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November has been a busy month for the cloud-native community. We, at Sysdig, are constantly collecting the latest news for you. Don’t miss our cloud-native highlights!
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The news
- PromCon and KubeCon North America videos are available now on Youtube.
- Loki 2.4 was released. Also, Grafana Tempo 1.2.
- The Kubernetes community is looking for feedback on the dockershim removal.
- Cloud Variable Sets for Terraform are available in beta.
- Prometheus Agent Mode was announced.
Industry buzz
Docker changed the industry
Don’t miss this great article that puts into perspective how Docker, even though it didn’t invent them, made containers accessible to developers and changed the whole industry.
How to perform better post-mortems
Take a look at the five questions you might want to ask when analyzing an incident to identify the root cause.
Google Cloud VPC network peerings overview
Learn how to use Google Cloud VPC network peerings wisely when designing infrastructures.
Stored procedures and triggers in cloud databases
Read this analysis on the need for traditional features like triggers, partial indexes, and stored procedures in cloud-native databases.
Community tips
Debugging an error in a Docker image
Read this story about how an engineer troubleshot a weird “file not found” error when running a Docker image. It was caused by the Go binary being dynamically linked!
Containers vs pods
Take a look at this article explaining the difference between containers and pods in Kubernetes, and how a pod isn’t just a group of containers.
Kubernetes logs in production
Learn different patterns to store logs from your Kubernetes cluster in a separate storage backend, with examples and recommendations.
Commands to troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads
Don’t miss this awesome collection of 12 useful commands to debug and troubleshoot your Kubernetes cluster.
Using an eBPF-based tool for tracing network packets
Read this short experiment of an engineer learning to use Packet where are you, a Linux kernel networking debugger that uses eBPF (PWRU).
Explaining Kubernetes persistent volumes
Dig deeper with Kubernetes persistent volumes with this guide full of examples and best practices.
What’s New with Sysdig?
CIEM with Sysdig Secure
Discover what Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) Security is and how easy it is to implement with Sysdig Secure for cloud.
Malware analysis: Hands-On Shellbot malware
Take a look at how the widespread Shellbot malware works, and how to detect its presence in your infrastructure.
Getting started with runtime security and Falco
Discover how runtime security and Falco help overcome the challenges of implementing runtime security for cloud-native workloads.
Challenges maintaining Prometheus LTS
Review the three main challenges you may face when maintaining your own Prometheus LTS solution, and how to approach them.
Recent releases and ecosystem updates
Most Sysdig products received updates in the last few days: Sysdig Secure and the Sysdig Cloud Connector, 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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