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CNCF Annual Survey - UPDATE

Important Update! In the 2023 CNCF Annual Survey, we've corrected missing or misclassified projects. Your feedback matters, so if you took the survey, we would be grateful if you would consider retaking the survey! Your latest responses will count, and you'll get a bonus e-learning course or certification exam discount code. Thanks for your understanding and support. Take the survey now!

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America: Register by November 5 + SAVE!

The countdown to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is on! We’re excited to connect with our community on Nov 6-9 in Chicago. Are you registered? Be sure to register today to save!  

For in-person attendees, there are two pass options:

1. All-Access: includes KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + CNCF-hosted co-located events on Monday, November 6
2. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon ONLY

Explore all ticket types, including special pricing for individuals and academics. Can't attend in person? No problem. We have 2 virtual registration options* available. Also, don’t forget to book your hotel room before the blocks sell out! 

*CNCF-hosted co-located events do NOT have a virtual component, but all content will be posted to CNCF’s YouTube channel within 48 hours of the event.

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Dive into Kubernetes testing techniques with KUTTL and Crossplane

Viktor Farcic, Upbound

Kubernetes cluster-mesh with open source Calico

Reza Ramezanpour, Tigera

Secure containers and workloads with certificates in CI/CD pipelines

Sven Rajala & Eric Mizell, Keyfactor

The devops challenge when scaling your production and company

Adam Furmanek & Roee Kieger, Metis Data, & Shimon Tolts, Datree

Enabling self-service infrastructure on any cloud with Backstage and Pulumi

Engin Diri, Pulumi

The technical

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

A practical guide to data collection with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

Goutham Veeramachaneni, Grafana Labs

Response time is the system talking

Two Wrongs

Aging code

Vadim Kravcenko

Decoding workload specification for effective platform engineering

Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies

Dive: A simple app for viewing the contents of a Docker image

Jack Wallen

CRI-O is moving towards pkgs.k8s.io

Sascha Grunert

Bootstrap an air gapped cluster with Kubeadm

Rob Mengert, Defense Unicorns

Secure application communications with Mutual TLS and Istio

Lin Sun & Yuval Kohavi, Solo.io

How we sign and verify Falco plugins and rules

Massimiliano Giovagnoli & Luca Guerra, Falco

The editorial

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

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The Linux Foundation

Keeping secrets secure on Kubernetes

John Walsh, CyberArk

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 CFP is Open!

CNCF

Quickly reproducing production bug with Event Sourcing

Donald Le & Tomas Fernandez, Semaphore

Reducing your environmental impact with the Linkerd service mesh

Catherine Paganini, Buoyant

Humans of Cloud Native: Raphaël Pinson

CNCF

Prometheus and its storage: architecture, challenges, and solutions

Vladimir Guryanov, Odarix

Save 40% sitewide: courses, certifications, IT Pro Programs & more!

The Linux Foundation

How open source foundations protect the licensing integrity of open source projects

Mike Dolan, The Linux Foundation

Shift down to the platform, not left to the dev

Michel Murabito, Mia-Platform

Watch the recent talks from Control Plane Day with Crossplane, featuring Kelsey Hightower, Bassam Tabbara, Viktor Farcic, Rachel Stephens, Christina Andonov, and more:

Blog post with all the videos

YouTube Playlist

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 Utrecht 2023 CFP closes October 22!

• KCD Los Angeles 2024 (via SCALE) CFP closes November 1
• KCD Spain 2023 (Virtual) CFP closes November 10
• KCD Oslo, Norway 2024 CFP closes November 13
• KCD Kerala, India 2024 CFP closes November

Upcoming 2023 KCD Events:

• KCD Denmark (November 14) - Tickets are going fast!
• KCD Utrecht (Nov 30 - Dec 1) - New event with early bird tickets!

The Sponsor Prospectuses are now available for:

• KCD São Paulo 2024
• KCD Romania 2024

Cloud Native Community Groups

Interested in connecting with your local community? Check out who is participating in Cloud Native Sustainability Week next week!

• Colombia - October 21
• Medellín - October 21
• Istanbul - October 24
• Taiwan - October 24
• Bahrain - October 25
• Budapest - October 25
• SF Bay Cloud Native Containers - October 25
• Aarhus - October 26
• Hannover - October 26
• Bogotá - October 26
• Montpellier - October 26
• Pune - October 28
• Kochi - October 28
• Cloud Native Security India - October 28
• Hyderabad - October 29
• Prague - October 31
• Rio de Janeiro - October 31
• Kuala Lumpur - October 31

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

Upcoming Releases

• Falco 0.36.1
• Strimzi 0.38.0

Online Programs

Live Webinar

• October 24: How to think like a threat actor from code to cloud Andre Rall & Abhinav Mishra, Uptycs - RSVP

Cloud Native Live

• October 25: Deploy your Go web app to Kubernetes Steven Higgins, XigXog - RSVP

On demand webinars

• October 26: Securing Kubernetes runtime with KubeArmor Shubham Tatvamasi, AccuKnox - RSVP
• October 26: Growth marketing Rajiv Thakkar, Portworx by Pure Storage - RSVP
• October 26: A greener, cost-effective cloud with serverless WebAssembly Sohan Maheshwar & Kate Goldenring, Fermyon - RSVP

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