The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

The headlines

The editors pick the highlights from the past week.

Kubernetes 1.22: Reaching new peaks

The Kubernetes release team is pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.22, the second release of 2021!

This release consists of 53 enhancements: 13 enhancements have graduated to stable, 24 enhancements are moving to beta, and 16 enhancements are entering alpha. Also, three features have been deprecated. Learn more about the release from the blog, or listen to an interview with release team lead Savitha Raghunathan.

CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 in Los Angeles and Virtual

The schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 is finally here! Attendees will experience over 230 sessions, including keynotes and breakouts, with over 70 presentations hosted by project maintainers. From non-technical and end user case studies to advanced engineering deep dives – the conference has content for everyone interested in cloud native technology. Explore the schedule and start planning your experience today.

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Cloud Native Live: 

Humanising your cloud native platform

Lee Briggs, Pulumi

On-demand Webinars: 

Securing your continuous everything strategy

Abubakar Siddiq Ango, GitLab

Kubernetes clusters need persistent data

James Spurin, StorageOS

Visit our Online Programs playlist on YouTube for more content.

The technical

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

Two year update: Building an open source marketplace for Kubernetes

Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS Ltd

Implementing traffic policies in Kubernetes

Cody De Arkland, Kong

July 2021 Flux update

Flux blog

Encrypt your Kubernetes secrets with Mozilla SOPS

Thorsten Hans blog

The editorial

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

NSA, CISA release Kubernetes hardening guidance

National Security Administration

A guide to Kubernetes chargeback

Kubecost blog

Keeping KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Los Angeles 2021 safe for onsite attendees

CNCF

Cloud Native Wasm Day North America hosted by CNCF

CFP Closes, Monday, Aug 9 at 11:59 PM PST

Upcoming CNCF online programs

Cloud Native Live

• August 11 at 9am PT: Emissary and Linkerd - How to integrate your Service Mesh with K8s Ingress presented by Daniel Bryant, Ambassador Labs & Jason Morgan, Buoyant - RSVP

On-demand Webinars

• August 12: Bringing your Terraform to Crossplane presented by Nic Cope, Upbound - RSVP
• August 12: Choosing the right storage for stateful workloads on Kubernetes presented by Abhinivesh Jain, Wipro - RSVP
  
  

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