1. "KubeCon NA 2024 wrap-up: Don’t miss these major CNCF projects’ news" by Dmitry Shurupov, Palark.
I’ve made this overview of the remarkable news unveiled during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024, which happened in Salt Lake City, Utah, last week. Please note it focuses strictly on the news and announcements rather than what has been going on around the booths, in-person communication, etc. Still, reading it should help the community stay informed about ongoing changes and trends in the vibrant Cloud Native world.
2. "Multi-Cloud: That's one small step for Temporal, one giant leap for reliability" by Raphaël Beamonte, Temporal.
Temporal Cloud is now a multi-cloud platform. In this post, we’ll explore how we leveraged Temporal’s own capabilities to expand our infrastructure from AWS to Google Cloud, the challenges we faced along the way, and how we solved them using cloud-agnostic workflows. Whether you’re considering a multi-cloud strategy or interested in scaling distributed systems, our experience offers valuable insights into managing complexity while maintaining consistency across cloud providers.
3. "Using Helm Hierarchies in Multi-Source Argo CD Applications for Promoting to Different GitOps Environments" by Kostis Kapelonis, Octopus Deploy.
In this guide, we include several Helm-related topics to consider when adopting GitOps and Argo CD in your organization. We describe:
- The recommended Helm structure for GitOps repositories
- When to use the multi-source feature of Argo CD and when not to use it
- How to create Helm value hierarchies and why this is important
- Common Helm bad practices and misconceptions that people carry over to Argo CD
4. "We’re leaving Kubernetes" by Christian Weichel & Alejandro de Brito Fontes, Gitpod.
This is our journey of experiments, failures and dead-ends building development environments on Kubernetes. Over the years, we experimented with many ideas involving SSDs, PVCs, eBPF, seccomp notify, TC and io_uring, shiftfs, FUSE and idmapped mounts, ranging from microVMs, kubevirt to vCluster. [..] This is the story of how (not) to build development environments in the cloud.
5. "Advanced Kubernetes Pod Concepts That You Should Know as a Beginner" by Ali Hamza.
Advanced pod features, such as multi-container pod patterns, Init Containers, and resource management, can optimize application performance and stability. This article will explain these essential concepts, equipping you with tools to manage and scale containerized applications more effectively.
6. "The Hard Truth about GitOps and Database Rollbacks" by Rotem Tamir, Atlas.
In this post, we show why our existing tools and practices cannot deliver on the GitOps promise of "declarative" and "continuously reconciled" workflows and how we can use the Operator Pattern to build a new solution for robust and safe schema rollbacks.
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