Cloud native with Saiyam - KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU edition

May 25, 2022

Hello people!! how is life treating you? It's been a wild ride for me - especially the past 2 weeks! First I went to London to meet my team Civo and then to Valencia, Spain for attending and speaking at Kubecon EU 2022(https://sched.co/ytr7 and https://sched.co/ytuG).

London meetup was great, we planned it in less than 10 days and the turnout was around 60 people. I spoke on Kubernetes 1.24 features.

KubeCon in person is next level stuff, the vibe you get there is just amazing. I met so many people, went to many booths to understand what they are solving in the cloud native space and it was awesome!

With some people I really had good conversation about Kubernetes, culture, startups, sustainability, collaboration, community and contributions. We also had a Civo booth and we took an edge rack with us for people to launch a cluster in Kubecon region that was very well appreciated by the audience.

My upcoming talks

SUSEcon with my friend Nuno - 3 ways of K3s
KCD Chennai - GitOps simplified

Kubesimplify updates

I am loving what we are building at Kubesimplify. There is a community, there are so many projects and initiatives that people are working on to learn and apply their knowledge and put them to use.

Today I announce Kubesimplify sponsored articles - If you are an organization, now you can submit a sponsored article that can be published on Kubesimplify.

May has been a good month, here are the top few articles for May

Get Good At Git - A very nice article by Bushra Nazish explaining some advanced git commands and tricks.
Introduction to Kubernetes - A nice and gentle introduction to Kubernetes by Anuja Kumari.
Introduction of Jenkins pipeline - easy explanation on how to get started with Jenkins pipelines by Rishav Mehra.
Breaking Down Docker - In this article, Nawaz Siddiqui explains what all Linux namespaces the container is made up of and how it actually runs.
Introduction to CI/CD & CI/CD Pipeline by Vaidansh Bhardwaj

Check out all the articles on kubesimplify.com

Videos

How Containers work? | Docker deep dive session - Here I explain in detail what a container is made up of and how it works.
Start selling on Gumroad - It is easy to start selling on Gumroad, in this video, I explain the process to Pavan and help him publish his first ebook.
Kubernetes Taints and Tolerations - Complete explanation with Demo! - Very important concept explain with examples and demo :)
How Autoscaling Works In Kubernetes (And Beyond)? Kubernetes Tutorial by Viktor
The FASTEST way to deploy apps to Kubernetes by Techno Tim

News and Announcements

Kubernetes 1.24 release - great release includin enhancements like signing using cosign, dockershim removal, Beta API off and many more.
Tailscale raises $100M… to fix the Internet
Komodor Closes $42M Series B Led by Tiger Global
Introducing CloudNativePG: A New Open Source Kubernetes Operator for Postgres - this is great!
The Magic of Docker Desktop is Now Available on Linux
KubeCon CloudNativeCon event pictures - Lovely memories
Tetragon - eBPF-based Security Observability & Runtime Enforcement - EBPF continues to evolve

Nice May reads

Learn Go Programming by Building 11 Projects by Beau Carnes - People keep asking about the approach to learning, learning by doing is the best approach to learn anything.
A "WebAssembly FaaS" platform on a Pi without Kubernetes: say 👋 to Procyon by k33g_org (Philippe Charrière) - a FaaS server called Procyon that uses the Sat Wasm server to deploy functions.
Kubernetes signals massive adoption of Sigstore for protecting open source ecosystem by Dan Lorenc - One of the alpha features in 1.24 Kubernetes release is to integrate sigstore cosign to verify signatures of Kubernetes artifacts.
Kubernetes SSO using Keycloak by Thomas Perelle - introduction to SSO solution based on keycloak in Kubernetes
Writing Kubernetes policies with jsPolicy by Engin Diri
Connecting Decentralized Storage Solutions to Your Web 3.0 Applications by TYLER CHARBONEAU
The Fault in Our kubelets: Analyzing the Security of Publicly Exposed Kubernetes Clusters by Magno Logan
Next-Generation Mutual Authentication with Cilium Service Mesh

Learning resources/repositories

GoLang workshop - worth 8 hours of learning content.
kpt.dev
Go from beginning -Free book by Christoffer Noring
gitsign - Keyless Git signing using Sigstore
kube-beacon - Open Source runtime scanner for k8s cluster and perform security audit checks based on CIS Kubernetes Benchmark specification

Learn from Twitter

ahmetb @ahmetb

Share a kubectl tip below that you think a lot of users don’t know about. 👇🏼

Karl @KarlKFI

Gotcha in #Kubernetes v1.24: ServiceAccounts no longer auto-generate a secret. So while it still generates an expiring token for pods on-demand, if you were making a ServiceAccount to use locally (to avoid always having cluster admin), your script is probably gonna break.

Saiyam Pathak @SaiyamPathak

What is your favourite Linux command?

Sponsors info

This issue is brought to you by Komodor, Speedscale, Cloudcasa, Sysdig, Robusta, Suborbital, Armo, SlimAI, and Teleport ->

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Speedscale is a traffic replay framework that provides API observability, and autogenerated tests and mocks from real traffic. Speedscale helps engineering teams validate how new code will perform under production-like workload conditions. Traffic can be multiplied to measure the golden signals of latency, throughput, saturation and errors before the code is released

Cloudcasa is Free Kubernetes Backup and Cloud Migration with Cyber-Resilience as-a-Service. Mi Casa es Tu Casa!

Sysdig is driving the standard for cloud and container security. The company pioneered cloud-native runtime threat detection and response by creating Falco and Sysdig as open source standards and key building blocks of the Sysdig platform

ARMO assures DevOps, DevSecOps, and developers that every workload, cluster, container, and microservice is born and remains secure, from development to production and from configuration to run-time, every time. They are the creators of Kubescape.

Robusta - an open source platform for Kubernetes troubleshooting and automation. Robusta automates your incident response and troubleshooting - what Docker did to Day 1, Robusta does to Day 2.

Suborbital Making cloud native WebAssembly easy.

SlimAI - giving developers the power to build better cloud-native applications with less friction, complexity, and waste.

Teleport is the easiest, most secure way to access all your infrastructure. The open-source Teleport Access Plane consolidates connectivity, authentication, authorization, and audit into a single platform.

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