The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

The headlines

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America schedule is LIVE! 

The full schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is live and ready for your review! Check out the full schedule of events and sessions here. Haven’t registered yet? Click here and secure your ticket before it’s too late! Register by September 8 and save!!

2024 CNCF Project & Co-located Events Proposal Process is LIVE! 

Are you a project maintainer,TAG or SIG hoping to hold a CNCF-hosted event in 2024? Good news - we recently created our new Project Event Guidelines meant to set your event up for success! Check out the updated guidelines and FAQ for more information.

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Mastering Kubernetes access management

Saim Safdar, Rayfay Systems

K8s all the things!

Cornelia Davis, Spectro Cloud

Securing applications across clouds with Linkerd and Arm-based K8s clusters

Pranay Bakre, Arm, Inc.

Understanding feature flags

Ethan Jones, Harness

Supercharging your PostgreSQL with extensions

Itay Braun, Metis Data & Álvaro Hernandez, OnGres

Conquering Kubernetes testing challenges - the cloud native approach

Bruno Lopes, Testkube

The technical

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

Top 10 must-have tools for Kubernetes engineers

Uma Victor & Dan Ackerson, Semaphore

How to simplify multi-cluster Istio service mesh using Admiral

Nishant & Dada, InfraCloud Technologies

How to run OpenTelemetry demo with Logz.io

Dotan Horovits, Logz.io

Key metrics for CoreDNS monitoring 

Datadog

The editorial

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

KCD Los Angeles 2024

CNCF

Announcing Linkerd 2.14: Improved enterprise multi-cluster, Gateway API conformance, and more!

William Morgan, Linkerd

Kubernetes 1.28: the security perspective

Ben Hirschberg, ARMO

Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

If you have not already done so, check out our new website! Here you can find sponsor prospectuses, written content, and upcoming KCDs: cncf.io/kcds.

Upcoming CFP deadlines:

• KCD Denmark 2023 CFP closes September 15

Upcoming 2023 KCD Events:

• KCD Sri Lanka (September 9) - The agenda is now LIVE!
• KCD Washington DC (September 12) - Full day pass is only $25!
• KCD Austria - (September 26-28) - Purchase before Sept. 12!
• KCD El Salvador (September 29-30) - A free hybrid event!

Cloud Native Community Groups

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

September

• Bangladesh - September 1
• Wellington - September 4
• Auckland - September 4
• Pittsburgh - September 7
• Chicago - September 7
• Luxembourg - September 12
• Medellín - September 14
• Lorient - September 14
• Linz - September 19 
• Rioja - September 27
• Graz - September 27

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

Online Programs

Live Webinars

• September 5: Building a cloud native CI/CD pipeline Jason Smith & Murriel Perez McCabe, Google - RSVP
• September 6: Kubernetes 1.28 Release Brad McCoy & Grace Nguyen, Kubernetes Release Team - RSVP

On demand webinars

• September 7: Your operator should probably be a Helm chart Liam White, Tetrate - RSVP
• September 7: How to write a distributed key-value store in Rust Jiawei Zhao, DatenLord - RSVP
• September 7: Faster MySQL with HTTP/3 and gRPC Matt Robenolt, PlanetScale - RSVP
• September 7: What do we mean when we say “data model”? Mor Paz, Port - RSVP

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