Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 121
Networking: service, kube-proxy, load balancing, How Canonical CAPI providers handle in-place upgrades, From DC/OS to Kubernetes
5 Mar 2025
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Articles
Kubernetes networking: service, kube-proxy, load balancing
This article explores Kubernetes networking, focusing on Services, kube-proxy, and load balancing.
It covers how pods communicate within a cluster, how Services direct traffic, and how external access is managed.
How to migrate your VMs to KubeVirt with Forklift
Explore how to seamlessly migrate your legacy VM workloads to Kubernetes.
In this practical guide, you'll learn how to use tools like Forklift and our VM Migration Assistant to automate the heavy lifting at scale.
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How Canonical Kubernetes CAPI providers handle in-place upgrades
Homayoon Alimohammadi
Discover how Canonical Kubernetes CAPI providers handle in-place upgrades with the Single Machine In-Place Upgrade Controller and Orchestrated In-Place Upgrade Controller, ensuring smooth and efficient upgrades.
Migrating from DC/OS to Kubernetes: a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities
Klarrio
In this case study, you will learn about the challenges and opportunities of migrating from DC/OS to Kubernetes, including technical hurdles, migration strategies, and lessons learned from a real-world implementation.
Extend Kubernetes Service accounts auth scope to application APIs
Jesse Haka
Learn how to extend Kubernetes Service accounts auth scope to application APIs using JWT and Envoy gateway for secure authentication between services in different clusters
Securing continuous delivery: Argo CD threat detection
Mikhail Larin
Detect and prevent threats in Argo CD pipelines.
Learn how to identify and mitigate initial admin password compromise, unauthorized application deployment, and other security risks with detection rules and hunting searches.
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Turn Kubernetes chaos into effortless control, whatever the shape of your business
If you can imagine it, we can help you build it.
We make it easy for platform engineers and DevOps teams to deploy and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters from edge to cloud at scale.
Tutorials
Supernatural abilities of a virtual kubelet
In this article, you will learn about setting up Interlink, a Virtual Kubelet plugin engine, to delegate workloads (pods) to remote virtual machines.
A practical guide to Kubernetes Gateway API
Learn how Gateway API leapfrogs ingress to offer greater routing control.
We'll explain the first principles and then lead you through a step-by-step tutorial.
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Ensuring effective Helm charts with linting, testing, and diff checks
Hamdi KHELIL
In this article, you'll learn how to use Helm Chart-Testing, Helm Unit Test plugin, and Helm Diff to catch potential issues early and ensure smooth deployments.
Apply deployment best practices within your Kubernetes cluster with Kyverno
Talha Khaild
Improve your Kubernetes cluster security with Kyverno, an open-source tool that helps you validate deployments and secure resources.
Learn how to apply best practices and ensure a secure cluster.
Deploying Llama 3.1 405B on GKE Autopilot with 8 x NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs
Sam Stoelinga
This tutorial teaches you to deploy the Llama 3.1 405B model on GKE Autopilot with 8 x A100 80GB GPUs using KubeAI.
Kubernetes jobs
Software Engineer with US Bank
Salary: $155.69K to $164.1K a year
Location: based in the office in Charlotte, NC, USA
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, On-premise, Rancher, Javascript, Java, Cassandra, Mongo, Spark
Software Engineer with US Bank
Salary: $131.74K to $138.27K a year
Location: based in the office in San Francisco, CA, USA
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Javascript, Java, Jenkins
Platform Engineer with REWE Group Austria
Salary: €60K a year
Location: based in the office in Wien, AT
Tech stack: Kubernetes, GCP, On-premise, Flux, ArgoCD, Shell, Java, Terraform, Gitlab, Ansible
Software Engineer with Jobgether
Salary: $200K to $275K a year
Location: remote from the United States
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Python, Javascript, Kotlin, MySQL
DevOps Engineer with Tala
Salary: $130K to $160K a year
Location: remote from the United States
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, ArgoCD, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Datadog
Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →
Code & tools
The Bare Metal Operator implements a Kubernetes API for managing bare metal hosts.
It maintains an inventory of available hosts as instances of the BareMetalHost Custom Resource Definition.
Autotune: optimizations with SLOs
Kruize Autotune accepts a user-provided "SLO" goal to optimize application performance.
It uses Prometheus to identify "layers" of an application that it is monitoring and matches tunable from those layers to the user-provided SLO.
Kubernetes Resource Recommender
Kubernetes Resource Recommender is a CLI tool for optimizing resource allocation in Kubernetes clusters.
It gathers pod usage data from Prometheus and recommends requests and limits for CPU and memory.
This reduces costs and improves performance.
mirrord lets you easily mirror traffic from your Kubernetes cluster to your development environment.
It comes as both Visual Studio Code extension and a CLI tool.
Timoni: package manager for Kubernetes
Timoni is a package manager for Kubernetes, powered by CUE and inspired by Helm.
Instead of using Go templates with YAML like Helm or layering YAML like Kustomize, Timoni relies on Cuelang's type safety, code generation and data validation features.
Other interesting projects:
Upcoming Kubernetes events
Mar
6
CloudNativePG: running PostgreSQL the Kubernetes way
Online meetup organized by Data on Kubernetes Community.
This is a virtual event
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Mar
6
Online webinar organized by Rancher.
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Mar
8
From Homelab to Helm Charts, Crossplane & Autoscaling for Kubernetes
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Mar
11
Node scaling optimization & optimizing Kubernetes
In-person meetup organized by Cloud Native Berlin.
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Mar
12
In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.
Location: Zurich, CH
This event requires an entrance fee
Mar
20
Online workshop organized by Learnk8s.
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Discover more Kubernetes events on Kube Events →
Kubernetes Call for Papers
26
days
The Call For Paper is open until 31 March 2025 at UTC. More info →
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Kubernetes Community Days Czech & Slovak 2025
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In-person conference organized by KCD Czech & Slovak.
The conference starts on the 5 June 2025.
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Kubernetes Community Days Bengaluru 2025
The Call For Paper is open until 26 March 2025 at UTC. More info →
Location: Bangalore, IN
In-person conference organized by KCD Bengaluru.
The conference starts on the 7 June 2025.
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Kubernetes Community Days Utrecht 2025
The Call For Paper is open until 6 April 2025 at UTC. More info →
This is a virtual event
Online conference organized by KCD Utrecht.
The conference starts on the 3 July 2025.
- Apply here
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Kubernetes Community Days Taipei 2025
The Call For Paper is open until 20 April 2025 at UTC. More info →
Location: Taipei, TW
In-person conference organized by KCD Taiwan.
The conference starts on the 5 July 2025.
- Apply here
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The Call For Paper is open until 30 April 2025 at UTC. More info →
Location: Vilnius, LT and virtual
Online & in-person conference organized by Data Miner.
The conference starts on the 20 May 2025.
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The Call For Paper is open until 23 March 2025 at UTC. More info →
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Online conference organized by CNCF.
The conference starts on the 29 April 2025.
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66
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The Call For Paper is open until 10 May 2025 at UTC. More info →
Location: Eindhoven, NL
In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.
The conference starts on the 2 October 2025.
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17
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025
The Call For Paper is open until 23 March 2025 at UTC. More info →
Location: Hyderabad, IN
In-person conference organized by Linux Foundation.
The conference starts on the 7 August 2025.
- Apply here
Until next time!
— Dan
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