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KubeCon NA 2023: Celebrating Innovation and the K8s Community

The sun has officially set on KubeCon North America 2023, but the CNCF's flagship event has left a lasting impression on us. Roughly 9,000 Kubernetes enthusiasts descended on Chicago's McCormick Place West to see the K8s community's latest innovations. DevOps professionals, engineers, and architects alike were eager to share and boost their K8s knowledge. Overall, HAProxy joined over 250 other sponsor organizations to celebrate open-source, cloud-native technologies over four activity-packed days.

Out-of-band communication: Maintaining business continuity

Today, most organizations rely on several different secure communication mediums — like email, real-time chat, video calls, and SMS — to transmit information, collaborate, and keep teams aligned. While modern communication tools help teams stay connected, the digital landscape is not without its challenges. For most organizations, it’s only a matter of time before network disruptions, security breaches, and system failures impact main lines of communication.

Hot topics from KubeCon North America 2023

As another year at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (CNC) draws to a close, the latest installment in Chicago might be one of our favorite ones so far! With talks having an ever greater focus on the impact of sustainability and inclusion within the community, we loved getting involved in the conversation about how we can make the cloud a better solution for all.

Serverless Workflows using Durable Functions and Logic Apps in Azure - Jonah Andersson

In this session titled "Serverless Workflows using Durable Functions and Logic Apps in Azure", DevOps Engineer Jonah Andersson explores Azure Durable Functions and Logic Apps, emphasizing their role in serverless workspaces. She discusses the benefits of low-code/no-code solutions, showcases diverse application design patterns, and much more Concluding with insights on when to use each service, this session offers a concise overview for those interested in serverless computing.

Bringing automation to telco edge clouds at scale

Canonical and Spectro Cloud have collaborated to develop an effective telco edge cloud solution, Cloud Native Execution Platform (CNEP). CNEP is built with Canonical’s open source infrastructure solutions and Spectro Cloud’s Palette containers-as-a-service (CaaS) platform. This technology stack empowers operators to benefit from the cost optimisation and agility improvements delivered by edge clouds in a highly secure and performant way.

Netplan brings consistent network configuration across Desktop, Server, Cloud and IoT

We released Ubuntu 23.10 ‘Mantic Minotaur’ on 12 October 2023, shipping its proven and trusted network stack based on Netplan. Netplan is the default tool to configure Linux networking on Ubuntu since 2016. In the past, it was primarily used to control the Server and Cloud variants of Ubuntu, while on Desktop systems it would hand over control to NetworkManager.

4 Reasons Why NOCs Need Incident Response Automation

Incident response in a Network Operations Center (NOC) is cumbersome and time-consuming. There are many steps, many sources where incidents come from, and a long, long list of complexities involved. For instance, for incident response with a NOC, there’s the initial monitoring – Tier 1 functions of “eyes on glass” work of looking at alerts coming in and what they’re for, such as a security breach, performance issue, a hardware failure, among others.

Databases: Cloud-Native Modernization with David Walker - Navigate Europe 23

Join David Walker, Field CTO at Yugabyte, in this enlightening session from Navigate Europe 23, as he explores the transformative journey of databases in cloud-native environments. Discover the evolution from legacy systems to modern, scalable, and automated database solutions. Learn about the challenges and opportunities in database modernization, and get a glimpse of the future where databases are seamlessly managed as cloud-native services.