⎈ Native macOS Workloads with Kubernetes, Pods breaking bad, FacetController: Infrastructure Changes at Lyft, Managing Stateful Workloads

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This Thursday, I'm going live with Andrew to discuss one of the most persistent challenges in Kubernetes: resource management.

We will explore how algorithms can make more effective resource decisions than manual configuration!

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📚 Articles

1. How We Integrated Native macOS Workloads with Kubernetes

2. Why our pods were breaking bad (and how we fixed them)

3. FacetController: How We Made Infrastructure Changes at Lyft Simple

4. Operational Considerations for Managing Stateful Workloads

5. Can configuration languages (Config DSLs) solve configuration complexity?

6. GKE Cost Cutting — Three Key Lookout Points to View Your Potential Savings

7. How Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) Decides Which Pod to Terminate When Scaling Down

8. Enforcing Security in Confidential Containers with Kata Agent Policies

9. The Frustrating Life Cycle of a Kyverno-Generated Resource

10. Load Balancing gRPC Traffic with Istio

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Get your hands dirty with Kubernetes and learn what makes Kubernetes tick in a session packed with hands-on labs!

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📖 Tutorials

1. Track privilege escalations with eBPF

2. \Why every platform engineer should care about Kubernetes operators

3. Optimizing Kubernetes Resource Allocation with Robusta-KRR

4. Demystifying Swap in Kubernetes: A Handbook for DevOps Engineers

5. Argo Rollouts  —  Canary Deployment with Istio

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

Beyond Kubernetes: Serverless Execution Models for Variable Workloads

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💼 Kubernetes jobs

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. kpatch: Live Kernel Patching

2. Kubernetes Security Cheatsheet Diagram: A Visual Map of On-Prem Cluster Security Controls

3. Kubernetes-WithOut-Kubelet

4. kubernetes/git-sync

5. Talos Linux

6. Cloudnativepg: PostgreSQL operator for Kubernetes

7. Konditionner: conditions for CR

8. Cyphernetes

9. Deprecations AKA KubePug

10. kube-fledged: creating and managing a cache of container images

11. kubelinkr: port forwarder

12. Velero notifications

13. Capsule: multi-tenancy

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course 📅 Jun 26

🔥 Cloud Native Days Italy 2025 📅 Jun 24

🔥 Let the Algorithms Decide: Smart Kubernetes Resource Management 📅 Jun 19

One year in production with CloudNativePG and ZFS on the cheapest Kubernetes cluster we could find 📅 Jun 18

Yoke an Adventure into Code-First Kubernetes Resource Management 📅 Jun 19

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

Kubernetes Community Days Porto 2025 ⏳ closes Jun 30

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Sri Lanka 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 4

Texas Linux Festival 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 3

Open Source Summit Japan 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 4

🔥 Devopsdays Lima ⏳ closes Jun 28

🔥 Devopsdays Detroit ⏳ closes Aug 16

🔥 Devopsdays Philadelphia ⏳ closes Jun 23

PWNEDCR 0x8 ⏳ closes Jul 31

Devopsdays Bogotá ⏳ closes Sep 16

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

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Until next time!

— Dan