Welcome to the Calico monthly roundup: May edition! From open source news to live events, we have exciting updates to share—let’s get into it!
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What’s new in Calico Discover the latest enhancements in Calico for Spring 2024, featuring new security capabilities, improved visualization tools, and an advanced workload-centric WAF to streamline and secure your Kubernetes operations. |
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Customer case study: NuraLogix AI-driven healthtech company, NuraLogix, improves security and compliance on Amazon EKS using Calico Cloud. |
Join us at CloudNative SecurityCon 2024 in Seattle We’re gearing up for CloudNative SecurityCon 2024, on June 26 and 27 in Seattle. Be sure to swing by our booth and learn about exciting container networking updates. Plus, pick up some cool new Calico swag! Stay tuned for details.
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S&P Global 451 Market Insight: Tigera Provides Most Comprehensive CNAPP Learn how Tigera differentiates itself from competitors by focusing on runtime security, aligning with the rapidly growing market category and how it is one of the strong players in this segment. |
Open source news
What’s new in 3.28 – Explore the new features in Calico 3.28, including a Grafana dashboard for Typha performance monitoring, enhanced IPv6 support in the eBPF data plane, and improved policy performance. Read blog post.
Selecting the right networking option for Amazon EKS – Learn about networking options for Amazon EKS, and how to optimize your Kubernetes setup with AWS-CNI and Calico for improved scalability, security, and policy enforcement. Read blog post.
The power of Kubevirt and Calico – Unlock the combined power of Kubevirt and Calico for your Kubernetes environments. Learn how to streamline VM management, enhance security, and optimize network performance seamlessly with these integrated technologies. Read blog post.
Calico vs. Cilium: 9 Key Differences and How to Choose – Explore this learn guide to select the right eBPF data plane for your environment. Read here.
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 June 12th 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
- May 9th, 2024 – Calico Enterprise 3.19.0 – 2.0
- April 30th, 2024 – Calico Cloud 19.2.0
In the news
Check out recent Tigera-related coverage.
- Tigera Extends Calico Commercial Editions’ Capabilities to Simplify Security Operations for Runtime Threat Detection for Cloud-Native Applications from PR Newswire
- Egress Gateway: Assign Stable IPs To Traffic Leaving K8s Clusters from The New Stack
- Tigera: Container and Network Security Combined from eChannel News
- Phil DiCorpo of Tigera on 5 Things You Need to Know To Optimize Your Company’s Approach to Cybersecurity from Authority Magazine
- Tigera: Providing Networking And Protection For Containers And Kubernetes In A $7+ Billion Market from Pulse 2.0
- eBPF: Reliable Policy Setting and Enforcement from The New Stack
➔ 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
- Container Security: Protect your data with Calico Egress Access Controls
- Modern Egress Gateway: Assign stable IPs to traffic leaving Kubernetes clusters
- The power of Kubevirt and Calico
- How To Get Real-Time Notifications for Denied Traffic With Prometheus and AlertManager
- Enhancing Kubernetes network security with microsegmentation: A strategic approach
Guides
White papers
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.
➔ Explore all certification courses
Partners
- We are pleased to welcome our new partner, AgileSecOps, to the Tigera partner program. Based in the UK, AgileSecOps is a new company founded by IT security veterans. While the main focus of the company is on security, it also deals with automation, cloud development, and system administration. We will work closely with AgileSecOps to make sure we can increase Tigera’s visibility throughout the UK.
- The Channel and Sales teams were onsite in Amsterdam with our partner Luminis on May 17th. Go-to-market and enablement plans were put in place with Technical, Sales and Marketing teams for the remainder of 2024 and into 2025. We look forward to growing the partnership within the Benelux market.
That’s a wrap!
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