Chaos Engineering is a key practice of Cloud Native Development. You can’t really guarantee that your Cloud Native Applications are “distributed and resilient by design” if you don’t know what’s going to happen to then when something fails in production.

Prithvi Raj and Karthik Satchit invited me to join a panel discussion on this topic, and the recording of it is now available on youtube 📺.

Join Sylvain Hellegouarch (CTO at ChaosIQ), Kristin Barkardottir (SRE at NetApp), Sumit Nagal (Principal Engineer at Intuit), Karthik (Core maintainer of LitmusChaos), Divya Mohan (Enterprise Engineer at HSBC) and I as we talk about the need for Cloud Native Chaos Engineering, the benefits of this type of practice, and strategies on how to get your company to invest in a Chaos Engineering practice. I learned a lot, and I hope you too!

Interested in getting started with Cloud Native Chaos Engineering? Check out how to get started on Chaos Engineering with Litmus and Okteto. And if you’re in KubeCon NA next week, don’t miss Sumit’s talk on how Inuit uses LitmusChaos to manage and orchestrate their chaos experiments.

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Without any doubt, Kubernetes has become the default platform to run modern applications. However, for a developer, working with Kubernetes brings a new set of challenges, and a learning curve that might be intimidating. Additionally, and more importantly, the development inner loop now requires a few more steps before you can test your app.

To put this in perspective, prior to Kubernetes, the inner loop for Rustaceans used to look something like this:

• Write some code
• Run the app with cargo run (which includes compiling)

And when you add Kubernetes to the formula, the inner loop looks like this:

• Write some code
• Build a container image (which includes compiling)
• Push the container image to the registry
• Deploy the app to Kubernetes

These extra steps from above easily translate into a minimum of two minutes. If you want to fix something quickly, those extra steps become an eternity. There has to be a better way, right? Yes, there is, and the answer is Okteto.

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Last week, Adam and Craig interviewed me on the Kubernetes Podcast from Google. It was a very fun interview where we talked about the origin of the company, the state of the Kubernetes development experience, what was it like to go through YCombinator’s demo day, and many more things.

If you always wondered why Okteto is named Okteto, who is Cindy Lopez, or where to get a burrito in San Francisco, this is the podcast episode for you!

If you’re interested in the Cloud Native space, I highly recommend you subscribe to it. Every episode I’ve listened to has been great so far.

What do you think about the interview? Do you agree with my 🌯 taste? Let us know over at twitter!

If you prefer reading the interview, a full transcript of the interview is also available on their site.

Developer Experience is not just about the tools and technologies you and your team pick. It’s also about the people in your organizations. In this post, Artur Meyster, founder of Career Karma, writes about how to stay relevant as an employee in the future of work.

With the recent Covid-19 pandemic disrupting every industry around the world, not to mention the disruption caused by advancing technology, it can be easy for any employee to wonder how they will fit into the future of work. At the end of the day, traditional jobs will see a decline in favor of those that are tech-based.

The recent onset of remote work has shown many companies how many of their jobs weren’t exactly necessary for success. In fact, The Washington Post discussed how over 20 million jobs were shed from company payrolls in April alone. Therefore, determining if your skills are relevant to your employers now and in the future of work is important to ensuring the longevity and success of your career. Below are a few of the best ways to ensure that your skills do indeed stay relevant in the uncertain future.

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Join me and Saiyam (CNCF Ambassador and Director of Evangelism at Civo Cloud for a live coding session this Friday 23rd at 9AM PST / 9:30PM IST.

In this live coding session we’ll be talking about:

• Kubernetes Operators
• How to get started with the operator-sdk
• How you can use the okteto CLI to build operators directly in the cluster

Grab some coffee ☕, fire up your IDE, and see you online this Friday! 🌐

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software. Each October, open source maintainers give new contributors extra attention as they guide developers through their first pull requests on GitHub.

This year, we’ve partnered with our friends in the LitmusChaos project to organize a global meetup to celebrate Hacktoberfest, and the LitmusChaos and Okteto open source projects.

The meetup will be hosted by maintainers of the LitmusChaos and Okteto projects. We'll be talking about:

• How to use the just-released LitmusChaos web portal to deploy and analyze your Cloud Native Applications.
• What is Okteto cloud, and how you can deploy your own copy of the Litmus portal with one click.
• Contribute to the Cloud-Native world through the Litmus & Okteto projects.

And to help you get started, we are running our first ever promo: Sign up for Okteto Cloud with this link, and get two months of Okteto Developer Pro for free!

Come celebrate with us this October 17th. You might even win some Okteto and Litmus swag 😉.

See you online 🌐!

Okteto Cloud gives you access to Kubernetes namespaces, helping you focus on your application, instead of the infrastructure. Our initial idea was to keep the namespaces fully isolated, but our community started to come up with very interesting use cases. We’re happy to announce that your applications can now connect to each other across all your Okteto Namespaces!

Accessing your applications and services from another namespace is as easy as calling them using $service_name.$namespace.

Our Okteto Developer Pro plan gives you two namespaces, each with 4 CPUs, 8Gi of RAM and 20GB of storage. With this new feature, you can deploy your database in one namespace, and the rest of your application on a different namespace, keeping it separate, but accessible. Or maybe you want to take advantage of the extra CPU and Memory that all your Okteto namespaces give you to run your more complex applications?

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October is almost here, and for the global open source community that means one thing: It’s Hacktoberfest time! Join the Okteto, Cloud Native and the global open source communities and help change the world, one pull request at a time.

All our open source repos are looking for contributors, so come join us!

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