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Welcome to the July 2024 edition of the Calico newsletter! Here’s what we have in store for you this month...

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.

Learn more.

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

Check out the latest Project Calico videos to learn more about open-source networking and security for containers and Kubernetes in the cloud. Watch here.

Project Calico 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 here.

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.

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.

In the meantime, connect with us online:

RECENT RELEASES: CALICO ENTERPRISE & CALICO CLOUD

June 20th, 2024 – Calico Enterprise 3.19.1
July 9th, 2024 – Calico Cloud 19.4.0

IN THE NEWS

Check out this 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. See available tutorials here.

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. Get your free copy here.

Blog

How to create a cluster mesh with Calico CNI and VXLAN – Learn how to create a cluster mesh with Calico CNI and VXLAN for efficient multi-cluster connectivity. Read now.

Embracing modern virtualization with Calico's microsegmentation – Learn how Calico's microsegmentation capabilities can revolutionize your IT infrastructure by providing dynamic, unified security for modern virtualization environments. Read now.

eBPF: Enabling security and performance to co-exist – Discover how eBPF revolutionizes cloud-native environments by enabling security and performance to coexist seamlessly. Read here.

➔ Explore all blogs

Guides

Kubernetes Certification – Kubernetes certifications validate expertise and skills in deploying, managing, and operating Kubernetes clusters. Read guide.

OWASP Top 10 LLM – Discover how to safeguard your LLM applications with our Quick Guide to OWASP Top 10 LLM, which offers practical strategies and expert insights to tackle the most critical security vulnerabilities. Read guide.

Service Mesh Architecture – Discover the essential components and key design considerations for building a robust service mesh architecture, plus why a lightweight option might be best for you. Read guide.

White papers

Microsegmentation for hosts, VMs, and containers – Use network policies to isolate workloads and namespaces to achieve consistent and continuous compliance. Learn how Calico simplifies the enforcement of network security controls across clusters. Download whitepaper.

Networking, security and observability for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments – This paper details how you can use Calico to create a Kubernetes cluster mesh to enable high availability for distributed applications across multiple clusters. Read whitepaper.

7 security best practices for DevOps managing workloads in EKS – In this guide, we share the seven security best practices DevOps teams can use to manage containerized workloads in EKS. Download Now.

➔ Explore all 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.

Enroll here.

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. Enroll here.

Certified Calico Operator: AWS Expert – Understand several options for deploying Kubernetes in AWS, examine how the default AWS networking works, and learn how to configure and manage Calico in AWS, and how to secure your AWS Kubernetes cluster. Enroll here.

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 be able to confidently deploy eBPF across multiple environment types. Enroll here.

➔ Explore all certification courses

We hope you found valuable resources and information in this month’s newsletter, and we welcome your feedback. Please let us know how we can make our monthly newsletter a useful source of information that you look forward to each month. Send us your suggestions.

Have a great month!
–Tigera Team

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Calico Newsletter – July 2024