CF Summit is here! That, and the CF Bi-Weekly Roundup...


Chris Clark
 

Cloud Foundry EU Summit starts tomorrow! Thanks to all who participated in the Day Zero events today, especially Dr. Gao, Sara Lenz, Ivana Scott, and all the Unconference speakers!
All CF contributors can
register with this discount code for free admission: CFEU20CONT
Read about all the technical Hands-on Labs at CF Summit here. The Diversity Conversation is happening tomorrow, Wednesday October 21st. Read more about the event in this blog post and join us at 16:45 CEST.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Ireland…I mean, my garage, at 3am! Also, if you haven't already, take the Cloud Foundry User Survey: Take 15 minutes to take the 2020 user survey and make an impact on the project roadmap. We’re donating to COVID-19 relief and you’ll be entered to win a gift card.

Notable Releases from the last couple weeks:

  • Stratos v4.2.0!  With new Helm and Kubernetes extensions! More here, and be sure to check out the Stratos Project Update, Hands-on Lab, and Office Hours at CF Summit.

  • capi-k8s-release v0.4.0. Release highlights: 

    • Enforce CF CLI v7 as the minimum supported version in cf-for-k8s

    • Support upload, deletion, and cleanup of expired packages from the configured package registry (except DockerHub deletion)

    • All component images are now built with paketo buildpacks

    • k8s secrets used for all credentials

  • cf-networking-release v2.34.0. More here.

  • silk-release v2.34.0. More here.

  • cli v6.53.0. More here.

  • routing-release v0.208.0. More here. Release highlights:

    • Operators can configure Skip SSL certificate verification and expect route integrity to work. (See #180)

    • Gorouter now sets the expiry of the __VCAP_ID__ cookie to the same expiry as the JSESSIONID cookie. (See #182)

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? Don’t hesitate to check out the jobs board and 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.)

Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):

  • Cloud Foundry Summit – October 20-22

  • CF Extensions PMC meeting – 11:00 AM on October 26

  • CF for Kubernetes SIG meeting – 8:30 AM on October 27

  • Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting – 10:30 AM on October 27

  • CAB call 8:00 AM on October 28 (one week later than usual due to Summit!)

Check the community calendar for updates and meeting details here: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/community-calendar/

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