Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 29

Isolating pods for debugging, Helm security, Kubernetes in Java with fabric8, blue-green cluster migration

31 May 2023

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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  • Boost DevOps-Developer collaboration
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Predictive troubleshooting for Kubernetes
  1. Kubernetes pod presets

    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.

  2. Track failed liveness probes

    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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  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

    • Site Reliability Engineer with Splunk

    • Salary: $156K to $264K a year

    • Location: remote from the United States

    • Tech stack: Kubernetes, GCP, Go, Python

    • Software Engineer with Parser

    • Salary: €70K to €85K a year

    • Location: remote from Spain

    • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Go, Java, Kotlin, Jenkins

Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

  1. jpca/boulegueur

    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.

  2. nebuly-ai/nos

    nos is the open-source module to efficiently run AI workloads on Kubernetes, increasing GPU utilization, cutting down infrastructure costs and improving workloads performance.

  3. wencaiwulue/kubevpn

    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.

  4. 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.

  5. rikatz/kubepug

    KubePug is kubectl plugin which:

    • Downloads a swagger.json from a specific Kubernetes version.
    • Finds deprecation notices.
    • Checks if the cluster has deprecated API versions.

    Useful if you're upgrading to Kubernetes minor versions.

Other interesting projects:

⎈ Become an expert in Kubernetes: Advanced Kubernetes course

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Get your hands dirty with Kubernetes and learn what makes Kubernetes tick in a session packed with hands-on labs!

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Upcoming Kubernetes events

  1. Jun

    1

    How Vinted uses GitOps to deploy thousands of pods to Kubernetes & Vitess

    In-person meetup organized by Cloud Native Lithuania.

    • Location: Vilnius, LT

    • This is a free event.

  2. Jun

    1

    Using WebAssembly in a Kubernetes ruled world & KEDA to save money and the environment

    In-person meetup organized by Hamburg Kubernetes/Cloud Native Meetup.

    • Location: Hamburg, DE

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  3. Jun

    3

    Kubernetes Community Days Bengaluru 2023

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    5

    Kubernetes Community Days Colombia 2023

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  5. Jun

    7

    Cloud Day

    Online conference organized by WeAreDevelopers.

    • This is a virtual event

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  6. Jun

    15

    Advanced Kubernetes course

    Online workshop organized by Learnk8s.

    • This is a virtual event

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Discover more Kubernetes events on Kube Events →

Kubernetes Call for Papers

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Until next time!

— Dan