⎈ Backdoor a Kubernetes in silence, GitOps secrets with Argo CD, running as root dangerous?, Linux runtime visibility meets Wireshark

📚 Articles

1. Kubernetes has its "ADCS" how to backdoor a Kubernetes in silence

2. GitOps secrets with Argo CD, Hashicorp Vault and the External Secret Operator

3. Why is running as root in kubernetes containers dangerous?

4. Go deeper: linux runtime visibility meets wireshark

5. Securing secrets in confidential containers: usage patterns to avoid

6. Scaling environments with OpenTelemetry and service mesh

7. Optimizing Kubernetes resources with Horizontal Pod Autoscaling via Custom Metrics and the Prometheus Adapter

8. Effortless dependency updates for Kubernetes projects

9. How networking really works in Docker

10. Container networking

11. Exposing ports in Kubernetes: what you should know

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

Topology-aware routing: balancing cost savings and reliability

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📖 Tutorials

1. Kubernetes operator: create the one with kubebuilder

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. encoder-run: source code embeddings operator

2. kubectl-modify-secret

3. Kubie

4. Gardener: cluster of clusters

5. Democratic CSI

6. ramilito/kubesess

7. Cloudflare Kubernetes Gateway

8. Watchtower: automating base images

9. MariaDB operator

10. k8s-await-election: leader election tool

11. make-argocd-fly: Kubernetes manifest generator

12. Tanka: Jsonnet for Kubernetes

13. kcp: isolated workspaces

14. Sveltos: add-ons

15. Kube-green: automatic scaler

16. Kube-janitor

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course 📅 Jan 23

Securely access your Kubernetes control plane 📅 Jan 28

🔥 Cybersec Asia 2025 📅 Jan 29

Bitbash 2025 📅 Jan 25

Kubernetes networking & security at scale: from troubleshooting to collaboration 📅 Jan 23

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025 ⏳ closes Feb 2

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025 ⏳ closes Feb 2

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Costa Rica 2025 ⏳ closes Feb 10

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Texas Austin 2025 ⏳ closes Feb 13

🔥 ContainerDays ⏳ closes Mar 31

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Helsinki 2025 ⏳ closes Feb 8

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Beijing 2025 ⏳ closes Feb 5

Kubernetes Community Days Czech & Slovak 2025 ⏳ closes Mar 15

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

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Until next time!

— Dan