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k8s-aws-iam-controller automates trust policy management for IAM Roles used in IRSA setups

It watches annotated ServiceAccounts, validates via RoleUsagePolicy, and updates the role trust statements

➤ https://ku.bz/tHgMnBf1s

Pluto is a utility to help users find deprecated Kubernetes API versions in their code repositories and their helm releases

➤ https://ku.bz/8KPbscqv6

🗣️ John Platt, CTO at StormForge, explains why Kubernetes has become the preferred platform for training Large Language Models and running inference workloads

Watch: https://ku.bz/mt_lTMFwF

Liqo is an open-source project that enables dynamic and seamless Kubernetes multi-cluster topologies, supporting heterogeneous on-premise, cloud and edge infrastructures

➤ https://ku.bz/m8C4Vg9jS

Wrangler is a framework for using controllers in Kubernetes

It provides a code generator that generates the clients, informers, and listers and additionally generates a controller per resource type

➤ https://ku.bz/Glkk1JL_Q

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Opsmate's SRE-powered LLM copilot helps users troubleshoot production issues using natural language commands

➜ https://ku.bz/XSfGMcs_w

Odigos is an open-source distributed tracing solution that simplifies and improves observability for Kubernetes environments and Virtual Machines

It provides instant tracing capabilities without requiring any code changes to your applications

➤ https://ku.bz/X0J-ML91p

This article shows how to autoscale non-prod Kubernetes workloads by syncing MacBook screen lock status to AWS CloudWatch, then triggering KEDA to scale pods and Karpenter to shrink compute

➤ https://ku.bz/M-y4wRM3g

Learn how Kubernetes uses JSON Patch in webhook configurations with Gordon Myers

Watch: https://ku.bz/Dmn93dd7M

Werf is a CLI tool for full-cycle CI/CD to Kubernetes

It supports complete application lifecycle management, including building, publishing, and deploying container images, and offers features like automatic build caching

➤ https://ku.bz/32DBhLmBf

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This tutorial demonstrates how to build a Kubernetes mutating webhook in Rust using Axum and Rustls

It creates an HTTP server that processes AdmissionReview requests and injects a sidecar proxy via JSONPatch

➜ https://ku.bz/z-CcQy3bS

This article argues that for the overwhelming majority of software projects Kubernetes and Docker introduce unjustifiable complexity

➤ https://ku.bz/l9cqDhQny

The kube-scheduler-wasm-extension enables customization of the Kubernetes scheduler with WebAssembly (Wasm) plugins, and integrates the Wazero runtime for simplified plugin development in various languages, making deployment easier

➤ https://ku.bz/sPWPMqtvq

🗣️ Asif Awan Founder and CPO at StackGen shares a different perspective on Kubernetes automation

Effective automation should work at the right level of abstraction where teams can benefit from it without having to learn new tools or languages

Watch https://ku.bz/_LmLdllKc

🗣️ Andrew Hillier, Co-Founder & CTO at Densify, discusses how AI workloads are increasingly running on Kubernetes, with many organizations deploying inferencing and some training workloads. GPU optimization becomes critical for cost management

Watch: https://ku.bz/V2YJFXVG3

Kubernetes Controller Sharding introduces a generic mechanism for distributing reconciliation tasks across multiple active controller instances, reducing watch-cache load through distinct sharding and labeling

➜ https://ku.bz/X39ysBMzr

This post reverse-engineers an 80% cost reduction across a Kubernetes observability stack by replacing Prometheus/Thanos with VictoriaMetrics, enforcing OTEL standards, right-sizing workloads via VPA and bin-packing via MostAllocated

➜ https://ku.bz/zCCJVHkg9

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This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly:

🤔 1000 TPS with 4-Core/16GB?
🧢 Cap or no cap
🔙 Reclaiming Idle GPUs
💰 How We Saved $1.22m/y
🕰️ Inside Kubernetes Scheduler

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This article explains the Kubernetes scheduler's internal mechanisms for pod placement, including filtering, scoring, node selection, and pod deletion logic during scale-down

➜ https://ku.bz/lm3Cgdrd4

This article covers moving from single-pod processing to concurrent & parallel processing with Kubernetes

Key: database locking (`FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED`) & strategies to overcome scaling bottlenecks

➜ https://ku.bz/7px0M_Lyz

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The article demonstrates a low-cost approach to tuning enterprise-grade database performance by optimizing MySQL server configurations, implementing RAID-ZFS, and integrating Kubernetes with dynamic CSI volume provisioning

➜ https://ku.bz/VCWyRY6Q-

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Kiali is an open-source observability platform for Istio that visualizes service mesh topology, tracks health, traces requests, and simplifies configuration management for complex microservices environments

➤ https://ku.bz/ZCxj26wCz

K8s cleaner is a controller that identifies, removes, or updates stale/orphaned or unhealthy resources to maintain a clean and efficient Kubernetes cluster

➜ https://ku.bz/8qy3xQT73

Keel is a Kubernetes Operator to automate Helm, DaemonSet, StatefulSet & Deployment updates

➤ https://ku.bz/SH4pW3qJQ

This article explains how Arpeely cut $102K/month in GCP costs using Committed Use Discounts, BigQuery-to-GCS archival, and fine-tuned Kubernetes HPA configs

➜ https://ku.bz/x6_-r6gR4

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This repository contains a collection of practical scenarios to demonstrate key Kubernetes concepts and tools

➤ https://ku.bz/RnDNTnTWF

This article shows how JobSet simplifies orchestrating complex batch workloads like ML and HPC on Kubernetes by grouping replicated jobs under one spec

➤ https://ku.bz/j5YsxzSlc