⎈ Data Engineer’s Guide, Why Scale to Zero?, Transaction Token with Assured Context, Controller with Kubebuilder, Pushing OCI to AWS ECR

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🚀 The new Kubernetes Instance Calculator is now live!

I added a Cost Sensitivity Widget (among other things) that shows how costs change when estimates are off.

Because here's what most people don't realize: underestimating by 20% doesn't mean 20% higher fees. It can mean 50% or even 100% higher costs as fewer pods fit per node. Or it could mean no cost difference at all!

→ Check out the new Kubernetes Instance Calculator

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📚 Articles

1. 🔥 The Data Engineer’s Guide to Optimizing Kubernetes

2. Kubernetes Is Complex. Here’s How to Make It Production-Ready in Minutes

3. Why Scale to Zero?

4. Great Scott! The AI went ‘Back to the Backend’ without a ‘Transaction Token with Assured Context’!

5. Building a Kubernetes Controller with Kubebuilder

6. The dissection of pushing an OCI image to AWS ECR

7. Stop Building Platforms Nobody Uses: Pick the Right Kubernetes Abstraction with GitOps

8. The Hidden Java 8 Tax in Your Kubernetes Bill — And How to Stop Paying It

9. Cloud-Native Identity Management: Exploring SPIFFE/SPIRE & Istio

10. Scaling Faire’s CI horizontally with Buildkite, Kubernetes, and multiple pipelines

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🌟 Kubernetes Clusters that just work

With Akamai Cloud, get Kubernetes clusters that just work with a free managed control plane, simple autoscaling, and global scale without lock-in.

Learn more

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📖 Tutorials

1. Autoscaling Kubernetes Pods Based on HTTP Traffic

2. Tired of Cloud Complexity? Migrate Smarter

3. How to Set Up an AKS Node Pool maxCount Alert Using KQL and ARG

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

Building a Carbon and Price-Aware Kubernetes Scheduler

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💼 Kubernetes jobs

Platform Engineer 💰 $139.6K to $174.5K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in San Francisco, CA, USA

Support Engineer 💰 $84.1K to $111.3K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America

Head Of Engineering 💰 $190K to $275K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America

Software Engineer 💰 $215K to $280K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America

Head of Infrastructure 💰 $160K to $304.75K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America

👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. CK-X Simulator: Kubernetes certification practice

2. Liqo: multi-cluster topologies

3. Kube state metrics

4. Kubernetes spec

5. MySQL Cluster Operator for Kubernetes

6. Kubesearch – Helm Release Discovery Interface

7. kbld: image building and pushing

8. kgateway – Envoy-Based Kubernetes Gateway for API and LLM Traffic

9. Automated Pod Rebalancing and Eviction with Descheduler

10. kubelet-csr-approver: Secure Auto-Approval of Node Certificates

11. net-debug: Sidecar-Ready Network Diagnostics Toolkit for Kubernetes

12. KubeBuddy: PowerShell-Powered Kubernetes Health and Security Auditor

13. k8s_gateway: CoreDNS plugin

14. openebs/lvm-localpv

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Devopsdays Lima 📅 Aug 20

New Features in Identity & Secrets with Kubernetes 1.33+ & Expanding Kubernetes Networking for Telco CNFs 📅 Aug 21

#cTENcf : Celebrating 10 Years of CNCF 📅 Aug 23

#cTENcf Birthday Bash 📅 Aug 23

🔥 Devopsdays Halifax 📅 Aug 26

🔥 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

GitOpsCon North America ⏳ closes Sep 14

CozySummit Virtual 2025 ⏳ closes Sep 14

🔥 Devopsdays Los Angeles ⏳ closes Nov 2

Devopsdays Bogotá ⏳ closes Sep 16

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