⎈ Can we replace Helm?, Smarter with Karpenter, Saved 80% on Observability Bill, Hot-Patching Pods in Kubernetes 1.33, ECR to OCIR

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📚 Articles

1. Modern Kubernetes: can we replace Helm?

2. When to Adopt Kubernetes: The "Pay Now or Pay Later" Dilemma

3. How We Saved 80% on Our Observability Bill!

4. Offensive Container Security: Techniques, Misconfigurations, and Attack Paths

5. Scaling Kubernetes Smarter with Karpenter

6. What to do when Pods are partying too hard for a node

7. ECR to OCIR: Event-driven Docker Image Updates

8. Why Kube-State-Metrics Matters for Kubernetes Observability

9. Hot-Patching Pods in Kubernetes 1.33: What Breaks, What Works, and How We're Making It Usable

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📖 Tutorials

1. Cost-optimized ML on production: autoscaling GPU nodes on Kubernetes to zero using KEDA

2. Unify testing across Dev, QA, and SRE with a Kubernetes-native orchestration platform

3. Service Mesh Explained: Building a Proxy Injector in Rust

4. Using Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver with HashiCorp Vault

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

How Policies Saved us a Thousand Headaches

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💼 Kubernetes jobs

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Engineering Manager 💰 $179K to $210K a year · 🏢 based in the office in Toronto, ON, CA

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👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Kubernetes Resource Recommender

2. Kubernetes Controller Sharding

3. Opsmate: LLM copilot

4. Smesh: Lightweight Kubernetes-Integrated Sidecar Mesh Without Proxies

5. Reloader: controller to watch changes and restart

6. Kwatcher: config watcher

7. Ctrlplane: deployment orchestration tool

8. k8sgpt: Kubernetes analyzer

9. argoproj-labs/argocd-vault-plugin

10. kube-advisor: Real-Time Kubernetes Best Practices Scanner

11. Blixt: Experimental Rust-Based eBPF Load Balancer

12. kubean-io/kubean

13. LoxiLB: eBPF-Based Cloud-Native Load Balancer for Kubernetes

14. kvaps/kubectl-node-shell

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

Devopsdays Kansas City 📅 Aug 13

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Nigeria 2025 📅 Aug 14

Devopsdays Rio de Janeiro 📅 Aug 16

🔥 Kubernetes in Production: What They Don’t Tell You 📅 Aug 17

🔥 Devopsdays Lima 📅 Aug 20

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course 📅 Sep 18

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

Kubernetes Community Days Suisse Romande ⏳ closes Sep 1

🔥 Devopsdays Los Angeles ⏳ closes Nov 2

🔥 Devopsdays Detroit ⏳ closes Aug 16

Devopsdays Bogotá ⏳ closes Sep 16

Devopsdays Ljubljana ⏳ closes Aug 14

Devopsdays Wollongong ⏳ closes Oct 1

🔥 Open Source Observability Day 2025 ⏳ closes Sep 1

Women in Tech Summit Kenya 2025 ⏳ closes Sep 14

Devopsdays Porto Alegre ⏳ closes Oct 31

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

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Until next time!

— Dan