Cloud Native News - CW14

A lot is going on this week in the open source community, new projects joining the CNCF, new member support the development and integration of cloud native tools and a new SIG is in its forming process. In addition to that we have a long list of interesting articles, checkout the capabilities of the new K8s topology manager, the impact of operators and learn how to use Ansible for Kubernetes.

CNCF & Community

  • #CloudNativeSummit gathers CNCF projects, SIGs, and working groups to update each other on the latest cloud native technologies, updates on CNCF projects, and hands on technical sharing. Save the 7th of April.
  • SIG Observability‌‌‌‌
    A new SIG is in its forming process: SIG Observability focuses on topics pertaining to the observation of cloud native workloads. Goals are the creation of supporting material and best practices for end-users, provide guidance and coordination for CNCF projects working within the SIG’s scope.
  • Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA)‌‌‌‌
    Keda is now an official CNCF Sandbox project 🎉. KEDA serves as a Kubernetes Metrics Server and allows users to define autoscaling rules using a dedicated Kubernetes custom resource definition. It integrates with the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and has no external dependencies.
  • HashiCorp Joins the CNCF‌‌‌‌
    HashiCrops goal is improving the integration of their tooling with Kubernetes and other CNCF projects. We definitely advocate for joining the CNCF it.
  • CNCF projects surpass one billion lines of code: A Q&A with DevStats creator Łukasz Gryglicki‌‌‌‌‌‌
    DevStats "... downloads several petabytes of data representing every public GitHub action of the last six years, and throws out nearly all of it except for the ~1,400 repositories of CNCF-hosted projects. It processes the data and stores it in a Postgres database, and downloads updated data every hour.".

Processes / Guides / Articles

Tools

  • Introducing Gruntwork’s AWS Landing Zone Solution‌‌‌‌
    AWS Account setup is hard. There are quite a few Landing Zone solutions out there. This is Gruntworks, based on Terraform and designed for security!
  • PromCat: A resource catalog for enterprise-class Prometheus monitoring‌‌‌‌
    "PromCat is a resource catalog in which you can find curated, documented and supported monitoring integrations for Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native services."
  • Rancher release 2.4‌‌‌‌
    They now support 2000 clusters, 100,000 nodes, full management of imported K3S clusters, CIS scans. Also OPA integration in preview.
  • Kpt‌‌‌‌‌‌
    Google announced a new tool for Kubernetes packaging, which uses a standard format to bundle, publish, customize, update and apply configuration manifests. This is the official site.
  • Improvements to the Ingress API in Kubernetes 1.18‌‌
    1.18 Ingresses introduce pathType, IgressClass and wildcards in hostnames.
  • Kupie‌‌‌‌
    Kupie aims to improve management of multiple cluster configs. In contrast to kubectx or kubens it doesn't mess with your kubeconfig.

Videos, Audios and Specials

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