The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

The headlines

Are you ready for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe? Check out the latest news!

We are VERY excited to announce our first-ever hackathon at KubeCon + CloudNative Europe. The focus will be exclusively on advancing the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Want to get involved? Apply for participation in #CloudNativeHacks, apply by February 18th.  

Co-located events schedules are LIVE for 15 co-located events! Check them out and start building your schedule now.

Need some gear? Don’t miss our CNCF Store flash sale going on now!

Stickers, t-shirts, hoodies, and other products for Kubernetes, Prometheus and other CNCF-hosted projects. Act now before it’s gone!

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

*Online Programs will resume next week, January 18th.*

The technical

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

Kubernetes highlights for the Crossplane community: K8s 1.29

Stefan Schimanski, Upbound

How to prevent secret leaks in your repositories

Nitin Naidu, InfraCloud Technologies

Abstract your cluster provisioning away with Crossplane and ClusterAPI (TKG on vSphere)

Carlos Mestre del Pino

Distributed systems horror stories: Kubernetes deep health checks
The Encore blog

vCluster tips : Accessing the vCluster KubeConfig
Loft Labs

Kubernetes Gateway API with Cilium - Kubito
Goran Nushkov, Kubito

Kubernetes vulnerabilities roundup 2023
ARMO

The editorial

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

Do you want to know the hot tech talent trends for 2024? Help us, help you! Take the 2024 Tech Talent Survey today!

The Linux Foundation

Kubernetes init containers

RX-M

OpenTelemetry and Observability: Looking forward

Ken Hamric

From history major to edge innovator

Ben Cramer, US Department of Defense & Founder of KR8TOS

WebAssembly in 2024: Components are and are not the big story

B. Cameron Gain, ReveCom Media

Hello, GitOps — Boeing’s open source push

Alex Williams

Unraveling Kubernetes: The key differences between Runtime and RuntimeClass

Fazlur Rahman Khan, The Linux Foundation 

Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

Upcoming CFP deadlines:

• KCD Heredia, Costa Rica CFP - Closes January 31, 2024
• KCD Istanbul,Turkey CFP - Closes January 31,2024
• KCD Texas, United States CFP - Closes February 4, 2024
• KCD Munich, Germany CFP is now open!

Upcoming 2023 KCD Events:

• KCD Oslo, Norway (in person on January 25)
• KCD Kerala, India (in person on February 3)
• KCD Sao Paulo, Brazil (in Person on February 23 & 24)
• KCD Guadalajara, Mexico (in Person on February 23 & 24)
• KCD Heredia, Costa Rica (in Person on March 1 & 2 )

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 - January 13
• Hooghly - January 13
• Aurangabad - January 14
• Aalborg - January 18
• Bratislava - January 18
• Dallas - January 18
• Indore - January 20

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

Online Programs

On demand webinars

• December 18: Platform engineering from minimum viable platform to scale Mallory Haigh, Humanitec - RSVP
• December 18: Loki at scale - Navigating high-volume logging challenges Sreejith S., Capillary Technologies & Pramoth Ayyappan, Facet.Cloud - RSVP

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