List of things to checkout post-kubecon 2017

KUBECON.md

• Bloomberg's powerfulseal is a really nice interactive or automated k8s chaos monkey, which lets you do sensible wargaming
• Bitnami released the new kube sandbox which spins up a single node "production"-like cluster vs minikube
• Buoyant released Conduit a more "kube-native" and simpler service mesh than istio. Worth investigating!
• Linuxkit has kubernetes os images. Here is an indepth article about it.
• Fluentbit is a much lighter weight version of fluend written in C originally for resource constrained systems.
• kata containers are VMs with the speed of Containers
• Having a subscription to Grafana Labs entitles us to Grafana Cloud Enterprise, their onpremise grafana as a service that runs inside Kubernetes
• operator-kit for building kubernetes operators in golang
• open policy agent - flexible webhook based policy engine (only edit deployment FOO during work hours kind of flexibility).
• node-problem-healer - from github used to reboot problem nodes. sophaskins is a dev that will OSS it soon
• demo magic - A handy shell script that enables you to write repeatable demos in a bash environment
• kube-arbitrator - for more mesos-like scheduling to k8s
• The CPU Manager and Device Manager proposals are going well sig-resource-management. We might need to work on some of the DeviceManager bits with upstream.
• Email Mike Chene @ Splunk regarding the kubernetes dashboard for splunk bits along with fluentbit.
• We can build cluster deployment like the Digital Rebar folks for provisioning Zero Touch kubernetes clusters
• Using Sysdig Secure to Secure Pods in the kube-system Namespace - Many good ideas can be taken from this and considered
• Argo Project - OSS container native workflow engine for kubernetes
• Contour is an ingress controller using Envoy directly from Heptio