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CNCF Annual Survey is out! 

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)'s Annual Survey represents an important cross-sectional analysis of trends in the cloud native community. CNCF partnered with LF Research once again to develop its 2023 study, measuring adoption of CNCF projects, understanding motivations for use and contribution, and forecasting new opportunities. Read the full report here.

Upcoming Events

StrimziCon

May 22 | VIRTUAL ONLY

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OTel Community Day

June 25 | Seattle, Washington

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Secure AI Summit powered by Cloud Native

June 25 | Seattle, Washington

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CloudNativeSecurityCon North America

June 26-27 | Seattle, Washington

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_dev China 

August 21-23 | Hong Kong

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KubeDay Japan

August 27 | Tokyo, Japan

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gRPConf

August 27 | Sunnyvale, California

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KubeDay Colombia

October 9 | Medellín, Colombia

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KubeDay Australia

October 15 | Melbourne, Australia

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America

November 12-15 | Salt Lake City, Utah

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India

December 11-12 | Delhi, India

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QUESTIONS?

For sponsorship details, email sponsor@cncf.io

For questions about speaking opportunities, email speakers@cncf.io

For general event inquiries, email events@cncf.io

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Bytecode Alliance on the release of WASI Preview 2 and the Component Model

Bailey Hayes & Luke Wagner, Cosmonic

Instrumenting observability in Kong using Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry

John Williams, Accenture

Introducing SpinKube

Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj, Fermyon

The 4 biggest challenges of scaling cloud native AI workloads

Ken Ahrens, Speedscale

The Technical

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

Seccomp inetrnals deep dive
Amit Schendel, ARMO

[Security Advisory] CVE-2024-3177: Bypassing mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

Kubernetes Community Forums

7 Mind-blowing Kubernetes hacks
DavidW (skyDragon)

Harnessing Ceph S3 with Kubernetes: An operator solution

Hamed Karbasi

OPA v1 is almost out! Here’s what you need to know
Daniel Bass, Permit.io

Java application tracing: Quick setup in K8S with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger in under 15 minutes
Tal Yitzhak, Lightrun

Platform tips #21: What could be a better alternative To Backstage
Romaric Philogene, Qovery

OpenTelemetry trace context propagation with message brokers and go
Daniel Dias, Tracetest

The Editorial

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

Unleash your creativity: Design the 10th anniversary logo for Kubernetes!

CNCF

KU052: Wasm is not here to take your containers
Michael Levan & Kristina Devochko

Kubectl port-forward flow explained
Henrique Cavarsan

List of top 8 service catalog tools
Siddarth Jain

[Part 2] Karpenter: An opportunity to reduce your cloud bill
Martin Hauskrecht, Labyrinth Labs

Lessons learned about secrets protection after the Sisense breach

David Melamed, Jit

XZ Backdoor: Not the end of open source

Gerald Benischke 

ThanosCon retrospective

Bartek Płotk, Google

Automatic image update to Git using Flux and GitHub actions

Shashank Pai, InfraCloud Technologies

Training & Certification News

2024 State of Tech Talent Report Released: Reveals Transformative Shifts in Tech Talent Acquisition and the Rising Importance of Skills and Certifications.

NEW Course: Scaling Cloud Native Applications with KEDA (LFEL1014)

Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

Kubernetes Community Days are summit-like events that gather the community around Cloud Native topics offering learning and networking opportunities gifted by community organizers.

Upcoming CFP deadlines

• KCD Lima, Peru CFP closes on May 15
• KCD Washington DC CFP closes on June 2
• KCD Austria CFP is now open!
• KCD UK CFP is now open!

Upcoming 2024 KCD Events:

• Shanghai is happening tomorrow!
• Romania - It is the final countdown to the event! In-person in 6 days!
• Buenos Aires is in-person on May 9
• Dhaka is in-person May 11
• New York is in-person May 22

Open Sponsor Prospectuses can be found in GitHub:

Cloud Native Community Groups

Check out upcoming Cloud Native community meetups in your city or nearby within the next week!

• New Delhi - April 20
• Oran - April 20
• Aurangabad - April 21
• Linz - April 23
• Bogotá - April 23
• Prague - April 24
• Graz - April
• Santa Catarina - April 25
• Guatemala - April 27
• Dhaka - April 27
• Cloud Native Security India - April 27
• Hooghly - April 27
• Indore - April 27
• Baku - April 27

Upcoming Releases

• Kubernetes v1.30: Uwubernetes
• Grype 0.76.0 released

Online Programs

Live Webinar

• April 23: Accelerating game assets workflows with GenAl on Kubernetes KC Ayyagari, Google Cloud - RSVP

Cloud Native Live

• April 24: Tetragon in action - detect and nip Kubernetes attacks in the bud Paul Arah, Isovalent - RSVP

On demand webinars

• April 25: Building your API platform with Backstage and GraphQL Michael Watson, Apollo GraphQL - RSVP
• April 25: Must our cloud deployments be so inefficient? Alex Jung, Unikraft - RSVP
• April 25: Developer experience platform- Backstage.io Jitendra Jain, Infosys Ltd. - RSVP
  
  

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