1-0) — Vault is a popular tool for managing secrets and protecting sensitive infrastructure and app related data. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault) 

HashiCorp   

[Phusion Passenger 6 Released](https://blog.phusion.nl/2018/11/30/passenger-6-0-generic-language-support/) — While Passenger was originally an app server solely aimed at getting Rails apps rapidly deployed to the Web, it’s now grown into a more general tool and now includes generic language support as well as first class support for other languages like Elixir and Rust. 

Hongli Lai (Phusion)   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/a3f5ccf3.png)](https://get.mux.com/2Emp1Sy) 

[Video Encoding, Storage, and Delivery in A Single Platform](https://get.mux.com/2Emp1Sy) — Mux Video takes the pain out of video encoding and streaming with a simple API to data-optimized live and on-demand video. Get up and running in minutes, not months. By the creators of Zencoder, Video.js, and Demuxed. 

Mux sponsor   

[Designing Headers for HTTP Compression](https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/11/27/header_compression) — HTTP _headers_ isn’t a common place we look for performance wins but they quickly add up. HTTP/2’s _HPACK_ header compression can help, but how does it work? 

Mark Nottingham   

[Real-Time Serverless with API Gateway WebSockets and AWS Lambda?](https://serverless.com/blog/api-gateway-websockets-support/) — AWS has announced WebSockets support for API Gateway (_coming soon_, it’s not GA yet), and the serverless community got pretty excited as it opens up a promising new pattern for serverless development - connect via WebSockets to API Gateway and then call serverless functions over that connection. 

Jared Short   

[How To Build a Real-Time App with GraphQL Subscriptions on Postgres](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/12/real-time-app-graphql-subscriptions-postgres/) — A walkthrough of building a real-time polling app using Postgres, GraphQL, and React with no specific back-end code (it uses Hasura’s GraphQL service running on Heroku - all for free). 

Sandip Devarkonda   

[Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH](https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/11/windows-server-2019-includes-openssh/) — The OpenSSH client and server are a supported ‘Feature-on-Demand’ in Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 1809 - this comes the same week Microsoft announced [its Edge browser will switch to the same engine as Chrome.](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/) Windows to adopt the Linux kernel in 2021? :-) 

Danny Maertens (Microsoft)   

[AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region Now Open](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-europe-stockholm-region/) — The new Amazon Web Services region in Sweden is technically called `eu-north-1` and is their fifth region in Europe. Some eagle-eyed Redditors have already noticed EC2 and RDS pricing is a little lower than other EU regions but instance type availability is a little patchy. 

Jeff Barr (AWS)  

💻 Jobs  

[Sr. Fullstack Engineer (Remote)](https://www.stickermule.com/careers) — Sticker Mule is looking for passionate developers to join our remote team. Come help us become the Internet’s best place to shop and work. 

Sticker Mule   

[Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With A Job You Love](https://www.hired.com/webops) — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities, and job details. 

Hired  

📘 Tutorials  

[Troubleshooting an Obscure OpenSSH Failure](http://engineering.pivotal.io/post/ssh_handshake_failed/) — How a curious continuous integration error led a team to uncover a person-in-the-middle SSH proxy. 

Pivotal   

[What Is API Management?](https://www.nginx.com/blog/what-is-api-management/) — An explanation of key API concepts and the relationship of API management to API gateways. 

Karthik Krishnaswamy (NGINX, Inc.)   

[Deploy Your Clusters in Minutes with DigitalOcean Kubernetes](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/?utm_medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_campaign=K8S_Dev_Awareness_Cooperpress_Dec_2018&utm_content=webops+weekly+12-12) 

DigitalOcean sponsor   

[A Guide to the Kubernetes Networking Model](https://sookocheff.com/post/kubernetes/understanding-kubernetes-networking-model/) — This is from earlier this year but is a _very_ thorough introduction and rich with diagrams. 

Kevin Sookocheff   

[A Crash Course on Building APIs with Lambda and Aurora Serverless](https://hackernoon.com/a-crash-course-on-serverless-with-aws-building-apis-with-lambda-and-aurora-serverless-49885c46e37a) — How to hook up a MySQL database to a serverless API by using Aurora Serverless, AWS’s new on-demand database service. 

Adnan Rahić   

[Building AWS Lambdas for Real World using Ruby and Serverless Framework](https://dev.to/jalerson/building-aws-lambdas-for-real-world-using-ruby-and-serverless-framework-2p49) — A thorough tutorial covering Lambda’s new Ruby support, along with testing and logging considerations. 

Jalerson Lima   

[Free eBook: Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics](https://www.gocd.org/ebook-cd-analytics/?utm_campaign=ebook_analytics&utm_medium=newsletter_ad&utm_source=cooperpress_webops&utm_content=ebook_analytics&utm_term=) — This eBook provides you insight into your CD pipeline & helps you to improve your CD process with metrics. 

GoCD sponsor   

[Securing Your Site Like It’s 1999](https://24ways.org/2018/securing-your-site-like-its-1999/) — _“What follows are examples of critical mistakes that brought down several early websites, and how you can help protect yourself and your team from the same fate.”_ 

Katie Fenn      

🔊 Podcasts We Recommend   

[Screaming in the Cloud](https://www.screaminginthecloud.com/) — Charismatic AWS guru Corey Quinn talks to developers and engineers about AWS and cloud related topics on topics like [the future of serverless](https://www.screaminginthecloud.com/episodes/2018/9/26/episode-29-future-of-serverless-a-toy-that-will-evolve-and-offer-flexibility) and [the myth of cloud agnosticism](https://www.screaminginthecloud.com/episodes/2018/8/10/episode-23-most-likely-to-be-misunderstood-the-myth-of-cloud-agnosticism) (an episode I particularly enjoyed). 

Screaming in the Cloud   

[Darknet Diaries](https://darknetdiaries.com/) — A highly produced podcast that takes on a single security related story each episode in a _Reply All_ type format. 

Jack Rhysider   

[Arrested DevOps](https://www.arresteddevops.com/) — A devops-flavored podcast that includes a lot of interviews with leading ops engineers at industry events. 

Matt Stratton, Trevor Hess, and Bridget Kromhout   

[Datanauts](https://packetpushers.net/series/datanauts-podcast/) — Episodes are around 40-50 minutes long and cover a variety of data center and infrastructure related topics from AWS security and cloud infrastructure to edge computing and career advice. 

Packet Pushers   

[StormCast](https://isc.sans.org/podcast.html) — A daily ‘briefing’-style podcast that covers up-to-date security threats and vulnerabilities in just 5-10 minutes. 

SANS Internet Storm Center   

[The Google Cloud Platform Podcast](https://www.gcppodcast.com/) — Superbly produced - as you’d expect from Google - and really digs into serious depth on ops tools and approaches as well as work happening at Google itself. 

Google   

🔧 Tools and Code  

[DigitalOcean Releases Its Kubernetes-Based Container Service](https://blog.digitalocean.com/digitalocean-releases-k8s-as-a-service/) — DigitalOcean joins providers like AWS, Google and Azure in offering a managed Kubernetes service in the cloud. 

The DigitalOcean Blog   

[GitLab Announces GitLab Serverless](https://about.gitlab.com/2018/12/11/introducing-gitlab-serverless/) — From December 22, GitLab 11.6 users will get access to a new, alpha ‘serverless’ offering that will let you build and manage serverless workloads from within the GitLab UI. 

GitLab   

[An introduction to Kubeflow](https://opensource.com/article/18/12/introduction-kubeflow?sc_cid=70160000001273HAAQ) — [Kubeflow](https://github.com/kubeflow/kubeflow) is a Kubernetes-native platform for developing and and running scalable machine learning workloads. 

Michelle Casbon and Amy Unruh   

[FreeBSD 12.0 Now Available](https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2018-December/001856.html) 

Glen Barber   

[Resilience Weekly: Weekly Reflections on the Resilience of Systems](https://resilienceweekly.com/) — An interesting newsletter that digs into matters around the resilience of systems, technology and people - a topic that has some crossover with operations. 

Thai Wood         

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