⎈ Fairness aware load distribution, Kubernetes configuration in 2024, Container communication inside a pod, What determines a ready node?

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📚 Articles

1. Fairness aware load distribution

2. The rise of open source time series databases

3. Kubernetes configuration in 2024

4. Container communication inside a Kubernetes pod

5. What determines if a Kubernetes node is ready?

6. Do pods really get evicted due to CPU pressure?

7. Debugging Distroless Images with kubectl and cdebug

8. Maturing Istio ambient: compatibility across various Kubernetes providers and cnis

9. Injecting External Secrets in a Kubernetes cluster

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📖 Tutorials

1. How to reduce expenses on monitoring: be smarter about data

2. ImagePolicy webhook in Kubernetes

3. Turbocharge ArgoCD with app of apps pattern and kustomized Helm

4. Backup k3s with litestream

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

Tortoise: outpacing the optimization challenges in Kubernetes

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💼 Kubernetes jobs

Site Reliability Engineer 💰 $127.8K to $196K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States

DevOps Engineer 💰 $104.83K to $144.14K a year · 🏢 based in the office in Centennial / Broomfield / Louisville, CO, USA

Site Reliability Engineer 💰 €40.8K to €52.8K a year · 🏢 based in the office in Vilnius, LT

👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Kubernetes-WithOut-Kubelet

2. Kobs: Kubernetes observability platform

3. Shell operator

4. Kamaji: control plane manager

5. Chart-testing: linting and testing charts

6. netfetch: scan Network Policies

7. DevSecOps for air gap & limited-connection systems

8. Gatekeeper library

9. Netshoot: network troubleshooting

10. KubeEdge: edge computing

11. JuiceFS: distributed file system for cloud

12. Cozystack: building clouds

13. Knative: serveless and event-driven apps

14. Helm chartsnap: testing charts

15. Helm controller

16. DirectPV: Direct Attached Storage

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Washington DC 2024 📅 Sep 24

GPUs in Kubernetes: past, present, and future 📅 Sep 18

🔥 Edgecase 2024 📅 Sep 24

Towards standardized volumes: transitioning Odin's volume management to Kubernetes 📅 Sep 18

Backstage and Crossplane & delivery strategies with Argo CD and Kubernetes 📅 Sep 21

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

🔥 Dutch Cloud Native Day 2024 ⏳ closes Oct 31

Tech Internals Conf ⏳ closes Nov 1

Cloud Native Sustainability Week 2024 ⏳ closes Sep 24

🔥 DevSecOps 2024 ⏳ closes Nov 4

QCon San Francisco ⏳ closes Sep 18

🔥 Cybersec Asia 2025 ⏳ closes Nov 30

Devopsdays Chicago ⏳ closes Oct 20

RuhrSec 2025 ⏳ closes Nov 10

DevIgnition ⏳ closes Sep 27

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

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Until next time!

— Dan