Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 29
Isolating pods for debugging, Helm security, Kubernetes in Java with fabric8, blue-green cluster migration
31 May 2023
Articles
Isolating Kubernetes pods for debugging
Daniele Polencic
This article introduces a technique that helps you with debugging running Pods in production by changing labels, you can detach Pods from the Service (no traffic), and you troubleshoot them live.
Vault auto-unseal using transit secret engine on Kubernetes
Artur Bartosik
In this article, you will learn how you can combine manual and automatic unsealing of secrets in Kubernetes using multiple Vaults and Kubernetes.
Helm security and best practices
Eduardo Mínguez
Helm is a useful tool for managing the Kubernetes applications lifecycle.
This article covers some best practices and helm security recommendations.
Programming Kubernetes in Java using fabric8 Kubernetes client
Rohan Kumar
In this 5-part series, you'll learn how to use Fabric8 Kubernetes Client to interact with Kubernetes custom resources using its REST API.
How do you gracefully shut down pods in Kubernetes?
Daniele Polencic
In this article, you will learn what happens when a pod is deleted (voluntarily or not) in the cluster and how Kubernetes handles graceful shutdown.
Managing Kubernetes manifest complexity with kustomize
James Wu
In this article, you will find examples of using Kustomize for application resource manifests in Kubernetes, including aggregating resources, patching fields, and increasing complexity with bases and overlays.
Articles worth checking out:
Predictive troubleshooting for Kubernetes
Sosivio
Sosivio empowers developers to independently optimize resources and resolve critical issues with their applications on Kubernetes.
- Non-restricted view for Developers
- Boost DevOps-Developer collaboration
- Disconnected/air-gapped
Tutorials
Amir Khanof
Kubernetes Pod Presets simplify pod configuration by injecting additional data at runtime through a single object that can be applied to multiple pods.
Learn how to use them in this article.
Robusta.dev
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Robusta to track failed Liveness probes and notify your team using Slack, MSTeams, or DataDog.
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Optimizing your Kubernetes compute costs with Karpenter consolidation
Lukonde Mwila
This article explores Karpenter's consolidation capabilities and examines its impact on optimizing Kubernetes data plane costs with a hands-on example.
Optimize Kubernetes resource management with Time-To-Live (TTL) for cleaner cluster
Guillaume Vincent
Kube-Janitor is a tool that automatically detects and deletes unused resources, freeing up valuable resources and improving overall cluster performance.
Learn how to optimize Kubernetes resource management with Time-To-Live (TTL) and Kube-Janitor.
Trivy-operator: improve container runtime security
Thomas Rudrof
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install the Trivy-Operator and continuously scan containers for security issues and misconfiguration.
You'll also export the metrics to Prometheus, visualize them in Grafana and receive alerts with AlertManager.
Kubernetes jobs
Site Reliability Engineer with Splunk
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Tech stack: Kubernetes, GCP, Go, Python
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Code & tools
Boulegueur is a tool to stress Kubernetes clusters with fun.
As a tank in a hostile field, you have to kill opponents to delete pods in a kubernetes cluster namespace.
nos is the open-source module to efficiently run AI workloads on Kubernetes, increasing GPU utilization, cutting down infrastructure costs and improving workloads performance.
KubeVPN is a tool that lets you access the services of remote clusters locally.
You can also access local services in remote clusters, which is convenient for debugging and development.
opencontrolplane/opencontrolplane
OpenCP (Open Control Plane) is an open source project designed to provide a single interface to manage infrastructure across providers using a single tool: kubectl.
KubePug is kubectl plugin which:
- Downloads a
swagger.jsonfrom a specific Kubernetes version. - Finds deprecation notices.
- Checks if the cluster has deprecated API versions.
Useful if you're upgrading to Kubernetes minor versions.
- Downloads a
Other interesting projects:
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How Vinted uses GitOps to deploy thousands of pods to Kubernetes & Vitess
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Using WebAssembly in a Kubernetes ruled world & KEDA to save money and the environment
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7
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15
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Until next time!
— Dan
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