CloudNative - Last edition for 2022!
Featuring Japan trip, Chandigarh meetup and Christmas special giveaway
Personal Updates
This month was super busy, started off with an awesome Japan trip and gave two sessions → Open source summit and Kubeday. Overall experience was great; even when there was a huge language barrier, everyone was trying to help with gestures, and the translation app was helpful as well. Masks were mandatory at all stages, and everyone followed all the rules. Met a lot of cool people.
This month, I also organized an in-person cloud native Chandigarh meetup, which was dope! Over 70+ people, out of which 60% were professionals, with seven talks(5 regular and 2 student tracks), swags, networking food, and a lot of learning.
Coming back, I decided to do a small Christmas giveaway wherein I picked up 10 random winners and gifted them the udemy courses they asked for. You can relive the live winning moment in this stream, and it was done using a simple tool I built and deployed on Kubernetes, which can be found here.
My upcoming Conferences/Talks:
Civo Webinar - Reduce your cloud spend.
Civo Navigate - The schedule is out, featuring Keynote from Woz(Apple’s co-founder), awesome sessions, and workshops by Bret and myself :) Get your tickets now!
Kubesimplify Updates
Kubesimplify ambassadors are on a roll with new initiatives, and we are on track to create more mini-projects and post awesome quality blogs.
Highlights:
NEW BOOK - download the visual book for learning cloud native from the visual diagrams compiled by Kubesimplify team for FREE.
ksctl - New project that aims to spin up HA clusters across clouds. Shout out to Dipankar for doing the initial heavy lifting. Contributions welcome
Tweet-winner - Project that I used to select winners for Christmas giveaways.
Twitch streams - Avinesh and Anurag are doing these learning live streams regularly only on Kubesimplify Twitch channel.
Blogs:
Automate repetitive tasks - Shell Scripting by Bhavya Sachdeva
12 Practical Grep Command Examples In Linux by Traw | Xtreme Pentesting
Kubernetes Access Control with Authentication, Authorization & Admission Control by Bishal Das
Kubernetes 1.26 - The electrifying release setup by Saloni Narang
Managing your Operating System with Package Managers. by Aayush Sharma
Follow Kubesimplify on Hashnode, Twitter and Linkedin. Join our Discord server to learn with us.
Videos - Awsome content from the community
Advanced Kubernetes Scheduling - Amazing deep dive on scheduling by David
Kubernetes Validating Admission Policy - 1.26 alpha feature - explains the feature in detail with 3 demos.
What Is HTTPS? How Does It Work? Automate With cert-manager And Let's Encrypt - explains how certs work and how to deploy an app with https. You can also check my blog that I wrote a year ago on this.
60 Linux Commands you NEED to know (in 10 minutes) - sweet 10 minutes primer.
An introduction to cgroups, runc & containerD - Good intro by Alex.
Sponsored content
Latest from them
Armosec - CVE-2022-47633: Kyverno’s container image signature verification can be bypassed by a malicious registry or proxy
Avesha - Application Fabric for Infrastructure control whitepaper
Namespace Labs - Many new changes to provide production experience on the existing cloud.
Komodor - SUSE Rancher and Komodor – Continuous Kubernetes Reliability
Sysdig - Discovered new BYOF technique to cryptomining with PRoot
News and Announcements
Kubernetes v1.26: Electrifying - The awesome electrifying release with cool features is out!
LinuxFoundation new skillcred - new fancy badges for vim, YAML, Git, bash and helm are available.
Azure Kubernetes doubles down on WebAssembly - WASM growth will not stop, and more adoption will be seen in the coming months.
CNCF transparency report Kubecon - I love how CNCf pulls the event.
Announcing OSV-Scanner: Vulnerability Scanner for Open Source - a free tool that gives open source developers easy access to vulnerability information relevant to their project
Keda 2.9 release - new scalers for loki, etcd and improved Prometheus metrics.
Nice December reads
WebAssembly vs. Kubernetes - Along debate that we will hear more in the year 2023 as WASM continues to grow and be a core part of cloud native and Kubernetes ecosystem.
7 Kubernetes trends you should consider to stay ahead in the future! - as we get closer to 2023, we tend to see predictions and stuff. I think I should post something related to my take on 2023 ;)
Things I want as SRE/DevOps from Devs - A good one :D as a dev, all the service should have, from heathchecks to logs.
Sending Prometheus Alerts to Discord with Alertmanager v0.25.0 - Yes, you heard it right, sending alerts to Discord is now a thing!
Advanced Secret Management on Kubernetes With Pulumi and GitOps: Sealed Secrets Controller - Managing secrets using sealed secrets with pulumi and GitOps
Kubernetes 1.26 Kubernetes admission policy - a great feature, and here is my repo with three examples as well.
Kubernetes 1.26 Pod Scheduling Readiness - a feature that tells when a pod is ready for scheduling.
Learning resources/repositories
krossboard-kubernetes-operator - Kubernetes Operator to handle cross-site, cross-distribution & multi-clusters Kubernetes usage tracking, analytics and accounting (vanilla Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, AKS, GKE, and more).
webassembly-wasi-experiments - Discover WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) with C/Rust use cases.
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Sponsors info
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It's so informative!!