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June 2025

A photo from KubeCon Japan showing Chris Aniszczyk stood to the right of a podium featuring the KubeCon Japan logo. Chris is mid-sentance introducing the conference.
The first even KubeCon Japan was a success this month! 🇯🇵 Photo credit: Cloud Native Computing Foundation

👋 Intro

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

Can you believe that there has been not one but TWO KubeCon's this month?! Not only was the month kicked off with KubeCon China but also the first ever KubeCon Japan took place in Tokyo and was a huge success. I'm very jealous to everyone who was able to attend, both events looked increadible and I had massive FOMO seeing all the photos.
If you also was unable to attend, the talk recordings are already online:

On top of that,  Apple had their annual WWDC where they announced a new open source container tool and framework for Mac OS 🤯 (See tools below).

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📰 News & Articles

🔒 Security

🧑‍🏫 Tutorials, Videos & Podcasts

  • 🎙️ Cloud Native Compass - The Future of Sustainability in Open Source
    In this mind-bending episode, Hazel Weakly guides us through the social, economic, and emotional layers of open source communities. We dig into governance, funding models, trust, burnout, and what it means to scale collective ownership—without losing your mind.
  • 📺 Kubernetes Monitoring 101: A Practical Walkthrough - Whitney Lee
    In this episode of 🌩️ Thunder, Whitney Lee and Pete Wall walk through the fundamentals of monitoring Kubernetes: what to collect, where to collect it from, and how to make sense of it all. From logs and metrics to traces, profiles, and dashboards, this video highlights key tools and concepts—including node health, kube-state-metrics, OpenCost, and more.
  • 🎙️ Cloud Native Compass - Observability for Developers: What You Need to Know?
    In this episode, David and Laura discuss the intricacies of observability in microservices with Adriana Villela, a principal developer advocate at Dynatrace and an OpenTelemetry maintainer. Adriana shares insights about the importance of properly instrumenting code, managing technical debt, and balancing the environmental impact of observability data.

🧰 Tools

  • container - Apple
    A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
  • containerization - Apple
    Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS.
  • kubectl-node_resource - ahmetb
    kubectl node-resource is a kubectl plugin that provides insights into Kubernetes node resource allocation (based on pod requests) and actual utilization (based on metrics-server data).
    It helps administrators and developers understand how resources are being consumed across their cluster's nodes and node pools.
  • kubectl-dpm - bavarianbidi
    Manage your kubectl debug profiles with style
  • etcd Cluster Playground - Márk Sági-Kazár on iximiuz Labs
    A multi-node etcd cluster for exploring clustering and coordination features.
  • containerd Playground - Márk Sági-Kazár on iximiuz Labs
    A new playground for exploring and experimenting with containerd.
  • Kubectl user preferences (kuberc)
    Kubectl v1.33 now has support for a kuberc file where you can define things like aliases.
  • Instrumentation Score Specification - Instrumentation Score Community
    A standardized metric for assessing OpenTelemetry instrumentation quality. Numerical score from 10-100 providing objective feedback on telemetry best practices.
  • insights - Linux Foundation
    Linux Foundation have now open sourced their LFX Insights platform.
  • kubetail - kubetail-org
    Real-time logging dashboard for Kubernetes (browser/terminal)

🎤 Events and CFPs

Events

  • 🇮🇹 The Linux Foundation Europe Roadshow - 8th July
    A new European conference from the Linux Foundation aimed at policymakers, developers, academics, and industry leaders.
    Get 50% off tickets with code LFEUMIL50FN
  • 🇩🇪 Cloud Native Summit Munich - 21st - 22nd July
    I'll be here giving my Pod Deep Dive talk. If you're going to be there please do come say hi! 👋

CFPs

💬 Social Post of the Month

Bluesky post from Chris Aniszczyk with the following text: "good morning to a sold out #kubecon #cloudnativecon Japan! 1500+ folks in Odaiba!"
The first ever KubeCon Japa

🤷 Misc & Fun

  • The 1 billionth GitHub repository
    💩
  • Passkeys for Normal People - Troy Hunt
    I hadn't really taken the time to look at Passkeys until reading this post. Very useful if you've also been ignoring them like I had.
  • DevRel Foundation - Linux Foundation
    I had no idea that the Linux Foundation now has a foundation dedicated to DevRel. Still seems like early days but I suspect many of my friends in the community will be interested in this.
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