I'm now a Google Developer Expert, Sidecars ft. Kubernetes v1.28, Open Source in trouble? ft. Hashicorp, OpenTF - True Terraform?

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This month was so special for every Indian and so for me, I watched history happening before my eyes. We did the soft landing on the moon and before anyone else, YES! India is the first country to reach the south pole of the moon. Goosebumps were real at the time of landing on the moon.

I'm extremely proud and happy to announce that I'm now a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Google Cloud technologies 🤩☁️

I came across the GDE program when I met amazing GDEs in India like Dharmesh Vaya, Kamesh Sampath, and Santosh Yadav their work motivated me to explore this program. The program has a nice step-by-step process where Kamesh Sampath GDE, and Joinal Ahmed ☁️ from Google helped me to apply it, Thanks for the support during the process 💜

What does it mean to be a Google Developer Experts GDE?
📌 I'm now a Google Cloud Platform Expert, So if you've any questions related to the platform or modern architecture like Google Kubernetes Engine, Istio, Anthos, etc. ping me anytime I would love to answer your questions. 💛 I've presented 50+ presentations at multiple conferences as well as created content crossing millions of views to educate folks on open source as well as DevOps technologies.

Furthermore, Loved to review the speaker submissions as a program committee member for Kubecon co-located event - MultitenancyCon 2023, and eBPF Summit. Delivered the talk on “Getting Started with cloud native and DevOps” at Code Vipassana - Season 3 by Abirami Sukumaran.

DevOps Community crossed 6,000 members on twitter, Daily helping each other to achieve goals. Community has folks from all over the world.

My upcoming Conferences/Talks

• I’m organizing DevOpsDays Bengaluru 2023 (Prev: DevOpsDays India), Do reach out for any details you require. 🐝 It’s happening on the 20th and 21st of October 2023, Make sure to register for the conference before it gets sold out. Reach out to us for any sponsorship activities.

• KubeDay India - Finally it’s happening, on the 8th of December in Bengaluru. CFP and sponsorships are open.

• Conf42: Platform Engineering 2023 - Sidecar-less Service mesh, Is it a dream or a reality?

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Our Community is growing daily, I’m trying to bring the newest opportunities and exciting updates every month.

DevOps and Cloud native communities are helping enthusiasts in multiple ways - I see most people active on Twitter and LinkedIn following awesome resources.

One more project graduates from CNCF: This time it is KEDA.

Awesome Community Reads and Videos:

1. Kubernetes Native Sidecars in Istio by John Howard

2. Kubernetes v1.28: Planternetes official release

3. LLM Presentation Links by wolfecameron

4. Unlock High Performance With WebAssembly by Gideon Ihieve

5. Kubernetes 1.28: Revenge of the Sidecars? by William Morgan

6. Using Kubernetes with AWS Lambda: Scaling Up Your Serverless Applications by Rohit Ghumare

Hashicorp License Changed to BSL:

HashiCorp's move to BSL licensing will impact SaaS providers who rely on their open-source products, but not end users. The change may signal a shift towards more controlled and proprietary open-source software, potentially limiting the ability of companies to build competing services. Foundations such as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) may play a role in regulating open-source licenses and fostering trust among users. The challenges faced by open-source projects in generating revenue and managing licensing issues may lead to further changes in the industry. Read more here: hashicorp-abandons-open-source-for-business-source-license

What is OpenTF?

• The OpenTF expresses concern over HashiCorp's switch of the Terraform license to the BSL and calls for the tool's return to an open-source license.

• Two weeks ago, HashiCorp announced they are changing the license to all their core products, including Terraform, to the Business Source License (BSL). In an attempt to keep Terraform open source, OpenTF team published the OpenTF manifesto, and the community response was huge! Over 100 companies, 10 projects, and 400 individuals pledged their time and resources to keep Terraform open-source. The GitHub repository for the manifesto already has over 3.8k stars, and the number is growing quickly!

• The manifesto outlined the intent of the OpenTF initiative in two steps — the first was to appeal to HashiCorp to return Terraform to the community and revert the license change they were making for this project. The second, in case the license was not reverted, was to fork the Terraform project as OpenTF.

• If you are a member of the community, a member of the press, an employee of HashiCorp, or anyone else with questions or feedback to share, you can reach the team behind this manifesto by emailing us at pledge@opentf.org.

• OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform Posted on: August 25, 2023

Kubernetes v1.28 Release: Security Enhancements & Improved Network Policies

Kubernetes releases a new version prioritizing security updates and improvements for Users in different contexts, regions, clouds and vertical industries. Key features are CVE fixes; OpenAPI validation enhancements; improved network policies; Dashboard configuration restoration; Various bugfixes across components. Operators, administrators etc., upgrade please refer to upgrade guide for instructions and ensure necessary precautions taken before upgrading clusters in production.

Eyes on Sidecars: Kubernetes v1.28: Introducing native sidecar containers

Explore more at github issue: K8s v1.28 issue

Amazing projects/reads

• Hack Wifi with one command by Hackers arise

• CRIs overview by Kunal Verma

  

• Rise of Vector Database by Pavan

  

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