KubeWeekly #429
Published: April 25, 2025
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Headlines
Say hello to OpenObservabilityCon – our newest event!
Happening June 26 in Denver with OTel Community Day, and co-located with Open Source Summit North America, join us to connect with the open source observability world + the OpenTelemetry community to simplify tools, reduce risks, and supercharge system reliability.
Learn more + register now!
Submit to speak now through May 11.
Explore the OTel Community Day schedule.
⏰ Final reminder! Want to share your story on the keynote stage at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China or Japan?
Submit your end user case study for a chance to deliver a 5-minute keynote alongside your end user or maintainer! 🎤🙌
🔗 China EXTENDED Submission Deadline: Friday, May 2 @ 11:59 PM PT
🔗 Japan EXTENDED Submission Deadline: Friday, May 2 @ 11:59 PM PT
🎟 Winners receive two speaker tickets to present on stage!
Don’t miss this chance to shine—good luck! 🚀 #KubeCon #CloudNative
Events
GitOpsCon Europe
May 28 | Virtual
Register
*CFP Closes – April 27
StrimziCon
June 4 | Virtual
Register
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025
10-11 June | Hong Kong
Sponsor Info | Prospectus
Register | Schedule
KeycloakCon Japan 2025
13 June | Tokyo, Japan
Register
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025
June 16-17 | Tokyo, Japan
Sponsor Info | Prospectus
Register | Schedule
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!
OpenObservabilityCon + OTel Community Day
June 26 | Denver, Colorado
Sponsor Info | Prospectus
Register | Schedule
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025
6-7 August | Hyderabad, India
Sponsor Info | Prospectus
Register
gRPConf North America
August 26 | Sunnyvale, California
Sponsor Info | Prospectus
Register | Call for Proposals
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
November 10-13 | Atlanta, Georgia
Sponsor Info | ProspectusRegister | Call for Proposals
Online programs
Recently recorded programs
Leveling up with CEL in Kyverno 1.14: Exploring new policy types, playgrounds, and JSON payload validation – April 23 | Cloud Native Live
Charles-Edouard Breteche & Mariam Fahmy, Nirmata
Cost-effective monitoring in Kubernetes – April 24 | On demand webinar
Max Golionko, VictoriaMetrics
Kubernetes is the new Skynet or the rise of Kubernetes automation – April 24 | On demand webinar
Andrei Kvapil, Ænix
Upcoming programs
Using Cilium to enforce gRPC-aware security policies – April 29 | Cloud Native Live
Paul Arah, Isovalent
Sustainable DevOps – Reducing IAM’s carbon footprint with Kube-Green – April 30 | Cloud Native Live
Ganesh Srinivasan, Tuan Ousman, Roopika Ganesh, LikeMinds Consulting Inc.
Cost-effective monitoring in Kubernetes – May 1 | On demand webinar
Max Golionko, VictoriaMetrics
Otel Community Day 2025 – May 1 | Cloud Native Live
Adriana Villela, Reese Lee, Marylia Gutierrez, Austin Parker, & Iris Dyrmishi, Kubernetes 1.33 Release Team
View our Online Programs YouTube playlist here
Technical
Eliminating observability vendor lock-in with OpenTelemetry: A hands-on demo
Ninad Desai, InfraCloud
Kubernetes 1.33: Top 8 security features you need to know
Matthias Bertschy and Oshrat Nir, ARMO
Getting forked by Microsoft
Philip Laine
You containerized your app. Now it’s amnesiac and antisocial. Let’s fix that.
Marcos Dedeu
High cardinality meets columnar time series system
Debabrata Panigrahi, Parseable
A guide to Kubernetes observability
Abhinav Dubey, Devtron
HAProxy vs NGINX performance: A comprehensive analysis
Faiz Shaikh, Last9
Editorial
Building AuthZed with the power of cloud native: A CNCF success story
Jimmy Zelinksie, AuthZed
The future of AI and its infrastructure must be open
Alex Freedland, Mirantis
Top 10 platform engineering takeaways from PlatEngDay & KubeCon London 2025
Daniel Bryant, Syntasso
Kubernetes v1.33: Octarine
Kubernetes blog
Ansible: Pure (only in its) pragmatism
Andrej Radović
A message about Earthly
Vlad A. Ionescu, Earthly
Beyond the checkbox: Scaling product security across Groww’s SDLC
Engineering Team, Groww
Optimizing CI/CD pipelines for developer happiness and high performance
Saqib Jan
KubeCon EU 2025 retrospective: Reflections from my sixth KubeCon
Adriana Villela, Dynatrace
Behind ‘Cloud native data security with OAuth’: Highlights from the authors
Judith Kahrer, Gary Archer, Michał Trojanowski, Nordic APIs
Education
Attend an upcoming KCD!
KCDs are community-organized events that gather adopters and technologists from open source and cloud native communities for education, collaboration, and networking. You can find Live KCD websites via cncf.io/kcds.
Announcements:
- KCD Chennai is happening tomorrow!
- The inaugural KCD Auckland in New Zealand is next Monday, April 28! Tickets are still on sale!
- KCD Austin, Texas is around the corner! Don’t wait, and buy your ticket today!
- The KCD San Francisco, Bay Area speakers are announced. Don’t wait to get your ticket!
- The KCD Czech & Slovak agenda is now LIVE!
Call for Proposal (CFP) Deadlines:
- The KCD Sofia CFP has been extended to April 27!
- The KCD Bogota CFP closes on May 3!
Open Prospectuses:
- KCDs Bogota (Colombia) and Guatemala have their prospectuses available in both English and Spanish – check out their packages!
Cloud Native Community Groups
If you are not attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon London in this upcoming week, there are a few meetups being held in person and virtually for you to attend!
| Chapter | Event | Date |
| New Delhi, India | Build, Break, Repeat – Our Life in Loops | April 26 |
| Kochi, India | CNCG Kochi April Offline Meetup | April 26 |
| Pune, India | CNCG Pune April meetup | April 26 |
| Mauritius | Cloud Native Mauritius April Meetup | April 26 |
| Ayacucho, Peru | 🎉 ¡Kubernetes en acción! 🚀 | April 26 |
| Dakar, Senegal | From Zero to Production: Simplifying Kubernetes with k0s | April 26 |
| Fortaleza, Brazil | 1º Encontro Cloud Native Fortaleza x Meetup DevOps CE | April 26 |
| Ahmedabad, India | Cloud Native Ahmedabad Meetup #11 | April 26 |
| Kubernetes Pune, India | Running Kubernetes at Scale – Devtron x Kubernetes Pune Meetup | April 27 |
| Melbourne, Australia | Down Under Cloud Nights: Bi-Weekly Bytes | April 28 |
| Santa Catarina, Brazil | 7° Meetup Cloud Native Santa Catarina – Edição Blumenau | April 29 |
| Linz, Austria | Zero-Downtime Experiences & Event-Driven Microservices | April 29 |
| Taiwan User Group | CNTUG Meetup 2025/04 #67 & DevOps Taiwan Meetup #69 | April 29 |
| Queretaro, Mexico | Levanta tu primer clúster de Kubernetes con Terraform | April 30 |