Cloud Native News - CNN21/40

Community

• Kubernetes Steering Committee
  Kubernetes Steering Committee elections are coming up, the list of nominees is getting longer.
• Cartografos working group launches cloud-native maturity model
  Understanding what to do when is often a challenge for some organizations. That's what the Cartografos Working Group aims to solve. The Group provides tools to help adopters and end-users navigate the CNCF landscape and the broader cloud-native ecosystem.
• First Data on Kubernetes Report Published
  The Data on Kubernetes Community, a group of companies developing data solutions for Kubernetes, published their first report on the challenge, usage, and future of data, persistency, and storage technology on Kubernetes.

Editorial

• A Closer Look at NSA/CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance
  The USA's National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released "Kubernetes Hardening Guidance" on August 3rd, 2021. The guidance details threats to Kubernetes environments and provides secure configuration guidance to minimize risk. This blog correlates to the NSA/CISA guidance sections and takes a deeper look into the recommendations.
• Global Load Balancer Approaches
  When working with Kubernetes or OpenShift in a multicluster (possibly hybrid cloud) deployment, one of the considerations is how to direct traffic to the applications deployed across these clusters. To solve this problem, we need a global load balancer.

Tutorials

• Tools to explore BGP
  This Newsletter wouldn't be complete without mentioning Facebook's outage this week, which kept the Internet busy for a couple of hours. There was a detailed explanation by the folks of Cloudflare on how a BGP configuration was the reason for the disappearance of Facebook's services. But how does one even work with BGP? A little more hands-on description by Julia Evans.
• PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes (with examples!)
  Who says running stateful on K8s isn't a good idea? This tutorial will run the freshly released PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes.
• Simplify Troubleshooting your Kubernetes cluster with Komodor
  "Troubleshooting your Kubernetes Cluster and the resources within has never been this easy. This blog post provides an overview of Komodor; a new kind of platform."
• Pod Auto Scaling and the curse of Sticky Sessions
  "Autoscaling and load balancing are two completely different aspects. However, the coordination is crucial in forming efficient scalable sub systems. This is the story of sticky sessions and how they ruthlessly affect the relationship between load balancing and scaling."

Tools

• Kubernetes Cluster API reaches production readiness with version 1.0
  Cluster API is a Kubernetes project that enables declarative management for Kubernetes, using APIs to create, configure, and update clusters easily. This week the community announced Cluster API v1.0 is production-ready and officially moving to v1beta1 APIs.
• Introducing VMware Tanzu Community Edition
  The Tanzu team at VMware released a VMware Tanzu Community Edition, a freely available, community-supported, open-source distribution of VMware Tanzu that you can install and configure in minutes on your local workstation or your favorite cloud.
• Announcing Cartographer
  Cartographer is a Kubernetes native Choreographer. It allows users to configure K8s resources into re-usable Supply Chains that can define all of the stages that an Application Workload must go through to get to an environment.
• Getting started with Otomi
  Otomi is an open-source, cloud-agnostic, and Kubernetes-based platform to securely deploy, run and manage applications with a desktop-like user interface.
• A New YAML Specification
  Not much changes for YAML since its last revision 12 years ago. Most of the changes in v1.2.2 are about the readability and clarity of its spec, which is now hosted publicly on GitHub.

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