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Weekend RoundUp: Your Kubernetes Slack History is Vanishing.

Weekend RoundUp: Your Kubernetes Slack History is Vanishing.

What’s Next For the Community?

Divine Odazie
June 20, 2025

Hey there,

It’s our favourite day of the week✨, and we've gathered a fresh collection of valuable insights, key industry news, and exciting opportunities to help you unwind and catch up.

Let's dive into what's happened in the Cloud-Native and DevOps world^. 👇🏾

This Week’s Top Curated Read

What is new in Azure DevOps MCP Server?
Microsoft has announced that the local Azure DevOps MCP Server is now available in public preview, which enables GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio and VS Code to interact directly with your Azure DevOps environment, including work items, pull requests, and more. Read here

Kubernetes Slack: A Community Evolution or just a SAD event?😥
The official Kubernetes blog announces that as of today, Friday, June 20, the community Slack will be subject to free Slack's feature limitations, including: only retaining 90 days of history and disabling several apps and workflows. What does this mean for the community?. Read the details.

ACM Exportable TLS Certificates?
Guess we are seeing a new capability in AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to export private keys for ACM-issued TLS certificates, offering more flexibility for multi-cloud or on-premises deployments. Wait…there’s an interesting take on its implications. What do you think? See Details

What is the State of GitOps?
In case you missed it, Octopus Deploy released a report on the state of GitOps, which was based on 660 surveys and expert interviews. The report explores how practitioners are applying GitOps. Download here to read the full report

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OpenSSF Community Day North America (June 26, 2025, Denver, Colorado): This event brings together the open source security ecosystem to share ideas and progress on securing software. Explore
Kubeflow Virtual Planning Symposium 2025 (July 9, 2025, Virtual): This event unites the Kubeflow Leadership, Working Group Leads, Project Leads, and Contributors to define the strategic direction of the Kubeflow Project. Find out more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 (August 6-7, 2025, Hyderabad, India): This event gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud-native communities for two days of in-depth talks, keynotes, and networking on Kubernetes and the broader cloud-native landscape. Find out more here
KCD Nigeria (August 14 - August 16, 2025, Lagos, Nigeria): Co-located with OSCAFEST, Kubernetes Community Day (KCD) Nigeria is back again, and it is designed to foster education, collaboration, and networking within Africa's growing cloud-native community. Explore KCD 2025