A Meeting of the Minds: My Unforgettable Encounter with Steve Wozniak

First, thank you to everyone who contacted me on various platforms regarding my recent health issues. Thank you so much, and you people motivate me a lot; it's your power that I have now recovered 95%.

So finally, my friend and colleague David sent me the most awaited picture from Civo Navigate - The Woz picture; I think its the biggest highlight of 2023 already as meeting an inventor who has so many stories to tell, I was fortunate enough(thanks to Mark Boost) to meet him, talk to him, hear some of his stories and love for innovation.

From every word, I could feel his enjoyment when he was building stuff; it was so fresh in his mind. So it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I took the learnings.

Coming to what I am upto these days?

I am creating some content for you, Yes I agree I have been a bit slow due to my health issues but now things should be back on track. Past week I worked on a video on Kubernetes and https where I tried to explain how https works, what is a certificate authority, how to create self signed certificates and how to use cert-manager and lets-encrypt for tls via ingress for Kubernetes.

I am working on a complete course for you as well and that should be out next month.

Talks/events

• WASM I/O - I am speaking at WASM I/O conference so I will be in Barcelona next month and if things go as planned, I might attend KubeCon as well.

• KCD Mumbai - Yes, you heard it right, we are coming up with KCD Mumbai and are looking for sponsors, the CFP opens soon, make sure to follow KCD Mumbai, details on this website.

• Civo Navigate - The next Civo Navigate event is happening in London and we are already excited about this one. You can subscribe for updates.

• Sysdig Webinar - I am doing another one of the fan favourite webinars as per sysdig on CKS certification and if you signup and attend live, you get a chance to get free copy of my book as well.

Lets move to awesome content by the community

Kubesimplify updates

Huge announcement from Kubesimplify, we are coming up with first ever cloud native Hackathon in India (Delhi NCR region), This is be held on 8th and 9th April and location is something we are looking for as our venue sponsor. We are also looking for other sponsors, so reach out if you are interested in sponsoring this hackathon.

Blogs:

• Deploy a Maven Project on a Tomcat Server Using Jenkins and AWS by Kanika Gola

• Speeding up using MicroK8s by Aayush Sharma

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Videos

Great video content created by the community with awesome learnings

Sponsored content

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Awesome Reads

• Is WebAssembly Really the Future? by B. Cameron Gain: CNCF has described WebAssembly (Wasm) as the future, stating that it will significantly impact web, serverless, gaming and containerisation applications. Currently, 37% of end user organisations have some experience deploying applications with Wasm. Wasm's application beyond the browser is just emerging with a Wasm Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering or platform that can be used to lend Wasm to backend applications, but that does not yet exist. As it stands, the WASI has emerged as the best candidate for extending the reach of Wasm beyond the browser.

• 87% of Container Images in Production Have Critical or High-Severity Vulnerabilities by : The rapid shift to cloud-native development raises concerns, as many organisations are not following secure life cycle development practices. The rush to deploy modern cloud applications has led to 87% of container images running in production having critical or high-severity vulnerabilities, according to Sysdig's 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report

• Rook v1.11 Storage Enhancements - The Rook v1.11 release provides new enhancements for Kubernetes storage, including updates to the Ceph storage provider. New features include RBD Read Affinity, fscrypt support for both RBD and CephFS volumes, Shallow Volumes enabled by default, the Msgr2 Protocol, Ceph Exporter, Mirroring with Overlapping Networks, OSD Encryption Key Rotation, and Bucket Notifications and Topics

• 4 Design patterns for containers in Kubernetes by Daniele Polencic : An amazing blog discussing different use cases for multi-container pod that can be referred to as a sidecar container to the main app container.

• Prometheus: Building a Custom Prometheus Exporter in Python by Arseny Zinchenko (setevoy) : How to use prometheus client library to get metrics from your python code and then use it in prometheus format.

• KubeVela brings software delivery control plane capabilities to CNCF Incubator: KubeVela, an application delivery engine built with the Kubernetes control plane that simplifies deploying and operating applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, has been accepted as a CNCF incubating project. The application delivery abstraction of KubeVela is powered by the Open Application Model (OAM).
  Check out my video on Kubevela walkthrough

• KubeEdge - CNCF's First SLSA 3 Project by Vincent Lin - KubeEdge, a cloud native edge computing platform, has achieved SLSA (Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts) 3 compliance, becoming the first CNCF project to do so. SLSA is a security framework that outlines a set of standards and controls to improve software supply chain integrity and protect against tampering or any type of unauthorized modification of the software or software package. KubeEdge meets SLSA 3 requirements in terms of source, build, and common. The compliance enables software to defend against common supply chain attacks and enhances the integrity of software artifacts.

Learning resources/repos

• ContainerSSH - ContainerSSH: Launch containers on demand

• Claudie - Cloud-agnostic managed Kubernetes

• Troubleshoot - Preflight Checks and Support Bundles Framework for Kubernetes Applications

• Compose-Examples - Various Docker Compose examples of selfhosted FOSS and proprietary projects.

• Learn tech and docker fundamentals for free by Adrian Cantrill

Learn from Twitter

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A little bit of planning in terms of $$$ when you are starting out can save you surprise bills in future. So most of the cloud vendors have startup programs and you are offered very generous credits, but soon over the years they will expire and you need to be carefu 👇

Daniele Polencic — @danielepolencic@hachyderm.io @danielepolencic

How do you gracefully shut down Pods without dropping traffic? If you've ever noticed dropped connection after a rolling upgrade, this thread digs into the details Let's start: what happens when a Pod is deleted?

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