Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 105
Chinese Docker Hub complete shutdown, Kube-proxy API, Overengineering this blog's preview site, Kubernetes: the road to 1.0
13 Nov 2024
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Articles
Chinese Docker Hub complete shutdown: how far can Kubernetes image repositories go?
Assisi
The article discusses the shutdown of the Chinese Docker Hub and its impact on Kubernetes users.
It explores strategies for mitigating risks, including using alternative repositories, setting up private image repositories, and caching strategies.
Platform Engineering on Kubernetes: orchestrating applications, platforms, and infrastructure
Daniel Bryant
Learn how to build a developer-focused platform on top of Kubernetes.
Explore the three layers of platforms: application choreography, platform orchestration, and infrastructure composition.
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Overengineering this blog's preview site with Kubernetes
The author recounts their experience overengineering a preview site for their blog using Kubernetes.
They describe the challenges they faced and the solutions they implemented, including using protocol buffers, NATS, and Valkey.
Taking a look at the Kube-proxy API
raesene
The article examines the kube-proxy API, covering its healthz and metrics components, and the information it provides without authentication.
Brian Grant
This article recounts the journey to Kubernetes 1.0, covering the project's early days, lessons learned from Borg and Omega, the evolution of the API, and key features added during the years.
Extending Kubernetes functionality: A practical guide to custom resource definitions
Gianluca Mardente
The tutorial covers creating CRDs, including defining the scope, spec, and status, and using validation markers and Common Expression Language (CEL) to ensure well-defined configurations.
Articles worth checking out:
Upgrade Backstage from a portal to a platform
Syntasso
A developer-focused platform needs more than just Backstage and Kubernetes.
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) acts as the intelligent glue between a portal and Kubernetes, enabling developers to ship software quickly, safely, and scale.
Tutorials
Quentin JOLY
This article provides a guide to Falco, a system threat detection engine.
It covers its installation, rule creation, architecture, and use with containers and Kubernetes.
Full Kubernetes compromise, what will your SOC do about it?
SOC Inspiration
The article walks through a hands-on lab where a Flask application is exploited to gain initial access to a Kubernetes cluster.
This is followed by privilege escalation using GitHub CI/CD credentials and exfiltrating sensitive data from a database.
piotr.minkowski
This tutorial demonstrates how to integrate Backstage with Kubernetes, including installing and configuring Backstage to work with Kubernetes-native services like Argo CD and Prometheus.
Kubernetes jobs
Site Reliability Engineer with OnBuy
Salary: £65K to £80K a year
Location: remote from the United Kingdom
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Python, Java, Terraform, Ansible, Grafana
Software Engineer with Intrinsic
Salary: $214.4K to $227.8K a year
Location: based in the office in Mountain View, CA, USA
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Go, Python, Javascript, Typescript, Rust, C++
Engineering Manager with Veeam Software
Salary: $139.1K to $198.7K a year
Location: remote from the United States
Tech stack: Kubernetes
Data Engineer with Sinch
Salary: $120.79K to $140.18K a year
Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Chicago, IL, USA
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Python, SQL, Java, Scala, Flink
Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →
Code & tools
Kubeshark: API traffic analyzer for Kubernetes
Kubeshark, the API Traffic Viewer for kubernetes, provides deep visibility and monitoring of all API traffic and payloads going in, out and across containers and pods inside a Kubernetes cluster.
Kratix: a framework for building platforms
Kratix is an open-source framework for building composable internal developer platforms (IDPs).
It builds on Kubernetes primitives and enables platform engineers to create APIs, abstraction, and automation to offer "everything-as-a-service."
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With Kairos, you can build immutable, bootable Kubernetes and OS images for your edge devices as easily as writing a Dockerfile.
Optional P2P mesh with distributed ledger automates node bootstrapping and coordination.
4rivappa
Kube Trace NFS is designed to observe NFS connections in a Kubernetes cluster by collecting telemetry data from a node-level eBPF program utilizing the BCC tool.
Claudie: managing multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud
Claudie is a platform for managing multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters with each node pools in a different cloud provider.
Other interesting projects:
Upcoming Kubernetes events
Nov
13
In-person social event organized by Spacelift & Teleport.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
This is a free event.
Nov
13
Technical demos about multi-cloud and 5G solutions with LoxiLB
In-person meetup organized by Netlox.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
This is a free event.
Nov
13
In-person social event organized by SIG Boba.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
This is a free event.
Nov
18
Advanced Kubernetes course (Amsterdam)
In-person workshop organized by Learnk8s.
Location: Amsterdam, NL
This event requires an entrance fee
Nov
20
Kubernetes Community Days Denmark 2024
In-person conference organized by KCD Denmark.
Location: Copenhagen, DK
This event requires an entrance fee
Nov
20
Building a team-centric self-service solution in Kubernetes
In-person meetup organized by Cloud Native and Kubernetes Oslo.
Location: Oslo, NO
This is a free event.
Nov
21
In-person conference organized by SREday.
Location: Amsterdam, NL
This event requires an entrance fee
Discover more Kubernetes events on Kube Events →
Kubernetes Call for Papers
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Until next time!
— Dan
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