🛠️ On Day 2 (May 19), we're running four intensive hands-on workshops for cloud practitioners. First two are:
1️⃣ Workshop 1: Building Platforms with Crossplane
Led by Riccardo Capraro
2️⃣ Workshop 2: Building Infrastructure Tools with Kubernetes Operators and Go
Led by Rabieh Fashwall
Wondering what's new with Crossplane v2.2?
Hear from maintainer and release manager Adam Wolfe Gordon on what shipped in v2.2.
👀 blog.crossplane.io/crossplane-v2-2-more-capable-more-reliable-more-observable/
#Crossplane #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering
Research sleuths are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:
cen.acs.org/research-int...
@mcintold.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @sholtodavid.bsky.social,
@eugenie-reich.bsky.social
Join us for the @crossplane.io community meeting today at 10am pac / 1800 UTC! We'll show a demo of the function pipeline explorer, start planning the v2.3 milestone, sig-cli is picking up momentum...lots going on, come hang out with us!
agenda doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
This completely fake university was recently uncovered by @mcintold.bsky.social - it’s fascinating. #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity
NEW: INACTION CONTINUES ON DANGEROUS JUNCTIONS
📊The latest data published today, shows a picture of inaction from @mayoroflondon.bsky.social, TfL and local councils, when it comes to making junctions safe for cycling...
🧑💻 Email the mayor and demand action: bit.ly/47QcmUF
Haskell Brain Teasers is currently in beta. If you’re planning to read it I’d love you to get the beta and give feedback now!
pragprog.com/titles/haske...
"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
My answer is even better:
Don't miss the awesome speakers for Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 go.bsky.app/QWcidxD
Scientific study of trisodium citrate in the recipe for cacio e pepe wins an Ig Nobel prize this year. Science is cool, kids.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
> [Blacksky] guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to. That’s the true promise of decentralized social media.
Me for @newpublic.org
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
Crossplane 2.0 was one of the main things in the cloud native space I was really looking forward to this year 🚀 Game-changer features: applications as first-class citizens, namespaced resources, and native support for composing Kubernetes resources. @crossplane.io blog.crossplane.io/announcing-c...
The Crossplane v2 release candidate is available for installation and testing now in your non-production clusters!
github.com/crossplane/c...
We invite you to try this build and report any issues and questions. Let's work together towards a polished and high quality release for early next week!
New Crossplane function-pythonic looks good: github.com/fortra/funct...
def compose(self):
vpc = self.resources.vpc('ec2.aws.crossplane.io/v1beta1', 'VPC')
vpc.spec.forProvider.region = self.spec.region
vpc.spec.forProvider.cidrBlock = self.spec.cidr
My photo shows an ancient Egyptian statuette of a standing blue hippopotamus on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. It is made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material coated with a bright blue glossy glaze. The hippo is viewed from the side profile with head on the right. It is decorated in black pigment with outlines of lotus plants which grow in the hippos Nile habitat. A little bird is perched on the stem of one lotus flower. Dimensions: Height 11.5 cm, length 21.5 cm. Excavated by Auguste Mariette in 1860 at the necropolis of Dra’ Abu el-Naga’, western Thebes. Dated Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty, c. 2134-1991 BC. Egyptian faience is a ceramic material made of quartz. Blue hippos are decorated with black pigment outlining depictions of Nile river plants, in particular lotus flowers. In ancient Egypt lotus flowers had religious symbolism; the flowers close at night and reopen with the rising of the sun in the morning, which was associated with regeneration and rebirth. Blue faience hippos have been found in Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate period tombs. It’s thought they were placed there to help the rebirth of the deceased. Associated with the life-giving Nile, regeneration, and Tawaret, the ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility and childbirth. Hippos were also seen as dangerous to humans so the legs of faience hippos have often been broken off the statuettes found in tombs, perhaps to make sure the hippo could not harm the deceased in the afterlife.
Happy weekend! 🦛💙
Here’s a wonderful c. 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian glossy blue hippo decorated with a little bird perched on the stem of a lotus flower.
Egyptian Museum Cairo 📷 by me
#Archaeology
We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today!
FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings.
Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.
As we test Kubernetes clusters beyond the supported 5,000+ nodes limit at LinkedIn, we're finding out 'List API' calls are a bottleneck in cluster reliability. So I'm publishing a deep dive about why this is a problem and what you can do about them. ahmet.im/blog/kuberne...
I am once again pitching my romantic comedy:
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
v2 APIs have been merged into Crossplane's main branch github.com/crossplane/c...!
Read more about v2 here: github.com/crossplane/c...
The Crossplane v1.20.0 release is now available to install into your control planes! 🎉
A huge thank you goes out to our release MVPs Carl Lunde and Tobi - thank you for your efforts! 🙇
Read all about this awesome new release in the release notes below:
github.com/crossplane/c...
Standing room only at the @crossplane.io v2 session #kubecon
What's new in Crossplane v2? docs.crossplane.io/v2.0-preview...
Stop by our booth 6A at #kubecon.
Lots of great talks at Cloud Native Day Oslo today: cloud-native-day-oslo-2025.sessionize.com/schedule
I'm giving a talk at 13:45 about @crossplane.io and Platform Engineering. Please say hi if you see me around, I'm happy to answer any questions.
