Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 109
The Karpenter transformation, make the most of your GPUs, we fixed spot instance reclaims, Karpenter's drift detection, CRDs: versioning joy
11 Dec 2024
This newsletter is sponsored by Intuit to celebrate Numaproj — a Kubernetes-native, serverless platform designed for building scalable and reliable event-driven applications
Articles
Nadav Buchman
Learn how migrating to Karpenter has replaced Fiverr's manual and inefficient compute node management system, achieving improved resource allocation, reduced waste, and increased resilience, enhancing their infrastructure operations.
Argo: Intuit's open-source project revolutionizing cloud-native automation
Argo maintainers and CNCF
Learn more about Argo CD's impact on developers worldwide by watching "Inside Argo: Automating the Future" a new CNCF documentary.
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Sharing is caring: how to make the most of your GPUs
Carlos Camacho
Learn how to optimize GPU utilization in Red Hat OpenShift AI clusters using time-slicing, including its configuration, performance evaluation, and use cases, to maximize performance and efficiency.
Hemanth M Gowda
This article explains how to use the grace termination period and Pod Disruption Budgets to prevent API downtime during spot instance reclaims, ensuring a smooth and resilient deployment.
Karpenter's drift detection: maintaining consistency in your Kubernetes cluster
Gajanan Chandgadkar
Learn how Karpenter's drift detection identifies and corrects deviations from the desired node configuration, enabling you to maintain an environment for your applications.
Kubernetes CRD: the versioning joy
Joel Takvorian
Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition versioning requires careful management by Operator developers to avoid issues
Learn how to handle deprecated CRD versions in Kubernetes, using the Kube Storage Version Migrator.
Articles worth checking out:
Introducing Numaproj: Kubernetes-native event & stream Processing
Intuit
Intuit announces Numaproj, a Kubernetes-native, serverless platform for building scalable event-driven applications.
It separates event sources from processing logic, allowing for independent auto-scaling.
Tutorials
Using Aliyun GPU share in an Azure AKS
Diego Satizabal
This article shares the author's journey to get Aliyun GPU Share to work in a Kubernetes Service cluster and provides a guide for readers who want to use Aliyun GPU Share in their own Kubernetes Service clusters.
How to easily publish Helm charts on GitHub with GitHub Pages
Artem Lajko
This article provides a guide on how to create, publish, and test a Helm chart on GitHub using GitHub Pages.
It covers everything from creating a Helm chart and setting up GitHub Pages to automating releases and validating the deployment.
SPIFFE/SPIRE federation implementation on Kind clusters
Nishant Patil
This tutorial teaches how to set up SPIRE Federation on kind clusters, enabling secure communication between microservices with SPIFFE/SPIRE.
Automate Kubernetes with shell-operator
Piotr
Learn how to automate Kubernetes workflows using Shell Operator with Bash, Python, or Kubectl and integrate it with Crossplane and Terraform to build a real-time pod monitoring system that sends notifications to Slack.
Kubernetes jobs
Solution Engineer with Dynatrace
Salary: $106K to $133K a year
Location: remote from the United States
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift, Go, Javascript, Java, PHP, C#
Solution Engineer with Dynatrace
Salary: $176K to $220K a year
Location: remote from the United States
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift, Javascript, C#, AppDynamics, Datadog, NewRelic
Software Engineer with Softeta
Salary: €48K to €78K a year
Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Vilnius, LT
Tech stack: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Javascript, C#
DevSecOps Engineer with Onebrief
Salary: $180K to $225K a year
Location: remote from the United States
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, On-premise, Helm, Docker, Terraform, Ansible
Software Engineer with Dynatrace
Salary: €56K a year
Location: based in the office in Linz, AT
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Java, Cassandra, Kafka, Jenkins
Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →
Code & tools
Numaflow: data/streaming processing
Numaflow, created by the Intuit Argo team to address community needs for continuous event processing, leverages its expertise to deliver a scalable, robust, serverless platform for event-driven applications.
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Doctor Droid: automated investigation bot
DrDroidLab
Doctor Droid is a tool that automates the investigation of production issues by automatically fetching data from various observability tools and servers.
This reduces the time taken to investigate an issue and potentially automates it completely.
CloudNativePG: PostgreSQL operator
CloudNativePG is the Kubernetes operator that covers the entire lifecycle of a highly available PostgreSQL database cluster with a primary/standby architecture using native streaming replication.
SleepCycle: define sleep & wake up cycles
SleepCycle lets you define sleep & wake-up cycles for your Kubernetes resources.
It can schedule to shut down Deployments, CronJobs, StatefulSets and HorizontalPodAutoscalers and wake them up only when you need them.
Serpent lets you play snake while wreaking havoc in your Kubernetes cluster.
Have fun while you can.
Other interesting projects:
Upcoming Kubernetes events
Dec
16
Advanced Kubernetes course (New York)
In-person workshop organized by Learnk8s.
Location: New York, NY, USA
This event requires an entrance fee
Dec
12
Unlocking high-performance data on Kubernetes with valkey
Online meetup organized by Data on Kubernetes Community.
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Dec
17
Extensive scalability testing on ArgoCD for 30k+ applications
Online meetup organized by Cloud Native Kuala Lumpur.
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Dec
14
In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.
Location: Recife, BR
This event requires an entrance fee
Dec
12
Kubernetes networking & security at scale: from troubleshooting to collaboration
Online workshop organized by Tigera.
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Discover more Kubernetes events on Kube Events →
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Until next time!
— Dan
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