Bi-weekly Round-Up: Technical + Ecosystem Updates from Cloud Foundry 2.3.21

Hi folks! Here are a few CF events I’d like to highlight coming up:

• This Thursday, Ram and Shedrack will be running a livestream at 9 AM PST: “JS Apps on K8s, simplified with Cloud Foundry”.
• We’ve got a webinar with our friends at DataDog on February 16 – “Monitoring Cloud Foundry: How to effectively keep track of your platform and applications”.
•  On February 23, James Hunt from Stark & Wayne will lead a hands-on lab: “SHIELDing Data in Your Cloud Foundry Apps”. More info in this blog post.

From the Last Few Weeks:

• Gartner analyst, Fintan Ryan shares his thoughts on findings from the CFF User Survey on Twitter. 
• SAP shared a proposal for custom domains in cf-for-k8s.
• SAP’s Bernd Krannich wrote up a very nice overview of Cloud Foundry’s current trajectory in this blog post.
• Shedrack Akintayo wrote on Medium: Approaching Developer Relations in an Open Source Foundation.
• Ram Iyengar made a couple of tutorial videos:
  • Deploying and Scaling a Go Web Application Using Cloud Foundry
  • Using Cloud-native Buildpacks in Local & Remote Development Workflows

Notable Releases:

• cf-deployment v16.0.0
  • Breaking change: removed ubuntu-trusty stemcell from references in the cf-deployment manifest
  • Enables TLS between route_registrar and NATS
• uaa v75.0.0
  • Allows multiple oauth client secrets to be configured
  • Updated logging timestamp format
• BOSH v271.3.0
  • Allows changing of the root domain for DNS
  • Improves director pre-start time
• cf-java-client v5.1.0
  • Added support for v3 Roles and renaming spaces
• cloud-service-broker v0.2.2
  • Moved brokerpaks into their own repositories: AWS, Azure, GCP
• cflinuxfs3 v0.222.0

Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):

• Livestream: JavaScript Apps on Kubernetes & Cloud Foundry – February 4 at 9 am
• CF Technical Governance meeting – February 4 at 8 am (Moved from Feb 5)
• CF Technical Governance meeting – February 12 at 8 am
• CF for Kubernetes SIG meeting – February 16 at 8:30 am
• How to Monitor Cloud Foundry webinar with DataDog – February 16 at 10 am
• Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting – February 16 at 10:30 am
• CAB call – February 17 at 8 am
• CF Technical Governance meeting – February 19 at 8 am
• Office Hours: Logging and Metrics – February 19 at 10:30 am
• SHIELDing Data in Your Cloud Foundry Apps Hands-on Lab with Stark & Wayne – February 23 at 10 am

Check the community calendar for updates and meeting details!

Ecosystem and General News:

• Andy Jassy’s Climb to Amazon CEO Show’s the Cloud’s Rising Power – WSJ
• Intel CEO Swan to be replaced by VMware CEO Gelsinger – ZDNet
• Elastic Changes Licenses for Elasticsearch and Kibana; AWS Forks Both – InfoQ
• Rapid7 acquires Kubernetes security startup Alcide for $50M – TechCrunch

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 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.)