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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe schedule is LIVE!!

The schedule is LIVE for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024! If you’re not yet registered to join us in Paris, France from 19-22, March, get a move on. This epic event has everything you need: talks from experts, news and tech from the best vendors, our first ever hackathon*, the return of the AI Hub, Security Hub, and more than a dozen co-located events, parties, swag, and all the networking you can handle with the best in the industry. Join us!

*CloudNativeHacks is our first-ever hackathon This FREE event will focus exclusively on advancing the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Want to get involved? Apply for participation in #CloudNativeHacks by February 18.

Also, registration deadline for the following is Wednesday, 31 January: 

• NEW! AI Hub | Dedicated one-day unconference exploring AI topics 
• AI + Security Hub Coffee Bar
• NEW! CloudNativeHacks | Hackathon with challenges from the United Nations

GitOpsCon North America 2024 - submit your talk today!

Join us April 15, 2024, in Seattle, Washington for GitOpsCon North America. This event is designed to foster collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing on GitOps. It is aimed at audiences that are new to GitOps as well as those currently using GitOps within their organization. Submit your talk today! CFP closes on Sunday, February 4 – 11:59 pm PST.

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Platform engineering from minimum viable platform to scale

Mallory Haigh, Humanitec

Loki at scale - navigating high-volume logging challenges

Sreejith S., Capillary Technologies & Pramoth Ayyappan, Facet.Cloud

How to drive AppSec and developer autonomy in the internal developer portal

Mor Paz, Port

Securing the secrets manager with KubeArmor

AccuKnox

Generating VEX with Kubescape

Oshrat Nir, ARMO

The technical

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

Dynamic environment: Streamlining testing and development in microservices

Nisan Itzhakov, Riskified

Microservices architecture in Golang: A transformative experience!

Rafael Levi Costa, DEV Community

Tools and configurations for an effortless workflow in Docker and Kubernetes

Suleiman Dibirov, DEV Community

Mastering Kubernetes in on-premises environments
Oshrat Nir, ARMO 

Kubernetes for developers is the next big thing

Romaric Philogène

Seal your code through git commit signing

Jonathan Walker

A/B testing with Linkerd and Flagger using dynamic routing

Hitesh Wani and Pranoy Kundu, InfraCloud Technologies

The editorial

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

Read the CNCF Annual Report

CNCF

CFP is live! Introducing CloudNativeHacks, challenges brought to you by the United Nations

CNCF

2024 State of Tech Talent Survey

The Linux Foundation

Rethinking threat detection and response in cloud native ecosystems

Nigel Douglas, Sysdig

Intro to sidecars

Kaslin Fields, Google

Take the CNCF Sustainability Microsurvey

CNCF

A look back at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source project velocity in 2023 

Chris Aniszczyk, CNCF 

Spotlight on SIG release (release team subproject)

Nitish Kumar, Kubernetes blog

Edge Native Application design behaviors whitepaper

CNCF IoT Edge Working Group

The best DevOps tools, platforms, and services in 2024!

DevOps Toolkit

How to approach internal developer platform delivery?

Krzysztof Hałasa, BlueSoft

Improve your distributed team leadership mindset with our new, FREE course: Remote work at scale

The Linux Foundation

Authentication vs. authorization

Jess Hustace and Jenessa Petersen

Using Docker in unusual ways

Dreams of Code

After the inauguration in Chicago, MultiTenancyCon now heading to City of Light in 2024

Saim Safdar, CNCF Ambassador

Training & Certification News

Get started on your 2024 IT career resolutions with savings of up to 35%. Enroll today!

The Linux Foundation

New year, new skills: kick off 2024 with CNCF

Christophe Sauthier, CNCF

Learn More in ‘24 - The Linux Foundation training bundles

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 Romania CFP - Closes January 31,2024
• KCD Texas, United States CFP - Closes February 9, 2024
• KCD New York, United States CFP - Closes February 11, 2024
• KCD Bologna, Italy CFP is now open!

Upcoming 2023 KCD Events:

• 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 the rest of this months’ events in your region!

• Bangladesh - January 27
• Boston - January 30
• Prague - January 30
• NoVA - January 30
• Kuala Lumpur - January 30
• Kubernetes Guatemala - January 30
• Rioja - January 31
• Rio de Janeiro - January 31
• San Salvador - January 31

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

Online Programs

Cloud Native Live

• January 30: Enable developer self-service with Seal Walrus and OpenTofu Peng Jiang, Seal Software - RSVP

• January 31: Beyond Kubernetes with Linkerd 2.15 and SPIFFE Flynn, Buoyant - RSVP

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