You are correct. The core is Apache-2 and only lacks very obvious enterprise features. All the important CI bits are included in the Community Edition.
There is an EE edition in the works that will have a commercial license with more enterprise features like SSO, Okta integration, etc . I don't have the exact details but the license will allow small companies to use EE for free. The next step is to release EE.
I write a lot about CI/CD at my job (unsurprising as we are a CI service). While we do have some articles about our platform itself, most of the articles you'll find are more general:
Author here. I agree that observability is really high priority.
I've never meant the numbers to represent steps or say that one point has a higher priority than others (maybe I didn't make that clear enough in the article). In theory, you would be following all/most of the points while you prepare the monolith for migration.
This exact situation is happening now in Argentina. If someone sends you USD, they get converted to pesos at a ridiculously low rate. That's why most freelancers use crypto as a way to get their earnings.
Argentina did exactly that on 2001. Life savings stolen forever. To this day, most people save their dollars in their houses because no one trust banks in the long term.
Yes, what you call hypothetical situation is my daily life. The country where I live, Argentina, frequently imposes heavy restrictions on buying and selling foreign currencies. There is a hard monthly limit of $200 per person per month and there are talks of reducing the limit even further.
Sometimes crypto is the only way of sending/receiving money from other countries reliably and cheaply.
Other countries are much worse, Venezuela for instance has destroyed the value of their money, so bad that people use it wallpaper.
I'm working to add installation guides for generic K8s.