Cloud Native Digest: Score accepted as a CNCF Sandbox Project

Open source projects worth checking out

KubeOne

Kubermatic KubeOne automates cluster operations on all your cloud, on-prem, edge, and IoT environments. KubeOne can install high-available (HA) master clusters as well single master clusters.

Mayfly

Mayfly is a Kubernetes operator that enables you to have time-based resources. They creates or deletes on the specified time.

kaniko

kaniko is a tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster.

Cluster API Add-on Provider for Helm

Cluster API Add-on Provider for Helm extends Cluster API by managing the installation, configuration, upgrade, and deletion of cluster add-ons using Helm charts. CAAPH is based on the Cluster API Add-on Orchestration Proposal, a larger effort to bring orchestration for add-ons to CAPI by using existing package management tools.

Technical recommendations

[K8s] ETCD — DR Solution

The article provides a detailed overview of implementing a disaster recovery (DR) solution for etcd in Kubernetes clusters. It discusses strategies for ensuring the high availability and persistence of etcd data through methods such as backups and recovery procedures. The article emphasizes best practices for creating etcd snapshots, using tools for data restoration, and recovering the cluster in disaster scenarios.

How to fix conntrack: table full, dropping packets in Kubernetes?

The article discusses how to address the issue of a full conntrack table in Kubernetes, which leads to packet dropping and connectivity problems. It explains the importance of conntrack for tracking network connections and provides solutions to prevent the table from becoming full. The article covers techniques such as adjusting conntrack settings, increasing table sizes, and optimizing Kubernetes network configurations to mitigate and resolve these issues.

What’s new in cloud native

Score accepted as a CNCF Sandbox Project

The team at Humanitec is thrilled to announce that Score has officially been accepted as a Sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as of July 8, 2024.

Score recently rolled out two new reference implementations for Docker Compose and Kubernetes, offering user-friendly and scalable solutions to get started with Score. This momentum provides a great baseline for us to engage with the CNCF community and further drive the development and adoption of Score.

Query Consistency Options in OpenFGA

OpenFGA query APIs now allows to specify the desired consistency of query results. By default, OpenFGA does not use a cache. However, when caching is enabled, it applies to all requests. This means that any changes in permissions won’t be reflected in authorization checks during the cache TTL period.

The community expressed the need for flexibility in using the cache on a per-request basis. In response, starting with OpenFGA v1.5.7, all query APIs can accept a consistency parameter with the following values:

About KubeSphere

KubeSphere is an open source container platform built on top Kubernetes with applications at its core. It provides full-stack IT automated operation and streamlined DevOps workflows.

KubeSphere has been adopted by thousands of enterprises across the globe, such as Aqara, Sina, Benlai, China Taiping, Huaxia Bank, Sinopharm, WeBank, Geko Cloud, VNG Corporation and Radore. KubeSphere offers wizard interfaces and various enterprise-grade features for operation and maintenance, including Kubernetes resource management, DevOps (CI/CD), application lifecycle management, service mesh, multi-tenant management, monitoring, logging, alerting, notification, storage and network management, and GPU support. With KubeSphere, enterprises are able to quickly establish a strong and feature-rich container platform.

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