Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner for a recap of announcements and news from KubeCon North America 2024.  

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• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241119538933/en/Spectro-Cloud-Closes-75m-Series-C-Led-by-Growth-Equity-at-Goldman-Sachs-Alternatives
• https://northflank.com/blog/northflank-raises-22m-to-make-kubernetes-work-for-your-developers-ship-workloads-not-infrastructure
• https://snyk.io/news/snyk-acquires-developer-first-dast-provider-probely/
• https://www.nutanix.com/blog/introducing-nutanix-enterprise-ai 
• https://thenewstack.io/stacklok-donates-minder-security-project-to-openssf/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/akamai-launches-cloud-agnostic-ready-to-run-application-platform-302302446.html 
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241112064093/en/Loft-Labs-Introduces-vCluster-Cloud-a-Managed-Solution-to-Simplify-and-Reduce-Costs-of-Kubernetes
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-65k-nodes-and-counting 
• https://www.veeam.com/resources/wp-whats-new-veeam-kasten-for-kubernetes.html
• https://www.netapp.com/blog/trident-24-10-best-storage-kubernetes/
• https://podman-desktop.io/blog/2024/11/14/podman-desktop-cncf 
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/streamline-kubernetes-cluster-management-with-new-amazon-eks-auto-mode/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-eks-hybrid-nodes/
• https://thenewstack.io/kueue-can-now-schedule-kubernetes-batch-jobs-across-clusters/ 
• https://cloudnativenow.com/kubecon-cnc-na-2024/solo-io-donates-api-gateway-to-cncf-to-advance-kubernetes-connectivity/
• https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/11/08/tintri-unveils-kubernetes-container-storage-interface-for-streamlined-management/ 
• https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/stringerai-announcements/kubiya-launches-captain-kubernetes-ai-tool-for-simplifying-kubernetes-management/
• https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/cloudnativedevelopment/application-dev/cncf-automates-kubernetes-secops-with-kyverno/
• https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2024/11/15/cloud-native-computing-foundation-expands-certification-to-platform-engineering-and-more/  
• https://training.linuxfoundation.org/platform-engineering-programs 
• https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/cloudnativedevelopment/cncf-kubevirt-v1-4-vms-are-now-just-another-kubernetes-resource/
• https://kubevirt.io/user-guide/release_notes/
• kubernetes.io/blog/2024/12/11/kubernetes-v1-32-release/
• https://thehackernews.com/2024/12/296000-prometheus-instances-exposed.html?utm_source=tldrdevops