This week we recap all the news and announcements from the KubeCon Keynotes and discuss the repercussions of Australia’s new encryption-busting law. Plus, Brandon offers his review of “The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes“ and Phippy.

Relevant to your interests

• Australia's Encryption-Busting Law Could Impact Global Privacy
• Red Hat fiddles with OpenShift Dedicated and lures customers with price cuts
• Docker's top deck stands by Swarm in face of Kubernetes storm
• The 15-Year Odyssey Behind VMware's Ascent To Corporate Greatness
• IBM Sells Software for Once
• The First Open, Multi-cloud Serverless Platform for the Enterprise Is Here. Try out Pivotal Function Service Today!
• Facing up to the need for regulation - Microsoft recognises Big Brother potential
• VMware Extends Istio into the 'NSX Service Mesh' for Microservices
• 2018: The Biggest Year for Open Source Software Ever! (Part Deux)
• DocuSign beats Wall Street expectations, reveals executive and board shuffle
• The Etcd Database Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• Kubernetes is not a development platform
• Oracle Cloud Native Framework Promises 'Bi-Directional' Cloud Portability
• Dell votes to buy back VMware tracking stock and go public again
• Knative Meshes Kubernetes with Serverless Workloads
• What makes a company a 'tech company,' and is the title worth the responsibility?
• Everything that was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
• Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A – Chick-fil-A Tech Blog – Medium
• CNCF to Host etcd - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• Christopher Luciano on Kubernetes & Istio, Software Defined Interviews.
• Matt Ray’s tweet goes viral (soft of)
• Warrant Canary via Wikipedia

Nonsense

• Costco is selling Macs

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Recommendations

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• Matt: My new favorite episode of 99% Invisible: Devolutionary Design.

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