⎈ Cheap server cluster for VDI, Why do we need pods? eBPF across multi-node clusters, Service Meshes decoded, uninstall Multus CNI

This newsletter is brought to you by Robusta Dev — reduce Prometheus and Kubernetes troubleshooting time by 80% with an AI Assistant. Fewer alerts and better developer experience.

---

📚 Articles

1. How I came to build a cheap server cluster for VDI

2. Kube Prometheus stack explained

3. Why do we need pods in Kubernetes?

4. eBPF maps state synchronization across multi-node Kubernetes cluster

5. Service Meshes decoded: is Istio Ambient worth it?

6. How to uninstall Multus CNI without borking your Kubernetes cluster

7. Kubernetes configuration in 2024

8. Using Sealed Secrets with your Kubernetes applications

9. Evolution of pod's privilege in EKS

10. Complexity and toil in infrastructure as code

11. A hands-on guide to Kubernetes: Network Policy

12. FRR-K8s as a BGP backend for MetalLB

---

🌟 Spend 80% less time troubleshooting Prometheus alerts

With fewer alerts and better developer experience - with Robusta's AI Agent that gathers observability data for you, your team can find the root cause faster.

Try it for free

---

📖 Tutorials

1. Setting up Prometheus and AlertManager in Kubernetes with custom alerts

2. Beyond Human: HolmesGPT and the future of AIOps

3. Using 1Password with external secrets operator in a GitOps way

4. Deploy flexible and custom setups with anything LLM on Kubernetes

5. Monitoring, troubleshooting, and query analytics for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

---

💼 Kubernetes jobs

DevOps Engineer 💰 $110K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States

Head of Platform Engineering 💰 $208K to $261K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in Waltham, MA, USA

DevOps Engineer 💰 PLN 252K to PLN 336K a year · 🏢 based in the office in Warszawa, PL

Data Engineer 💰 $136K to $170K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States

DevSecOps Engineer 💰 $72.7K to $145.3K a year · 🏢 based in the office in Irving, TX, USA

👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

---

🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Mayfly: temporary resources

2. KubeBlocks: manage database workloads

3. helm/helm-mapkubeapis

4. Kube-green: automatic scaler

5. CSI driver NFS

6. NGINX Azure workshops

7. Vault DB Injector

8. kubectl-slice

9. HolmesGPT

10. Kine: etcdshim

11. Karpenter: autoscaler

12. CloudNativePG: PostgreSQL operator

13. Confidential containers

---

📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Indonesia 2024 📅 Nov 30

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course (Munich) 📅 Dec 2

Kubernetes outside of the cloud: lessons learned after 3 years 📅 Dec 3

Kubernetes network observability with Cilium and Hubble 📅 Dec 4

🔥 DefCamp 2024 📅 Nov 29

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

---

📢 Call for papers closing soon

ArgoCon Europe ⏳ closes Dec 4

Kubernetes on Edge Day Europe ⏳ closes Dec 4

CiliumCon Europe ⏳ closes Dec 4

Cloud Native Days Romania ⏳ closes Jan 31

FOSDEM ⏳ closes Dec 1

Data on Kubernetes Day ⏳ closes Dec 4

Cloud Native Telco Day Europe ⏳ closes Dec 4

Istio Day Europe ⏳ closes Dec 4

Kubeflow Summit Europe ⏳ closes Dec 4

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

---

---

Until next time!

— Dan