Hello, Cloud Gurus. I'm Nigel Poulton the author of The Kubernetes Book and the KCNA book,
all about how to smash the KCNA exam. Anyway, this is Kubernetes This Month,
the show that keeps you up to date with all the news and announcements from the Kubernetes world.
In this episode, we'll look at the latest trends from the CNCF annual survey of 2021,
some cool stuff happening with Chaos Mesh, more money for finding Kubernetes vulnerabilities,
another Docker birthday and way more. Plus something really cool right at the end.
And I mean, really cool. Now, while you’re here, be sure to subscribe,
coz you know you wanna be up-to-date with all the cool stuff happening with cloud and Kubernetes.
Right? So hot off the press is the CNCF's annual report of 2021. And they're leading with the
notion that Kubernetes has well and truly crossed the adoption chasm, and it is properly mainstream.
So the headline stat is that according to the respondents, 96% of organizations are either
evaluating or using Kubernetes. 96%! Now, while that blows my mind, it does kind of reflect the
conversations that I'm having. I mean, I rarely speak with anyone these days that isn't doing
something with Kubernetes, but you know what, even the more mainstream consumer tech podcasts
and stuff that I listen to, they're starting to drop the word Kubernetes into conversations. So
even to me, it feels like it's breaking into the everyday vocabulary of regular tech people. Like
not just your geeky backend developers. Anyway, another stat that I'm not surprised is with is 79%
of respondents are using managed Kubernetes, with Amazon EKS leading the pack there. Again,
it's no surprise just about everyone I speak to these days is consuming hosted Kubernetes.
It's just so easy. Now sticking with hosted stuff, 39% of respondents are using serverless. Okay, but
of those 39%, three quarters are using hosted serverless. And then three quarters of those
are using AWS Lambda. So three quarters of the three quarters of the 39%, head exploding,
they're using Lambda. Either way, hosted Kubernetes is huge. Serverless is being really
well used. And the majority of serverless users are also using fully managed or hosted platforms,
in particular, AWS Lambda. Now all of this consumption via hosted or managed services
is seen as Kubernetes going "under the hood". So becoming less and less visible. Yeah. More and
more just part of the infrastructure that happens to be there. Kind of like, oh yeah, Kubernetes,
it's in there somewhere, but you know what? We don't really get our hands dirty with that. Little
bit like Linux actually. So phones, tablets, TVs, doorbells, you name it, they all run Linux,
but the users don't necessarily know. They interact with higher level abstractions. Well,
Kubernetes is heading in a similar direction, which I think is a really good thing. But look,
there's plenty more in the report and it's free to download. I've put a link in the description.
Huge congratulations to the Chaos Mesh team and community as the project moves out of the
CNCF sandbox and into the incubating stage. And that's no mean feat, a proper sign that
the project is maturing. So a key concept of cloud native design is expecting things to fail.
Like no matter how well you build stuff, things will always fail. So a well designed environment
handles failures really well, which sounds great on paper, but how do you actually do that? Well,
I mean, loosely coupling things and distributing for high availability, that's table stakes,
but knowing what kind of things can break and actually go wrong, that can be hard.
And that's where Chaos Mesh comes into play. Basically it injects all kinds of failures
and other chaos into your Kubernetes dev and test environments, and you can see how well
they hold up or maybe how well they don't hold up. Maybe they crash and burn. So for example,
Chaos Mesh can throw in node failures, network, DNS, HTTP, and loads more chaos and failures.
And it's got a decent dashboard for managing and monitoring your chaos experiments.
The project's got over 50 users, it's got over 125 contributors for more than 60 organizations,
and it's had over 30 releases. Now it was originally accepted as a CNCF
sandbox project in the summer of 2020, but just now in February 2022, it's progressed
to incubating. So if you haven't checked it out yet, you should. It's actually fun,
but it's really important if you're serious about Kubernetes in production.
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Okay. So time for my other topics from February. Docker is having another birthday. And this year
it's turning nine years old, which is hard to believe really. Has it been that long since
Solomon Hykes did his infamous misspelled 'hellow world' container at PyCon? Anyway, look, their
holding an online annual community meetup with a bunch of great cool stuff. They've got news,
panels, specialists tracks, and loads more, and it's free.
On Valentine's day, the Google Security blog announced it was expanding its current Kubernetes
bug bounty program until at least the end of the year 2022. Basically they're super keen
to catch vulnerabilities and they're offering from 20,000 to over 90,000, US dollars that is,
for anyone who can compromise their Kubernetes CTF sandbox.
Apparently they paid over 175,000 US dollars in the last three months alone.
And they're keeping the program and its increased payouts live until at least the end of 2022.
The second annual IstioCon will be on the 25th to the 29th of April.
And it'll be a hundred percent virtual.
And then last, but absolutely not least. And this is the cool thing that I mentioned
at the top of the show, so I hope you're not disappointed, but if you don't already know,
Honeypot have released a really well-made Kubernetes documentary.
Yeah, absolutely. Now it's in two parts and it tracks the rise of Kubernetes and cloud native.
I've seen most of it, and in fact I might watch the rest of it tonight actually. But seriously, it
really is well made and it is a proper good watch if you're into this stuff. So the link's below,
and I think you love it. I reckon it should be on like Netflix or Amazon Prime or something.
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