KubeCon EU 2023 recap and a million views story

Attending KubeCon itself was a huge challenge for me, I was supposed to reach Amsterdam for Rejekts on 15th of April and had everything booked. Just before that I got admitted to hospital and it was a night mare as all my plans got cancelled. But, I was determined to go and I fought with everyone that I really need to go, I booked another flight for 17th but could not make it still, then I booked 18th Flight which my birthday as well and I travelled the whole day. KubeCon till date has been the most expensive trip for me, but was it worth it? Let’s find out!

This edition of Kubecon was attended by 10k folks! Yes you heard it right 10k and I met so many people, visited so many booths, was there on Civo booth where we launched ML platform and gave a talk on second day on Chaos engineering in 2023 with chaos mesh that was room full. Sad that people were not allowed to come in after the room was houseful. So all in all, it was really worth it as I enjoyed giving a jam packed session, enjoyed talking with so many folks, was there at the venue with my family.

• The Keynotes were amazing featuring where cloud native community is heading to and the security audits being made open source.
• Announcement of CNCF Ambassadors and yes I am one of them.
• Cloud native is all about collaboration and more and more contributors.
• A new end user newsletter by Taylor?Wisdom of cloud.
• WASM roundtable session(Thanks to Shivay for setting that up) - I think it was dope discussion with various WASM community members on how do we educate more about WASM, is it even required in first place and the scenario based approach and use-case based approach is something that all agreed on.
• There were some amazing sessions and I still have a few left to rewatch once the recordings are up.
• I saw more startups in the observability space and also in the Developer experience space which is great.
• Many people are hiring , I have attached in learn from Twitter section a tweet having the images, so go and apply.
• Bluesky?- a social media platform based on AT protocol has been the next stop for the cloud native community after KubeCon. It is now invite based only and I do not have any yet, but if you are on bluesky then you can connect with me @saiyampathak.com
• After KubeCon, I took a small vacation in Paris, less did you know that Kubecon EU 2024 is happening in Paris :D. I really feel refreshed and focussed on doing more stuff and creating more content as well.

Another thing I wanted to share is, my?Kubernetes 101 workshop?crossed?a million views?and that is a huge achievement for me as a tech video receiving over a million views is amazing. I realise and see how much people have learned from it and that motivated me to create a few more like this so that people can learn more and more. If you would like to sponsor then DM me.

Kubesimplify Updates

We have launched a new newsletter on Linkedin where we will be detailing many insights on what Kubesimplify community is onto. We have revamped the Discord server, started to conduct events for creating a more engaging experience for the users. We are also planning to double down our efforts to provide more quality content via tweets and posts on Twitter and LinkedIN. I also started Chai pe charcha series in HINDI on Kubesimplify Twitch audience.

Blogs published in past 15 days on Kubesimplify

• Understanding How Containers Work Behind the Scenes?by Anuj Chourasia
• Implementing Kubernetes Network Policies: A Comprehensive Guide?by Srinivas Karnati

Follow Kubesimplify on?Hashnode,?Twitter?and?Linkedin. Join our?Discord?server to learn with us.

Videos

Sponsored Content

• Komodor?-?KubeCon EU 2023 Retrospective?by Ben
• SlimAI?-?BigID Automates Container Security to Reduce Vulnerabilities and Maximize Security Posture?by Pieter Van Noordennen

Awesome Reads

• Move Over, Dockerfiles! The New Way to Craft Containers?by?Jason Hall and Zachary Newman?- The standard Dockerfile approach to creating container images can cause issues with security, performance, and bloated containers. This blog post explores some alternatives for crafting containers, such as ko, Bazel, Nix, and apko, and examines their strengths and weaknesses. Ko is a CNCF project designed specifically for Go applications, which produces reproducible images with SBOMs by default and results in very minimal images.
• eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools?by Brendan Gregg - eBPF observability tools should not be used for security monitoring due to their design being optimized for low overhead rather than high security.
• Building a social app with Spin?by Justin Pflueger- This is a very interesting series of posts for building a real world application from scratch using spin.
• Using Nix with Dockerfiles?by?Mitchell Hashimoto?- Using Nix with Dockerfiles can improve developer workflow. Nix can be the single source of truth and in this post Mitchell walks you through complete end to end building of Docker image for a python flax app, nix image and a Dockerfile.
• Wazero Cookbook?by Philippe Charrière - Wazero is a WASM runtime written in GO that I learned about when I went to WASM IO. Philippe is creating a seris of post on creating the WASM module and then host using Wazero.
• Kubernetes 1.27: StatefulSet Start Ordinal Simplifies Migration?by Peter Schuurman - Kubernetes v1.26 introduced a new, alpha-level feature for StatefulSets that controls the ordinal numbering of Pod replicas. As of Kubernetes v1.27, this feature is now beta. Ordinals can start from arbitrary non-negative numbers. This blog post will discuss how this feature can be used.
• Introducing Sessionize: a new CFP platform for CNCF events?- A new CFP platform is now sessionize.
• Argo CD end user threat model: security considerations for hardening declarative GitOps CD on Kubernetes?- Do view the full report.

Awesome Repos

• twitter-to-bluesky?- import a twitter archive into bsky
• Spector?- Tooling and library for generation, validation and verification of supply chain metadata documents and frameworks.
• Modsurfer?- Modsurfer provides ops & dev teams with a system of record + diagnostics application to search, browse, and investigate WebAssembly modules.
• Just for fun - https://sketch.metademolab.com/

Learn from Twitter

https://twitter.com/hnasr/status/1650526563564417024?s=20

https://twitter.com/I_saloni92/status/1649071644265050112?s=20

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