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SiliconANGLE: “KubeCon day 1 keynote analysis: Kubernetes uplevels security for open source in the enterprise”
SiliconANGLE: “KubeCon day 1 keynote analysis: Kubernetes uplevels security for open source in the enterprise” October 14, 2021
The open hybrid cloud has been a topic of discussion for more than a decade as software applications increasingly bridge two worlds of public cloud and on-premises data centers.

DevOps.com: “CNCF Adopts Meshery to Advance Service Mesh Management”
DevOps.com: “CNCF Adopts Meshery to Advance Service Mesh Management” October 14, 2021
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week during the ServiceMeshCon/KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference that Meshery, a service mesh management plane created by Layer5, has become a sandbox-level project.

SearchITOperations: “DevOps platform operators hone support for GitOps”
SearchITOperations: “DevOps platform operators hone support for GitOps” October 14, 2021
GitOps practitioners at companies such as State Farm and Intuit have begun to fill in the details of observability, security and other ‘day 2’ practices for the maturing paradigm.

SiliconANGLE: “Wayfair leverages cloud native technologies to improve business”
SiliconANGLE: “Wayfair leverages cloud native technologies to improve business” October 14, 2021
Online home store Wayfair LLC delivered 61 million orders in 2020. That’s a lot of sales … and making the online sales process easier, as well as streamlining the handling of customer data, is essential to the company’s continued success.

SearchITOperations: “Crossplane project could disrupt infrastructure as code”
SearchITOperations: “Crossplane project could disrupt infrastructure as code” October 14, 2021
A CNCF Kubernetes orchestration project that was promoted from sandbox to incubation last month will replace infrastructure-as-code tools and reinvent cloud resource management, if its creator gets his way.

Computer Weekly: “A class of its own, CNCF & Linux Foundation Kubernetes exam”
Computer Weekly: “A class of its own, CNCF & Linux Foundation Kubernetes exam” October 14, 2021
The Linux Foundation and The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) have announced the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) exam.

Computer Weekly: “Kubernetes networking evolves: Cilium joins CNCF as an incubator”
Computer Weekly: “Kubernetes networking evolves: Cilium joins CNCF as an incubator” October 14, 2021
Cilium (pronounced ‘see-lee-um’) provides networking, security and observability for cloud native environments by acting as a CNI (Container Network Interface) and enhanced networking layer for Kubernetes using eBPF (extended Berkley Packet Filter).

Forbes: “Software’s Big Skill-Up, Learning The Way To Cloud-Native”
Forbes: “Software’s Big Skill-Up, Learning The Way To Cloud-Native” October 14, 2021
Cloud-native is difficult. Actually, it’s not, the saying is borrowed from ‘Life is difficult’, the opening lines of M. Scott Peck’s seminal human psyche analysis book The Road Less Traveled. Cloud actually isn’t inherently difficult at all because...

Toolbox IT: “Just 9% of Organizations Have Fully Documented Cloud Security Procedures: CNCF”
Toolbox IT: “Just 9% of Organizations Have Fully Documented Cloud Security Procedures: CNCF” October 13, 2021
Despite being up to speed on the importance of modernizing security implementations in the cloud, a huge chunk of professionals said their organizations are lagging behind. Responses from these professionals to a CNCF survey indicate that organizations need...

IT Ops Times: “KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021: GitLab Operator; Falco updates; and Red Hat OpenShift latest version”
IT Ops Times: “KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021: GitLab Operator; Falco updates; and Red Hat OpenShift latest version” October 13, 2021
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 kicked off earlier this week, and the event has resulted in a number of Kubernetes and cloud-native companies announcing updates to their platforms.