Cloud native with Saiyam - Accelerating to KubeCon
The last edition I introduced to you - Kubesimplify, a mission to simplify cloud native. I am so happy that I started this and my vision is even more clear.
I am happy to share that in less than 2 weeks we have published 17+ blogs with over 19k views, now those are some amazing numbers for the community that just started. Keep supporting the initiative so that we can reach even more people!
KubeCon is approaching and I am planning to attend in person, I am excited as well as scared at the same time because Covid is not over yet! I am also not sure how I am going to meet so many people with whom I have connected in the past 2 - 3 years. So many amazing people will be there and I just want to meet everyone !!
I am also planning to do a cloud native meetup in London a week before KubeCon(fingers crossed).
From the content side this month I did a webinar on Kubernetes CKS certification which was attended well with ~200 people, the replay is available here and a blog on Kubernetes backup/restore.
Kubesimplify blogs
We are committed to producing high-quality content for everyone and are also excited to share that we have partnered with killercoda to provide even more amazing blogging experiences to the readers.
We have also changed our logo and all the branding information is available here. At Kubesimplify, we posted the below blogs from April 1st till 15th
The secret gems behind building container images, Enter: BuildKit & Docker Buildx by Batuhan Apaydın and Gökçe Sürenkök - This is a super awesome piece that discusses various things about Buildkit, its internals, how to interact with BuildKit and its benefits in container image building
Kubernetes backup using CloudCasa by Saiyam Pathak - It simply explains how the Kubernetes backup and restore be done using CloudCasa with the available free plan.
Understanding the ins & outs of Git using GitHub by BUSHRA NAZISH - A good read for anyone who wants to learn git/GitHub
Nexus Repository Manager : What is it & how to configure it on a Digital Ocean Droplet? by Sneh Chauhan
Managing Contexts In Kubernetes With Plugins by Anurag Kumar
If you want to contribute you can DM me and also feel free to sponsor Kubesimplify(all the money will go into accelerating the efforts). Make sure to follow Kubesimplify.
Videos
I have not been able to focus much on the videos but I will be back soon and you will see regular uploads on my Youtube channel as well. Nevertheless, the cloud native community still had some awesome videos.
Learn Terraform (and AWS) by Building a Dev Environment by @derekm1215
K8s@Home Edition - setting up Talos Linux and Sidero Metal in the homelab
A cracking time: Exploring Firecracker & MicroVMs by Alex and Richard Case
Klustered episodes on Rawkode Academy
Also, the Kubernetes course that I curated - Civo Academy is getting published on the Civo Youtube channel, over 50+ videos will be published with every day a new video! Be sure to check that out here.
News and Announcements
Introducing Cosign in Harbor v2.5.0 - it is a huge release that supports signing, verifying and protecting your software using cosign.
ReadySet raises $29M to expedite access to enterprise-scale app data
Announcing Docker SBOM: A step towards more visibility into Docker images
Introducing MetricFlow: Your powerful, open source metric framework by Nick Handel
Warp raises $23M to build a better terminal - it's an amazing terminal and I have been using it for a long time, I was also one of the first ones to create a video on it.
Kube.events - A curated list of Kubernetes-related events such as meetups, conferences, training & webinars that you will find interesting to attend (e.g. no vendor pitches, with a focus on Kubernetes)
Nice April reads(1st - 15th April)
Kubernetes 1.24 – What’s new? by Vicente Javier Jiménez Miras : Sysdig never disappoints, with every Kubernetes release they have a nice blog covering all the major and important features coming.
OCI as attestations storage for your packages by Marco Franssen on how to use sigstore and OCI to store attestations and provenance.
How To Unit Test Your Helm Charts - soon helm charts can become complex so just as any other software it becomes important to write unit tests, in this post Engin Diri explains how to do it.
Defining Infrastructure Declaratively with Crossplane - how to use crossplane to define infrastructure by Mauricio Salatino
A Deep Dive into Golang for OpenFaaS Functions by Alex Ellis
Exporting Metrics from Kubernetes Apps for Prometheus - A simple example exposing metrics that Prometheus can consume by @nheidloff
Infrastructure as Code - complete beginners guide by Jack Roper
How we scaled our new Prometheus TSDB Grafana Mimir to 1 billion active series by Marco Pracucci
Learning resources/repositories
Kindli - Kind in Lima
Spin-fileserver - static fileserver built using spin
The DevOps Handbook for Kubernetes Errors by our friends at komodor
Docker security playground - A Microservices-based framework for the study of Network Security and Penetration Test techniques
Learn from Twitter
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6 Steps to Complete a Kubernetes Backup Using CloudCasa - Cloudcasa
For the love of god, stop using CPU limits on Kubernetes - Robusta
Understanding cloud security by Daniella Pontes - Sysdig
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SlimAI mission video - SlimAI
Amazon EC2 Just-in-time Access With Teleport and Slack - Teleport
Individual suporters
Thank you to the amazing members -> Rawkode, Noel, Walid, Cedric , Jack , Blaize D'souza, ChadMCrowell, Meaux and Phil Shapiro
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