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title: 'Kubernetes Atlanta Meetup: October 2020'
tags: ['2020', styra, tmobile, cncf, openpolicy agent, october, year, opa, month, policy, policy-as-code, meetup]

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# Kubernetes Atlanta Meetup: October 2020<!--Month Year-->

- **Date:** 10.28.2020<!--date as MM.DD.YYYY-->
- **Location:**
    - [Virtual via Zoom](https://www.meetup.com/Kubernetes-Atlanta-Meetup/events/273978865/)
- **Speakers:**
    - Open Policy Agent @ T-Mobile<!--presentation title-->

        - Joe Searcy @ T-Mobile<!--speaker name/company-->

        In this talk we'll review T-Mobile's journey with Open Policy Agent over the past 2.5 years. We'll cover some tried and true tools as well as some potential future use cases.
        
        Joe leverages 16 years of experience within infrastructure and distributed systems across Telecommunications, High Frequency Trading, and various other industries in his role on the Platform Engineering team at T-Mobile. Joe helps lead a team of Rockstars to design, build, and maintain the various components that make up the T-Mobile Kubernetes Engine (TKE) platform and foster innovation at the Uncarrier.
        
    - Open Policy Agent Deep Dive & Roadmap

        - Torin Sandal @ Styra

        In this talk we'll explore how Open Policy Agent (OPA) helps you implement policy-as-code for a wide range of use cases as well as some of the latest and greatest features to go into the project.

        Torin Sandall is a co-founder of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. Torin has spent 10 years as a software engineer working on large-scale distributed systems projects. Torin is a frequent speaker at events like KubeCon, DockerCon, Velocity, and more. Prior to working on OPA, Torin was a Senior Software Engineer at Cyan (acquired by Ciena) where he designed and developed core components of their SDN/NF

- **Hosts:**

    - @alex.b
    - @phenixblue

## This Month in Kubernetes

- Kubernetes Release Info
    - About halfway through the 1.20 release cycle.
    - Still targeting December 8th for release
    - Currently tracking 55 enhancements
    - Next Deadline: Nov 2: Final feature exceptions
    - 1.20-alpha3 released
    - 1.20-beta0 was scheduled for Oct 27, but seems to be pushed back
    - Fix Releases ([details on specific fixes merged](http://lwkd.info/2020/20201013))
        - v1.19.3
        - v1.18.10
        - v1.17.3
- PR's of Note
    - [Dual stack nodes are now a thing!](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95239)
    - [Don't log secrets](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95316)
- Community News
    - [Kubernetes Steering Committee Election Results](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/10/12/steering-committee-results-2020/)
        - Congrats to Davanum Srinivas (@dims), Jordan Liggitt (@liggit), and Bob Killen (@mrbobbytables)
    - [Kubernetes Release Cadence](https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-dev/c/luW11nhLds4)
    - CNCF Acceptance/Graduation
        - [Rook celebrates is Graduation](https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2020/10/07/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-rook-graduation/)
    - KubeCon NA 2020
        - [Schedule is out](https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2020/10/01/cloud-native-computing-foundation-releases-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2020-virtual/)
    - Interesting Projects
        - [Admirality](https://github.com/admiraltyio/admiralty) - Cross Cluster Workload Scheduler
        - [Kraan](https://github.com/fidelity/kraan) - Layered approach for Kubernetes addons
        - [iSKan](https://github.com/alcideio/iskan) - Kubernetes Native Image Scanning
        - [Tracee](https://github.com/aquasecurity/tracee) - Container and system event tracing using eBPF

## Meetup Links

## Meetup Slides

- [OPA @ T-Mobile](https://slides.com/phenixblue/opa-at-tmus)

## Meetup Recordings
- [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5_Q4clmNT8)

## Meetup Notes

### Who's Hiring 

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