The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

The headlines

News from CNCF’s TAGG App Delivery/WG Platforms teams!

CNCF's TAG App Delivery/WG Platforms are preparing a description of cloud-native platforms to inform architects and decision makers of what they are and the value they promise, read this doc to know more, if you want to write a definition/whitepaper for each of the "Capabilities" domains for platforms, join CNCF slack channel #wg-platforms and start participating.

Register for CloudNativeSecurityCon now!

Last day to register for CloudNativeSecurityCon with the standard pricing! Hurry and secure your spot today! Click here to register.

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Online programs start back up next week! Visit our playlist to review past events. 

The technical

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

Kubernetes 1.26: Eviction policy for unhealthy pods guarded by PodDisruptionBudgets

Kubernetes blog

Argo rollouts 1.4 release

Argo blog

Understanding gRPC concepts, use cases & best practices

Hitesh Pattankayak, InfraCloud Technologies

Deploying to ephemeral environments with Helm orchestration

Peter Hewitt

A retrospective of working with Bare Metal Kubernetes, or to there and back

Quadcode Team

No more additional network requests – enter: OCI image layout

Batuhan Apaydin, Trendyol Group

Argo CD build environment examples

Nicholas Morey, Akuity

Protect your GraphQL services with Aperture's distributed rate limiter

Hasit Mistry, FluxNinja

Helm post renderer hooks

Natan Yellin and Pavan Gudiwada, Robusta Dev

The editorial

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

LFX Mentorship Showcase

The Linux Foundation

Simplifying Kubernetes DevSecOps through platform engineering

Alex Hisaka, D2iQ

Platform engineering in 2023: Dev first, collaboration and APIs

Daniel Bryan

Weaveworks donates project Kured to the CNCF

Weaveworks 

Announcing kube-green in CNCF landscape

Paolo Martinoli, kube-green

Rafay donated it's first open source project Paralus to CNCF, is now a part of Sandbox project! 

Rafay Systems

Longhorn 1.4 – starting a new year with a new release

William Jimenez, Rancher by SUSE

DORA metrics: automatically, for all your Kubernetes workloads

Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace

Cloud native maturity model (cncf.io)

CNCF

CNCF accepts Kubescape as its first security and compliance scanner project

Craig Box, ARMO

cdCon 2023 – call for papers now open

Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

Upcoming KCD CFP deadlines:

• KCD Pakistan CfP closes THIS Sunday, January 15 (in-person)
• KCD Turkey CfP closes January 31 (in-person)
• KCD Ukraine Fundraiser CfP closes January 31 (virtual)

Check out upcoming KCDs that might be in your region:

• KCD Pakistan happening February 17, 2023
• KCD Netherlands (Amsterdam) happening February 23-24, 2023
  • Sponsorship opportunities are still available

Online Programs

Live webinar

• January 17: Kubernetes v1.26 Release Leonard Pahlke, Frederico Muñoz, & Mark Rosetti, Kubernetes 1.26 Release Team - RSVP

Cloud Native Live

• January 18: One spec to rule them all Thomas Harris, Humanitec - RSVP

On demand webinars

• January 19: Geo-distributed metadata management system  Jicheng Shi, DatenLord Technology Co., Ltd. - RSVP
• January 19: Calico open source integration with Prometheus to achieve observability  Leon Barron, Tigera - RSVP

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