The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

The headlines 

StrimziCon - Call for Papers (CFP)!

Submit your proposals by March 10 to StrimziCon's Call for Papers (CFP) for a chance to share your expertise and insights in the world of Apache Kafka and Strimzi. Don't miss this opportunity to showcase your knowledge and contribute to the Strimzi community!

Update: Certification Window Changing (3/1)

Starting on April 1, our Kubernetes training and certification exams will move from a 36-month certification period to a 24-month certification period. This includes CKA, CKAD, KCNA,  KCSA, PCA, ICA, CCA, CAPA, and CGOA CNCF exams. Why the change? We adjusted the certification window to ensure that the skills used to earn certifications remain relevant to the current state of Kubernetes, which has changed so much in three years. Read the full blog post with more information here.

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Kyverno 1.12 and beyond!

Charles-Edouard Brétéché, Mariam Fahmy, & Vishal Choudhary, Nirmata

How to design Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)?

Viktor Farcic, Upbound

Load balancer services not just for public clouds anymore

Federico Paolinelli, Red Hat

Mastering AI-driven cloud security: A new era of remediation

Sandeep Lahane & Ryan Smith, Deepfence & Yogesh Badwe, Druva

How to set up production-like Kubernetes environments on local machines

Benedikt Iltisberger, mogenius GmbH

Enabling WebAssembly workloads in Kubernetes

Justin Pflueger, Fermyon

The technical

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

Comparing open source log shippers: Logstash, FluentD and Fluent Bit

Onepane blog

SLSA and sеcuring supply chain in CI /CD

Ozone blog

Calculating cloud VM CPU carbon emissions

Gabi Beyer, re-cinq.com

Introducing Capacitor, a general purpose UI for Flux

Lazlo Fogas, Flux

Simplifying Kubernetes development: Your go-to tools guide

Ashish Choudhary & Dan Ackerson, Semaphore

Control planes of the future

Huy Mai, Ericsson

Safer image builds with cloud native buildpacks and Wolfi

Ram Iyengar

The editorial

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

CNCF Annual Report now available in Japanese

CNCF

Platform engineering is not (just) about infrastructure!

Michael Murabito

2024 Kubernetes Cost Benchmark Report

CAST AI Group

Key metrics for monitoring etcd

David Lentz, Datadog

What to do *before* KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Paris 2024

CNCF blog

Tech Works: Embrace inclusive leadership now

Jennifer Riggins

Platform engineering: Orchestrating applications, platforms, and infrastructure

Daniel Bryant, Syntasso

Shipping quality software in hostile environments

Luka Kladaric

The final act in VMware’s odyssey: the demise of free ESXi

Dotan Horovits

Netflix releases bpftop: An eBPF-based application monitor

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Training & Certification News

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA) Launches

The KCSA certification is designed for new IT professionals interested in advancing their careers through a demonstrated understanding of foundational knowledge and skills of security technologies in the cloud native ecosystem. Enroll today!

Unraveling Kubernetes: Storage expansion simplified

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 (Hybrid this weekend!)
• 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!

• Bangalore - March 2
• Women in Cloud Native (virtual) - March 2
• Kerala - March 2
• Aarhus - March 6
• Aalborg - March 7
• Iberia - March 7
• Kubernetes Bari & Matera - March 8
• Thane - March 9
• Guangzhou - March 9
• Chandigarh - March 10
• Northern Virginia (NoVA) - March 12
• Saint Louis - March 13
• Japan - March 13
• Barcelona - March 14

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

• March 5: Managing IaC at scale with ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault and more Andy Suderman & Stevie Caldwell, Fairwinds - RSVP
• March 6: Heterogeneous microservice authorization - less scary than it sounds Alex Olivier, Cerbos - RSVP

On demand webinars

• March 7: Declarative intent with cert-manager for AWS access for Kubernetes workloads Mattias Gees, Venafi - RSVP
• March 7: K8s cluster vending machine Engin Diri, Pulumi - RSVP
• March 7: Understanding the open source cloud native security landscape Mike Coleman, Sysdig - RSVP
• March 7: Securing Jupyter notebooks with KubeArmor Rudraksh Pareek, AccuKnox - RSVP

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