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Last call reminder for the CNCF-hosted co-located events CFP!

Submit a talk for: AppDeveloperCon, ArgoCon, BackstageCon, Cilium + eBPF Day, Cloud Native AI Day, Cloud Native Wasm Day, Data on Kubernetes Day, Istio Day, Kubeflow Summit, Kubernetes on Edge Day, Multi-TenancyCon, Observability Day, OpenTofu Day, Platform Engineering Day or ThanosCon.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe Co-located Events CFP submissions are due by Sunday, 3 December at 11:59pm Central European Time (UTC+1). Submit now!

GitOpsCon Europe is right around the corner!

Happening on 5-6 Dec (virtually) - have you secured your spot? Get connected with others who are passionate about GitOps. Learn from practitioners about pitfalls to avoid, hurdles to jump, and how to adopt GitOps in your cloud native environment. As a valued member of the community, we are excited to offer you $10 off your registration with the code GOCEU23TEN! Be sure to register today to take advantage of this great deal.

Flash sale!! KubeDay Singapore Kicks Off in Less Than 2 Weeks!

Join us on 12 December at KubeDay Singapore - a one-day event taking place in Singapore City featuring both a beginner and advanced track covering all things Kubernetes and cloud native. These gatherings of local and international experts have something for everyone!

We're thrilled to offer individual registration for just S$200 - a savings of S$260!

Use Discount Code KDS23IND200 on the Registration Summary Page.

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Overcoming the GPU shortage with virtual Kubelets & distributed cloud 

Kyle Dodson & Dean Troyer, Salad

Thinking like a threat actor in your Kubernetes environments 

Abhinav Mishra, Uptycs

Introduction to platform engineering maturity model 

Saim Safdar, CNCF Ambassador, Josh Gavant, Red Hat, & Taylor Dolezal, CNCF

Cloud native application threat modeling and adversary emulation 

Rafik Harabi, Sysdig

Accelerate business outcomes with solutions from Red Hat and Portworx

Andy Gower, Portworx by Pure Storage

Introducing Kubescape 3.0 

Gal Gibli, ARMO

How to consume CNCF KubeArmor from AWS Marketplace? 

Chirag Goyal, AccuKnox

The technical

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

Securing container images using notary and the update framework

John Abraham, Semaphore

The power of traces: Learn by contributing to OpenTelemetry

Adnan Rahic, Tracetest

K8s is not the platform – or is it and we all misunderstood?

Stefan Schimanski, Upbound 

Why WebAssembly is a good fit for extensible control planes

Charles Humble

Retries: An interactive study of common retry methods

Sam Rose

Platformless Version: 0.8 (Fall-2023)

The editorial

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

Developer empowerment via platform engineering, self-service tooling

Jennifer Riggins, TNS

Secure application communications with Mutual TLS and Istio

Lin Sun and Yuval Kohavi, Isto

Platform engineering on Kubernetes - book

Mauricio Salatino

Recapping KubeCon North America 2023

Dotan Horovitz, Logz.io

Top four Kubernetes attack chains and how to break them 

Oshrat Nir, ARMO

SLSA explained: Enhanced software security measures

Randy Abernethy

How to fail at platform engineering?

Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies

GitOps goes mainstream - Flux CD boasts largest ecosystem

Weaveworks - Alexis Richardson

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 São Paulo, Brazil CFP closes Sunday, December 3!
• KCD Guadalajara, Mexico CFP - Closes January 8, 2024
• KCD Heredia, Costa Rica CFP - Closes January 31, 2024

Upcoming 2023 KCD Events:

• KCD Spain (virtual on 12 December, 4pm CET)
  • The Agenda is now LIVE!
• KCD Shenzhen (in-person on 15 December)
  • See the agenda which includes a WebAssembly track
• KCD Oslo, Norway (in person on January 25)

Open Sponsor Prospectuses can be found in the KCD GitHub Repository

Cloud Native Community Groups

Interested in connecting with your local community? Check out upcoming events in your region!

• • New Delhi, India - December 2
  • Guangzhou, China - December 2
  • Indore, India - December 2
  • Gurugram, India - December 2
  • Aarhus, Denmark - December 5
  • Copenhagen, Denmark - December 5
  • Hyderabad, India - December 5
  • Aalborg, Denmark - December 5
  • Boston, United States - December 5
  • Bochum, Germany - December 5
  • Bratislava, Slovakia - December 7
  • Kubernetes Austin, United States - December 7
  • Chicago, United States - December 7
  • Tokyo, Japan - December 8
  • Lahore, Pakistan  - December 9
  • Lagos, Nigeria - December 9

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

Online Programs

Live Webinar

• December 5: Protect your stateful Kubernetes workloads with Kanister Michael Cade & Mark Lavi, Kasten by Veeam - RSVP
  
  

Cloud Native Live

• December 6: Open source policy at scale Andy Suderman, Fairwinds - RSVP

On demand webinars

• December 7: Reduce security alert fatigue – focus on what matters John Richards II, Paladin Cloud - RSVP
• December 7: Scaling with confidence - a deep dive into autoscaling in Kubernetes Oluebube Princess Egbuna, Spectro Cloud - RSVP
• December 7: Kubescape and Inspektor Gadget Oshrat Nir, ARMO - RSVP
• December 7: The next evolution of WebAssembly - the component model Sohan Maheshwar, Fermyon - RSVP
• December 7: Automating your source of truth - GitOps and Terraform Mark Ramm, Nick Lotz & Ravi Lachhman, Harness - RSVP

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