The latest in all things Kubernetes and beyond.

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Join an amazing lineup of speakers on July 25th for this virtual event presented by Techstrong as they discuss cloud native as the de facto standard for software development. Be sure to register now! 

ICYMI: CNCF online programs this week

A weekly summary of CNCF online programs from this week.

Unlocking Kubernetes jobs and CronJobs with the Spin Command trigger

Thorsten Hans, Fermyon

How to automate pinning container images by their digests

Juan Antonio "Ozz" Osorio, Stacklok

How to use infrastructure from code to deploy to Amazon ECS, EKS and Lambda consistently

Asif Awan, appCD

Upcoming Events

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_dev China 

August 21-23 | Hong Kong

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gRPConf

August 27 | Sunnyvale, California

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KubeDay Japan

August 27 | Tokyo, Japan

Sponsor Info | Prospectus (see page 11) 

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PromCon Europe

September 11-12 | Berlin, Germany

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LitmusChaosCon VIRTUAL

September 12

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KubeDay Colombia

October 9 | Medellín, Colombia

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KubeDay Australia

October 15 | Melbourne, Australia

Sponsor Info | Prospectus (see page 17)

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Dapr Day

October 16 | Virtual

CFP closes on Aug 5

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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

Sponsor Info | Prospectus (starting on page 27)

Call for Proposals

QUESTIONS?

For sponsorship details, email sponsor@cncf.io

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For general event inquiries, email events@cncf.io

See you around the globe!

The Technical

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

Patching image vulnerabilities with Kubescape & Copa
Anubhav Gupta

5 Advanced Kubernetes operators every DevOps engineer should know about

Piotr

Traefik vs. NGINX: Comparison and practical guide
Oskar Wojciski, CAST AI

Kubernetes deployment 101: Transitioning from Docker Compose to Kubernetes Manifests

Afaque Umer

Uncloak the key to orchestration: Streamlining Keycloak in Kubernetes

Nissim Museri 

Kubernetes Chronicles:(K8s#12)|K8s Series | PODs | Security Context

VenuMadhav Palugula, VenKube

High available k3s kubernetes cluster with keepalived, galera and longhorn
Remy van Elst

Complexity and toil in infrastructure as code

Brian Grant

Podman and Libkrun

Brent Baude

The Editorial

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

CNCF: Kubernetes continues to mature – but is it grown up?
Adrian Bridgwater

The graying open source community needs fresh blood
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

As we reach mid-year 2024, a look at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source project velocity
Chris Aniszczyk, CNCF

How to migrate an observability platform to open-source and cut costs
Hemant Sachdeva

Kubernetes migration from day minus one (-1) to day-2

Guy Menachem, Komodor

Organising the first KCD Hyderabad – my amazing experience

Atulpriya Sharma

Training & Certification News

UPDATED Course: Open Source and the 5G Transition (LFS111)

How to Ace the (CGOA) Certified GitOps Associate Exam

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 deadline:

• KCD Chattogram CFP (virtual) closes July 31
• KCD Accra, Ghana CFP (virtual) closes August 31

Upcoming KCDs

• KCD Lima, Peru is happening tomorrow!

Other Notes

• New sponsor prospectus added for KCD Porto, Portugal happening in September

Check out the latest transparency reports that have been published

Cloud Native Community Groups

Check out next week’s Cloud Native meetups around the globe!

• Noida, India - July 20
• Tokyo, Japan - July 22
• Pittsburgh, US (Security) - July 22
• Singapore - July 23
• Düsseldorf, Germany - July 23
• Rioja, Spain - July 26
• Edinburgh, UK - July 24
• Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - July 24
• Tokyo, Japan (Security) - July 24
• Kubernetes Austin, US - July 25

Online Programs

On demand webinars

• July 25: Top 10 Lessons Learned from Managing Kubernetes Brian Bensky & Ryan Miran, Fairwinds - RSVP
• July 25: Kubernetes Policies master class: Simplifying Network Security with Calico Reza Ramezanpour, Tigera - RSVP

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