Calico monthly roundup: January 2024

Welcome to the Calico monthly roundup: January edition! From open source news to live events, we have exciting updates to share—let’s get into it!

Join us at CalicoCon 2024 in Paris We are thrilled to announce that CalicoCon 2024 will be held on March 19 in Paris as a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 co-located event. Join us for an immersive event focused on the latest trends, strategies, and technologies in Kubernetes networking, security, and observability. Limited spots are available, so register now to secure your spot. Register.

Customer case study: NuraLogix AI-driven healthtech company, NuraLogix, improves security and compliance on Amazon EKS using Calico Cloud. Read case study.

Tigera has achieved AWS Security Competency status! Tigera has gained a new AWS Security Competency, which we’re proud to add to our already existing AWS Containers Software Competency. Read about the addition of our newest security competency. Read more.

Securely connect EKS workloads to approved SaaS with Calico Egress Gateway Learn how Calico Egress Gateway for AWS Elastic IP provides a valuable tool to bolster an organization’s defenses and ensure secure and dependable connections to trusted SaaS platforms. Read blog post.

Open source news

*NEW* 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.

Calico tech blog – Cluster mesh and pod connectivity across multiple clusters have been hot topics for a while. Check out our latest tech blog that provides you with all the necessary information to build your own cluster mesh.

Connect

• Community meeting – Shape the future of Project Calico by attending the next monthly Project Calico community meeting on Feb 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.
• Join Calico Big Cats, Calico’s ambassador program, if you are interested in being a part of our community events and helping us grow the Calico community. Find out more.
• 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:

Twitter Slack GitHub Discourse

Recent releases

• January 17th, 2024 – Calico Enterprise 3.18.1 (General Availability)
• December 21st, 2023 – Calico Cloud 18.2.0

In the news

Check out recent Tigera-related coverage.

• Google Kubernetes Engine Vulnerabilities Could Allow Cluster Takeover from Hack Read
• The state of container security: 5 key steps to locking down your releases from Security Boulevard
• Big Data Industry Predictions for 2024 from InsideBIGDATA

➔ 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

• Calico Egress Gateway: How to provide a stable public network identity for EKS workloads to securely connect with approved SaaS
• Deploy multi-tenant Red Hat OpenShift clusters with Calico’s namespace and workload isolation
• Detect unknown network threats with Calico Cloud Honeypods
• Cisco Acquires Isovalent: A Big Win for Cloud-Native Network Security and a Validation of Tigera’s Vision
• 5 Tips for Better Kubernetes Network Security Policy Design for Workloads

➔ Explore all Tigera blogs

Guides

• CWPP
• Kubernetes Network Security
• KSPM

White papers

• Networking, security and observability for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
• Using access controls for containerized workload protection
• 7 security best practices for DevOps managing workloads in EKS

➔ 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.
• 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, T-Systems, Spain, to the Tigera partner program!
• Tigera sponsored a CNCF Meet-up in partnership with BlueTrusty in Paris on January 16th. The event was a great success and allowed the team to engage with the CNCF community in the City of Light.
• We continue to build our partnership profile and expect 2024 to be a huge success.

➔ See all Tigera partners

That’s a wrap!

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