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37. #EveryoneCanContribute cafe: Policy reporter for Kyverno

Frank Jogeleit dives deep into the policy reporter for Kyverno, and how to monitor and view the policy reports in your Kubernetes cluster, with Kyverno as plugin and Loki as log backend integration. Recording Enjoy the session! 🦊 Highlights Frank walked us trough creating a policy report, which is a CRD in Kyverno at the moment. The Kubernetes Policy Prototype WG aims to make this a standard. The Policy reporter will be installed with Helm, and needs a configuration file to enable Kyverno, the UI, and Grafana Loki. Read More…


Date published: July 7, 2021

36. #EveryoneCanContribute cafe: Learn Rust with Rocket web app & Prometheus Monitoring

Learn developing a web app with Rocket.rs in Rust. Add monitoring metrics for Prometheus with rocket_prometheus. Recording Enjoy the session! 🦊 Highlights We decided to go with Rocket.rs Getting Started and learn how to register handles with the web app. We also learned about managing Cargo dependencies and Cargo targets. After finishing the implementation, we wanted to add Prometheus Monitoring metrics with rocket_prometheus. Since Rocket requires Rust nightly builds, we also needed to use the main. Read More…


Date published: June 30, 2021

35. #EveryoneCanContribute cafe: Litmus - Chaos Engineering for your Kubernetes

Learn how the CNCF landscape enables Litmus and Chaos Engineering where everyone can benefit from. Recording Enjoy the session! 🦊 Highlights Cloud native pyramid layer dependencies for resilience Chaos engineering and SLOs go hand in hand. Litmus SDK for Chaos Engineering development and experiments, standalone from ChaosHub Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) for Chaos Hub in airgrapped offline environments - fork the chaos-charts and use the experiment manifests. Litmus Chaos 2.x consumes Observability SLI GitOps flows for Chaos workflows Monthly release on the 15th. Read More…


Date published: June 23, 2021

34. #EveryoneCanContribute cafe: GitLab 14 in a secret session

GitLab 14 is around the corner next week on June 22nd. We discuss upcoming features and changes. The second part dives into a hands-on session securing secrets with sops. Recording Enjoy the session! 🦊 Highlights GitLab 14 excitement Terraform Module Registry + PyPI group endpoint VS Code MR Reviews Approval rules for code coverage (and in general) Trivy as Container scanner engine Wiki WYSIWYG editor Release post items for the blog post Secrets management with sops Insights GitLab upcoming releases Twitter thread


Date published: June 16, 2021

33. #EveryoneCanContribute cafe: Cloud native security with Snyk

Develop fast. Stay secure. Find and fix known vulnerabilities in your dependencies. Recording Enjoy the session with Matt Jarvis! 🦊 Highlights Snyk imports the code, runs an initial scan, and then continuously monitors Code Static Analysis Dockerfile and Kubernetes scans Infrastructure as Code scans Importance scoring based on CVSS score, is there an exploit available, is there a fix available Code suggestions based on OSS project fixes and machine learning VS Code extension and CLI Scan images directly on Docker Hub Snyk Advisor to suggest which package as dependency to use Insights Snyk Website Twitter thread


Date published: June 9, 2021

32. #EveryoneCanContribute cafe: Continuous Profiling with Polar Signals

Continuous Profiling - Measure and understand performance over time. Recording Enjoy the session with Frederic Branczyk and Matthias Loibl! 🦊 Highlights Continuous Profiling defining 4 pillars of Observability: Metrics, Traces, Logs, Profiles Open standard: pprof Polar Signals use Prometheus Service Discovery capabilities. Or push the data every X seconds. Query language similar to PromQL. Share views as a public URL, e.g. in PR/MRs for team collaboration. Merge queries and reports to see which code change impacted the performance Push metric samples to Thanos, and keep pprof profiles. Read More…


Date published: June 2, 2021