⎈ Synchronizing Database schema, Building Resilient Applications, EKS Auto Mode vs AKS Automatic, How does Calico assign IPs to itself?

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📚 Articles

1. Synchronizing Database schema updates between projects and environments

2. Reducing Prometheus Alert Fatigue: An AI Intervention for Infrastructure and Application Monitoring

3. Building Resilient Applications on Kubernetes

4. Amazon EKS Auto Mode vs Azure AKS Automatic: Which is the Better Managed Kubernetes Solution?

5. A CNI 'chicken-and-egg' dilemma: How does Calico assign IPs to itself?

6. API Streaming in Kubernetes: Memory-Efficient List Responses

7. How We Tested Scaling to 10,000 Kubernetes Clusters

8. Fine-Grained Pod Scheduling Order in Kubernetes with QueueingHint

9. KRO: Kubernetes Resource Orchestration

10. Design Challenge: Integrate Kubernetes VPA with Apache Spark

11. The Hidden Risk of Running WordPress on Kubernetes: Debugging an Unexpected Downtime Issue

12. Simplifying RBAC Extension in Kubernetes: Leveraging Aggregate ClusterRoles

13. Kubernetes Initial Access Vectors: Control Plane Attack Paths

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📖 Tutorials

1. 🔥 How etcd works with and without Kubernetes

2. Understanding the 1MB Limit of Etcd in Kubernetes: Challenges with Helm Deployments

3. Distroless Images in Docker: Minimalism, Security, and Debugging in Kubernetes

4. Building a Resilient EKS Cluster with In-cluster Auto-Scaled Lib hardware

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

Super-Scaling Open Policy Agent with Batch Queries

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Helmfile

2. RunWhen Authors Program

3. Helm-mapkubeapis: Fix Deprecated APIs in Helm Releases

4. Vals Configuration Loader

5. KGrok – Self-Service HTTPS Tunnels for Local Devs via Kubernetes

6. OpenCost

7. Capsule: Kubernetes operator for multi-tenancy

8. KPA: Kubernetes Practice

9. Kubernetes to Mermaid

10. kcp: isolated workspaces

11. Kubewall

12. kubectl-validate

13. STUNner: media gateway for WebRTC

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Texas Austin 2025 📅 May 15

Building AI Workflows with DigitalOcean Kubernetes & Dissecting the Kubernetes Scheduler 📅 May 16

🔥 DevOps Pro Europe 📅 May 20

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Seoul 2025 📅 May 22

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course 📅 Jun 26

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

🔥 Kubernetes Community Washington DC 2025 ⏳ closes May 26

🔥 Cloud Native Days Austria ⏳ closes May 31

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 ⏳ closes May 28

Cloud Native Denmark 2025 ⏳ closes Jun 16

Kubernetes Community Days Porto 2025 ⏳ closes Jun 30

Kubernetes Community Days Warsaw 2025 ⏳ closes Jun 16

Texas Linux Festival 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 3

Devopsdays Tel Aviv ⏳ closes Jun 15

Open Source Summit Japan 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 4

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

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Until next time!

— Dan