Welcome to the Calico monthly roundup: November edition! From open source news to live events, we have exciting updates to share—let’s get into it!
Find your Cluster Security Score
Calico Cloud is releasing new capabilities for security posture management called Security Scoring and Recommended Actions. Start measuring and tracking your security posture. |
Customer case study: Boundless Software
Calico Cloud enabled SOC 2 compliance for Boundless Software while also drastically reducing onboarding times for the company’s customers. Read our case study to find out how. |
 Secure Kubernetes traffic with Calico Egress gateway
Discover how egress gateways enable users to assign meaningful network identity to selected traffic so that this information can be further used by traditional tools to enforce granular policies to traffic based on identity or bandwidth. |
Open source news
- NEW features
- Streamlined Operations with Windows HostProcess Container – Automated node pool scaling and upgrades, eliminating the need for manual node initialization to streamline operations and management of Windows container-based applications.
- Performance and Scalability with IPv6 Support for Calico eBPF Dataplane – IPv6 support for eBPF in Calico empowers enterprises to enhance the performance and scalability of their applications by alleviating IP shortages and ensuring that latency-sensitive applications perform optimally.
- Read stories of Calico Open Source in action from our Calico Big Cats
- Calico Live – Join the Calico community every Wednesday at 2:00 pm ET for a live discussion about how to leverage Calico and Kubernetes for networking and security. In our next meeting, we will explore eBPF IPv6 cluster setup—an early preview of what is coming to Calico Open Source in the coming weeks. Join us live on LinkedIn or YouTube.
- Watch our CNCF presentation – Learn how to simplify building Kubernetes cluster-mesh with Calico Open Source. Watch here.
Connect
- Community meeting – Shape the future of Project Calico by attending the next monthly Project Calico community meeting on December 13th 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
- November 6, 2023 – Calico Enterprise 3.17.3
- November 3, 2023 – Calico Enterprise 3.15.5
- October 23, 2023 – Calico Cloud 18.0.0
- October 13, 2023 – Calico Enterprise 3.18.0-1.1 (Early Preview)
In the news
Check out recent Tigera-related coverage.
- Cloud Native Network Security: Who’s Responsible? from The New Stack
- Tigera Announces Upgrades To Calico Open Source, Calico Cloud from TFiR
- The case for container-based firewalls from SC Media
- Why strategic solution deployment drives innovation and strengthens security from Security Info Watch
➔ 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. |
Blogs
- What’s your Cluster Security Score? Calico now measures your security posture
- Calico Egress Gateway integration with AWS Network Firewall
- Detecting Network-Based Anomalies with Calico
- Bolster Amazon EKS security with Calico’s image assurance capability
- The easiest ways to create, test and deploy security policies for EKS clusters
Guides
White papers
- Networking, security and observability for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
- Implement microsegmentation for cloud-native workloads
- Calico for Financial Services: Top Use Cases
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
That’s a wrap!
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