The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

The headlines

The editors pick the highlights from the past week.

Deadline approaching: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 CFP closes on May 23!

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 is happening October 12-15 in Los Angeles, CA along with a virtual experience for those who can’t travel! 

Are you ready to see your name in lights and potentially have the opportunity to speak on a real stage again? Apply to speak now - the Call for Proposals (CFP) is open until Sunday, May 23, 11:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time. Since the event will be a hybrid experience, you can submit to speak either in person or virtually.  

Is this your first time submitting? Check out our submission guidelines to make your proposal shine.

Take the CNCF Cloud Native Survey - Part 1

We want to hear from you! Be sure to take the Cloud Native Survey - Part 1 to share your thoughts on cloud, containers, and Kubernetes. We have a full conference pass for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 to give away – complete the survey by June 15 for a chance to win!

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Where to begin your dev-centric cloud infosec journey

Guy Eisenkot & Ashley Ward, Palo Alto Networks

Kubernetes 1.21 Release

Nabarun Pal & Anna Jung, Kubernetes 1.21 Release Team

Leveling Up Kubernetes with kube-vip

Dan Finneran, Equinix Metal

The technical

Tutorials, tools, and more that take you on a deep dive into the code.

Journey of a Cloud SQL Packet

Damian Peckett, kloeckner.i 

How to create a Ubuntu Packer Image and deploy on a Bare Metal Server

Chitrabasu Khare, InfraCloud

Workload mobility in a service mesh world

Cody De Arkland, Kong

Key Kubernetes metrics to monitor for peak cluster performance

Adnan Rahic, Sematext

Learn how to build functions faster using Rancher's kim and K3s

OpenFaaS Ltd.

Autoscaling Kubernetes clusters

Puja Abbassi, Giant Swarm

AWS Secrets Manager on Kubernetes using AWS Secrets CSI driver Provider

Theo “Bob” Massard, Particule

Kube-Prometheus – A complete monitoring stack using Jsonnet

Lennart Jern, Elastisys

The easiest way to debug Kubernetes workloads

Martin Heinz

Kubernetes capacity planning: How to rightsize your cluster

Jesus Ángel Samitier, Sysdig

Learn how Istio can provide a service mesh for your functions

Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS Blog

GitOps Guide to the Galaxy (E15): Introducing the App of Apps and ApplicationSets

Christian Hernandez, Chris Short, Red Hat

The editorial

Articles, announcements, and more that give you a high-level overview of challenges and features.

Pixie, with Zain Asgar and Ishan Mukherjee

Craig Box, Kubernetes Podcast from Google

It’s Been a Full Year Since we Launched OpenShift TV

Chris Morgan, Red Hat

The need for new DevSecOps tool arises as infrastructure drift proves to be a multidimensional problem

CloudSkiff

Ahoy! (new project post)

Yoko Kawamoto

Kubernetes, (Almost) Love at First Sight with Chris Ferreira

Committing to Cloud Native Podcast

ICYMI: CNCF YouTube Channel featuring all talks from KubeCon EU 2021 are now available! 

Upcoming CNCF online programs

Live webinar

• May 25 @10am PT: Service mesh configuration using xDS protocol on gRPC, and using Envoy presented by Megan Yahya, gRPC & Yan Avlaslov, Envoy (member submission by Google) - RSVP

Cloud Native Live

• May 26 @8am PT: Universal Crossplane presented by Dan Mangum, Upbound - RSVP

On-demand webinars

• May 27: Containing your microservice sprawl presented by Tracy Ragan, DeployHub - RSVP

• May 27: Defense strategy against Kubernetes attack TTPs presented by Manoj Ahuje, Tigera - RSVP

• Looking for more great curated content? Visit our Online Programs playlist on YouTube.