⎈ Mercado Libre, From Autopilot to Standard GKE, Dynamic Kubernetes API Server, ArgoCD got beaten by FTP, Observability strategies

KubeFM published a book of battle-tested experiences from engineers who pushed Kubernetes to its limits and lived to tell the tale. Download for free here.

---

📚 Articles

1. Kubernetes at Mercado Libre

2. From Autopilot to Standard GKE: The Key to 15x Cheaper Istio

3. How We Built a Dynamic Kubernetes API Server for the API Aggregation Layer in Cozystack

4. All my DevOps pipelines from GitLab commit to ArgoCD got beaten by FTP

5. Examining approaches and patterns for debuggability: ephemeral containers and Argo Workflows

6. Observability strategies to efficiently scale Kubernetes pods

7. Building Your Own Event-Driven Internal Developer Platform with GitOps and Sveltos

8. When is "Read-Only" Not "Read-Only"

9. Managing Kubernetes Ceph Cluster Monitoring: easier than it looks

10. How to troubleshoot OOM issues in Go applications running on Kubernetes

11. Securing Argo CD for multi-tenant environments with Application Projects

12. Kubernetes secret file and environment variable mounting options

13. Image Management on Kubernetes Node

---

🌟 [PDF] Kubernetes Stories from the Trenches

Raw, unfiltered stories from engineers who've lived through cluster outages, bare-metal nightmares, and 3 a.m. incident calls—and somehow came out smarter on the other side.

Download your free copy

---

📖 Tutorials

1. Connecting Kubernetes/Cilium cluster and Kubernetes/Calico cluster using Submariner

2. Using metrics from OTEL collector for scaling

3. Longhorn backup and restore

---

💼 Kubernetes jobs

Software Engineer 💰 $115K to $137.5K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America

Site Reliability Engineer 💰 ₹200K to ₹400K a year · 🌎 remote from India

Software Engineer 💰 £52K to £70K a year · 🌎 remote from the United Kingdom

Platform Engineer 💰 £105K to £125K a year · 🏢 based in the office in London, GB

👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

---

🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Goldilocks: requests and limits

2. Azure AKS Accelerator

3. Container Startup Autoscaler

4. Pluto: discover deprecated apiVersions

5. kubectl.nvim: Kubernetes navigator

6. Longhorn: cloud native distributed block storage

7. CloudNativePG: PostgreSQL operator

8. Strimzi: Apache Kafka on Kubernetes

9. Cozystack: building clouds

10. Argo CD Vault plugin

11. Falco

---

📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Balancing isolation and complexity in a Kubernetes platform 📅 Mar 27

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Guadalajara 2025 📅 Mar 29

🔥 ArgoCon Europe 📅 Apr 1

🔥 CiliumCon Europe 📅 Apr 1

🔥 Kubernetes on Edge Day Europe 📅 Apr 1

🔥 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 📅 Apr 1

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course (Munich) 📅 May 5

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

---

📢 Call for papers closing soon

🔥 ContainerDays ⏳ closes Mar 31

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Utrecht 2025 ⏳ closes Apr 6

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Taipei 2025 ⏳ closes Apr 20

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Sofia 2025 ⏳ closes Apr 21

Cloud Native Days Austria ⏳ closes May 31

🔥 DevOps Pro Europe ⏳ closes Apr 30

Devopsdays Eindhoven ⏳ closes May 10

🔥 Devdays Europe ⏳ closes May 20

Code Europe ⏳ closes Mar 30

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

---

---

Until next time!

— Dan