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January 2025

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Happy New Year!

👋 Intro

Welcome to the very first edition of CloudNative.Now - a monthly newsletter that covers all that has been happening in the cloud native world in the past month!

As this is the very first issue I feel like I should introduce myself and this newsletter a little bit. I’m Marcus Noble 👋 and I work as a Platform Engineer at Giant Swarm. This newsletter is my attempt at keeping myself, and others, up-to-date on all the latest news, tools and events happening in the cloud native world. A new issue will be published each month on the last Friday of that month and contain a roundup of articles, announcements, tools, tutorials, events and CFPs relating to cloud native technologies and the community.

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📰 News & Articles

🧑‍🏫 Tutorials & Videos

🧰 Tools

  • Helm TUI - Pidanou Eang
    Helm TUI (Terminal UI) is a text-based interface for managing Kubernetes Helm charts. With an intuitive and easy-to-use interface, it lets you search, install, upgrade, and delete charts with ease.
  • KRO - Powerful Abstractions for Kubernetes - AWS
    Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro) is a new operator for Kubernetes that simplifies the creation of complex Kubernetes resource configurations. kro lets you create and manage custom groups of Kubernetes resources by defining them as a ResourceGroup, the project's fundamental custom resource. ResourceGroup specifications define a set of resources and how they relate to each other functionally. Once defined, resource groups can be applied to a Kubernetes cluster where the kro controller is running. Once validated by kro, you can create instances of your resource group. kro translates your ResourceGroup instance and its parameters into specific Kubernetes resources and configurations which it then manages for you.
  • Reserved Capacity Manager for Kubernetes - ssbostan
    A new operator to help optimize the responsiveness of cluster-autoscaler by reserving low-priority resources on worker nodes as "hot spare" capacity. An interesting approach if scaling up quickly is important for you.
  • OpenTofu 1.9.0 - OpenTofu
    New release introduces provider for_each.
  • helm-cel - idsulik
    A Helm plugin that uses Common Expression Language (CEL) to validate values. Instead of using JSON Schema in values.schema.json, you can write more expressive validation rules using CEL in values.cel.yaml.
  • kubezonnet: Monitor Cross-Zone Network Traffic in Kubernetes - Polar Signals
    A newly open sourced solution from Polar Signals for identifying and measuring cross-zone pod network traffic in Kubernetes clusters.

🎤 Events and CFPs

Events

CFPs open this month

🤷 Misc & Fun

That's all for this month!
Thank you for reading! 💙

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~ Marcus 👋