The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

The headlines

Don’t wait! Only 9 days left to submit a talk proposal for the following Europe CNCF-hosted co-located events!  

• ArgoCon
• CiliumCon
• Cloud Native Telco Day
• Cloud Native Wasm Day
• Kubernetes Batch + HPC Day
• Kubernetes on Edge Day
• Istio Day
• Linkerd Day
• Observability Day

To streamline the CFP process, there is one CFP application for all CNCF-hosted co-located events.  Submitters will specify the co-located event they are submitting for within the application process. The CFP closes on February 12, 11:59 pm PST.

All accepted CNCF-hosted Co-located Event speakers will get a complimentary All-Access Pass (CNCF Co-located Events & KubeCon + CloudNativeCon).

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Real-world trust management with Linkerd and cert-manager

Flynn, Buoyant & Richard Wall, Jetstack

Cloud custodian - proactive governance of your cloud, cluster, and code

Jorge Castro & Sonny Shi, Stacklet

Cloud cost monitoring with OpenCost and Kubernetes optimization strategies

Matt Ray, Kubecost

Refactor monolithic application with Konveyor data gravity insights

John Rofrano & Rahul Krishna, IBM

GraphQL and headless CMS CrafterCMS

Russ Danner, CrafterCMS

The technical

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

GitOps for Kubernetes with ArgoCD, Crossplane, Kyverno and Paralus

Cloud Native Podcast

Key considerations when implementing virtual Kubernetes clusters

Hanumantha (Hemanth) Kavuluru, Rafay Systems

How to use GitOps to automate Terraform 

Roberth Strand, OpenSource.com 

Istio publishes results of 2022 security audit

Craig Box, ARMO

CNCF Annual Survey 2022

CNCF

OpenTelemetry end user discussions summary for January 2023

Adriana Villela (Lightstep)

Performance testing Cilium Ingress at Hetzner cloud

Pol Arroyo, DevOps Engineer @ Hetzner Cloud

The editorial

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

Edge native application principles

IOT & Edge Working Group 

Announcing the Cilium annual report

Bill Mulligan, Isovalent

Platform engineering trends in 2023

Luca Galante, Humanitec

Why we need open source mentorship programs at the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation

Kubernetes and Cloud Security Associate (KCSA) certification coming in Q3 2023

CNCF

Multi-environment GitOps for Kubernetes with ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Kyverno

Joseph Creager, Submittable

From Kubernetes security to cloud native application security
Deepfactor

KubeGateway: A customized seven-layer load balancer for kube-apiserver

Jun Zhang, ByteDance

Native OPA support in Terraform cloud is now generally available

Mitchell Ross, Hashicorp

Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

Upcoming KCD CFP deadlines:

• KCD Ukraine Fundraiser CFP closes January 31 (virtual)
• KCD Italy CFP closes Feb 21 2023

Check out upcoming KCDs that might be in your region:

• KCD Pakistan (Islamabad) now happening February 20, 2023
• KCD Netherlands (Amsterdam) happening February 23-24, 2023
  • Sponsorship opportunities are still available
• KCD France (Paris) happening, March 7, 2023
• KCD Ukraine Virtual Fundraiser, March 16, 2023
  • Donation Prospectus available for review

Cloud Native Community Groups

Interested in connecting with your local community? Check out these upcoming community events:

• February
  • Aalborg - February 2, 2023
  • Singapore - February 2, 2023
  • Chattogram - February 3, 2023
  • Luxembourg - February 7, 2023
  • Québec - February 9, 2023
  • Boston - February 9, 2023
  • Thane - February 11, 2023
  • Chennai - February 18, 2023
  • Chattogram - February 24, 2023
  • Aarhus - February 27, 2023
  • Copenhagen - February 28, 2023

To request a community chapter for the CNCF project, please file a ticket to the CNCF ServiceDesk - https://servicedesk.cncf.io

Upcoming Releases

• KubeBuilder v3.9.0
• KubeSpray v2.21.0
• External DNS v0.13.2

Online Programs

Cloud Native Live

• February 8: Detecting crypto-jacking in Kubernetes workloads Nigel Douglas, Sysdig - RSVP

On demand webinars

• February 9: 5 Key steps to securing a default Kubernetes cluster  Travis Rodgers, Teleport  - RSVP
• February 9: Kubernetes benchmark report 2023 - what’s working and what’s not  Danielle Cook, Robert Brennan & Joe Pelletier, Fairwinds  - RSVP
• February 9: How to whiteboard your software catalog taxonomy  Yonatan Boguslavski, Port  - RSVP

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