Kube Builders

kinc is an open-source tool that lets you create a single-node, rootless Kubernetes cluster inside a container (using Podman + CRI-O + kubeadm)

➤ https://ku.bz/WNZh_5B-m

TNS CSI is a Kubernetes Container Storage Interface driver for TrueNAS Scale 25.10 and later, supporting both NFS for file storage and NVMe-oF for high-performance block storage

➤ https://ku.bz/8p4NdY5H7

This tutorial teaches how to build a minimal multi-node Kubernetes cluster on NixOS without K3s, K0s, or NixOS Kubernetes modules, using vanilla Kubernetes components managed by systemd

➤ https://ku.bz/2y7tYKrhd

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cookiecluster is a CLI tool written in Rust that generates EKS cluster definitions in Terraform through an interactive configuration process

➜ https://ku.bz/HWhpFR_91

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Gulcan and I wrote a free book on right-sizing GPUs in Kubernetes.

Here's the short version (thread)

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How much of your GPU spend is actually producing work?

We published a free book on right-sizing GPUs in Kubernetes, covering metrics to architecture decisions across 4 chapters.

ku.bz/KL4jRvsL4

This tutorial teaches how to transform observability data into reliability improvements through:

- Service Level Objectives,
- error budgets,
- runbooks
- and blameless post-mortems for Kubernetes environments

➤ https://ku.bz/8C3k8vR62

Kured is a Kubernetes daemonset that automates OS-level node reboots by monitoring reboot signals and coordinates safe rolling reboots using API server locks, draining, and optional Prometheus alert integration

➤ https://ku.bz/VcHmCqrXk

This article shows how SAP AI Core deploys production ML and generative AI models at scale using KServe on Kubernetes

➤ https://ku.bz/YhVdmcyyq

🗣️ Andrew Hillier, Co-founder CTO @ Densify, discusses why organizations are moving away from CPU limits in Kubernetes, arguing that premature throttling provides no benefit when nodes rarely reach capacity

Watch: https://ku.bz/-0wmZX03V

This article shares a backend engineer's journey deploying DeepSeek Coder for an on-premise security code review tool at a startup

➤ https://ku.bz/RRRBl42LQ

nix-csi mounts Nix store paths into Kubernetes pods using CSI ephemeral volumes that share pod lifetimes

It supports pulling pre-built store paths, evaluating flake references, or building Nix expressions directly within pod specifications

➤ https://ku.bz/jTXzVvVYB

kcli is a management tool for virtualization providers (libvirt, KubeVirt, oVirt, vSphere, AWS, Azure) that deploys VMs from cloud images using YAML plan files with Jinja templating, including pre-built plans for Kubernetes, OpenShift, and OpenStack

➜ https://ku.bz/Lc5VtBmt0

🗣️ Alessandro Pomponio from IBM Research explains operational challenges of managing large bare-metal clusters for scientific teams

Watch the full episode: https://ku.bz/5sK7BFZ-8

This tutorial teaches how to use Crossplane on a Kubernetes cluster to provision, configure, and manage a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster via declarative YAML manifests

➤ https://ku.bz/11-NKXj5N

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This article shows how Kiro, an agentic AI IDE, combined with AWS EKS MCP Server enables intent-driven EKS management with human-approved workflows and centralized policy enforcement

➜ https://ku.bz/4-ll38Kqk

terraform-aws-eks-operation-scheduler is a Terraform module written in Python and HCL that automatically starts and stops AWS EKS node groups on customizable weekly or monthly schedules using Lambda functions triggered by EventBridge rules

➜ https://ku.bz/l7gQsf_Hn

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This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly:

🔥 Cloud Shell Container Escape
🌐 Azure CNI Pod Subnet Deep Dive
💭 How I Think About Kubernetes
📦 Sidecar from 421MB to 90MB
🎯 Manage Resources as One Unit

⭐️ Kubex

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/172

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"Take away complexity" by applying best practices and automating infrastructure management

Salman Iqbal on the benefits of using GKE, AWS, or AKS for Kubernetes deployments

📺: https://ku.bz/vsVhFMNZN

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etcd is the database behind every Kubernetes cluster.

You can run one for years without thinking about it. Then your cluster gets big enough, and etcd is all you think about.

A thread on why. 🧵

🗣️ Radosław Miernik from aleno migrated from ECS to Kubernetes — spot instances broke at 20+ containers, firewalls silently dropped traffic, and the wrong memory metric caused OOM kills

https://ku.bz/x6wFMhVsx

🌟 LearnKube
🎙 🎙Bart

🗣️ Brock Mowry, CTO @ Tintri, explains how Tintri differentiates itself from competitors through intelligent metrics and automated workload management

Watch the interview: https://ku.bz/fdNdY3Tv-

sql_exporter is a Prometheus exporter that runs SQL queries against various DBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, etc.) and exposes results as metrics, with per-collector caching and custom query support

➤ https://ku.bz/whMrG11S7

Capacitor is a local-first Kubernetes client with a built-in webserver that provides a general-purpose UI for FluxCD, including resource discovery, Helm history, diffing, the Flux resource tree, and multi-cluster support that respects RBAC

➜ https://ku.bz/zJtfmK-Xt

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The K8s multi-tenancy landscape has changed a lot in a year. New tools, dead projects, and the linear spectrum no longer hold. Tomorrow I'm walking through what shifted and why

Come grill me live

https://ku.bz/multitenant26

You can use the Kubernetes Descheduler to evict pods based on specific strategies so that the pods can be rescheduled onto more appropriate nodes

➤ https://ku.bz/_bd56CpSS

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This article demonstrates how to build reproducible Kubernetes infrastructure using NixOS and OKD for declarative node configuration and cluster management

➤ https://ku.bz/GN7F7DKKL

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This tool continuously checks Kubernetes control plane signals like:

- API availability,
- leader election,
- and controller health to detect early signs of cluster instability

➤ https://ku.bz/RLZsfDNbY

🗣️Udi Hofesh explains Komodor's competitive advantages in Kubernetes tooling: proven enterprise adoption, Kubernetes-first approach, and deep contextual analysis

Watch the interview: https://ku.bz/kXz85_4CG

Read the announcement: https://ku.bz/mYTj4l5HD