Cloud native with Saiyam - Crazy meetup idea

Aug 31, 2022

Have you planned a meetup in 2 days and actually turned this crazy idea into reality? I did! Yes, Friday(26th) night my wife gave me this crazy idea of doing a meetup in the Delhi NCR region and I was pumped up for this and came up with the idea of "All things cloud native meetup by Civo" to kick off the cloud native scene in this region.

I posted on my social media - Twitter + Linkedin and we started searching for a venue sponsor. Meanwhile, I created a small registration form without location. Saturday went in calls /messages and I was unsure which location I should book my hotels so finally, I decided to book it in Gurgaon(till now the location was still not finalised). After reaching the hotel I was sitting on the 28th and finally with the help of Deepak from Adidas, Sandeep from Opstree and Som from Simpplr we were able to secure the venue for the 29th Civo meetup. I just promoted the registration a couple of times and posted on my socials that the meetup is in Gurgaon at Simpplr office. By the 29th afternoon, I had 350+ registrations and there were 100+ people who actually showed up for this meetup on such short notice. A couple of them even travelled from 300km and locations like Patna, and Jaipur. I mean this is really crazy and should be tried at your own risk as it was super hectic but I am happy that I pulled the meetup, location, speakers, swags and food in 2 day time with the power of cloud native community <3

We are heading towards September and many events are coming up as well. I am geared up for the upcoming months and all the events. Attaching a few meetup pictures at the end of the newsletter.

Stuff I did

My upcoming schedule

Oreilly infrastructure and Ops superstream series - I will be talking on Talos OS
Hashiconf Globalin LA - I will be speaking on Hashicorp Waypoint
Dubai GITEX -> globaldevlslam initiative - I have two sessions on Supply chain security and Acorn.
DevOpsDays India(Bengaluru)

Kubesimplify updates

We are growing day by day and we are increasing our number of initiatives every day. Our visual learning series, mini-projects, threads, and workshops have provided huge benefits to the community.

Upcoming workshops

Service mesh
Kubernetes troubleshooting
Kubernetes monitoring

I think we have covered the majority of the Kubernetes learning curve once we finish these initial sets of workshops. Make sure to keep an eye on the Kubesimplify Workshops page and watch the previous ones if you haven't started already.

The next Twitter space is on Docker best practices and Future of Docker by Bret Fisher and Nuno do Carmo

New from Kubesimplify -

Kubernetes 1.25 setup by Saloni Narang : On ubuntu 22.04 using dockerd as the runtime and it was written the same day of release!
Essential Linux Commands For DevOps by Bishal Das
Let's talk about Ansible by Dipankar Das
Progressive Rollouts with Argo CD & Rollouts by Dipankar Das

Follow Kubesimplify on Hashnode, Twitter and Linkedin. Join our Discord server to learn with us.

Videos

Some awesome videos from the community

News and Announcements

Kubernetes 1.25 release -Combiner - Huge thanks to the release team and this release is again awesome with PSP removal, Ephemeral Containers moved to stable, support for cgroups v2 stable, volume plugins getting deprecated, an effort to remove in-tree storage drivers and many more features.
Twilio Hackers Scarf 10K Okta Credentials in Sprawling Supply-Chain Attack
Private DBaaS with Free Kubernetes Cluster powered by Civo

Nice August read (16th - 31st)

A simple "wasm HTTP server" or a wasm based FAAS (worker+registry+reverse-proxy) by k33g_org - A@Lyon : small FaaS, the modules written in tinyGo and FAAS platform written with Go and Wazero. It can be used as a simple wasm HTTP server or like a FAAS.
In Pursuit of Better Container Images: Alpine, Distroless, Apko, Chisel, DockerSlim, oh my! by Ivan Velichko : After the survey Ivan pens down his thoughts on how to choose containers base images - size, CVE's and what else to consider with opinions about alipne image.
Taming Bad Python Packages: Assessing Python Malware Detectors with a Benchmark Dataset by John Speed Meyers and Zachary Newman : benchmarking false positives from security scanners and yes the false positives are a huge problem.
How SQLite Scales Read Concurrency by Ben Johnson : "SQLite doesn't scale" is a common refrain but that's changed significantly in the last decade with the introduction of the write-ahead log, or WAL.
Kubernetes 1.25 Release Notes - WIIFM? (What’s in it for me) by Guy Menahem - The Good Guy - How Guy thinks the 1.25 impact him.
Monoliths to Microservices: 4 Modernization Best Practices by Oliver J. White : Some key practices that can be followed when you migrate or plan to migrate from monoliths to microservices.
PodSecurityPolicy: The Historical Context by Mahé Tardy : A nice read to understand about pod security policy and how pod security admission was born.
Acorn, a Lightweight, Portable PaaS for Kubernetes by Janakiram MSV - I did publish about Acorn on the day of release and Janakiram explain how it solves the existing app deployment challenges.

Learning resources/repositories

Kubescout - Scout for alarming issues across your Kubernetes clusters
virt - small Linux VM, ready to run containers, for macOS on ARM
grafana-dashboards-kubernetes - A set of modern Grafana dashboards for Kubernetes.
setup-cri-dockerd - easily switch between dockershim and cri-dockerd

Learn from Twitter

Sid Palas @sidpalas

1/ There are many ways to manage credentials in Kubernetes, some better than others: 🔐 - Kubernetes Secrets - Encrypt Secrets (Bitnami, KSOPS) - External secret stores - Secrets Store CSI Driver - Sidecar injectors (Vault, Conjur) Here's the rundown: 🧵

Dan Lorenc @lorenc_dan

CVE deep dive! Today I'll look at how scanners work rather than a CVE. I'll focus on how they find packages, because that's the first step in looking for CVEs. I'll show a blind spot scanners have with many popular docker images, and how you might be missing a LOT of vulns.

Saiyam Pathak @SaiyamPathak

All things cloud native meetup powered by @CivoCloud was a dope meetup, had real fun & great talks by @HowDevelop & @abhinavd26 +mine as well Meetup organised in 2 days😎 100+ people💙 Lots of swag🎉 Awesome talks🎤 Great networking🤝 That is the power of cloud native community.

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