Among a certain tech set, Kubernetes has earned a reputation as an unnecessarily complicated time-sink that startups should avoid. Using Kubernetes with a small team is seen as a sign of over-engineering.

Tofu Controller (previously known as Weave TF-Controller) is a controller for Flux to reconcile OpenTofu and Terraform resources in the GitOps way. With the power of Flux together with OpenTofu and Terraform, Tofu Controller allows you to GitOps-ify infrastructure, and application resources, in the Kubernetes and IAC universe, at your own pace.

Greenmask is a powerful open-source utility that is designed for logical database backup dumping, obfuscation, and restoration. It offers extensive functionality for backup, anonymization, and data masking. Greenmask is written entirely in pure Go and includes ported PostgreSQL libraries, making it platform-independent. This tool is stateless and does not require any changes to your database schema. It is designed to be highly customizable and backward-compatible with existing PostgreSQL utilities.

Most of you who are following the ArgoCD project might know this already. With the ArgoCD v2.9, there was a specific feature that made it part of the release and I want to share it with you in this post.