⎈ Basics of observing Kubernetes, From blue to green: EKS clusters upgrade, deeper dive of kube-scheduler, writing custom kubectl commands

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📚 Articles

1. The basics of observing Kubernetes: a bird-watcher's perspective

2. An intro to autonomous cost optimization on Kubernetes

3. From blue to green: optimizing AWS EKS clusters upgrade

4. A deeper dive of kube-scheduler

5. Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE) : pitfalls and shortcomings

6. How does kubectl work: writing custom kubectl commands

7. Kubernetes contexts: complete guide for developers

8. HPA vs VPA

9. Ingress in Kubernetes with NGINX

10. How to use Helm Hooks for fun and profit

11. Browsing websites through a Kubernetes pod

12. Trivy: shifting security from right to left and then right again

13. Setting up a budget-friendly Kubernetes playground on a dedicated server (with k0s and Traefik)

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📖 Tutorials

1. Intro to Kubernetes autoscaling and best practices for successful implementations

2. Monitoring a multi-cluster Kubernetes deployment

3. Getting started with Airflow: deploying your first pipeline on Kubernetes

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

The best operating system for Kubernetes

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💼 Kubernetes jobs

Software Engineer 💰 ¥4.8M to ¥6.34M a year · 🌎 remote from Japan

Site Reliability Engineer 💰 £70K to £75K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in Nottingham, GB

Software Engineer 💰 kr. 540K to kr. 660K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in Copenhagen, DK

DevOps Engineer 💰 US$110K to US$130K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in British Columbia, CA

👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Chart-testing: linting and testing charts

2. k'exp: Kubernetes explorer

3. GitOps bridge

4. Goat: vulnerable by design

5. netfetch: scan Network Policies

6. Multi-cluster monitoring with Thanos

7. Autok8s

8. registry-creds operator

9. Plex media server for Kubernetes

10. IZONE: fully managed Kubernetes

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days New York 2024 📅 May 22

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course (London) 📅 May 20

🔥 DevOps Pro Europe 📅 May 20

🔥 OpenInfra Day France 📅 May 22

Understanding Amazon EKS blueprints with Amazon EKS add-ons for clusters 📅 May 16

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

KubeCon North America ⏳ closes Jun 10

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Lima, Perú 2024 ⏳ closes May 16

KubeDay Japan ⏳ closes May 19

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days UK ⏳ closes Jun 4

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Washington DC 2024 ⏳ closes Jun 3

Kubernetes Community Days Austria 2024 ⏳ closes Jun 22

🔥 CloudX 2024 ⏳ closes Jun 14

KubeVirt Summit 2024 ⏳ closes May 20

Devopsdays London ⏳ closes May 24

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

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Until next time!

— Dan