Cloud Chirp #10 🌥️ - 27/11/2023
Hello Cloud Enthusiasts,
Welcome back to the next dose of cloud knowledge! In this edition of our newsletter, we're diving into some of the latest new from various cloud providers. So, let's jump right into it:
🔗 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Recap: Major News in Application Observability
Title: Recapping KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 — Nov. 22, 2023
Description: If you missed KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago, the latest episode of OpenObservability Talks covers the major news in the open source cloud-native and observability space, featuring insights from Lin Sun, Director of Open Source at solo.io. Fluent Bit's v2.2 release at ObservabilityDay, with YAML configuration and enhanced metrics collection, garnered attention, boasting an impressive 10.9 billion downloads. Additionally, OpenTelemetry Logging achieving general availability and the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) reaching version 1.0 marked significant milestones, solidifying their positions in cloud-native telemetry.
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🔗 CNCF: Comprehensive Security Guide Release
Title: Announcing our latest book release: a comprehensive security guide to assess and fortify open source security — Nov. 22, 2023
Description: CNCF launched a comprehensive guide on open source software security, the result of five years of TAG Secure Assessments and collaboration from industry experts. This book, designed for cloud native experts, developers, and security enthusiasts, serves as a toolkit for navigating the complexities of threat modeling and risk assessment in the dynamic software security landscape.
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🔗 Eighteen Years at Google
Title: Reflecting on 18 years at Google — Nov. 22, 2023
Description: In this post, author describes fulfilling 18-year journey at Google, spanning from the early post-IPO era to recent times. The early years were marked by a commitment to the principle of "don't be evil" and a culture of transparency, with executives openly discussing successes and failures. His last nine years were dedicated to Flutter, a startup-like project within Google, insulated from the evolving corporate culture. He concludes that the erosion of Google's values, manifested in layoffs and a lack of visionary leadership, prompts concern for the company's future and the potential irreversibility of its cultural decline.
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🔗 Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal: SLI Metric
Title: KEP-3466: Kubernetes Component SLIs — GitHub Repository
Description: This interesting Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP) suggests adding a new /metrics/slis
endpoint to Kubernetes components, providing structured and consistent Service Level Indicator (SLI) data in Prometheus format. The goal is to enable the creation of SLIs without the need for specialized monitoring agents and to allow for increased granularity in SLI metric data consumption. The proposal aims to streamline the process of establishing availability Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and alerts based on the emitted SLIs.
Link: GitHub Repository
🔗 Kyverno: 1.11 Release
Title: Kyverno release 1.11 — Nov. 23, 2023
Description: Kyverno 1.11 is released after a five-month development, introducing features like ValidatingAdmissionPolicy support with CEL expressions. PolicyReport enhancements optimize resource management, and updates include Notary support, Cosign 2.0 compatibility, image verification caching, TTL-based cleanup, CLI improvements, and security enhancements. The release also introduces Kyverno JSON and Kyverno Chainsaw sub-projects, addressing security vulnerabilities identified through a third-party review.
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🔗 Replacing ELK with Grafana: Cost Optimization
Title: Switching from Elastic Stack to Grafana: A Cost-Cutting Success Story — Aug. 2, 2023
Description: Experienced DevOps engineer shares a successful story of migrating logging and tracing services from Elastic Stack to Grafana Stack. Faced with challenges like log loss, cumbersome alerting, and resource consumption, they transitioned to Grafana Loki for logs and Grafana Tempo for traces. The migration resulted in a 7x reduction in system costs, streamlined visualization of metrics, logs, and tracers in a unified system, and improved alerting similar to Prometheus.
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🔗 Istio: 1.20 Release
Title: Announcing Istio 1.20.0 — Nov. 14, 2023
Description: Istio announces 1.20 release, the final release of 2023. Highlights include the General Availability of Kubernetes Gateway API, revamped ExternalName service support, consistent Envoy filter ordering, expanded network WasmPlugin support, and enhanced TCP metadata exchange control. Other features include improved traffic mirroring, pluggable root certificate rotation, a startupProbe in sidecar containers for faster pod startup times, and simplified OpenShift installation. Check out the detailed change notes for more information.
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🔗 Integration of OpenCost with Microsoft AKS
Title: Announcing OpenCost Integration with Microsoft AKS Cost Analysis — Nov. 16, 2023
Description: OpenCost is now integrated into Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Cost Analysis tool, offering Azure customers native visibility into Kubernetes-specific cost allocations. AKS Cost Analysis, available for Standard and Premium-tier AKS clusters, provides detailed reports within the Azure portal for easy visualization and optimization of Kubernetes-related expenses.
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📌 Pro Tip: Stay updated by exploring insightful content on platforms like HackerNews and HackerNoon—my go-to sources for the latest trends in technology and beyond.
I hope you find these resources as enlightening as I did. Stay tuned for more exciting developments and updates in the world of cloud computing in next week's newsletter.
Until then, keep innovating and soaring in the cloud! ☁️
Warm regards, Teodor