A simplistic Kubernetes dashboard implemented with 50 lines of Bash code.

SRE is a practice adopted by best-in-class companies all over the world. As a software reliability platform purpose-built for SREs, Blameless strives to practice what we preach and utilizes SRE best practices daily to cultivate a culture of resilience.

However, this wasn’t always the case. In the early days of our company’s history (like many other companies at the beginning of their journeys), we often needed to move fast without looking through the lens of reliability and prioritize feature development and product-market fit over scalability and resilience. As you can imagine, this isn’t sustainable, and needed to make a change.

In this post, we will share our SRE journey and how we operationalized the best practices we hold dear.

Container Image Linter for Security, Helping build the Best-Practice Docker Image, Easy to start

This Kubernetes controller informs you when a Kubernetes Pod repeatedly dies (CrashLoopBackOff) while providing additional information like exit code and logs.

- Pipelines as Code
- Externalize Logic into Reusable Libraries
- Separate Build and Deploy Pipelines
- Trigger the Right Pipeline
- Fast Team Feedback
- Stable Internal Releases
- Buttoned Up Product Releases

Krane is a simple Kubernetes RBAC static analysis tool. It identifies potential security risks in K8s RBAC design and makes suggestions on how to mitigate them. Krane dashboard presents current RBAC security posture and lets you navigate through its definition.

Kubernetes multi-cluster deployment automation service.

A web app for writing and running SQL queries and visualizing the results. Supports Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, ClickHouse, Crate, Vertica, Presto, SAP HANA, Snowflake, BigQuery, SQLite, and many others via ODBC.

Hukum is an NPM module that displays Github Action (GA) progress in the terminal. It works for workflows that run when a commit is pushed to Github repo. Once a commit is pushed, Hukum will print status updates in realtime.

Clutch provides everything you need to simplify operations and in turn improve your developer experience and operational capabilities. It comes with several out-of-the-box features for managing cloud-native infrastructure, but is designed to be org-agnostic and easily taught how to find or interact with whatever you run, wherever you run it.

A cloud conversation with Blake Stoddard, Sr SRE at Basecamp / HEY.