Cloud native with Saiyam - December holiday edition

Yay!! It's the holiday season and time for the last issue of my newsletter in 2021. If you are a first-time reader, I would request you to go through all the previous 5 editions as well because they contain a lot of learning resources!

Just before ending 2021 I finally created the most awaited video by everyone "DevOps roadmap 2022" - The only roadmap you need with all the resources listed.

Also, I posted my "2021 Year in review". Yes, it was a tough year and I went through the times that I never thought I would. Losing my brother to Covid left has left me broken and everything I do is to make him proud. He has always been supportive and guided me so that I can achieve great things, I am sure he must be feeling proud of all the work I have been able to pull off in 2021 and I will continue with the same momentum in 2022!

2021 Summary :

• 60 streams with amazing people on various cloud native products

• 20 CNCFMinutes where each video explain a CNCF project in a few minutes

• 4 Twitch streams where I explored an open-source tool from scratch

• 8 video uploads where I did walkthroughs and tried to crunch hours content in minutes

• 4 Webinars with Sysdig and Civo

• 6 Conferences including gitopsdays, containerdays, KubeCon, alldaydevops

• 5 Events/meetups including Docker meetup, KCD

• 5 collaborations with other people including DevOps directive, cloudshala

• 3 events organized including KCD, container garage and cncf students

• Official CNCF Certs magic show focussing on Kubernetes certs

• 12 Blogs

• Civo Academy - free video content for anyone who needs to learn Kubernetes

• 6 Newsletters

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My Brother, my strength

DevOps Roadmap 2022

This is the only Roadmapy that you need to follow if you want to get into tech/DevOps and be job-ready in 6 months. I request you all to share this as much as you can as it contains amazing resources as well from where you can learn and I myself will be creating a lot of content around this roadmap in 2022.

Other streams -

• Using CUE with GitHub Actions

News and announcements

• Rancher Desktop v0.7.0 is out, it's now available for Mac M1 and with docker support as well.

• Pleco - the open-source Kubernetes and Cloud Services garbage collector

• Harvester is now production-ready and generally available   - You will see a lot more in the HCI space in 2022.

• OpenKruise v1.0, reaching new peaks of application automation

Tools of the month and great repositories

• Shipwright - a framework for building container images on Kubernetes

• etcd-cloud-operator - Deploying and managing production-grade etcd clusters on cloud providers: failure recovery, disaster recovery, backups and resizing.

• kube-vip - Kubernetes Control Plane Virtual IP and Load-Balancer

• toxiproxy - A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing

• kube-thanos - Kubernetes specific configuration for deploying Thanos.

Free learning resources/cool stuff

• List of Golang books

• Use your iPhone camera to stream with in OBS studio

• RectangleWin - Hotkey-driven window snapping to edges and corners using hotkeys on Windows 10/11.

Nice December reads

• eBPF for Service Mesh? Yes, but Envoy Proxy is here to stay by Solo team

• Introduction to WebAssembly by Radu Matei

• The past, present, and future of Kubernetes with Eric Brewer

• Deploy Atmo Wasm microservices to K3S on Civo by Philippe Charrière

• The Top Reasons Why You Should Give eBPF a Chance by Lucas Severo Alves

• Kubernetes clusters for everyone using vcluster by Mike Tougeron

• The ROAD to SRE by Bruce Dominguez

• What is Log4Shell? The Log4j vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

• Extracting value from the Kubernetes events feed by Nate Matherson

• Best of 2021 – When Is Service Mesh Worth It? by Bill Doerrfeld

• Using Kubernetes's new Bound Service Account Tokens for secure workload identity by Tarun Pothulapati

Learn from Twitter

Vic Iglesias @vicnastea

Today I Learned about BloomRPC: github.com/bloomrpc/bloom… It lets you craft requests for gRPC services in a GUI and view the responses in an easy way. This is to gRPC what @getpostman is to HTTP calls.

RapidAPI @Rapid_API

Check out these great notes if you're working with APIs. - HTTP Headers 📄 - HTTP Status Codes 🔢 - CORS 🔒 - Access-Control HTTP Headers 🌐

Alex Ellis @alexellisuk

1/n - Did you get your hands on some Raspberry Pis for Christmas? Here's a summary of my most recent content to get you started Get Kubernetes up and running with a dashboard and a function written in @golang in < 15 minutes.

alexellisuk.medium.comWalk-through — install Kubernetes to your Raspberry Pi in 15 minutesDust off your Raspberry Pi, it’s time to install Kubernetes, and this time, it’s going to be painless — with metrics and containers in…

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