⎈ Benchmarking Log Collectors, ListenerSet in Gateway API v1.5, eBPF GPU Monitoring, Modernizing Image Promoter, Zero-Downtime Disk Migration

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📚 Articles

1. 🔥 Benchmarking Kubernetes log collectors: vlagent, Vector, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry collector, and more

2. Understanding OpenTelemetry Support in kgateway

3. 🔥 Exploring ListenerSet in Gateway API v1.5

4. 🔥 X-Ray Vision for GPUs: eBPF Monitoring on Kubernetes

5. The Invisible Rewrite: Modernizing the Kubernetes Image Promoter

6. In-place PVC re-binding: zero-downtime disk migration on Kubernetes

7. Kubernetes Optimization Beyond Requests and Limits — Node Scaling Blockers

8. Two Production Incidents That Taught Me More Than Any Course

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🌟 “Supports OpenTelemetry” means nothing anymore.

75% of organizations run or evaluate OTel, yet two projects can both claim support while delivering completely different results.

A proposed 7-dimension maturity model finally gives platform teams a shared language to tell them apart.

→ Read the proposal

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📖 Tutorials

1. Teach Your AI Coding Agent OpenTelemetry Best Practices with Dash0 Agent Skills

2. From Docker Compose to Kubernetes on AWS: A Hands-On Migration Story

3. Connecting Multi-Cloud Applications with Cilium

4. Automated GitOps: from ECR push to EKS deploy

5. Build a Kubernetes Cluster at Home with Raspberry Pis

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

SaaS with Kubernetes Operators and Garbage Collection

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. 🔥 KubeAttention

2. K8s cleaner

3. YAML Schema Router

4. Sympozium

5. Kelos

6. Skiperator: Kubernetes operator for simpler application platform setup

7. Audicia

8. KubeUser

9. Omni Infrastructure Provider for Proxmox

10. Telescope

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Devopsdays Raleigh 📅 Apr 30

How We Tamed Inference with Kubernetes and Open Source Muscle, Kubernetes Network Policies Done Right 📅 May 2

Devopsdays Austin 📅 May 5

Devopsdays Zurich 📅 May 6

SREday Austin 2026 📅 May 6

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course 📅 Jun 11

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

Kubernetes Community Days Lima 2026 ⏳ closes May 19

KubeCon China 2026 ⏳ closes May 3

Cloud Native Days Norway ⏳ closes Jun 1

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 ⏳ closes Jun 1

Dutch Cloud Native Day ⏳ closes Jun 22

Devopsdays Feira de Santana ⏳ closes Jun 4

SREday NYC 2026 ⏳ closes May 1

Devopsdays Curitiba ⏳ closes Jun 4

🔥 Devopsdays Berlin ⏳ closes May 3

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

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Thanks for reading. See you next week!

— Gulcan