Newsletter of Carlos Santana - Issue #19
Welcome to my newsletter. Every week, I'll update you on Cloud Native topics in 3 categories News, Assets, and Skills.
This week I have been busy raking leaves ๐, every day I wake up and there the same amount of leaves on the ground, I hope this madness ends soon ๐
News
Knative Has Applied to Become a CNCF Incubating Project - Knative โ knative.dev Knative has applied to join the CNCF
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Upbound Raises $60M in Funding to Advance its Universal Cloud Platform โ blog.upbound.io Today Iโm incredibly excited to announce that weโve raised $60M in new funding. Our Series B was led by Altimeter Capital with participation from existing and new investors, GV, Intel Capital, and Telstra Ventures. We will use the new funding to continue serving the Crossplane community, accelerate product
Welcome to Fleet! | JetBrains News โ blog.jetbrains.com Update (Dec 3, 2021): Weโve received an overwhelming number of requests for the Fleet Early Preview program. Unfortunately we can't accept any new requests, but we will continue sending invites to tho
Lens 5.3 Released. We are proud to announce that Lens 5.3โฆ | by Miska Kaipiainen | k8slens | Nov, 2021 | Medium โ medium.com We are proud to announce that Lens 5.3 is now available! The highlight of this release is the new Managed Dev Clusters feature that makes it possible for all Lens users to easily run their ownโฆ

Introducing Quantum Serverless, a new programming model for leveraging quantum and classical resources | IBM Research Blog โ research.ibm.com To bring value to our users, we need our programing model to fit seamlessly into their workflows โ a serverless architecture.
Knative: Serverless & โTerrorโ-forms Pt.2 using GCP | Meetup wo 8 dec. 17:00: Hi peeps! Join us before heading off for the Holidays! Carlos Santana & Vuyo Mhlotshane will be at this festive edition for the last Software Circus of 2021. Ugly sweaters
AWS brings M1 Mac minis to its cloud โ TechCrunch โ techcrunch.com At todayโs AWS re:Invent keynote, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announced that AWS will now offer M1 Mac minis as part of its EC2 compute service. It was only last year that AWS first brought Mac minis to its cloud. Using the Thunderbolt port, these minis connect to the AWS Nitro System, which helps make them [โฆ]
Assets
Secure deployments with OpenID Connect & GitHub Actions now generally available | The GitHub Blog โ github.blog GitHub Actions now supports OpenID Connect for secure deployment to different cloud providers via short-lived, auto-rotated tokens.
Using Github Actions OpenID Connect to push to AWS ECR without Credentials - tedious ramblings โ blog.tedivm.com Learn how to push images from Github to AWS ECR using the Github Actions OpenID Connector.
GitHub - sigstore/cosign-gatekeeper-provider: ๐ฎ โ๏ธ to integrate OPA Gatekeeper's new ExternalData feature with cosign to determine whether the images are valid by verifying their signatures โ github.com ๐ฎ โ๏ธ to integrate OPA Gatekeeper's new ExternalData feature with cosign to determine whether the images are valid by verifying their signatures - GitHub - sigstore/cosign-gatekeeper-provider: ๐ฎ โ๏ธ to integrate OPA Gatekeeper's new ExternalData feature with cosign to determine whether the images are valid by verifying their signatures
GitHub - Trendyol/kink: KinK is a helper CLI that facilitates to manage KinD clusters as Kubernetes pods. Designed to ease clusters up for fast testing with batteries included in mind. โ github.com KinK is a helper CLI that facilitates to manage KinD clusters as Kubernetes pods. Designed to ease clusters up for fast testing with batteries included in mind. - GitHub - Trendyol/kink: KinK is a helper CLI that facilitates to manage KinD clusters as Kubernetes pods. Designed to ease clusters up for fast testing with batteries included in mind.
I recently got my first NUC, and the only place that had some in stock was SimplyNUC
Build Your Own NUC: Computers, Desktops, & Laptops - Simply NUC โ simplynuc.com Committed to providing the finest of small form factor computers.
3 open source tools for producing video tutorials | Opensource.com โ opensource.com Use OBS, OpenShot, and Audacity to create videos to teach your learners.
GitHub - sethvargo/go-password: A Golang library for generating high-entropy random passwords similar to 1Password or LastPass. โ github.com A Golang library for generating high-entropy random passwords similar to 1Password or LastPass. - GitHub - sethvargo/go-password: A Golang library for generating high-entropy random passwords similar to 1Password or LastPass.
How "random" are the generated passwords? โ 1Password Support Community โ 1password.community Hi, While there is a lot of information on the site and forums about the keychain formats and how many rounds of hashing is done on the master pw etc, I have not found any information at all on how 1PW for Mac and iOS generate strong passwords (Sorry if I missed the info elsewhere):
Testing shell commands in Go | Anton on software How to execute and test external shell commands in Golang, locally and remote
Kube-vip on KIND Since kube-vip as a DaemonSet runs as a regular resource instead of a static Pod, it still needs the correct access to be able to watch Kubernetes Services and other objects. In order to do this, RBAC resources must be created which include a ServiceAccount, ClusterRole, and ClusterRoleBinding and can be applied this with the command:
Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage: Google Drive, S3, Swift, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Azure, Box and many more.
GitHub - dlvhdr/gh-prs: gh cli extension to display a dashboard of PRs - configurable with a beautiful UI. โ github.com gh cli extension to display a dashboard of PRs - configurable with a beautiful UI. - GitHub - dlvhdr/gh-prs: gh cli extension to display a dashboard of PRs - configurable with a beautiful UI.
Keptn - Cloud-native application life-cycle orchestration. โ keptn.sh Keptn automates observability, SLO-driven multi-stage delivery, and operations
Skills
Culture and Enablement in Kubernetes Service Ownership - Container Journal โ containerjournal.com Before businesses can implement service ownershipย and realize Kubernetes best practices, they need to know about culture and enablement.
A Crypto True Believer Makes His Case โ newsletters.theatlantic.com Dispatches from a weird economy.
Quality-of-Service for Memory Resources | Kubernetes Authors: Tim Xu (Tencent Cloud) Kubernetes v1.22, released in August 2021, introduced a new alpha feature that improves how Linux nodes implement memory resource requests and limits. In prior releases, Kubernetes did not support memory quality guarantees. For example, if you set container resources as follows: apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: example spec: containers: - name: nginx resources: requests: memory: "64Mi" cpu: "250m" limits: memory: "64Mi" cpu: "500m" spec.containers[].resources.requests(e.g. cpu, memory) is designed for scheduling.
Ebook: How to build a serverless app platform on Kubernetes โ books.pmbanugo.me Learn how to build a Heroku/Netlify kind of platform using GitHub, Kubernetes, Docker, and other Cloud Native tools.
Share or link to quotes & text in Chrome - Computer - Google Chrome Help You can create a shareable link that goes directly to specific highlighted text on a page. To create a link that opens directly to highlighted text:ย
A usefully short guide to software pricing by Neil Davidson
Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes you own this product by Mauricio Slatino โ www.manning.com
Take the fast track in your journey to continuous delivery, with open source tools for Kubernetes and cloud applications. This book explores the tools and techniques youโll need to overcome common cloud native challenges. In Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes you will learn how to: Select the right open source project to solve challenges with your Kubernetes application Package, version, distribute and instant cloud native services using Helm Create and run pipelines using Tekton Plan and implement a multicloud strategy with Crossplane Implement risk-free and progressive upgrades with Knative