Cloud Native Digest: Score joins the CNCF as a Sandbox project

KubeSphere
3 min readJul 15, 2024

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Open source projects worth checking out

Trident

Trident is a fully supported open source project maintained by NetApp. It has been designed from the ground up to help you meet your containerized applications’ persistence demands using industry-standard interfaces, such as the Container Storage Interface (CSI).

Monokle

Monokle is a set of OSS tools designed to help create and maintain high-quality Kubernetes configurations throughout the application lifecycle.

Platform Aware Scheduling

Platform Aware Scheduling (PAS) contains a group of related projects designed to expose platform specific attributes to the Kubernetes scheduler using a modular policy driven approach. The project contains a core library and information for building custom scheduler extensions as well as specific implementations that can be used in a working cluster or leveraged as a reference for creating new Kubernetes scheduler extensions.

cdebug

With this tool you can:

  • Troubleshoot containers and pods lacking shell and/or debugging tools.
  • Forward unpublished or even localhost ports to your host system.
  • Expose endpoints from the host system to containers & Kubernetes networks.
  • Handily export image’s and/or container’s filesystem to local folders.
  • and more

Technical recommendations

Kubernetes Deployment Strategies- A Detailed Guide

The article explores various deployment strategies in Kubernetes in depth. It provides detailed insights into the definition, advantages, disadvantages, and suitable scenarios for each strategy, helping readers understand how to choose and implement the most appropriate deployment strategy based on their specific needs.

An Intro to Kubernetes Hardening

The article provides an introduction to Kubernetes hardening techniques. It discusses enhancing the security of Kubernetes clusters through configuration and best practices, covering aspects like authentication, authorization, network security, and runtime protection. The importance of continuous monitoring and updates for maintaining the security of Kubernetes environments is also emphasized.

What’s new in cloud native

Score joins the CNCF as a Sandbox project

We’re very excited to announce that Score, an open-source workload specification, has been accepted as a Sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as of July 8, 2024.

Kubewarden 1.14 release

We are thrilled to announce the release of Kubewarden v1.14.0! This version comes packed with new capabilities, enhancements, and fixes that make Kubewarden even more robust and user-friendly. Key highlights include the introduction of new management capabilities, improvements to the toolset for policy writing and management, enhanced performance and stability, and support for additional Kubernetes versions and plugins. This version also optimizes audit and logging functionalities, aiming to enhance user experience and security.

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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Written by KubeSphere

KubeSphere (https://kubesphere.io) is an open source distributed operating system providing cloud native stack with Kubernetes as its kernel.

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