Hi folks! Here are a few CF events I’d like to highlight coming up this month:  

• This Thursday, Ram and Shedrack will be running a livestream: “JS Apps on K8s, simplified with Cloud Foundry”.

• We’ve got a webinar with our friends at DataDog on February 16 - “Monitoring Cloud Foundry: How to effectively keep track of your platform and applications”. 

• On February 23, James Hunt from Stark & Wayne will lead a hands-on lab: “SHIELDing Data in Your Cloud Foundry Apps”. More info in this blog post.

From the Last Few Weeks

• Gartner analyst, Fintan Ryan shares his thoughts on findings from the CFF User Survey on Twitter. 

• SAP shared a proposal for custom domains in cf-for-k8s.

• SAP’s Bernd Krannich wrote up a very nice overview of Cloud Foundry’s current trajectory in this blog post.

• Ram Iyengar made a couple of tutorial videos:

• Deploying and Scaling a Go Web Application Using Cloud Foundry

• Using Cloud-native Buildpacks in Local & Remote Development Workflows

• Shedrack Akintayo wrote on Medium: Approaching Developer Relations in an Open Source Foundation.

Notable Releases

• cf-deployment v16.0.0

• Breaking change: removed ubuntu-trusty stemcell from references in the cf-deployment manifest

• Enables TLS between route_registrar and NATS

• cflinuxfs3 v0.222.0

• uaa v75.0.0

• Allows multiple oauth client secrets to be configured

• Updated logging timestamp format

• BOSH v271.3.0

• Allows changing of the root domain for DNS

• Improves director pre-start time

• cf-java-client v5.1.0

• Added support for v3 Roles and renaming spaces

• cloud-service-broker v0.2.2

• Moved brokerpaks into their own repositories: AWS, Azure, GCP

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

• Livestream: JavaScript Apps on Kubernetes & Cloud Foundry - February 4 at 9 am

• CF Technical Governance meeting - February 4 at 8 am (Moved from Feb 5!)

• CF Technical Governance meeting - February 12 at 8 am

• CF for Kubernetes SIG meeting - February 16 at 8:30 am

• How to Monitor Cloud Foundry webinar with DataDog - February 16 at 10 am

• Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting - February 16 at 10:30 am

• CAB call - February 17 at 8 am

• CF Technical Governance meeting - February 19 at 8 am

• Office Hours: Logging and Metrics - February 19 at 10:30 am 

• SHIELDing Data in Your Cloud Foundry Apps Hands-on Lab with Stark & Wayne - February 23 at 10 am

Check the community calendar for updates and meeting details here. 

Ecosystem and General News

• Andy Jassy's Climb to Amazon CEO Show the Cloud's Rising Power - WSJ

• Intel CEO Swan to be replaced by VMware CEO Gelsinger - ZDNet

• Elastic Changes Licenses for Elasticsearch and Kibana; AWS Forks Both - InfoQ

• Rapid7 acquires Kubernetes security startup Alcide for $50M - TechCrunch

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