The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

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KCCNC EU Transparency Report is out! 

Over 12,000 people joined us in Paris for the largest ever KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. Exciting things happened when the energy of Cloud Native met the magic of Paris. Read all about it 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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ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

GitOps for application authorization

Alex Olivier, Cerbos

vA tale of three service meshes

Krishnakumar Venkataraman, Infosys Limited

Everything you need to know about Kubernetes certification

Christopher Hanson & Iliyon Petkov, RX-M LLC

Ingesting data into GreptimeDB using InfluxDB line protocol

Wenjie Ma, Greptime

The Technical

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

Kubernetes 1.30: Multi-webhook and modular authorization made much easier

Rita Zhang, Microsoft, Jordan Liggitt, Google, Nabarun Pal, VMware, Leigh Capili, VMware

Terraform starter boilerplate for GCP using Terragrunt

Arthur Azrieli, MeteorOps

KubeCon EU: Mercedes-Benz’s migration from pod security policies to validation admission policies
Olimpiu Pop

OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with state encryption, dynamic provider-defined functions, and more

OpenTofu blog

Going Backstage with OPA - Styra
Anders Eknert & Peter Macdonald, Styra

OTEL SDK

Roman Glushko

Scaling sidecars to zero in Kubernetes

Matt Butcher, Fermyon

The Editorial

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

FinOps for Kubernetes: Engineering cost optimization

Saqib Jan

Invert your Rightsizing: Optimizing Kubernetes Clusters

Kush Mansingh, Speedscale

Kubernetes is (not) a cost optimization problem

Matt Butcher, InfoWorld 

IBM purchases HashiCorp for multicloud IT automation
Joab Jackson, The New Stack

Attackers can leverage Sidecar container injection for stealthly
Tushar Subhra Dutta

Platform engineering: Conceptual, organisational & architecture approach to DevOps
Krzysztof Hałasa

Training & Certification News

NEW Course: Introduction to Nephio (LFS179) – Nephio: A Simpler Way to Manage Complex Network & Edge Infrastructure Using the Power of Kubernetes

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

Upcoming 2024 KCD Events:

• Buenos Aires is in-person May 10
• Dhaka is in-person May 11
• Istanbul is in-person May 15 - the agenda is LIVE
• New York is in-person May 22

Sponsorships

• Hyderabad Prospectus - 2 Gold, 1 Bronze, and 1 Startup left!

Cloud Native Community Groups

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

Upcoming Cloud Native community meetups in your city this next week!

• Ahmedabad - May 4
• Gandhinagar - May 4
• Göteborg - May 7
• Aalborg - May 7
• Security Pittsburgh - May 7
• Montréal - May 8
• Málaga - May 8
• Bilbao - May 8
• Barcelona - May 9
• Cali, Colombia - May 9
• Bari & Matera - May 10

Online Programs

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