What a month for the cloud-native community! PromCon Online, Cloud Native Security Day EU, and KubeCon EU were great successes, and there have been plenty of announcements for the community. Don’t miss our cloud-native highlights!
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The news
- Google is going to supply computing resources to SpaceX.
- Ansible 4.0 final has been released.
- Falco 0.28.1 released.
- Microsoft released an open-source project to make eBPF work on Windows. Also, they are shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service.
KubeCon EU and PromCon Online
- Prometheus introduced its Conformance Program. Read our highlights.
- Some highlights from KubeCon EU.
- PromCon Online 2021, Cloud Native Security Day, and KubeCon EU 2021 videos are online!
Industry buzz
PayPal is migrating to Google Cloud
Read how PayPal plans to move all of its applications to Google’s public cloud. They’re migrating peer-to-peer payments, merchant checkout, and bill-payment apps, as well as user account management.
What’s New in ATT&CK v9
Find out what changed with the new ATT&CK release: data sources, cloud changes, container techniques, and more.
Establishing a Cloud Security Program
Learn from the experience of one security engineer. He shares advice on how to establish a cloud security program aimed at protecting a cloud-native offer that is container-based and also service provider agnostic.
DevOps principles for Continuous Deployment
Explore DevOps practices for providing a fast and consistent way to run development and integration tasks in Docker containers.
Community tips
Automated volume backups in Docker
Discover how to automatically create backups for your docker container volumes so you can move forward with confidence in a worst-case scenario.
Load balancing in a local environment
Learn how to set up a local environment with a load balancer and Docker by running multiple instances of a gRPC service.
Pairing KNative and Falco
Take a look at this guide on how to create a Kubernetes response engine with Falco, Falcosidekick, and KNative.
Sometimes it runs slower in Docker
Occasionally, running under Docker can slow down your code and distort your benchmarks. Inspect some tips to avoid this situation.
Efficient CoreDNS in Kubernetes
Dig deeper into the DNS request cycle in Kubernetes with this story about troubleshooting some HTTP 5xx errors.
A GUI for Helm
Check out this new open-source GUI for visually managing Helm.
Open-source load balancing and auto-scaling
Read this exhaustive guide on how to create an auto-scaling load balancer with open source software which is, not focused on any cloud provider in particular.
What’s New with Sysdig?
Securing serverles workloads (AWS Fargate)
Sysdig’s advanced Fargate instrumentation enables runtime security on serverless workloads, without a noticeable penalty on performance.
See how it helps meet file integrity monitoring requirements in AWS Fargate.
Optimize your Kubernetes resources
Learn how to identify unused resources and how to rightsize the capacity of your Kubernetes cluster.
Monitoring PostgreSQL with Prometheus
See how easy it is to monitor PostgreSQL with Prometheus, and try out our pick of 10 monitoring metrics with alert examples.
Recent releases and ecosystem updates
Most Sysdig products received updates in the last few days: Sysdig Secure and the Sysdig Cloud Connector, Sysdig Monitor, Sysdig Agents, our CLI and tools, and much more. Read all about the interesting new features and ecosystem updates on our blog.
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