Welcome to the Calico monthly roundup: July edition! From open source news to live events, we have exciting updates to share—let’s get into it!
Exclusive: Cloud and container security leaders round table and dinner An exclusive, invite-only round table and dinner designed specifically for cloud and container security leaders. This intimate gathering will discuss today’s most pressing issues facing cloud and container security. |
Your Guide to Observability This guide explains what observability is and shows you how to use Calico’s observability tools. With these tools, you can find and troubleshoot issues with workload communications, performance, and operations in a Kubernetes cluster.Read guide. |
Customer case study: Playtech Calico seamlessly integrated with Amazon EKS GitOps model to enhance Playtech’s application security. Read the case study to learn more.Read case study. |
Open source news
Calico Live stream: Mitigating RCE zero-day attacks with Calico security policies – This live session on July 31, 2024 will examine the capabilities of Calico security policies to mitigate RCE attacks in a cloud-native environment. You can watch the live session on YouTube or LinkedIn.
Calico enhancements
- Calico v3.27.4 is out and here is why you should install or update your Calico instance:
- With this release, we have updated our underlying GO-lang component to 1.22.5, which mitigates the new CVEs that targeted the old versions of libraries inside the container.
- We also updated the bpftools that comes with Calico container to allow better resource utilization for XDP programs in all distros.
- A complete list of changes can be viewed here.
Kubernetes network policies: 4 pain points and how to address them – Learn about the challenges of implementing Kubernetes network policies and how to simplify their management and enhance security using Calico. Read blog post.
Boston Kubernetes Meetup – Don’t miss Tigera Developer Advocate, Jen Thomas’ talk on microsegmentation best practices on July 24, 2024 at 6:00pm. Understand what microsegmentation is and learn how to use network security policies as code to secure your containers and VMs. Learn how and why to isolate your workloads, namespaces, and tenants to protect and limit the damage from different threats. More details.
Container Days Hamburg – Join Thorben Theil, DevOps Lead at HanseMerkur and Dhiraj Sehgal, Manager Dev Advocacy at Tigera on September 4, 2024 in Hamburg, Germany to learn about how HanseMerkur solved their security problems for Kubernetes workloads for compliance and scale. More details.
GitHub Discussion forum – Looking for help with your Calico deployment? Or maybe you’ve got a new tutorial that you’d like to share with the community? While the Calico users Slack is still the best place to look for answers, in some cases you might want to showcase a problem or ask for a feature. Join us in our GitHub Discussion forum.
Connect
- Community meeting – Shape the future of Project Calico by attending the next monthly Project Calico community meeting on Aug 14th at 9:00 am PT. This event is online and brings you all the updates we are working on to help you with your cloud-native journey. Join the Zoom meeting.
- If you would like to contribute to the Calico Open Source community beyond GitHub, schedule a conversation to discuss event opportunities.
- Connect with us online:
Recent releases
- June 20th, 2024 – Calico Enterprise 3.19.1
- July 9th, 2024 – Calico Cloud 19.4.0
In the news
Check out recent Tigera-related coverage.
- Calico Cluster Mesh Simplifies Microservices Integration from Cloud Native Now
- Calico Cluster Mesh simplifies service connectivity for developers from TFiR
- Calico Cluster Mesh: Secure Microservices Communication, Simplified from Cloud Computing Magazine
- How to keep innovating with GenAI without compromising security from SC Magazine
➔ To see all coverage and to read Tigera’s press releases, visit our Newsroom.
Learning resources
Tutorials Hands-on experience at your pace. Use our self-paced tutorials to learn how to address common security and observability challenges for containers and Kubernetes. |
Help Center Our Help Center is an important technical resource for users and customers of Calico Cloud and Calico Enterprise. The Help Center contains technical articles to help you install, configure and manage your Calico solution. Access the Help Center here. |
O’Reilly eBook Kubernetes security and observability: A holistic approach to securing containers and cloud-native applications – Learn why you need a holistic security and observability strategy for containers and cloud-native applications, and new cloud-native approaches for establishing security and observability for applications running on Kubernetes. |
Blog
- How to create a cluster mesh with Calico CNI and VXLAN
- Embracing modern virtualization with Calico’s microsegmentation
- eBPF: Enabling security and performance to co-exist
Guides
White papers
- Microsegmentation for hosts, VMs, and containers
- Networking, security and observability for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
- 7 security best practices for DevOps managing workloads in EKS
Certifications
- Certified Calico Operator: Azure Expert – Gain experience using the Calico–Azure integration through hands-on labs. By the end of this course, you will know more about Azure cloud, as well as managed, self-managed, and hybrid cluster deployment using Calico in Azure.
- Certified Calico Operator: Level 1 – Understand how Kubernetes networking works, how to configure and manage a Calico network, and how to secure your cluster following today’s best practices.
- Certified Calico Operator: AWS Expert – Understand several options for deploying Kubernetes in AWS, examine how the default AWS networking works, learn how to configure and manage Calico in AWS, and how to secure your AWS Kubernetes cluster.
- Certified Calico Operator: eBPF course – By the end of this course, you’ll be able to run and modify simple eBPF programs, understand the deployment options and methods available with Calico’s eBPF data plane, and confidently deploy eBPF across multiple environment types.
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