Bi-weekly Round-Up: Technical + Ecosystem Updates from Cloud Foundry 12.15.20

Hi all! Here’s the last bi-weekly round-up of the year. I hope your holiday season is safe, festive and at least semi-normal, despite all limitations. 

From the Last Few Weeks:

• We’ve got a brand new Hands-on Lab: SHIELDing Data in your Cloud Foundry Apps,  from Stark & Wayne this Tuesday December 15 at 10 am pacific (that’s very soon)! Register here.
• A new project has been accepted into the Extensions PMC: Cloud Service Broker. Here’s a VMware Tanzu blog post explaining the project in greater depth.
• Feature Narrative: Fine-granular & custom platform roles for Cloud Foundry – cf-dev 
• Ram asks, PaaS or Fail? The Advantages of Platform-as-a-Service – The New Stack
• Ram and Shedrack join Swapnil on TFIR – video interview

Notable Releases:

• Routing release v0.210.0 –  more here.
• CF-deployment v15.3, with experimental support for bionic stemcell
• KubeCF v2.7.1
  • Added support for a generic fog provider to allow usage of an external blobstore. #1531
  • Implemented ability to pull kubecf or other images from a private registry requiring authentication. #1421
  • Removed the cc-deployment-updater to fix upgrade issues. #1637
  • Removed sample_values.yaml since values are now placed elsewhere. #1626
• CF-for-K8s v1.1.0
  • Added support for private registries for cf-for-k8s system images
  • Added QuarksSecret as an experimental option (doesn’t manage all secrets yet)
  • Added playbooks to the docs/maintaining folder
  • Docs updates

Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):

• “CF-Protect” Hands-on Lab – December 15 at 10 am
• CAB call – December 16 at 8 am
• CF Technical Governance meeting – December 18 at 8 am
• CF for Kubernetes SIG meeting December 22 at 8:30 am

Check the community calendar for updates and meeting details!

Ecosystem and General News:

• You can download the 2020 Linux Foundation Annual Report here. 
• Don’t panic re: Docker being deprecated in Kubernetes – Kubernetes blog
• Amazon Wants to Train 29 Million People to Work in the Cloud – WSJ
• AWS leads $36M Funding For Kubernetes Startup Weaveworks – crn.com
• New Relic snaps up Kubernetes machine learning solution provider Pixie Labs – zdnet.com

Community Updates:

• Have a question for the staff at Cloud Foundry Foundation? Want to stay current with updates for the Foundation? Join the #cff-forum channel on the community Slack.
• Looking for a job? Check out the jobs board and the #jobs channel in our community slack; folks are sharing the job openings in our community.  

(And if you are hiring, please do share the info in that channel.)