NWS @ KubeCon EU and Kubernetes v1.33 Release
It’s the last Wednesday in April, which means it’s newsletter time!
At the beginning of the month, NWS was at KubeCon EU in London with part of the team and came back with a suitcase full of inspiration, new tools and techniques - you can find our review including our favorite contributions in the first post.
There was also new content on our blog this month - for example our review of the newest Kubernetes release v1.33 Octarine. Otherwise, as in all our newsletters, there are also some News from the Internet and the CLI Corner - enjoy reading!
Events
NWS @ KubeCon EU in London
At the beginning of the month, Achim, Dominik, Justin, Sebastian and I spent four days in London at this year’s KubeCon. The general conditions were the same as every year: lots of exhibitors, even more talks, and the inevitable question of which talks to catch straight away and which would end up on the YouTube watchlist.
One of the highlights for us was of course the official announcement of NETWAYS Managed Services as a Silver Member of the CNCF during the keynotes on the first day of the conference.
In our usual review, we also captured our personal highlights, ubiquitous topics and trends such as AI, LLMs and Open Telemetry and other impressions - take a look!
Product News
NWS is a Canonical Reseller
NWS is now an official reseller for Canonical products. We are thus expanding our portfolio to include professional solutions for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Pro, and other Canonical services.
As our customer, you benefit from direct access to commercial subscriptions and support services. We look forward to working with Canonical on exciting projects!
If you require a Canonical solution or have further questions, please contact our sales specialists directly via our contact form.
Blog
Kubernetes v1.33 Octarine released
In our Kubernetes release review, I took a close look at the latest Kubernetes release v1.33 Octarine.
Besides 5 deprecations, a few new features stand out that made it into either Beta or General Availability, most notably Pod Resizing and support for the new Sidecar Containers.
Read our full Kubernetes release review for a deeper dive into the new features, including examples and discussion.
Events
NWS @ stackconf - stop by!
At the time you read this newsletter, part of the NWS team is in Munich at stackconf.
As a Silver Sponsor, we are supporting this great two-day event about cloud-native and infrastructure and learning new things about the challenges and wishes of our customers and interested parties.
Stefan and Martin are responsible for organizing our Capture the Flag event at our stand, where participants can put their Kubernetes skills to the test. Come and say Hi if you’re there!
Reading Corner
This month we have a colorful potpourri of deep insights into the development processes at large companies, the usual posts to learn new things about Kubernetes and Co, and blog posts that make you think - enjoy reading!
- Michael has refreshed his knowledge of networking topics in Kubernetes:
Understanding Kubernetes Networking Internals - Daniel found the article on the release process at Spotify interesting:
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Release the Spotify App (Part 1) - Dominik is glad that he hasn’t yet encountered a bug like the one in Google Docs:
War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged - Justin isn’t sure whether Kubernetes: The Promise Engine wouldn’t also be a good title for a sci-fi thriller:
Kubernetes: The Promise Engine - Sebastian has taken an in-depth look at antipatterns in platform building:
Platform Building Antipatterns: Slow, Low, and Just for Show - Daniel will write post mortems for his homelab starting today:
Learning from Failure: Why You Should Write Post-Mortems for Your Homelab
CLI Quick Win
If, like me, you often find yourself debugging Kubernetes environments, you will certainly have struggled with kubectl logs - the output is often confusing, too granular or not granular enough.
With stern you can output any container in pods of different workloads in your cluster - or select only individual components of your environment.
Further strengths of stern are the coherent coloring of related logs as well as automatic detection of new pods or containers of the same workload - invaluable in dynamic environments!
stern is licensed under Apache 2.0 and freely available on GitHub under stern/stern.
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Until next month,
Daniel & the NWS-Team
