Cloud native with Saiyam - December mid edition
I came to Dehradun for a few weeks so there has been less content from me but not to worry things will resume soon once I am back! December till now is going great in terms of awesome things that the community is doing in the cloud native space. The Log4j Vulnerability has taken over the internet and worried many people. Cloud outages have made people think about why multi-cloud and DR strategy is important. I think for critical businesses and applications its not only important to have a DR strategy but also the time to switch, you can have a LIVE environment and a standby environment with minimum resources and there should only be a minimal changes required (which can also be automated) to do the failover to the standby instance. If you have deep pockets then probably you can have a better DR setup. Recent incidents have proven that you need not bet only on the big three and there are other small players in the market for specific services eg for Kubernetes you have Civo Kubernetes (obvious for me to say as I work here :)) that gives you powerful managed Kubernetes solution at much cheap price so you can build a DR solution there if you do not have tighter integrations with other cloud platform services itself.
That said what are your takes on the Backup and DR strategies? Feel free to talk to me about it.
Check out the awesome content from the community in December so far!
Streams
These CNCFMinutes are actually very useful to know about a CNCF project in a few minutes, my aim is to cover all the projects in the CNCF ecosystem and yes I will do it!!
Other streams -
News and announcements
Kubernetes 1.23 released - Awesome Kubernetes release team have pulled off an amazing 1.23 release with 47 enhancements!!
Great post by Sysdig as always on the new release!
Project sigstore support for container image signing into the GitHub Actions
Service mesh without sidecar ~ Power of ebpf comes to service mesh - brought to you by Cilium and you can join the beta program for this.
The New Stack’s Top Kubernetes Stories of 2021 by Celeste Malia
Teleport 8.0 - It enables easy and secures remote access to a mixed fleet of Linux/SSH and Windows/RDP hosts via a single TCP/IP port.
Chainguard lands $5M to help companies secure their software supply chains
2021 LINUX FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT - New Horizons for Open Source
Tools of the month and great repositories
Liqo - Enable dynamic and seamless Kubernetes multi-cluster topologies.
Ratify - enables validation of containers in kubernetes prior to deployment.
Benchmark Operator - an operator that deploys common workloads to establish a performance baseline of Kubernetes cluster on your provider
kip - Virtual-kubelet provider running pods in cloud instances
Free learning resources
A new tool where you can experiment with DNS called Mess With DNS by Julia Evans and Marie LeBlanc Flanagan
Nice December reads
Using Kubernetes Ephemeral Containers for Troubleshooting by Levent Ogut
Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled by Erik Bernhardsson
Case Study: Modernizing The U.S. Army to Improve Soldier Well-being by CReATE Platform Team and Helen George
Very nice blog on Pod security that graduates to beta in the 1.23 release by Jim Angel and Lachlan Evenson
What happens when you upgrade to Kubernetes v1.24?- An awesome article by Jim Angel
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