KubeWeekly #399

Published: August 23, 2024

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Headlines

Check out Kubernetes Community Days 2.0!

KCD 2.0 was launched on August 5 and applications are open for 2025 KCDs until September 11. Read more about this program refresh, and learn how to apply via this blog post.

Events

gRPConf
August 27 | Sunnyvale, California
Register | Schedule

KubeDay Japan
August 27 | Tokyo, Japan
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PromCon Europe
September 11-12 | Berlin, Germany
Register | Schedule

LitmusChaosCon VIRTUAL
September 12
Register | Schedule

KubeDay Colombia
October 9 | Medellín, Colombia
Sponsor Info | Prospectus (see page 11)
Register | Schedule

KubeDay Australia
October 15 | Melbourne, Australia
Sponsor Info | Prospectus (see page 13)
Register | Schedule

Dapr Day
October 16 | Virtual
Register | Schedule

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
November 12-15 | Salt Lake City, Utah
Sponsor Info | Prospectus (starting on page 15)
CNCF-Hosted Co-located Event Prospectus (starting on page 20)
Register | Schedule

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India
December 11-12 | Delhi, India
Sponsor Info | Prospectus (starting on page 23)
Register | Call for Proposals (CFP closes 25 Aug)

Questions?

For sponsorship details, email sponsor@cncf.io. 
For questions about speaking opportunities, email speakers@cncf.io.
For general event inquiries, email events@cncf.io. 
See you around the globe!

Online programs

Recently recorded programs

A roadmap to evaluating your organization’s DevOps maturity – August 22 | On demand webinar
Nick Peacock, Cloudsmith

Real world AI: Supercharging engineer productivity – August 22 | On demand webinar
Asaf Yigal, Logz.io

Upcoming programs

BellSoft’s Java images Part 2 – August 27 | Cloud Native Live
Dmitry Chuyko, BellSoft 

LitmusChaosCon: The Community Chaos Engineering Conference – August 29 | On demand webinar
Prithvi Raj, Harness

K8sGPT – AI for cloud native – August 29 | On demand webinar
Ronald Petty, RX-M, LLC 

​​Transcending the barriers to elasticity – August 29 | On demand webinar
Neal Ford, Thoughtworks & Jonas Bonér, Lightbend

Technical

How to terminate Go programs elegantly – a guide to graceful shutdowns
Alex Pliutau, Solsten

Exploring Helm template dictionary objects: Syntax evolution and best practices
Manohar Shimpi

Preemptible pods: Optimizing Kubernetes node utilization
Adeolu Oyinlola, PerfectScale

Transform AWS exam generator architecture to open source Part #1: Introduction
Hamza Bouissi

A detailed guide to cron jobs
Shyam Mohan, RazorOps

Postgres – How I improved data insertion speed by a factor of more than 1000x
Balkrishan

Kubernetes networking with Ambient: Istio’s Sidecarless innovation
Seifeddine Rajhi, AWS

A guide to modern Kubernetes network policies
Scott Rigby, Buoyant

Kubernetes 1.31: Pod Failure Policy for Jobs Goes GA
Michał Woźniak & Shannon Kularathna, Google

Editorial

Inside the numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for North America 2024
CNCF blog

Internal developer platforms: A real thing or just a trend?
Artem Lajko

Kubernetes v1.31: Accelerating cluster performance with consistent reads from Cache
Marek Siarkowicz, Google

Kubernetes adoption: Key challenges in migrating to Kubernetes
Siddhant Khisty, Devtron

Istio 1.23 Drops the Sidecar for a Simpler ‘Ambient Mesh’ 
Joab Jackson, The New Stack

Training + Certification


KCDs

2025 KCD applications are open until September 11! Learn more and apply at cncf.io/kcds/application.

Upcoming CFP deadline:

Check out new-released agendas and upcoming KCDs!

Cloud Native Community Groups

Check out the week’s upcoming global Cloud Native meetups!