Cloud native with Saiyam - Ringing bells

Jul 31, 2022

Hi there, how are you doing? I feel that sometimes being too nice can work against you but that should not stop you from doing good. Life is a gift and I say that time and again because I know the value of it. I lost my brother last year and that did change me a lot. Not a day goes by when I do not think of him, I stay with my parents now and left many opportunities because life is more important than anything and I want to be with them when they need me the most. Why I am telling you all this? Life is full of problems and each one of us is fighting a different battle where one cannot understand the pain of others so there is no single path that can benefit all. You need to work for yourself, what works best for you, what gives happiness to you and then how you grow as a person in life. In short, figour own problems in your own way and win them.

Let's get back to tech, so the past couple of weeks have been amazing as I delivered my first ever Kubernetes workshop - 4 hours and I got a great response from the community, which does make me happy :)

I am glad that I am in a space where I get to see, understand, use and provide feedback on the latest tech coming up in cloud native.

What did I do:

Kubernetes 101 workshop - I taught Kubernetes from scratch with my notes and hands-on examples. The networking section is different where I have shown the network namespace and how the pod running network interface connects to the host network, I covered architecture, objects, services and many things. The notes and labs are in this GitHub repo, so make sure to watch, learn and share.
Civo Webinar - I talked about various Kubernetes dashboards - headlamp, octant, kubernetes-dashboard, lens, skooner and k9s
Blog - The Open Source Way to Rightsize Kubernetes With One Click - I discuss auto resizing resource requests using kubecost and Civo Kubernetes.
Blog - Create a Civo Kubernetes cluster using GitLab - I contributed this to GitLab and now you can create Civo Kubernetes clusters via GitLab.
Video - Kubernetes 1.24 serviceaccount and secrets - It explains what has changed with the secret token for a service account in 1.24 and what you can do.
Video - Kubernetes 1.24 setup using containerd - it shows how to set up Kubernetes 1.24.3 using kubeadm and contained as the container run time.
Video - GitOps with ArgoCD - Complete hands-on workshop - Complete hands-on workshop with certification.

My Upcoming talks

Hashiconf global in LA - I will be doing a talk: A Mini-PaaS for Developers With Waypoint. I am so glad that I have one of the featured talks <3
DevOpsDays India - Happy to be one of the organizers and this will happen in person in Bengaluru, get your CFP’s in!!

Kubesimplify updates

As stated in the last edition that our focus is only on producing quality content and mini projects to help the community work on real-world projects that promotes learn by doing.

Finally, we launched the most awaited initiative - the Kubesimplify Ambassador program, check out the announcement and apply now!

Another important initiative started is the Introducing Simplifying DevOps - A Devops Learning Series by our Kubesimplify Ambassadors(Pavan Gudiwada , Kunal Verma, Bhavya Sachdeva , Aayush Sharma) who will be creating weekly videos following my DevOps roadmap video. So excited for this series.

Kubesimplify workshops are doing amazing, we have completed 3 workshops till now and tomorrow(Monday 1st Aug) 7 am PT is the next one on Kubernetes security, make sure to set your reminder.

Also, we are very close to completing our website project and moving to the next project which is building a CLI. Join the discord now and be part of all the initiatives.

We got three new awesome blogs that you MUST read.

Kubeflow: Machine Learning on Kubernetes - Part 1 - started a Kubeflow series by Rishit and part1 is out now.
Yours Kindly Drone - Kubernetes Native Continuous Integration (CI) on your laptops by Kamesh Sampath
DIY: How To Build A Kubernetes Policy Engine With the help of Kubernetes Admission Controller, Go, cert-manager and ko! - an amazing piece by Engin Diri

Make sure to follow Kubesimplify and signup for all the upcoming workshops.

Videos

Videos from the community

News and Announcements

New CNCF Sandbox projects - Hexa Policy Orchestrator, Konveyor, Armada, External Secrets Operator - Congratulations to all project maintainers and the community, CNCFMinutes videos coming next week.
Teleport 10 - Teleport 10 got launched with tons of new features
Lens 6: Vision for the future, new subscription model, new features available
CIS Releases the Software Supply Chain Security Benchmark by Chris Hughes
KubeEdge releases the first Cloud Native Edge Computing Threat Model and Security Protection Analysis paper

Nice July reads(16th to 31st)

Advanced Kustomize features by Sascha Selzer - showcasing some of the advance usecases for Kustomize.
How KubeSlice implements multi-tenancy in Kubernetes BY Divya Mohan & Olyvia Rakshit - it explains multi-tenancy, use-cases and how KubeSlice helps achieve it.
Neptune - Easy visual way to understand Kubernetes by Law
Goodbye Sealed Secrets, hello SOPS - this is a really nice video on how to use SOPS instead of sealed secrets for Kubernetes secrets. Emilien Lancelot
How to write custom policies for Trivy by Engin Diri
How to Optimize Java Apps on Kubernetes by Patrick Tavares
Getting Started With Ephemeral Containers by Mehul

Learning resources/repositories

Bodywork - a lightweight and simpler alternative to Kubeflow
The Kubernetes networking model
gitfaas - A mix between GitOps and FAAS to create data pipelines on Kubernetes
kubezoo - a lightweight kubernetes multi-tenancy gateway
Service mesh comparison
odigos - Get traces, metrics and logs in minutes. No code changes needed

Let me know if you want me to create any videos on the tools that I post, I already have a couple of them on my mind that made to the list.

Learn from Twitter

Sid Palas @sidpalas

DevOps is dead 💀, long live Platform Engineering! 1) Developers don't like dealing with infra 2) Companies need control of their infra as they grow Platform Engineering (and Internal Developer Platforms) enable these two facts to coexist. Here's how: (1/n)

Bret Fisher @BretFisher

A good default pod spec for *most* workloads. WDYT? #kubernetes #devops #devsecops

Ivan Velichko @iximiuz

Kubernetes basics explained by analogy 🧵 ...or "How Kubernetes Just Repeats Good Old Deployment Patterns" 1. For a long time, people had been deploying services as groups of virtual (or physical) machines. But VMs were often slow and bulky. Hence, not very efficient.

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