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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe deadlines extended!

For KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024, we are extending the deadline for signed sponsorship contracts for all level sponsorships + marketing promotional opportunities to 11 January 2024 at 11:59 PM PST. 

• Become a level sponsor: Review the options on pages 4. 
• Purchase a Marketing Promotional Opportunity:  Review all your options starting on page 5.

Also, don’t forget about CNCF-Hosted Co-Located Events! These educational events, focused on specific cloud native topics or CNCF projects, will be hosted at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 on Tuesday, 19 March. Review the options starting on page 9. Signed contracts must be received by Wednesday, 17 January.

Dapr Day Virtual

• 21 February 2024, 4:00-7:30 PM (CET) / 7:00-10:30 AM (PST)
• Submit to speak by Sunday, 7 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.

AKS + Spin Integration

Ralph Squillace, Microsoft

Kubernetes 1.29 release

Priyanka Saggu, Nina Polshakova, & Carolina Valencia, Kubernetes 1.29 Release Team

Introduction to platform engineering maturity model

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

Hands-on guide to 5G SD-RAN security with KubeArmor

Barun Acharya, AccuKnox

OpenCost Kubernetes cost monitoring deep dive

Matt Ray, Kubecost

Application and analysis of Jepsen tests in Xline

Zhenghao Yin, DatenLord

Headlamp - your extensible Kubernetes UI

Joaquim Rocha, Microsoft

Hacking your manager - how to get platform engineering on their radar

Kaspar von Grünberg, Humanitec

Building orchestration sagas with Kalix workflow

Renato Cavalcanti, Lightbend

The technical

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

Announcing Flux 2.2 GA

Flux blog

OpenTelemetry collector's new filter processor

Matheus Nogueira, Tracetest

Monokle: Kubernetes policies made easy

Ole Lensmar, Kubeshop

AI and Kubernetes: Open source tools powered by AI/OpenAI for Kubernetes.

Seifeddine Rajhi

3 patterns for deploying Helm charts with Argo CD

Trevor Royer, Red Hat

The editorial

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

What is FinOps? An interview with a cloud financial expert

Lauren Sirt, Zesty

How Kubernetes 1.29 improves open source cloud native production readiness

Sean Michael Kerner

Taking the product approach to building platforms

Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies

I-Track software maintains critical reliability with HAProxy enterprise

Ian Chizmar, HAProxy

Karmada brings Kubernetes multi-cloud capabilities to CNCF Incubator

CNCF blog

Observability Pulse 2024 Survey

Logz.io

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 Shenzhen (in-person on 15 December)
  • See the agenda which includes a WebAssembly track
• KCD Oslo, Norway (in person on January 25)
• KCD Kerala, India (in person on February 3)

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!

• Kochi - December 16
• Medellín - December 16
• Rioja - December 16
• Baku - December 16
• Madurai - December 16
• NoVA - December 19
• Salt Lake City - December 19
• Rio de Janeiro - December 19
• Lima - December 30
• Istanbul - December 21
• Hyderabad - December 23
• Guangzhou - December 23
• Ho Chi Minh - December 23
• Dubai - December 24

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

Online Programs

Online Programs will resume on January 15, 2024!

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