Cloud Native News - CNN21/45
About the 2021 CNCF Steering Committee Election results, Containerization on edge with wasmedge, Dockershim deprecation, an efficient learning path of container technology, and scaling Kubernetes based on custom metrics.
Community
- Announcing the 2021 Steering Committee Election Results
Congratulations to Stephen Augustus, Christoph Blecker, Paris Pittman, and Tim Pepper! You can learn more about the steering committee's role in their charter. - Cloud Native Observability Microsurvey
Fill out this 2-minute survey to help steer the future of cloud-native observability! - Flux Security Audit has concluded
"The primary aim was to assess Flux's fundamental security posture and to identify next steps in its security story." Read the results in this write-up!
Editorial
- Containerization on the edge
Running isolated workloads on non-POSIX compliant operating systems is no exception on edge devices. Read how wasmedge can help. - Dockershim removal is coming. Are you ready?
I remember the announcement well: it caused a lot of yelling and complaining, yet the (Kubernetes-)World is still turning. I like that the community takes this transition more seriously than initially anticipated. - The Service Mesh: What Every Engineer Needs to Know about the World's Most Over-Hyped Technology
"If you're a software engineer working anywhere near backend systems, the term "service mesh" has probably infiltrated your consciousness some time over the past few years. Thanks to a strange confluence of events, this phrase has been rolling around the industry like a giant Katamari ball, glomming on successively bigger pieces of marketing and hype and showing no signs of stopping any time soon." - How to Grasp Containers - Efficient Learning Path
"What is a Container? Container vs. VM? Docker vs. Kubernetes. How to organize the learning efficiently?" - How Pokemon Go Creator Builds on Kubernetes for Developers
"In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Ria Bhatia, senior product manager of Niantic, discusses why the Pokemon Go platform remains relevant and why Kubernetes will remain an integral part of the platform as the company hopes to bring in more 'developer customers.'"
Tutorials
- 5 things you've heard about Pulumi that aren't true
Pulumi is one of the severe Terraform competitors. While it has been around for a while already, there are a couple of misconceptions about Pulumi floating around that aren't true (anymore). - How Kubernetes Validates Custom Resources
Curious how Kubernetes validates resources against their schemas? Then this is a deep dive for you. - Kubernetes Kustomize Cheat Sheet
A nice cheat sheet for your YAML toolbox! - Horizontal Pod Autoscaling with Custom Metrics in Kubernetes
"The best metric to select for autoscaling depends on the application.". But sometimes, scaling by CPU or memory is not enough. If you want to scale by, e.g., the number of HTTP requests, custom metrics are your friend!
Tools
- simonw/s3-credentials
"A tool for creating credentials for accessing S3 buckets".
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