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What is Cloud Native Rejekts? Venue Notable Sessions Malicious Compliance Automated: When You Have 4000 Vulnerabilities and only 24 Hours Before Release Debug Like a Pro: Ephemeral Containers and Wolfi Linux in Action Integrating eBPF superpowers into your observability tooling Stateful App Migration with Zero Downtime Worthy Mentions Social Connections What is Cloud Native Rejekts? A fantastic pre-KubeCon event showcasing the “rejected” but equally impactful talks. Each talk is up to 30min with 5min lightning talks sprinkled across the day. ...

Welcome to my recap of this year’s Kubernetes Convention in Salt Lake City! I had the privilege of attending not only the main KubeCon event but also several satellite conferences that showcased the vibrant Cloud Native community. Here’s a day-by-day breakdown of my experiences, insights, and highlights. Day 0: Arrival in Salt Lake City (Saturday) The Journey Begins. We’re outside! Bright and early I head to JFK and 4 short hours later find myself in Salt Lake City! Never been to Utah, or any western state outside of California and Texas, so I had high (pun-intended) expectations. The mountain views as we touched down were stunning! ...

HAProxy is a very powerful load balancer and reverse proxy. Honestly, I have not given it the time of day since the ol’ days (when Nginx was the one to beat) and since then have grown to prefer Traefik. Traefik is simple to set up, versatile when you need it to be and its ubiquity is unmatched. It is even built into K3s! Speaking of K3s, I currently run two Kubernetes clusters in my homelab both leveraging K3s and Traefik. ...

TL;DR: Set this alias to save up to 90% in the CLI! /s On a serious note, set this and check out kubectl completion and aliases. Beautiful town! The San Diego Convention Center is a behemoth and getting lost was a daily occurrence. I am sure I was not the only one who was overwhelmed by the sheer size of the event as there were 12,000 other souls on this starship. ...