⎈ Securing Kubernetes with honeypots, Autoscaling My MacBook Screen Lock, Ingress production incident, Stop Treating YAML Like a String

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📚 Articles

1. Securing Kubernetes using honeypots to detect and prevent lateral movement attacks

2. Scaled Kubernetes Resource Management Requires Cross-Team Collaboration

3. Goodbye Wasted Compute: How I Taught Kubernetes to Autoscale with My MacBook Screen Lock

4. Our last Kubernetes ingress production incident — explained in 5 minutes

5. Stop Treating YAML Like a String

6. Mastering complex workloads with Kubernetes JobSet and GKE metrics

7. A Simple Solution for Configuring Liveness Probes for Queue Consumers in Kubernetes

8. Why Kubernetes and Docker Are Overkill for 95% of Projects Out There

9. Managing Applications across Fleets of Kubernetes Clusters

10. Building Docker images without root or privilege escalation

11. From Observability to Action: Using Falco for Kubernetes Threat Detection

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📖 Tutorials

1. Automating Kubernetes Resource Optimization: Strategies for Efficient, Scalable Workloads

2. Importance of Traces in Event-Driven Architecture and Benefits of the OpenTelemetry Operator

3. IaC for Generative AI: LLM JupyterLab on Kubernetes

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💼 Kubernetes jobs

Site Reliability Engineer 💰 $100K to $150K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in Chicago, IL, USA

Data Engineer 💰 $127K to $203K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America, Canada, Brazil

Software Engineer 💰 $188K to $200K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America

DevOps Engineer 💰 $70K to $90K a year · 🌎 remote from Mexico

Software Engineer 💰 $128.1K to $192.15K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in Boulder, CO / Seattle, WA, USA

👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. davidb/kubectl-view-allocations

2. Skaffold: easy and repeatable Kubernetes development

3. Headlamp: Kubernetes web UI

4. Liqo: multi-cluster topologies

5. derailed/popeye

6. Buildah: image building

7. The LeaderWorkerSet API

8. Kubernetes Scenarios

9. Keel: Kubernetes Deployment Automation Engine

10. Kiali: observability for Istio

11. Kube Scheduler Extender

12. werf: full cycle CI/CD

13. Odigos: distributed tracing

14. Wrangler: controllers framework

15. Detect Outdated Helm Charts in Your Kubernetes Cluster with Nova

16. KubeVirt

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

Kubeflow Virtual Planning Symposium 2025 📅 Jul 9

Root Cause Analysis in Kubernetes, GitOps & Argo CD 📅 Jul 9

🔥 DevBcn 📅 Jul 10

🔥 WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025 📅 Jul 11

Lessons learned from managing GPU deployments on Kubernetes 📅 Jul 11

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course (Singapore) 📅 Sep 15

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Sri Lanka 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 4

CloudCon Sydney 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 1

Cloud Native Bergen 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 1

Texas Linux Festival 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 3

Open Source Summit Japan 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 4

🔥 Devopsdays Detroit ⏳ closes Aug 16

PWNEDCR 0x8 ⏳ closes Jul 31

Devopsdays Bogotá ⏳ closes Sep 16

Devopsdays Ljubljana ⏳ closes Aug 14

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

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Until next time!

— Dan