Cloud native Trends 2023 - New year, New hopes
Featuring cloud trends 2023 and awesome work by cloud native community.
Happy new year, everyone! I know 2023 is a new year, and we are trying to refresh our thoughts, set new short-term goals, and build new good habits to be a better version of ourselves.
Last year I wrote a blog on Cloud-native trends in 2022 where almost all the predictions/trends and tools were spot on and highlighted throughout the year. I want to share what I think will be the talk of the town this year in this post, with some other content shared within the community.
WASM
The WASM adoption will continue to see a huge rise with the increase in production use cases and the cloud native space. Projects like Runwasi and Docker also back it up by making it easier to run WASM modules will lead to an increase in adoption. Companies to look out for Suborbital, Fermyon, and Cosmonic.
eBPF
eBPF has been there and will see more adoption and use cases in the network, observability, and security space. The sidecar less service mesh and the new generation of observability tooling that takes the power of eBPF to provide better results is something we will see more and more. We might see more of it used in troubleshooting to get the right metrics and intelligently act on that.
Tools to keep an eye - tracee, pixie, Falco, aya, Katran, sidecarless service mesh, Cilium, Pyroscope, parca., ebpf for windows There are many great resources, including Cilium labs, solo courses and workshops, and ebpf.io.
Companies like Solo, Isovalent, and Groundcover will continue to innovate in this space.
FinOps
Cloud cost is something people will worry about more and more trying to reduce it and go either multi-cloud or optimizations in their existing infra and services. Within Kubernetes, you will see more optimizations in sizing the workloads right and monitoring the costs per namespace to see what goes into running the application and other maintenance costs.
Tools to keep an eye - Opencost, OptScale, and koku, and also keep following FinOps Foundation.
Other notable trends:
MLOps is picking up the pace, and we will see more streamlined tools like the CNCF ecosystem.
Supply chain security continues to grow, and the Open SSF foundation will get more eyes.
Application deployment to Kubernetes: This area is getting a lot of attention, and many players are solving this problem in their own way.
Keep an eye on Acorn, Waypoint, Dagger, and even Namespace labs as application development platforms.
Observability will be even more important from a cost and security standpoint.
Kubernetes will continue to see its adoption, and people will be working more on managed solutions like simpler PAAS solutions and products built on top of Kubernetes to leverage complete Kubernetes power.
Cloud native testing will become part of the development workflow with end-to-end application and performance testing.
More AI tools are coming out since the ChatGPT outburst, and many AI tooling will emerge in 2023 trying to simplify Kubernetes challenges.
Kubernetes troubleshooting space will get even more advancements, and more companies will get in this space.
We will see more focus on container-optimized OS, and the adoption of Talos, Wolfi, and flatcar will rise.
There are a lot more items that I can put here, but for now, these will be the big main trends for 2023, and we will cover the rest as the year progresses and with the new upcoming tooling.
Now let’s get to what’s new I have been doing.
I will be in Florida next month for Civo Navigate giving a Keynote.
Working on new initiatives and projects at Kubesimplify
Added Civo as the provider for Fermyon installer.
I am working on my next book, which will soon be available for purchase.
Kubernetes 1.26 brought in many features, and I created a deep dive video with 3 demos(check this repo)on one of the alpha features → Validating Admission policy
PCA - Also dropped a video on Prometheus certified associate and worked with the KodeKloud team to make the course free. So make the best use of it!
I am working on another content creation focused on WASM - so stay tuned and subscribe to the YouTube channel.
My upcoming Conferences/Talks:
Civo Webinar - Reduce your cloud spend.
Civo Navigate - The schedule is out, featuring Keynote from Woz(Apple’s co-founder), awesome sessions, and workshops by Bret and myself :) Get your tickets now!
Kubesimplify Updates
Something big is cooking up for everyone, so keep an eye on the GitHub repositories.
PCA(Prometheus certified Associate) stream is coming up on our Twitch channel.
Highlights:
Linux File System by Kunal explains a lot of different directories on Linux with their use.
Blogs:
Kubeflow Pipelines: Orchestrating Machine Learning Workflows - Part 3 - This is a dope series by Rishit Dagli.
Firewall: A Network's Gatekeeper by Arnav Barman - If you want to understand more about firewalls, how they work, and different types, then give this a read.
Deploying Java Application using Docker and Kubernetes- DevOps Project by Tania Duggal - A neat end-to-end java application deployment to Kubernetes.
Follow Kubesimplify on Instagram, Hashnode, Twitter and Linkedin. Join our Discord server to learn with us.
Videos - Awsome content from the community
Distributed Tracing With Jaeger And OpenTelemetry In Kubernetes by DevOps Toolkit.
The Ultimate DevOps Tools Guide by KodeKloud
Kelsey Hightower On Kubernetes & Cloud Computing by Continuous Delivery
Does Troubleshooting Kubernetes Have to be Hard? by DevOps Directive
Sponsored content
Instruqt - 2022 Q4 Product Roundup: New Release of Instruqt Live Events, LTI Support, and More!
SlimAI - The Evolution of DockerSlim: New Name, New Capabilities and Closer Alignment with the Cloud Native Ecosystem
Awesome Reads
Meet Groundcover - The Startup That’s Building The Next-Gen Observability Stack by Janakiram MSV
Building Wolfi from the ground up… and announcing arm64 support!
A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects by Chris Aniszczyk
Argo Rollouts 1.4 Release by Zach Aller
Kubernetes 1.26: Eviction policy for unhealthy pods guarded by PodDisruptionBudgets by Filip Křepinský, Morten Torkildsen, Ravi Gudimetla
Understanding gRPC Concepts, Use Cases & Best Practices by Hitesh Pattanayak
Learning repositories
e2e-framework - A Go framework for end-to-end testing of components running in Kubernetes clusters.
oss-apps - Example repo to show GitOps lifecycle from staging to production with canary and blue/green deployments.
predictive-hpa - Horizontal Pod Autoscaler built with predictive abilities using statistical models
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Awesome read with some amazing topics that I too think can be a big one in 2023
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