Cloud native with Saiyam - KubeCon Spooky Frenzy!

Nov 01, 2022

Ok Ok Ok, I agree that I missed KubeCon and had a significant FOMO to deal with. But the cloud native community did a great job posting their learning from Kubecon on Twitter.

Also, I am happy that I spent Diwali(one of the biggest festivals in India) with my family, which was unique.

Special shoutout to Kunal for doing awesome daily roundups and interviews at KubeCon and making it available for everyone. The overall summaries are excellent and can only be watched on Civo TV.

My main takeaway from KubeCon is that we need more contributors, and we need to educate more people to get into cloudnative so that they can become contributors and end up as maintainers. I talk of the town was:

Security - How to get security in place right from the beginning and use Supply chain security tools with your current software.
WASM - Congrats to Fermyon and Cosmonic for their launch of PAAS and for the funding to continue to evolve the WASM ecosystem.
eBPF - This KubeCon was no different, and eBPF has its roots and power in all places, from security to monitoring. Cilium is a crucial player in adopting and promoting eBPF.

Shout out to CNCF for organizing a fantastic event once again and also keeping the community first approach. They also gave booths to many smaller projects, which was great and will help drive adoption for them.

All the sessions for co-located events and KubeCon are available on Youtube here.

The CFP for KubeCon Amsterdam 2023 is open till 18th November so make sure to get your best CFPs right.

I look forward to 2023 as I love the cloudnative community who have given me so much, and I try to give back to the community in every way possible.

Do reply to this email with your KubeCon learning and takeaways.

My work:

I create a video on the latest Kubesimplify updates.
I created a video on Docker and WASM announcement.
I created another video on the latest open source project by Komodor, helm dashboard.
I gave three live office hours from the KubeCon Civo booth, and thank you so much to the folks who attended as people attended my session irrespective of the fantastic KubeCon schedule <3

My upcoming Conferences/Talks

Open source summit, Japan with my wife - the cloud native power couple will be on the stage maybe with baby :D
KubeDay, Japan
DevOpsDays India - I will be there as an organizer and it will be super fun so make sure to get your tickets today.
Civo Navigate - I am trying hard to make this the best technology conference so you need to be there to experience it.

Now let's get to the fantastic content by the community.

Kubesimplify Updates

Are you ready for the upcoming Twitter space by awesome Andrew Brown and James Spurin on KCNA ? Set your reminder here.

Check out our GitHub repositories if you are looking for some mini projects to work on.

Content:

Reach out if you want to contribute a blog or want to create a course on Kubesimplify’s YouTube channel.

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

Videos

News and Announcements

Announcing Docker Hub OCI Artifacts Support - I think this is an amazing announcement coming in from Docker.
Docker and WASM announcement - This will enable easy development for WASM modules, I created a video on this too.
CNCF Wasm microsurvey: a transformative technology, yes, but time to get serious.
PromLabs and Chronosphere Open-Source the PromLens Query Builder.
Introducing the Dagger Go SDK: a new way to develop your CI/CD pipelines as code, and run them in containers anywhere.
Loft Labs Integrates Argo CD With Virtual Kubernetes Clusters.
Congratulations to Fermyon, Devtron Inc. and Cosmonic on the Funding.

Nice October reads(15th Onwards)

Learn Rust in under 10 mins by Engin Diri - RUST adoption for projects are accelerating and many wants to learn, this blog is the best for the impatient people :D
The Challenges of Platform Building on Top of Kubernetes 3/4 by Mauricio Salatino - A great series on the challenges while building a platform on Kubernetes.
Sigstore Announces General Availability for Rekor and Fulcio by Priya Wadhwa - Another great move.
How to Manage Secrets in Kubernetes – A Complete Guide by Divine Odazie
PCI Compliance for Kubernetes in detail - Part 5 - PKI by Rory McCune
A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels (with labs) by Ivan Velichko
How to build a Trivy plugin in Rust 🦀 by Engin Diri

Learning resources/repositories

Shell operator: Shell-operator is a tool for running event-driven scripts in a Kubernetes cluster.
Golang for beginners - another awesome resource to learn golang.
Zero trust security by SUSE - In this, SUSE introduce the practical application of Zero Trust to containerized environments. You'll find out how to get started on the Zero Trust journey for your containers.
cdebug - experimental container debugger (WIP).
Introduction to Istio - Tetrate Contributes the First Official CNCF Istio Training Course to Further Service Mesh Adoption.
Kubernetes learning by Kasten

Learn from Twitter

Carol Valencia 🐾 @krol_valencia

Do you need Sbom, Sarif or vulnerability format? #trivy 👉🏽 trivy image --format table alpine:3.10 👉🏽 trivy image --format cyclonedx alpine:3.10 👉🏽 trivy image --format spdx-json alpine:3.10 👉🏽 trivy image --format sarif alpine:3.10 👉🏽 trivy image --format cosign-vuln alpine:3.10

Daniele Polencic @danielepolencic

In Kubernetes, are there hidden costs to running many cluster nodes? Let me explain… (spoiler: yes)

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower

I don't talk about job promotions very often, but this one deserves a little celebration. I just made L9 as an individual contributor on Google's engineering ladder, which means I've earned the privilege of referring to my role as "Distinguished" on all my slide decks.

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