Happy New Year! Pretty slow news week out there in the wider world, so here are some Cloud Foundry happenings to occupy your stimulation-deprived brains.

From the Last Few Weeks:

• We crossed over to a new Contributor License Agreement. Most primary contributing companies have already re-signed, so hopefully nobody is experiencing any major disruptions from this - let me know if you are! 

• Chip Childers discusses results and highlights of the 2020 Cloud Foundry user survey in this video interview on TFIR.

• Julian Fischer, CEO of anynines, shares his 2021 predictions in this video interview on TFIR

• Read Ram Iyengar’s excellent piece for The New Stack: Using Prometheus to Monitor Kubernetes Clusters Running Cloud Foundry.

• Here’s Josh Long’s latest A Bootiful Podcast episode, spotlighting Cloud Foundry Developer Advocate, Shedrack Akintayo.

• We’ve got an upcoming Cloud Foundry webinar with DataDog, “cf push for Modern Observability”, on Jan 26. Find out more, and register, here.

Notable Releases:

• Stratos v4.4.0, with many new features, including:

• updates to visible Kubernetes resource types

• application deployment from private repositories

• an improved homepage 

• Read more here.

• Routing-release v0.211.0

• adds support for sticky sessions when CF-deployed reverse proxy is used

(see: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/routing-release/issues/170)

• Cf-deployment v15.5.0

Dates To Remember (All times U.S. Pacific):

• CF Technical Governance meeting - January 15 at 10 am 

• CF for Kubernetes SIG meeting - January 19 at 8:30 am

• Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting - January 19 at 10:30 am

• Office Hours: Logging and Metrics - January 19 at 11 am

• CAB call - January 20 at 8 am

• CF Technical Governance meeting - January 22 at 10 am

• CF Extensions PMC meeting - January 25 at 11 am

• “cf push for Modern Observability” Webinar with DataDog - January 26 at 10 am

Check the community calendar for updates and meeting details here. 

Ecosystem and General News:

• Survey shows K8s and CF synergies - Container Journal

• Andrew Jessup sparks a good conversation about K8s and CF’s relative adoption speeds - Twitter

• Google expands its cloud with new regions - TechCrunch

• Google grants $3M to the CNCF to help run K8s infrastructure - TechCrunch

• AWS introduces managed services for Grafana and Prometheus - InfoQ

• Red Hat acquires K8s security startup StackRox - Forbes

• Five K8s OSS projects to watch in 2021 - Enterprisers Project

• The Cloud Native Landscape: The Orchestration and Management Layer - The New Stack

• You can download the 2020 Linux Foundation Annual Report here. 

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 board and the #jobs channel in our community slack; folks are sharing job openings in our community there. (And if you are hiring, please do share that in that channel.)