⎈ Offensive techniques, Reaching the limitations of Linux, Beyond java -jar, Attacking and defending clusters, Advanced Gatekeeper policies

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Next week: Should you use Kubernetes and Docker for your next project?

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📚 Articles

1. Top offensive techniques for Kubernetes

2. Understanding the Kubernetes release cycle and how to prepare for EOL

3. Reaching the limitations of Linux with environment variables

4. Running JVM applications on Kubernetes: beyond java -jar

5. Attacking and defending Kubernetes clusters

6. Advanced Gatekeeper policies :  rejecting a node assignment

7. Troubleshooting containers

8. Faster startup times for Kubernetes workloads with Kube Startup CPU Boost

9. Nginx reverse proxy DNS issue

10. Distributed full fine-tuning of Llama2 on Kubernetes

11. A tale of two VLANs

12. Progressive Delivery for Stateful Services Using Argo Rollouts

13. Optimize Java performance on Kubernetes

14. Exploring Kubernetes API groups and versions

15. K3s Traefik Ingress: configured for your homelab!

16. Distributed systems horror stories: Kubernetes deep health checks

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📖 Tutorials

1. Running GPU-Accelerated LLM workloads on EKS

2. A practical approach to signed and encrypted container images

3. Securing front-end applications in Kubernetes with SSL/TLS

4. Calico and Kubernetes: a perfect pair for robust Network Policy

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

CoreDNS will fail you at scale (with default settings)

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💼 Kubernetes jobs

Engineering Manager 💰 ₪348K to ₪396K a year · 🌎 remote from Israel

Site Reliability Engineer 💰 €78K to €82K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in Bucharest, RO

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Site Reliability Engineer 💰 £70K to £75K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in Nottingham, GB

👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Free Kubernetes

2. Crossplane troubleshooting tool

3. Kubeinvaders

4. Kubernetes E2E Framework

5. pv-migrate: migrate persistent volumes

6. kusion: deliver intentions to Kubernetes

7. K8s cleaner

8. Cloudflare Operator

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days New York 2024 📅 May 22

Kubernetes 1.30 release 📅 May 23

The impact of leader election on the Kubernetes API and an investigation into alternatives 📅 May 23

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course (Singapore) 📅 May 27

Devopsdays Montréal 📅 May 27

🔥 Should you use Kubernetes and Docker in your next project? 📅 May 30

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

KubeCon North America ⏳ closes Jun 10

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days UK ⏳ closes Jun 4

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Washington DC 2024 ⏳ closes Jun 3

Kubeday Colombia ⏳ closes Jun 29

Kubernetes Community Days Austria 2024 ⏳ closes Jun 23

🔥 CloudX 2024 ⏳ closes Jun 14

Devopsdays London ⏳ closes May 24

🔥 Platform Engineering 2024 ⏳ closes Aug 5

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

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Until next time!

— Dan