Cloud native with Saiyam - The rise of mastodon
A note first before we dive into the actual topic: There have been massive layoffs globally, which is heartbreaking. Everyone should share job opportunities and respect other people's time and emotions.
The past couple of weeks have been quite crazy; from blue checks to $8, it's been chaos in the social media world. IMO this has shown that nothing is permanent and anything can happen at a point in time. In today's world, you cannot be dependent on anything too much; another example from India was TikTok, people made it a career (nothing wrong with it ), but when it shut down, it became a nightmare. You should always be open to trying out new platforms and if you are in content creation stuff, crossposting to multiple platforms also makes sense.
With these recent events, there has been a rise in the adoption of a new decentralised microblogging platform called Mastodon. So it is a platform with many servers you can join; after becoming part of one server, you can also make friends on other servers. You can also host your mastodon instance and create a community, which is what I did; I created a cloud native mastodon server powered by Civo, which is almost a 1k community already.
So join the awesome community and be part of that bubble.
My work:
Talos deep dive - you should watch this for sure if you want to know about the OS built for Kubernetes.
Kured CNCFMinutes video - CNCFMinutes is back with Kured video and I will accelerate more on this, tell me which CNCF project you would like to learn about ?
My 2 cents on Mastodon - Mastodon
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
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
Kubesimplify community never miss to surprise me!
We have recently announced 6 new ambassadors and really excited to see how they come up with new ideas and contributions to scale the community.
The Everything about KCNA recording is up on YouTube now.
We launched a new project -> ksctl : A Simple Multi-Environment Kubernetes management CLI tool. This is GoLang based CLI so if you are interested, get involved and contribute.
A new blog in the WASM ecosystem also went out - Embed HTTP servers in WASM with Rust and CSharp by Philippe Charrière.
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 Discordserver to learn with us.
Videos
How To Shift-Left Stateful Kubernetes Applications Management
Microservice Architecture and System Design with Python & Kubernetes – Full Course
Sponsored content
Would like welcome Namespace Labs as the newest org member "Namespace Labs" -> Namespace is an all-in-one open-source development platform, offering a unified experience for teams, from development to production.
Latest from them
Armosec - CVE-2022-39328: Unauthorized access to arbitrary endpoints in Grafana codebase
Instruqt - How Courseware Developers can Utilize Bloom’s Taxonomy to Improve Learning Quality
Sysdig - Three multi-tenant isolation boundaries of Kubernetes by JASON UMIKER
SlimAI - Increasing Your CI/CD Velocity with Slim Containers by Mike Mackrory
News and Announcements
Announcing Docker Hub OCI Artifacts Support - Any artifacts, WASm modules, windows images, helm charts, Docker Hub supports.
KubeVela 1.6 release with awesome new features focusing on Day 2 operations.
Nice November reads
9 insights on real world container use - interesting container use insights from DataDog.
KubeCon NA 2022 Summary: Maintainers, Open Standards, and the Rumoured Demise of DevOps - Very nicely covered by Daniel Bryant
A Simple Overview of Authentication Methods for Kubernetes Clusters by TIAGO SILVA
5 Tools to Auto-Generate Terraform Configuration Files by Infracloud team
Live and let live with Kluctl and Server Side Apply by Alexander Block
Observability strategies to not overload engineering teams — OpenTelemetry Strategy by Nicolas Takashi
Learning resources/repositories
stlite - Python web app framework for the fast development of data apps. This project is to make it run completely on web browsers.
autograft - Dynamically generate Grafana dashboard based on Prometheus metrics
aya - Aya is an eBPF library for the Rust programming language, built with a focus on developer experience and operability.
murre - Murre is an on-demand, scaleable source of container resource metrics for K8s.
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Sponsors info
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