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CNCF & Community

• TOC Approves Thanos from Sandbox to Incubation
  TOC Welcomes Cortex as an Incubating Project
  Just three years ago Prometheus long term metric storage at scale was an unsolved problem. This week the two (in my opinion) most promising solutions got promoted to "Incubating" stage due to their project maturity. Congratulations!

Cloud Native Industry

• Introducing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)
  "AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool that lets you directly manage AWS services from Kubernetes. ACK makes it simple to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services."
• Google announces Cilium & eBPF as the new networking dataplane for GKE
  Well, we assume that Cilium will move into the deserved top position of the CNIs.

Container Orchestration

• How a Kubernetes Pod Gets an IP Address | Ronak Nathani
  The post explains the interactions between CRI, CNI and Kubelet, which are the foundations of Kubernetes networking.
• Moving from docker-compose to Podman pods
  Want to move your docker/docker-compose setup to Podman? This is a great intro to an underestimated piece of software.
• A deep dive into the official Docker image for Python
  The official Python image for Docker is quite popular [...]. But many people don’t quite understand what it does, which can lead to confusion and brokenness. In this post I will therefore go over how it’s constructed, why it’s
  useful, how to use it correctly, as well as its limitations.

Security

• Pomerium
  Looking for a solution to make Prometheus accessible via your identity provider? Pomerium is an identity-aware access proxy enabling exactly this.

CI/CD

• Introducing Tekton Hub
  The Kubernetes-native CI/CD framework oftentimes got the feedback that "ready to use recipes" and reusable Tekton Tasks are hard to find. Tekton Hub tries to fix this issue. "We think this is an important step to enable broader adoption of Tekton, considering that there are not too many OSS solutions that integrate just perfectly with Kubernetes."

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