Join us for all the news from KubeCon NA 2020, and a conversation with conference co-chair Stephen Augustus. Stephen is a Senior Open Source Engineer on the VMware Tanzu team, a chair of Kubernetes’ SIG Release, and a leader in many other parts of the project, past and present.

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Chatter of the week

The kākāpō wins Bird of the Year
We’re off for 2 weeks. See you on December 8!

News of the week

Cisco acquires Banzai Cloud
CNCF announces Cloud Native Survey 2020 results
Red Hat: New edge features, industrial AI/ML blueprint and AWS launch
CNCF End User Tech Radar for storage
New End User benefits
Envoy Mobile joins the CNCF
New sandbox projects
- cert-manager
- cdk8s
- Kyverno
- OpenKruise
- Pravega
- SchemaHero
- Tinkerbell
k8ssandra from Datastax
- Episode 98 with Sam Ramji
k0s from Mirantis
Solo.io announces Gloo Mesh Enterprise and rebrands products
- Episode 55, with Idit Levine
Pinniped
Shipa launches Ketch
Kinvolk launches Headlamp
The SPIFFE book “Solving The Bottom Turtle”
- Episode 45, with Andrew Jessup
Anthos Developer Sandbox
GKE ingress features
Ambassador Labs takes in $18m and launches v1.9
Tanzu SQL: Postgres on Kubernetes
Lightning round:
- Accurics extends Terrascan
- AWS adds containers to Lightsail
- Arrikto takes $10m in funding
- Brobridge releases Gravity
- CircleCI runner is GA
- Cloud66 for agencies and multiple database support
- Cloudflare Origin CA cert-manager plugin
- Cloudical Vanillastack
- Cloudify version 5.1
- Codefresh launches GitOps 2.0 features
- Commvault backup-as-a-service
- Diamanti Spektra 3.1 and customer portal
- Dynatrace PurePath 4
- Elastisys Compliant Kubernetes
- The Fairwinds Kubernetes Maturity Model
- Garden takes “seed” funding
- Gremlin adds soundproofing
- Humio Operator
- Instana adds observability tools on Kubernetes
- Intuit runs TurboTax on Kubernetes
- Kioxia announces a new storage offering
- Kubecost adds features for monitoring outside a cluster
- KubeMQ adds automatic network creation
- Kubermatic updates KubeOne to v1.1
- Kubernative SINA
- Kublr 1.19
- Lablup announced Backend.ai 20.09 RC
- Magalix launches KubeAdvisor 2.0
- Mayadata launches Kubera Propel and Kubera Chaos
- Mirantis adds extensions to Lens
- Puppet Labs adds Relay to Puppet Enterprise
- Reblaze announces Curiefense to add WAF to Envoy
- Replicates wants to help you Troubleshoot
- Styra adds new editions to DAS
- Sysdig introduces Kubernetes-native network security (ZTNSK) and partners with IBM Cloud
- TrilioVault for Kubernetes v2.0
- Zerto for Kubernetes
Google Open Source Live Kubernetes

Links from the interview

KubeCon NA 2020
- Episode 117, with Constance Caramanolis
- CNCF Twitch
- SIG Friday: ping Stephen for the current link
Slack
CoreOS
SIG Release
SIG PM (retired)
Kubernetes Enhancement Process
- Receipts process KEP
- Sidecar containers - KEP closed!
- Production readiness review
- Episode 10, with Josh Berkus and Tim Pepper
Release managers
Black Lives Matter announcement banner
- Better announcements
Kubernetes Naming working group
Inclusive Naming project
Dan Kohn memorial
Stephen Augustus on Twitter and on the web

KubeCon NA 2020, with Stephen Augustus

Kubernetes Podcast from Google