The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

The headlines

Register now for KubeDay Israel! 

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.

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Modernizing authorization: From basic roles to decoupled ABAC

Alex Olivier, Cerbos

Production ready Kubernetes for Python developers

Engin Diri, Pulumi

Help! I'm a developer and I need to deploy an application on Kubernetes

Andy Suderman & Stevie Caldwell, Fairwinds

The missing chapter in your CI playbook: database guardrails

Adam Furmanek, Metis

FinOps observability - monitoring Kubernetes cost with OpenCost

Dotan Hotovits, Logz.io

The technical

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

Real-World GitOps with Flux, Flagger, and Linkerd

Flynn, Buoyant

Database Mesh: Simplify Redis cluster with Istio and Aeraki
Huabing Zhao

GitOps your Falco rules
Vicente J. Jimenez Miras

Kubernetes 1.27: Avoid collisions assigning ports to NodePort services
Xu Zhenglun, Alibaba

Kubernetes 1.27: In-place resource resize for Kubernetes pods (alpha)
Vinay Kulkarni, Kubescaler Labs

OpenKruise v1.4 release: new job sidecar terminator capability
OpenKruise maintainers

Kubernetes 1.27: updates on speeding up Pod startup

Paco Xu, DaoCloud, Sergey Kanzhelev & Ruiwen Zhao, Google

Our WebAssembly experiment: Extending NGINX agent

Matthew Yacobucci, F5

The editorial

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

May promotions: Save up to 50% on training courses and certifications for Linux, Kubernetes, Node.JS, Hyperledger or other open source projects before May 23!

The Linux Foundation

New werf mode: combining werf & Argo CD into a unified CI/CD process

Konstantin Nezhbert, Flant

A developer advocate’s journal: my adventure at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
Michel Murabito, Mia‑Platform

Envoy Gateway 0.4.0: Extending the API for customization

Jimmy Song, Tetrate

Kubernetes benefits for developers and business in large enterprises

Michael Cote, VMware Tanzu

4 Core principles of GitOps

Alex Williams, The New Stack

Simplify CI/CD with a general-purpose software catalog

 Zohar Einy, Port

Internal developer portals: Self-service actions using infrastructure as code and GitOps

Mor Pax, Port

Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

Upcoming CFP deadlines:

• KCD Taiwan 2023 CFP closes May 22
• KCD Washington 2023 CFP closes June 30
• KCD Australia 2023 CFP closes June 30

Upcoming KCD Events:

• KCD Turkey in person, now June 13-15
• KCD Czech & Slovak in person May 19-21
• KCD Bengaluru in person June 2-3
• KCD Guatemala virtual June 2 (students) June 3 (professionals)
• KCD Colombia 2023 in person June 5-6

Available Sponsorships:

• KCD Colombia (June 5 & 6)
• KCD Italy 2023 (June 16) - Bronze tier available
• KCD Mumbai 2023 (June 17)
• KCD Chennai 2023 (July 22)

Cloud Native Community Groups

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

• May
  • Kathmandu - May 21
  • South Florida - May 22
  • San Salvador - May 23
  • Johannesburg - May 24
  • Panama - May 24
  • Denver - May 25
  • Indonesia - May 25
  • Stockholm - May 25
  • Hyderabad - May 26
  • Milano - May 29
  • Istanbul - May 30
  • Copenhagen - May 30
  • Linz - May 30
  • Graz - May 31
  • Panama - May 31
• June
  • Aarthus - June 1
  • Dallas - June 1
  • Hamburg - June 1
  • Vilnius - June 1
  • Bangladesh - June 2
  • Melbourne - June 7
  • Sydney - June 7
  • Tel Aviv - June 7
  • Bilbao - June 8
  • Napoli - June 8
  • Chicago - June 12
  • Costa Rica - June 15
  • Göteborg- June 15
  • Luxembourg - June 15
  • Málaga - June 21
  • Aarhus - June 22
• July
  • Graz - July 5
  • Bangledesh - July 7

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

Upcoming Releases

• Helm v3.12.0
• CrossPlane v1.12.1

Online Programs

Cloud Native Live 

• May 24: Cloud cost monitoring - right-size Kubernetes applications for cost optimization Andy Suderman & Stevie Caldwell, Fairwinds - RSVP

On demand webinars 

• May 25: LocalAI meets k8sgpt Ettore di Giacinto & Oluebube Princess Egbuna, Spectro Cloud - RSVP
• May 25: Getting started with Prometheus using Promcat.io Jesus Angel Samitier, Sysdig - RSVP
• May 25: Building a managed database service with Kubernetes Operators Jimmy Zelinskie, Authzed - RSVP

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