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Latest news from KubeCon NA 2024 about CNCF projects

Dapr Jaeger OpenTelemetry Prometheus Kubernetes

Significant releases included Jaeger v2 and Prometheus 3.0. Two projects (Dapr and cert-manager) became Graduated. New certifications for Backstage, OpenTelemetry, and Kyverno were announced...

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13 new projects in CNCF Sandbox from 2023: Clusternet, PipeCD, Microcks, KubeClipper, and more

Docker Kubernetes

Learn about Inspektor Gadget for debugging apps in K8s; Headlamp Kubernetes UI; Kepler for evaluating energy consumption; SlimToolkit to optimize containers; SOPS to manage secrets; Clusternet to simplify access to many clusters; Eraser to delete vulnerable images; PipeCD to deploy across different environments; Microcks to generate API mocks; kpt to handle configurations in WYSIWYG; HwameiStor storage for K8s; Xline distributed KV store; and KubeClipper to manage Kubernetes easily.

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Kubernetes, often abbreviated as K8s, is an open-source orchestration platform designed to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It acts as a "brain" for your infrastructure, ensuring that your containers run exactly where and how they should across a cluster of physical or virtual machines, abstracting away the underlying hardware to treat the entire data center as a single computational resource.

At its core, Kubernetes operates on a declarative model: you define the "desired state" of your application—such as how many replicas should be running or how much CPU they should use - and the system continuously works to maintain that state. If a container crashes or a node fails, Kubernetes automatically detects the discrepancy and restarts or reschedules the workload to ensure zero downtime, providing a self-healing environment that is critical for modern, high-availability systems.

Beyond simple container management, Kubernetes provides a robust ecosystem for networking, storage, and security. It handles service discovery and load balancing internally, allowing containers to communicate seamlessly without hardcoded IP addresses, and orchestrates storage mounting from various providers. By standardizing how applications are deployed and scaled, Kubernetes enables developers to move from local development to global production with consistent and predictable results.