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The headlines

KubeDay Israel CFP + registration now open!

KubeDay Israel will take place in Tel Aviv on 19 June, 2023. Registration is open so hurry and register today! KubeDay events connect international and local experts in global cities with adopters, developers, and practitioners to promote face-to-face collaboration and deliver rich educational experiences. This new event series is hosted by CNCF and targeted toward specific geographical regions experiencing community expansion and interest. Engage with the leaders of Kubernetes and other CNCF-hosted projects as we set the direction for the cloud native ecosystem.

KubeDay will have both a beginner and an advanced track; about half of the speakers are international experts and half are from the local area.

We are also now accepting CFPs and sponsorships so act fast - the deadline for CFP submission is 30 April. 

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Building serverless applications using Spin and WebAssembly

Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj, Fermyon

Containerization 102: Security, optimization and speed

Sean O’Dell, Cloudsmith

Boosting engineering efficiency with OpenTelemetry, Keptn & Tyk

Budha Bhattacharya, Tyk

The technical

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

How to use HashiCorp boundary for secured remote access

Rajat Jain, InfraCloud

KubeVela: the road to cloud native application and platform engineering
Da Yin, Alibaba Cloud and maintainer of KubeVela

How to elegantly organize async Rust code

DatenLord

Testing Kafka-based asynchronous workflows using OpenTelemetry

Arjun Iyer & Scott Cotton, Signadot blog

Five minutes! Get a lightweight cloud native application control plane

Zhongpei Qiao of Alibaba & KubeVela

From CloudEvents to Apache Kafka Records, Part II
Daniele Zonca, Red Hat, & Matthias Weßendorf, Red Hat

Event-driven Kubernetes testing with Testkube and Tracetest

Adnan Rahic, TRACETEST

The editorial

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

March 2023 update

Flux blog

Kubernetes validating admission policies: A practical example

Craig Box & Ben Hirschberg, ARMO

Keeping Kubernetes secure with updated go versions

Jordan Liggitt, Google

Falco and AWS security lake

Thomas Labarussias, Falco

How to use Weave GitOps as your Flux UI

Daniel Holbach, FluxCD

Istio ambient waypoint proxy made simple

Lin Sun, Solo.io, & John Howard, Google

Using eBPF for traffic redirection in Istio ambient mode

Iris Ding & Chun Li, Intel

The power of observability: performance and reliability

Javier Antich, DevOps.com

Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

Upcoming CFP deadlines:

• KCD Mumbai CFP closes April 15, 2023 (In-Person)
• KCD Guatemala CFP closes April 16, 2023 (Virtual)
• KCD Munich CFP closes April 30, 2023 (In-Person)

Upcoming KCD Events:

• KCD Dalian, an in-person event on April 15, 2023

Cloud Native Community Groups

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

• April
  
  • Beijing - April 8, 2023
  • Thane - April 8, 2023
  • Luxemburg - April 11, 2023
  • Singapore - April 11, 2023
  • Sao Paulo - April 12, 2023
  • Trondheim - April 12, 2023
  • Guatemala - April 13, 2023
  • Salzburg - April 13, 2023
  • Linz - April 18, 2023
  • Chicago - April 19, 2023
  • Vienna - April 19, 2023
  • Nairobi - April 21, 2023
  • Aarthus - April 24, 2023
  • Tegucigalpa - April 27, 2023
  • Vilnius - April 27, 2023

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

Upcoming Releases

• Cluster API 1.4.1
• metrics-server v0.6.3
• External DNS v0.13.4

Online Programs

Cloud Native Live

• April 12: Exploring Kubernetes Windows HostProcess installer Reza Ramezanpour, Tigera - RSVP

On demand webinars

• April 13: Where is observability headed: platforms or pipelines? Pankaj Thakkar, Kloudfuse, Inc. - RSVP
• April 13: How to secure your services with Kalix Security Mike Nash, Lightbend  - RSVP

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