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The headlines

Sponsor KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024! 

Your opportunity is almost over! Join the community in Paris, France from 19-22 March where you’ll find eager and engaged attendees just waiting to network and collaborate with sponsors and their peers. 

• Become a level sponsor  Signed contracts must be received by Thursday, 14 December
• Purchase a marketing promotional opportunity  Signed contracts must be received by Thursday, 14 December
• Sponsor a CNCF-Hosted co-located event Signed contracts must be received by Wednesday, 17 January

Not registered? There’s still some time to save - register by 1 February to save USD$500+. 

Dapr Day Virtual

• 21 February 2024, 4:00-7:30 PM (CET) / 7:00-10:30 AM (PST)
• Submit to speak by Wednesday, 3 January 2024
• Register now to participate in this exciting event - registration is free!

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Protect your stateful Kubernetes workloads with Kanister

Michael Cade & Mark Lavi, Kasten by Veeam

Open source policy at scale

Andy Suderman, Fairwinds

Reduce security alert fatigue – focus on what matters

John Richards II, Paladin Cloud

Scaling with confidence - a deep dive into autoscaling in Kubernetes

Oluebube Princess Egbuna, Spectro Cloud

eBPF-based Kubernetes Security

Oshrat Nir, ARMO

The next evolution of WebAssembly - the component model

Sohan Maheshwar, Fermyon

Automating your source of truth - GitOps and Terraform

Mark Ramm, Nick Lotz & Ravi Lachhman, Harness

Falco and Atomic Red team: Real-time threat detection in cloud native system

Sysdig

Getting started with LitmusChaos 3.0 - Chaos engineering made smarter

Saranya Jena & Amit Das, Harness

The technical

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

Kubernetes 1.29, ARMO released a companion post

Ben Hirschberg, ARMO

Docker volumes: Efficient data management in containerized environments

Princewill Inyang, Semaphore

A guide to mastering metadata for full observability

Dotan Horovits, Logz.io

A deep dive into CPU requests and limits in Kubernetes

Datadog blog

The editorial

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

cdCon 2024: Call for Proposals Open!

The Linux Foundation

It's all just leadership after all

James Stanier, Shopify

Quickly prove your Tekton skills with the Pipelines with Tekton (SC106) 

Linux Foundation

KCD Denmark: a collective triumph in the Cloud Native universe

KCD Denmark 2023 Organizers

Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) vs Google Zanzibar: When you should use one or the other

Evan Cordell, authzed

Open Source Technical Documentation Essentials (LFC111)

The Linux Foundation

Notes on Technology Strategy Patterns

Eben Hewitt

Creating Effective Documentation for Developers (LFC112) 

The Linux Foundation

7 books that changed me the most as a software engineer

Jordan Cutler

Case Study - Plaid: Hundreds of deployments every day without tears

CNCF

Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

Upcoming CFP deadlines:

• 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!

• Lahore  - December 9
• Lagos - December 9
• Prague - December 11
• Luxembourg - December 12
• Graz - December 13
• Edinburgh - December 13
• Málaga - December 13
• Lorient - December 14
• Taiwan - December 14
• Montpellier - December 14
• South Florida - December 14
• Timișoara - December 14

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

Online Programs

Last week of Online Programs for 2023! 2024 calendar dates will open early January.

Live Webinars

• December 12: AKS + Spin Integration Ralph Squillace, Microsoft - RSVP
• December 15: Kubernetes 1.29 Release Priyanka Saggu, Nina Polshakova, & Carolina Valencia, Kubernetes 1.29 Release Team - RSVP
  
  

Cloud Native Live

• December 13: Introduction to platform engineering maturity model Saim Safdar, CNCF Ambassador, Josh Gavant, Red Hat, & Taylor Dolezal, CNCF - RSVP

On demand webinars

• December 14: Hands-on guide to 5G SD-RAN security with KubeArmor Barun Acharya, AccuKnox - RSVP
• December 14: OpenCost Kubernetes cost monitoring deep dive Matt Ray, Kubecost - RSVP
• December 14: Application and analysis of Jepsen tests in Xline Zhenghao Yin, DatenLord - RSVP
• December 14: Headlamp - your extensible Kubernetes UI 

  Joaquim Rocha, Microsoft - RSVP

• December 14: Hacking your manager - how to get platform engineering on their radar Kaspar von Grünberg, Humanitec - RSVP
• December 14: Building orchestration sagas with Kalix workflow Renato Cavalcanti, Lightbend - RSVP

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