The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

The headlines

Last chance for early bird pricing for cdCon + GitOpsCon!

cdCon + GitOpsCon, taking place May 8 – 9, in Vancouver, Canada, will be two days filled with over 60 talks and keynotes for you to learn from! With over 250 talk submissions, we are delighted to share the full schedule with our communities. 

The event will bring communities, vendors, and end users to meet, discuss, collaborate, and start shaping the future of GitOps and CD together. The schedule is now available and we invite you to begin planning your onsite experience today!  

Don’t miss your chance to save up to $200 on registration. Be sure to register by March 19! 

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Automating Kubernetes deployments

Kingdon Barrett & Juozas Gaigalas, Weaveworks

A holistic approach to managing cyber assets & extending security posture

John Richards II, Paladin Cloud

Kubernetes in 2023

Stefan Prodan, Weaveworks & Brendan Burns, Microsoft

DevOps backup and disaster recovery

Bartosz Jurga, Xopero Software

The technical

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

How to use Kubernetes events for effective alerting and monitoring

Hrittik Roy, Grafana Labs

Exploring insights at the intersection of provisioning and cloud native maturity

Joel Hans

Automatically convert Grafana Dashboards from InfluxQL to PromQL with a new open source tool

Tamir Michaeli & Dotan Horovits, Logz.i

Writing a Kubernetes operator

Dmitry Dodzin, MetalBear

KubeVirt part 1 - Run VMs like a pod

Kim-Norman Sahm

Support for dual stack Kubernetes clusters

Steve Zhang, Alex Xu, & Iris Ding, Intel, Jacob Delgado, F5, Ying-chun Cai

Traffic in ambient mesh: Istio CNI and node configuration

Peter Jausovec, Solo.io

k8s.gcr.io Redirect to registry.k8s.io - What you need to know

Bob Killen, Google, Davanum Srinivas (AWS), Chris Short (AWS), Frederico Muñoz (SAS Institute), Tim Bannister (The Scale Factory), Ricky Sadowski (AWS), Grace Nguyen (Expo), Mahamed Ali (Rackspace Technology), Mars Toktonaliev (independent), Laura Santamaria (Dell), Kat Cosgrove (Dell) 

The editorial

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

China Mobile Cloud: Building a multi-Kubernetes management platform on Clusterpedia

CNCF Case Study

CNCF blog

From community group to event: A KCD Pakistan experience

Saim Safdar, Rafay Systems

An overview of the CNCF and OSTIF impact report for the second half of 2022 and early 2023

Chris Aniszczyk & Amir Montazery, CNCF blog

Cloud-native projects usage stats in 2022 based on CNCF survey data

Dmitry Shurupov, Palark

Is cluster API really the future of Kubernetes deployment?

Steve Francis, Sidero Labs

The great lambda migration to Kubernetes jobs— a journey in three parts

Liav Yona, Firefly

Forensic container analysis
Adrian Reber, Red Hat

How to control costs of your Observability stack

Steve Waterworth, Asserts

Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

Upcoming CFP deadlines:

• KCD Bangalore CFP closes March 20, 2023 (in-person)
• KCD Dalian CFP closes March 20, 2023 (in-person)
• KCD Zurich CFP closes March 31, 2023 (in-person)
• KCD Colombia CFP closes March 31, 2023 (in-person)
• KCD Mumbai CFP closes April 15, 2023 (in-person)

Check out upcoming KCD events that might be in your region:

• KCD Israel (Tel Aviv), March 23, 2023

Cloud Native Community Groups

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

• March
• Stockholm - March 22, 2023
• Wellington - March 28, 2023
• Aalborg - March 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

• OPA v0.50.0
• KEDA v2.10.1
• Containerd 1.7.0

Online Programs

Cloud Native Live

• March 22: Operating high traffic websites on Kubernetes Salman Iqbal, Appvia - RSVP

On demand webinars

• March 23: Accelerate your monitoring adoption for Kubernetes using Krius Hrishikesh Deodar & Yachika Ralhan, InfraCloud Technologies - RSVP
• March 23: Designing and implementing toolchains in the cloud native era Sergio Ocon-Cardenas, Kubeshop  - RSVP
• March 23: Falcoctl - easy management of the lifecycle of your rules & plugins for Falco Thomas Labarussias, Sysdig - RSVP
• March 23: Kubescape roadmap  Craig Box, ARMO  - RSVP

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