KubeWeekly #215

Published: May 8, 2020

Kubernetes

The Headlines

Editor’s pick of the highlights from the past week.

Kubernetes Podcast from Google: Helm, with Matt Butcher

Matt Butcher created Helm while at Deis, and despite his PhD in philosophy and love of all things Ancient Greek, thankfully gave it a short, easy-to-pronounce English name. He shares the story of Helm with hosts Craig Box and Adam Glick, as well as how an explanation to the Deis finance team led to the canonical Kubernetes children’s book.

With Kubernetes, the U.S. Department of Defense Is Enabling DevSecOps on F-16s and Battleships

Before DevSecOps came to the U.S. Department of Defense, software delivery could take anywhere from three to ten years for big weapons systems.

“It was mostly teams using waterfall, no minimum viable product, no incremental delivery, and no feedback loop from end users,” says Nicolas M. Chaillan, Chief Software Officer of the U.S. Air Force. Plus, “cybersecurity was mostly an afterthought.”

To find out more about the Department of Defense’s cloud native journey, read the full case study and check out the video!

ICYMI: CNCF Webinars

Weekly recap of CNCF project, SIG, Ambassador, and member webinars that you might have missed.

You can view all CNCF recorded and upcoming webinars here.

CNCF Project Webinar: What’s New in Kubernetes 1.18
Jeremy Rickard, Enhancements Lead, Jorge Alacron, Release Lead, and Karen Chu, Communications Lead

CNCF Member Webinar: Making the Most of Helm 3
Dan Garfield, Full-Stack Engineer @Codefresh and Anna Baker, Software Engineer/Technical Writer, and DevOps Evangelist @Codefresh

CNCF Member Webinar: Encrypting data in Kubernetes deployments. Protect your data, not just your Secrets
Maksim Yankovskiy, VP of Engineering @Zettaset

CNCF Member Webinar: The KUbernetes Test TooL (kuttl)
Gerred Dillon, Principal Engineer @D2iQ and Ken Sipe, Distributed Application Engineer @D2iQ

CNCF Member Webinar: Everything you need to know about Storage for Kubernetes
Alex Chircop, Founder and CEO @StorageOS

CNCF Member Webinar: How AWS uses Firecracker and Fargate to run serverless Kubernetes pods in Amazon EKS
Mo Ziyuan 莫梓元 解决方案架构师 @AWS

The Technical

Tutorials, tools, and more that take you on a deep dive into the code.

Creating an Ansible Operator from scratch
Red Hat OpenShift Twitch

Helm & Kustomize Better Together
Povilas Versockas

WireGuard on K8s (road-warrior-style VPN server)
Stephen Levine

Domesticating Kubernetes
Vladimir Akopyan

Speed up administration of Kubernetes clusters with k9s
Jessica Cherry, opensource.com

DNS issues in Kubernetes. Public postmortem #1
Amet Umerov, Preply

A Hacker’s Guide To Moving Linux Services Into Containers
Scott McCarty, Red Hat

Enhancing Kubernetes Security with Open Policy Agent (OPA) – Part 1
Karen Bruner, StackRox

Case Study: IT Modernization at Tidepool, an 8 part series
Betty Junod, Solo.io

Nodejs App From Docker To Kubernetes Cluster
Muhammad zarak bin kaleem, Magalix

Decoding the Self-Healing Kubernetes: Step by Step

The Editorial

Articles, announcements, and more that give you a high-level overview of challenges and features.

Chris Short from Red Hat talks Operators and Kubernetes

What is a Service Mesh? – the breakout area chat between an Account manager and a Solutions Engineer
Sachin Jha, Digital Ocean

Kubernetes: The Universal Control Plane
Cedric Charly

Explore Anthos with a sample deployment
Aurelie Fonteny and Tony Pujals, Google Cloud

Kubernetes Governance, What You Should Know
Oleg Chunikhin, Kublr

Podcast Takeaways: Cloud Developer Experience, Staging Environments, and Continuous Delivery
Daniel Bryant, Datawire.io

Home buying & selling platform Orchard deploys Kubernetes to AWS with Maestro
Cloud 66

Upcoming CNCF webinars

Member Webinar: How OpenTelemetry is Eating the World
Steve Flanders, Director of Engineering @Splunk
May 8, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
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Member Webinar: Data Services for Cloud Native Workloads
Diamanti
May 12, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
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Member Webinar: Piraeus: Dynamic Provisioning, Resource Management and High Availability for Local Persistent
Philipp Reisne, CEO @Linbit
Sun Liang, 资深存储架构师 @DaoCloud
Alex Zheng, 资深存储工程师 @DaoCloud
This webinar will be delivered in Chinese.
May 13, 2020 10:00 AM China Standard Time
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Member Webinar: End YAML engineering with cdk8s!
Elad Ben-Israel, Principal Software Engineer @AWS, Developer Tools
Nathan Taber, Senior Product Manager @AWS, Kubernetes
May 13, 2020 8:00 AM Pacific Time
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Member Webinar: The Rosetta Stone Guide to Compliance in a Cloud-Native World
Cynthia Burke, Program Manager @Capsule8
May 13, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
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Member Webinar: Navigating the Sea of Local Kubernetes Clusters
Ara Pulido, Developer Advocate @Datadog
May 14, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
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Member Webinar: Influencing DevOps without Authority – how “DevOps engineer” can advance real DevOps
Baruch Sadogursky, Head of Developer Advocacy @JFrog
May 15, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
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Member Webinar: Cloud Native Monitoring: Scaling Prometheus
Aaron Newcomb, Director, Product Marketing, Monitoring @Sysdig
Carlos Arilla Navarro, Technical Marketing Engineer @Sysdig
May 19, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
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Member Webinar: How to Keep Your Clusters Safe and Healthy
Shuting Zhao, Software Engineer @Nirmata
Jim Bugwadia, Founder and CEO @Nirmata
May 20, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
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Member Webinar: Take Your Monitoring to the Next Level
Liran Haimovitch, Co-Founder & CTO @Rookout
Mickael Alliel, DevOps @Rookout
May 21, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
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Project Webinar: Harbor, the trusted cloud native registry for Kubernetes
Michael Michael, VMware
May 28, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
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Member Webinar: Trivy Open Source Scanner for Container Images – Just Download and Run!”
Teppei Fukuda, Open Source Engineer @Aqua Security
June 3, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
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Member Webinar: Kubernetes Cost Allocation Done Right
Webb Brown, Co-founder and CEO @Kubecost
June 24, 2020 8:00 AM Pacific Time
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Member Webinar: Pivoting Your Pipeline from Legacy to Cloud Native
Tracy Ragan, CEO of DeployHub and CDF Board Member
June 30, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time
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