Welcome to the Calico monthly roundup: June edition! From open source news to live events, we have exciting updates to share—let’s get into it!
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S&P Global 451 Market Insight: Tigera Provides Most Comprehensive CNAPP Learn how Tigera differentiates itself from competitors by focusing on runtime security, aligning with the rapidly growing market category and how it is one of the strong players in this segment. |
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 case study. |
Customer case study: eHealth
Calico helped eHealth gain visibility and implement zero-trust security controls on Amazon EKS. Read the case study to learn more. |
Open source news
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 blog post.
The power of Kubevirt and Calico – Unlock the combined power of Kubevirt and Calico for your Kubernetes environments. Learn how to streamline VM management, enhance security, and optimize network performance seamlessly with these integrated technologies. Read blog post.
Calico vs. Cilium: 9 Key Differences and How to Choose – Explore this learn guide to select the right eBPF data plane for your environment. Read here.
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.
Connect
- Community meeting – Shape the future of Project Calico by attending the next monthly Project Calico community meeting on July 10th 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.
- Connect with us online:
Recent releases
- June 14th, 2024 – Calico Enterprise 3.18.4
- June 11th, 2024 – Calico Cloud 19.3.0
In the news
Check out recent Tigera-related coverage.
- Tigera announces new features for Calico Enterprise and Calico Cloud from TFiR
- Tigera: Container Networking and Security Solutions from Intellyx
- Calico Cluster Mesh Delivers Strategic Approach for Secure Microservices Communication with Lightweight Service Mesh from IT Digest
- eBPF: Enabling security and performance to co-exist from BetaNews
➔ 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. |
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. |
Blog
- Native and eBPF-based Kubernetes workload profiling for Kubernetes clusters
- Container Security: Protect your data with Calico Egress Access Controls
- Quick start guide for using Calico policies for Calico Open Source users
- Kubernetes network policies: 4 pain points and how to address them
Guides
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
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 Startx, to the Tigera partner program. Based in France, Startx already partners with Red Hat, HashiCorp, IBM, and Couchbase. We’re working closely with Startx to ramp up enablement and account mapping in the coming weeks.
- The Channel team was onsite at KCD Italy in Bologna. It was a great opportunity to speak with our existing partners at Sighup and Clastix as well as meet a host of potential new partners in Italy.
That’s a wrap!
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