The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

The headlines 

Cloud Native Startup Fest Europe schedule is LIVE!

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2024 take place on 19 March at Paris Expo Porte De Versailles in Paris, France. You must be registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024, and have an All-Access pass in order to participate in the sessions.

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GitOpsCon NA 2024 - Schedule Announced! 

GitOpsCon North America, April 15, Seattle, WA, is designed to foster collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing on GitOps. Get connected with others that are passionate about GitOps. Learn from practitioners about pitfalls to avoid, hurdles to jump, and how to adopt GitOps in your cloud native environment.Register now!

It's the moment you've been waiting for! The schedule for Open Source Summit North America is LIVE!

Open Source Summit North America 2024, the premier event for open source developers and communities takes place April 16-18 in Seattle, Washington and includes 16 microconferences such as Open AI + Data Forum, CloudOpen, LinuxCon, Digital Trust, SustainabilityCon, and MORE! Learn more and explore the schedule. 

Don’t miss amazing savings! Register by Saturday, February 24 and save $300 off the attendee rate. Want more good news? New in 2024, your registration fee includes lunch plus access to the co-located Embedded Open Source Summit at no additional cost.

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Falcosidekick - the Swiss Army knife for cloud native security & observability

Nigel Douglas, Sysdig

The business value of cloud native - Cloud Native Maturity Model 3.0

Danielle Cook, Cartographos Working Group

Reduce DevOps and control provisioning with KubeFox virtual environments

Steven Higgins & John Long, XigXog

Unleash the beast! Slash on-prem costs with CAPI and MAAS for bare metal K8s

Anton Smith, Spectro Cloud

The technical

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

Users, groups, roles and API access in Kubernetes

Aditya Saman

SSH-Snake: New self-modifying worm threatens networks

Miguel Hernández, Sysdig

Explore and debug GitHub Actions via SSH

Alex Ellis

The editorial

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

What to expect from Kubecon CloudNativeCon Europe 2024

Adrian Bridgwater

Key considerations for containing Kubernetes costs

Vasil Kaftandzhiev, Grafana Labs

Announcing new Poster Pavilion sessions at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe

Chris Aniszczyk, CNCF

Policy-as-Code in the software supply chain

Marina Moore, Michael Lieberman, John Kjell, James Carnegie, and Luca Bandini

Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

Liam Proven

Linkerd service mesh production users will soon have to pay

Beth Pariseau

Training & Certification News

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Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

Upcoming CFP deadlines:

• KCD Pune, India CFP closes March 4!
• KCD Czech & Slovak CFP closes March 31
• KCD Munich CFP closes March 31
• KCD Zurich CFP closes March 31
• KCD Italy CFP closes April 4

Upcoming 2024 KCD Events:

• Heredia, Costa Rica (free to attend on March 1 & 2 )
• Los Angeles, United States  (in person March 14-15)
• Texas, United States (in person April 12)
• Romania (in person April 25)
• New York, United States (in person May 22)

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!

• Hyderabad - February 24
• Madurai - February 24
• Gurugram - February 24
• Dubai - February 26
• Krakow - February 26
• Frankfurt - February 27
• Guatemala - February 27
• Linz - February 27
• Wellington - February 27
• Kuala Lumpur - February 28
• Budapest - February 28
• Prague - February 28
• Islamabad - February 29
• Odesa - February 29
• Boston - February 29
• Kubernetes Guatemala - February 29

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

• February 28: Kyverno 1.12 and beyond! Charles-Edouard Brétéché, Mariam Fahmy, & Vishal Choudhary, Nirmata - RSVP
• February 28: How to design Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)? Viktor Farcic, Upbound - RSVP

On demand webinars

• February 29: Load balancer services not just for public clouds anymore Federico Paolinelli, Red Hat - RSVP
• February 29: Mastering AI-driven cloud security: A new era of remediation Sandeep Lahane & Ryan Smith, Deepfence & Yogesh Badwe, Druva - RSVP
• February 29: How to set up production-like Kubernetes environments on local machines Benedikt Iltisberger, mogenius GmbH - RSVP
• February 29: Monitoring Calico with Prometheus and Grafana Reza Ramezanpour, Tigera - RSVP
• February 29: Scaling Terraform and OpenTofu with Stack Sören Martius, Terramate - RSVP

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