The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

The headlines

IstioCon 2023 - September 25 + 26

IstioCon is a community event for the industry’s most popular service mesh, where you will find lessons learned from running Istio in production, hands-on experiences, and featuring maintainers from across the Istio ecosystem.

IstioCon aims to connect with the global Istio community, featuring opportunities for both in-person engagement in China and virtual participation from around the world.

• Call for Proposals closes on Sunday, July 23
• Registration:  Virtual | In-Person
• Sponsor the event!

Questions about the event? Reach out to cncfcolocatedevents@linuxfoundation.org

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Kubernetes data protection requires orchestration - Kanister.io delivers

Mark Levi & Michael Courcy, Kasten by Veeam

Streamline service mesh observability with Kuma & OpenTelemetry 

Viktor Gamov, Kong

Velero – the open source Kubernetes backup and recovery tool

Raghurum Devarakonda, CloudCasa by Catalogic

Reshape enterprise cloud native security with Harbor and Narrows 

Chenyu Zhang & Simon Zhao, VMware

The technical

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

How Mercedes-Benz expanded its Kubernetes fleet management with Cluster API to public clouds

CASE Study

Logging in Kubernetes

Oshi Gupta & Pratiksha Patel, CloudYuga

What's IDP & platform engineering?

The Good Guy

Guide to Istio’s authentication and authorization policies

Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies

Modernize Petclinic app to Kubernetes using Konveyor

Savitha Raghunathan, RedHat

Summary of upcoming changes in OCI image and distribution specs v1.1 

Open Container Initiative

The editorial

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

Announcing results of Notation security audit 2023

CNCF

The future of API gateways on Kubernetes

Pubudu Gunatilaka, WSO2

Multi-arch cloud infrastructure from the ground up: Why and how to get started

Cheryl Hung, Arm

How DeFacto migrated to an event-driven architecture

CNCF

Streamlining observability: The journey towards query language standardization

Dotan Horovits, Logz.io

Using ChatGPT to create software tests

Bruno Lopes, Kubeshop

Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

Check out our new website where you can find sponsor prospectuses, written content, and upcoming KCDs at cncf.io/kcds.

Upcoming CFP deadlines:

• KCD El Salvador 2023 CFP is now open
• KCD Texas 2023 CFP closes August 30
• KCD Sri Lanka 2023 CFP closes August 28

Upcoming 2023 KCD Events:

• KCD Washington DC
• in person early bird tickets available through July 31
• KCD Guatemala
• Virtual for students on August 18
• NOW hybrid for professionals on August 19

KCD Australia, in person August 22

Cloud Native Community Groups

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

• July
  • New Delhi - July 15
  • Women in Cloud Native - July 15
  • Manchester - July 18
  • Tel Aviv - July 19
  • Edinburgh - July 19
  • Montpellier - July 20
  • Lahore - July 22
  • Johannesburg - July 26
    
    
• August

• Saarbrucken - August 3
• Bangladesh - August 4
• Graz - August 16
• Copenhagen - August 22
• Goteborg - August 31
• Lahore - August 31

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

Online Programs

Cloud Native Live

• July 18: Falco 0.35 Release release overview and hands-on keyboard session Melissa Kilby & Pablo Musa, Falco team - RSVP

• July 19: Gateway API plugin for Argo rollouts Dan Garfield, Codefresh & Rob Scott, Google - RSVP

On demand webinars

• July 20: Why you need an XBOM – the eXtended Software Bill of Materials Joe Nicastro, Apiiro - RSVP
• July 20: Flux 2.0 - What you need to know Tamao Nakahara, Weaveworks - RSVP

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