Welcome to the 15th edition of the Kubeletter. In this newsletter, we've covered a lot of news and changes around the cloud native ecosystem. There are also tons of blogs and videos which will help you grow your knowledge. There are also a couple of open CFPs you can fill up.

What's new with cloud-native

• Kubernetes 1.26 has officially been released! Check out all the new changes with the latest version.

• The first ever Linkerd Day will be held as a day zero conference at Kubecon EU in Amsterdam this April.

• Cilium has seen massive growth in both contribution and adoption in 2022. The 2022 Cilium annual report seeks to capture some of the Cilium project’s contributor and end-user community growth and activities.

• Platform engineering has boomed in the last year. Let's look at some trends in platform engineering for 2023.

• Throughout 2022, the adoption of Linkerd has been growing. The number of stable Kubernetes clusters running Linkerd doubled in 2022. Check out all achievements and findings by the Linkerd team.

• The cloud-native ambassadors' program has had an update. Check out the new requirements and standards for CNCF ambassadors.

• The maturity model is an emerging concept and requires some explanation to ensure clarity for users in the Cloud Native Maturity Model. In this article, let's take a look at what the maturity model is.

• Cloud-native security con occurred just a few days ago, and there will tons of learnings. Here are 3 key areas you should keep your eye on from a security point of view.

• The portuguese version of the cloud native glossary is live!

• Prometheus is one of the most used monitoring solutions for cloud-native applications. Take a look at the roadmap and latest updates.

Blogs

• the CNCF recently released its annual report on all the work accomplished last year. Take a look at the cloud native predictions for 2023.

• KubeGateway is a seven-layer load balancer specially customized by ByteDance for kube-apiserver traffic characteristics. Read how it completely solves the problem of kube-apiserver load imbalance.

• Replit now connects with your GitHub accounts and allows you to use Git commands in the replit shell itself *

• Passkeys are a new passwordless authentication method allowing users to create online accounts and sign in without entering a password. Let's learn what are passkeys and how they work in this blog by Teleport *

• Consensus protocol is a protocol to keep the information consistent and durable in multiple servers, and the property is kept even if some servers fail. Let's learn all bout the consensus protocol and how it's beneficial in this blog.

• In a microservice environment, every service needs to define, manage and enforce permissions easily, which can get difficult and let to challenges. Learn about the 5 rules of cloud-native authorization to ensure that your cloud-native applications are secure.

• DevOps movement is still an evolving field and is influenced by a variety of factors such as technological advances, industry trends, and organizational needs. Let's read up about some of the trends for DevOps in 2023.

• The term “sovereign cloud” describes a cloud architecture to provide security and data access while adhering to local laws and regulations around data privacy and security. Let's learn what it is, and its importance

• Do you need a service mesh? Is there a cheaper, easier alternative? What’s the ideal solution that’s best for my applications? Let's figure out how to select the best network for your microservice applications *

• The popular open-source platform Kubescape by ARMO has been recently announced as a fully managed operator called a Charm for Canonical’s Charmed Kubernetes distribution. Take a look at how Kubescape brings a new level of security to charmed Kubernetes. *

• Organizations have moved increasingly to the cloud, adopting containers and Kubernetes to change their infrastructure and take advantage of these cloud-native technologies. However, this also means that costs can increase very easily and rapidly. Here are 6 Kubernetes cost control strategies to have in place.

• You can now manage your Kubernetes clusters with Monokle. Learn all the new features with Monokle Desktop which lets you easily manage your clusters *

Videos

• A default Kubernetes cluster isn't safe by default. You have secrets in plain text, open and unencrypted pod-to-pod communication, insecure access, and much more to tighten down. In this video by Teleport, let's learn how to secure a Kubernetes cluster.

• Cloud-native developers often struggle with configuration inconsistencies between environments. To fix that, let's learn about Score, a developer-centric and platform-agnostic workload specification that offers one easy way to configure all your workloads. No need to worry about cognitive load, config drift, or YAML bloat.

• Customizing your CLI can help you be a lot more productive. Here are 5 CLI tools recommended by Rawkode, to help you take your CLI to the next level.

• When you make a change to a project, you want to see what impact it made. In this tutorial let's learn how you can write and ship code faster with Sprkl using observability-driven development. A powerful tool indeed to discover hidden bugs and traces for your Kubernetes or local dev environment.

Events

• Watch all of the sessions and experience networking opportunities of the in-person Teleport Connect 2022 from the convenience of your home, and more! Register now for the best experience.

• KubeCon EU 2023 is just a few months away. Register today, and you can attend some amazing talks and network with folks from around the world.

• Get a chance to win an awesome gaming monitor by participating in our monthly blogging challenges.

• Kubernetes Community Days Pakistan 2023

• Kubernetes Community Days Amsterdam 2023

• Kubernetes Community Days France 2023

• KCD Los Angeles at SCALE 20X

CFPs open

• Linkerd Day - Closes on 5th February

• Open Source Summit NA - Closes on 5th February

• Automotive Linux Summit at Open Source Summit Japan 2022 - Closes on 23rd February 2023

• Golang 2023 - Closes on 20th March 2023

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) 2023 - Closes on 4th April 2023

• Chaos Engineering 2023 - Closes on 8th May 2023

• Observability 2023 - Closes on 8th May 2023

• Quantum Computing 2023 - Closes on 29th May 2023

• SREday 2023 - Closes on 14th July 2023

• Rust 2023 - Closes on 7th August 2023

Cloud-native tools highlight

• Amazee fully-managed application delivery platform allows developers to deliver their core business objective: creating amazing applications instead of worrying about managing and maintaining the underlying infrastructure. *

• Groundcover is a K8s application monitoring solution that reinvents the domain with eBPF. Built for modern production environments, it covers everything yet stores only what matters, allowing teams to scale away without worries. *

• Fiberplane is a collaborative development tool that makes infrastructure debugging, incident resolution, and analysis seamless. *

• Port allows developers and DevOps to build a service/software catalog, and enable developer self-service actions. *

Tweets of the week

• What do you think will be the next-generation database?

• Folks are excited for Civo Naviagte

That's all for this edition of the Kubeletter folks. Hope you learned something new. Do tag us on social and share your thoughts.

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