⎈ Why Environments Beat Clusters, Image Compatibility, Terraform to Crossplane, Kube-State-Metrics, Optimising Dev Tooling

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📚 Articles

1. Why Environments Beat Clusters For Dev Experience

2. Test Orchestration: You’re Doing It, You Just Don’t Know It

3. Image Compatibility In Cloud Native Environments

4. From Terraform to Crossplane: Real-World IaC in Kubernetes for AWS

5. Why Kube-State-Metrics Matters for Kubernetes Observability

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📖 Tutorials

1. Optimising Kubernetes deployment with local continuous development tooling

2. Building AI-Assisted Test Workflows with Testkube MCP and GitHub Copilot

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📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

How We Integrated Native macOS Workloads with Kubernetes

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💼 Kubernetes jobs

Software Engineer 💰 $104K to $194K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America, Canada

DevSecOps Engineer 💰 $146K to $194K a year · 🏢 based in the office in Costa Mesa, CA, USA

Software Engineer 💰 $191K to $253K a year · 🏢 based in the office in Costa Mesa, CA, USA

DevSecOps Engineer 💰 $187K to $240K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in Boston, MA / Denver, CO / New York, NY, USA

Software Engineer 💰 $150K to $175K a year · 🏢 based in the office (and remote from home) in Knoxville, TN, USA

👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Cluster Bare Autoscaler

2. Volcano-vGPU Device Plugin

3. KAI Scheduler – Kubernetes Native AI Workload Scheduler

4. Smesh: Lightweight Kubernetes-Integrated Sidecar Mesh Without Proxies

5. KubeDiagrams – Kubernetes Architecture Diagram Generator

6. Restart-Operator – Cron-Scheduled Kubernetes Workload Restarts

7. Kubezonnet – Cross-Zone Network Traffic Monitor for Kubernetes

8. k3k: nested k3s

9. Multus CNI – Kubernetes Multi-Homed Pods Meta-Plugin

10. Typhoon: A Minimal Kubernetes Distribution

11. RamaLama – container-centric local AI model runtime

12. k8sgpt: Kubernetes analyzer

13. Nelm: Helm replacement

14. Cluster Template: Talos + Flux

15. HwameiStor: Local Storage for Cloud-Native

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📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Understanding the Kubernetes API: From Request Lifecycle to Server-Side Apply 📅 Oct 16

Securing Containers at Scale & How attackers exploit containerized apps 📅 Oct 16

Optimizing Kubernetes workloads for price/performance 📅 Oct 16

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course (Boston) 📅 Oct 20

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days UK Edinburgh 2025 📅 Oct 21

🔥 Tech Show Paris 2025 📅 Nov 5

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

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📢 Call for papers closing soon

Cloud Native Latam Summit ⏳ closes Nov 10

KyvernoCon EU 2026 ⏳ closes Nov 3

🔥 Devopsdays Los Angeles ⏳ closes Nov 2

Devopsdays Porto Alegre ⏳ closes Oct 31

Devopsdays Salvador ⏳ closes Oct 20

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

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Until next time!

— Gulcan