⎈ Squid Proxy for Egress Control, OS Migration Cuts 30%, Auto-Scaling and Load-Based Scaling, Smart Pod Placement, Claude Code on Autodock

This newsletter is brought to you by Hadron, the new lightweight secure Linux OS from the Kairos team

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📚 Articles

1. 🔥 Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy

2. Introducing Hadron, the minimal upstream-first Linux base for Kairos

3. How We Turned a Forced OS Migration into a 30% Infrastructure Reduction

4. 🔥 Auto-scaling and Load-based Scaling

5. Smart Scheduler: Intelligent Pod Placement for Kubernetes Cost Optimization

6. Using Claude Code to Pilot Kubernetes on Autodock

7. Rethinking EKS Management: Kiro Meets AWS MCP Server

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🌟 See Hadron and Kairos at KubeCon

Hear from real Kairos users, meet the project maintainers from Spectro Cloud, and learn what makes Hadron your new favorite OS.

→ Meet us in Amsterdam

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📖 Tutorials

1. [Video] How to get started with Hadron

2. 🔥 Integration testing with Kubernetes

3. 🔥 Vault: secure Kubernetes authentication with hashicorp Vault OIDC

4. Security Inside Kubernetes: Admission & Runtime Guardrails with Kyverno and KubeArmor

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

Migrating to Karpenter: Fun Stories

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💼 Kubernetes jobs

Software Engineer 💰 CA$91.5K to CA$116.1K a year · 🌎 remote from

Software Engineer 💰 $230K to $280K a year · 🏢 based in the office in San Francisco, CA, USA

Software Engineer 💰 $230K to $280K a year · 🏢 based in the office in San Francisco, CA, USA

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Software Engineer 💰 $115K to $135K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in Morgan Hill, CA, USA

👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Crust-Gather – kubectl Cluster Snapshot Plugin

2. Benchmark Suite for Gateway API Implementations

3. Kogaro – Kubernetes Configuration Hygiene Agent

4. llm-d: SOTA inference performance

5. Kthena: Enterprise LLM serving

6. sk8r: Kubernetes Dashboard Clone

7. Easykube: Local Kubernetes development

8. Nelm: Helm replacement

9. Guardon: Kubernetes security extension

10. Terraform AWS EKS Operation Scheduler: EKS scheduler

11. kcli: virtualization tool

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

Cloud & AI Infrastructure London 2026 📅 Mar 5

🔥 GPU Multi-Tenancy: When to Share, When to Separate 📅 Mar 5

DevOps Not Dead 📅 Mar 6

🔥 Devopsdays Los Angeles 📅 Mar 6

KubeVela and OAM, DevOps for AI with Kubeflow & Bye-bye Ingress-NGINX, hello Gateway API 📅 Mar 10

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course 📅 Mar 12

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

Cloud Native Days Italy 2026 ⏳ closes Mar 6

Cloud Native Days Amsterdam ⏳ closes Mar 20

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Czech & Slovak - Prague 2026 ⏳ closes Apr 1

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 ⏳ closes Mar 29

🔥 Cloud Native 2026 ⏳ closes Mar 23

SREday Seattle 2026 ⏳ closes Mar 16

SREday San Francisco 2026 ⏳ closes Mar 16

SREday Munich 2026 ⏳ closes Apr 21

SREday Austin 2026 ⏳ closes Apr 12

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

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Until next time!

— Gulcan