⎈ 3000+ Clusters with Talos, VPA: A Deep Dive, OPA Gatekeeper bypass, OPA memory usage, Turn an old laptop into a private cluster

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📚 Articles

1. 🔥 3000+ Clusters: The Journey to Edge Compute with Talos Linux

2. Smooth Operator: How Hydrolix Uses the Kubernetes Operator

3. 🔥 Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA): A Deep Dive

4. OPA Gatekeeper bypass reveals risks in Kubernetes policy engines

5. OPA memory usage considerations and lessons from our transition to Kyverno

6. Turn an old laptop into a private Kubernetes cluster — enable others to connect to it

7. Mastering Spot Instances on Kubernetes for Fun and Profit

8. Kubernetes best practices I wish I had known before

9. How I Convinced My k8s Team to Go to AWS Serverless

10. Not Every Problem Needs Kubernetes

11. Would the Kubernetes CPU limit be an anti-pattern?

12. Playing with OTEL and I liked it

13. The Ripple Effect: How A Single Push Notification Brought Down Our Kubernetes Cluster

14. Quality Gate for Helm Charts

15. How to Host a 100 CPU Core, 400 GB RAM Cluster on a Budget

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📖 Tutorials

1. Deploying Your AKS Cluster with Terraform: Key Points for a Successful Production Rollout

2. My Pod Disruption Budget bible to use with Karpenter and friends

3. Adrift in the Cloud: Forensic Analysis of Container Drift

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

My pipelines from GitLab Commit to ArgoCD got beaten by FTP

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💼 Kubernetes jobs

Platform Engineer 💰 $122.5K to $170K a year · 🏢 based in the office in Redmond, WA, USA

DevSecOps Engineer 💰 US$78K to US$90K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland / Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, NL

Software Engineer 💰 $100K to $130K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America

Software Engineer 💰 $158K to $190K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America

Systems Performance Engineer 💰 $184K to $356.5K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America

👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Helmfile

2. karlkfi/kubexit

3. Cloud native Buildpacks

4. Opni: multi-cluster observability

5. kluctl: Helm glue

6. KubeDiagrams

7. Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes

8. Snorlax

9. G-namespacehound: Kubernetes RBAC Visualization and Audit Tool

10. Overlock: In-Cluster Kubernetes Resource Monitoring and Alerting

11. Kube-Hetzner

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days New York 2025 📅 Jun 4

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Czech & Slovak 2025 📅 Jun 5

🔥 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025 📅 Jun 11

🔥 Cloud Native Zurich 📅 Jun 11

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course 📅 Jun 26

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

Cloud Native Denmark 2025 ⏳ closes Jun 16

Kubernetes Community Days Porto 2025 ⏳ closes Jun 30

Kubernetes Community Days Warsaw 2025 ⏳ closes Jun 16

Kubernetes Community Days UK Edinburgh 2025 ⏳ closes Jun 9

Kubernetes Community Days Sri Lanka 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 4

Texas Linux Festival 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 3

Devopsdays Tel Aviv ⏳ closes Jun 15

Open Source Summit Japan 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 4

Devopsdays Cairo ⏳ closes Jun 12

👉 You can find more Call for Papers on Kube Events.

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Until next time!

— Dan