Cloud Native News - CNN21/08

CNCF Community & Industry

• Contribution of the drivers and the libraries
  Sysdig contributes Falco's kernel module, eBPF probe, and libraries to the CNCF.
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Welcomes 47 New Members at the Start of 2021
  This is an extraordinary announcement for us: this article welcomes Liquid Reply, our very own Kubernetes Consulting company, now a CNCF member! 🚀
• CNCF Provides Insights into Secrets Management Tools with Latest End User Technology Radar
  This issue of CNCFs End User Technology Radar features Secret Management tools. I'm a bit surprised how few solutions are out there for such an important infrastructure component!
• Introducing GKE Autopilot
  Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you: "GKE Autopilot gives you a fully managed, hardened Kubernetes cluster out of the box, for true hands-free operations."

Security

• Kubernetes Pod Security Policy Deprecation: All You Need to Know
  "The Kubernetes Policy (PSP) will soon get deprecated, replaced with a Pod Security Standards (PSS). Learn how it affects your K8s security & why using an OPA-based admission controller is better."
• EKS — Security Groups for Pods
  Using AWS Security Groups on Pod-level? It's a thing!

Networking

• Wireguard VPN on AWS
  "Learn how to configure Wiguard VPN gateway on AWS with Terraform and Ansible."
• Stateless Kubernetes overlay networks with IPv6
  "This page describes an [Kubernetes] overlay network based on stateless IPv6 tunnels, which have better reliability and scalability characteristics than stateful IPv4 overlays."

Containers & Orchestration

• A Kubernetes User's Guide to HashiCorp Nomad
  "Learn the equivalent terminologies, comparisons, and differentiations between HashiCorp Nomad and Kubernetes." - Great idea, HashiCorp!
• kubecost/cost-model
  Cross-cloud cost allocation models for workloads running on Kubernetes. Use kubecost as a Prometheus metric exporter to bring cost metrics into your Grafana Dashboard.

Development

• Go & Kubernetes: Rapidly Developing Golang Microservices
  Build a cloud development environment with Telepresence & Golang! The Ambassador's guys are great at explaining how to accelerate backend development on Kubernetes! Here is another recommendation.
• Announcing Dapr v1.0
  The distributed application runtime is now production-ready

Software

• Comparing Kubernetes operators for PostgreSQL
  Not sure how to run PostgreSQL on your cluster? That's an overview!

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