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November 2025

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👋 Intro

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

Lots has been going on this month! KubeCon brought a lot of activity and some great talks and announcements but we've also seen the (upcoming) retirement of ingress-nginx, some major releases of Helm and external-secrets and a Cloudflare outage that effected lots of the internet.

This months issue also includes all the recordings from not one, not two, not three but FOUR different conferences! 😮 That should keep y'all busy in the fast approaching winter nights.

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📰 News & Articles

  • Kustomize logo design proposals - Kustomize
    The Kustomize project is looking for a new logo. If you're feeling creative why not add your submission?
  • Tailscale Welcomes Kubernetes Co-Founder Joe Beda as Advisor - Joab Jackson
    The Kubernetes co-founder will help bring Wireguard VPN's ease of use to solving complicated K8s networking patterns.
  • Announcing the 2025 Steering Committee Election Results - Arujjwal Negi
    The 2025 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2025. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by the Kubernetes Community.
  • Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know - Tabitha Sable
    If you haven't heard already - ingress-nginx is being retired due to lack of time and support for the maintainers of the project. This post outlines the current plan for maintenance and retirement.
  • Navigating the Ingress-nginx Archival: Why Now Is the Time to Move to Cilium - Isovalent
    Following on from the above post, this post explains what the retirement means, compares your options, and shows how to migrate quickly to Cilium Ingress or adopt the Cilium Gateway API for advanced traffic management.
  • External Secrets Inc is winding down - External Secrets Inc
    External Secrets Inc., the company set up to build out External Secrets, is winding down operations but its not just bad news. All of the (formerly) proprietary code is now open source (under the MIT License) so that all may benefit from what they've created.
  • Kubernetes v1.35 Sneak Peek - Aakanksha Bhende, Arujjwal Negi, Chad M. Crowell, Graziano Casto & Swathi Rao 
    A look at what we can expect from the upcoming Kubernetes v1.35 release expected to be released December 17th.
  • Gateway API 1.4: New Features -  Beka Modebadze
    The Kubernetes SIG Network community presented the General Availability release of Gateway API (v1.4.0)! Released on October 6, 2025, version 1.4.0 reinforces the path for modern, expressive, and extensible service networking in Kubernetes.
  • SRE math every engineer should know: a practical guide - Srivatsa RV
    Curious how top engineers keep systems reliable? This guide breaks down the maths behind Site Reliability Engineering into simple, real-life examples whether it’s understanding error budgets, decoding percentiles, or making sense of dashboards. Perfect if you want to stop firefighting and start making data-driven, confident decisions on call.
  • A 2025 look at real-world Kubernetes version adoption - Rory McCune
    Rory took a fresh look at the state of Kubernetes version adoption and things are looking generally pretty good.
  • Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 - Matthew Prince
    Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected. This post breaks down the cause and the steps taken to identify and fix the problem.
  • How Amazon Prepares for Black Friday: Predictive Modeling - Joab Jackson
    As Black Friday approaches, two Amazon engineers shared secrets of how they ensure the shopping service stays up even under heavy duress.

🔒 Security

🧑‍🏫 Tutorials, Videos & Podcasts

🧰 Tools

🎤 Events and CFPs

Events

  • 🇬🇧 ContainerDays London 2026 - 11th - 12th February, 2026
    ContainerDays is coming to the UK for the first time next year and tickets are now available. I'll also be speaking so come say hi if you are there! 👋
  • 🇨🇭 Cloud Native Zürich 2026 -11th June, 2026
    Tickets are now available for Cloud Native Zürich

CFPs

💬 Social Post of the Month

Bluesky post by Chris Kuehl - "There’s a DJ in the badge pickup and reentry queuing room at #Kubecon. He may have the largest audience at the conference."
There was quite a queue to get into KubeCon this year.

🤷 Misc & Fun

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~ Marcus 👋