Live from Valencia, it’s KubeCon EU! Craig talks to conference co-chair and CERN computer scientist Ricardo Rocha about the event, and what it’s like to be in a room full of people again.

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Chatter of the week

• 9am Karaoke

News of the week

• CNCF news from KubeCon EU:
  • SlashData survey
  • 800 members
  • Boeing
  • Coinbase
  • Prometheus Certified Associate
• Google Cloud improves GitOps usability with Config Sync and Porch
  • kpt
  • Other Google news from KubeCon
• Tetragon from Isovalent
• Envoy Gateway
• Infra
  • Ask HN with the creators
• Cloud Foundry launches Korifi
• SUSE NeuVector is open source
• CloudNativePG from EnterpriseDB
  • All the other options
• Assured Open Source Software from Google Cloud
• Recent Guest news:
  • Akuity announces $20m Series A (episode 172)
  • Komodor raises $42 million Series B (episode 153)
  • Deepfence launches Deepfence Cloud (episode 173)

Lightning Round

• Armory announced public early access to their new Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service product
• Aserto announces its ”better together” approach to authorization by bringing together OPA, OCI, and Sigstore
• Bunnyshell Introduces support for multi-repository Terraform with full-stack drift management and GitOps
• Calyptia announces the General Availability of Calyptia for Fluent Bit,
• CAST AI introduces advanced Autoscaler for AKS
• Clastix launches Kamaji, a new open source tool for Managed Kubernetes Service
• CloudCasa by Catalogic expands to support Microosft AKS
• Codenotary combines Community Attestation Service with background vulnerability scanning
• CodeZero Launches Surf, a new developer tool for observability in pre-production Kubernetes environments
• CrateDB introduces Logical Replication
• D2iQ Partners with GitLab
• DataCore Bolt container-native storage software now GA; built on their acquisition of Mayadata
• Datadog launches Application Security Monitoring and support for OpenTelemetry Protocol in the Datadog Agent,
• Deepfactor partners with Synopsys to help developers resolve cloud native supply chain security risks
• env0 enables full-stack IaC deployment and management with native Kubernetes support
• Era Software introduces EraStreams
• Fairwinds Insights unifies DevSecOps with additional shift-left enhancements
• GitLab free tier adds pull-based Kubernetes deployments
• Google announced a new low-cost, high-usage pricing tier for Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
• HCL Technologies launches Kubernetes migration platform
• Kasten by Veeam launches K10 v5.0 released
• Runecast adds CI/CD integration and image scanning
• Lacework introduces new Kubernetes Audit Logs monitoring
• Loft Labs announces a Cluster API provider for vcluster
• NetFoundry embeds zero trust into Prometheus
• New Relic introduces low-overhead Kubernetes monitoring and Pixie plug-in framework
• Pure Storage’s new Database as a Service platform is GA
• Replicated introduces community licensing and pre-flight checks
• SphereEx releases DB-Plus Suite
• Snapt announces security package to run Kubernetes in public cloud
• SPIRE now runs on Windows
• Sysdig launches new Advisor and Sysdig Open Source leverages Falco plugins
• SysEleven unveils MetaKube Operator
• Timescale announces OpenTelemetry Tracing support for Promscale
• Vultr Kubernetes Engine now Generally Available
• Zesty Disk for Kubernetes introduced

Links from the interview

• Episode 62
  • Lukas Heinrich
  • Clemens Lange
• CERN
  • LHC Computing Grid
  • Large Hadron Collider
• Kubeflow
• Data on Kubernetes Community
• CNCF Research User Group
• CNCF TOC
• Volcano moves to incubation
• KubeCon EU 2022
• Episode 165, with Jasmine James
• Selection process report for KubeCon EU
• KubeCon China 2021
• Research track
• Puppies at KubeCon NA 2019
• Code, mountains and flying
• Kubernetes on an F/16
• Ricardo Rocha on Twitter and on the web