"Building trust in the platform is even more important than building the platform."

Andrea Giardini on why automation adoption depends on developer confidence



📺: https://ku.bz/RS1WM5R74

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This tutorial teaches how to build intelligent load balancing on GCP for Python microservices using Google Kubernetes Engine with Network Endpoint Groups, readiness probes, autoscaling, and observability to reduce failures

➤ https://ku.bz/SvBYDDlTP

K8up is a Kubernetes Operator that helps you:

- Backup all PVCs marked as ReadWriteMany or with a specific label
- Perform individual, on-demand backups
- Schedule backups to be executed regularly

And more

➜ https://ku.bz/NRCMwzwQJ

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Crossview is a React-based dashboard for managing and monitoring Crossplane resources in Kubernetes with features like:

- resource visualization,
- search capabilities,
- SSO support,
- and deployment via Helm or Kubernetes manifests

➤ https://ku.bz/fKG0s4RYq

This article explains how Slurm on Kubernetes combines Slurm job scheduling with Kubernetes orchestration so AI and HPC teams can modernize GPU-heavy infrastructure without forcing researchers into raw Kubernetes workflows

➜ https://ku.bz/TMyTCcWG0

KAOS is a Kubernetes-native framework for deploying and orchestrating AI agents with MCP tool integration, multi-agent coordination, hierarchical delegation, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, and a visual dashboard for monitoring and debugging

➤ https://ku.bz/lwLj8DRGD

Helm-exporter exports Helm releases, charts, and version statistics in the Prometheus format

➜ https://ku.bz/T9Y1Vh5Mn

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This tutorial shows you how to extend Argo Workflows using Executor Plugins by building HTTP servers that handle lightweight tasks in reusable agent pods instead of spinning up separate pods for each step

➤ https://ku.bz/6x9rX3m22

make-argocd-fly is a tool that simplifies the generation of Kubernetes manifests for deployment in complex, multi-cluster, and multi-application environments and provides native integration with ArgoCD for streamlined deployment

➜ https://ku.bz/9txYqymYd

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Become an expert in Kubernetes!

LearnKube runs its iconic 4-day Advanced Kubernetes course next week!

If you want to get your hands dirty with Kubernetes, join us for a workshop packed with hands-on labs!

Sign up here: https://learnkube.com/training

Kloudlite is an open-source platform designed to provide seamless and secure development environments for building distributed applications

It connects local workspaces with remote Kubernetes environments via a WireGuard network

➜ https://ku.bz/FVN45fLyW

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AIBrix is a Kubernetes-native GenAI inference infrastructure toolkit from the vLLM project, with LLM-aware routing, distributed KV cache, LoRA management, and an app-tailored autoscaler for vLLM workloads

➜ https://ku.bz/vJhPgwv7P

"Customers say, I need it to do X — and we can make it do X because the foundation is an agentic framework."

Andrew Hillier on what differentiates Kubex





📺: https://ku.bz/KL4jRvsL4

📣: https://ku.bz/KL4jRvsL4

helm-unittest is a tool that allows you to write unit tests for Helm charts in YAML, ensuring your charts are consistent and robust

➜ https://ku.bz/YqK6mqnD2

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This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly:

☁️ Event-Driven Architecture Missing Standards
🔥 Sandboxes for AI
🔐 Securing East-West Traffic
💥 Chaos Engineering Best Practices
📊 AWS Monitoring Platform

⭐️ Portworx

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/179

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"That's one of the biggest gaps we're seeing right now… accurate visibility into what's happening."

Phil Trickovic on Tintri's OpenTelemetry announcement



📺: https://ku.bz/fNT9T1FZZ

📣: https://ku.bz/Y-Hr_rhZk

Gemini is a Kubernetes CRD and operator for managing VolumeSnapshots

It allows you to create a snapshot of the data on your PersistentVolumes regularly, retire old snapshots, and restore snapshots with minimal downtime

➜ https://ku.bz/g3mkKJL4W

🗣️ William Morgan, CEO at Buoyant, discusses the successful model for operating Kubernetes: platform owners build infrastructure while developers focus on business logic

Watch now: https://ku.bz/CBwn51pl-

scaf generates a new project structure with Kubernetes manifests in three Kustomize layers for dev, sandbox, and production

It provides a blueprint for a new project and streamlines the development experience with Tilt

➜ https://ku.bz/QPN3cHjF7

avapig is a high-performance, production-ready API Gateway built with Go and gin-gonic for cloud-native environments

➤ https://ku.bz/LZSVRBTP4

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This tool provides a comprehensive test suite to evaluate real-world behavior (latency, scale, route propagation, traffic) of Kubernetes Gateway API implementations, beyond basic conformance

➜ https://ku.bz/WB0Zdv4bM

This article shows how KRO manages ephemeral test environments as single Kubernetes API objects by orchestrating resource deployment in dependency order, with readiness conditions and a unified status across namespace, frontend, backend, and database

➤ https://ku.bz/BHxF-9Hpj

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This article explains how CloudEvents provides missing standardization for Event Driven Architecture by defining a common envelope format for events, solving inconsistency problems across distributed systems

➜ https://ku.bz/3zj8B2ttK

🗣️ David Pech discusses the critical evaluation process before implementing Postgres as a Service on Kubernetes

Watch the full episode: https://ku.bz/rGMF2ktdb

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Delete a Pod from a Deployment and a new one appears.

The API server didn't create it. The scheduler didn't schedule it yet. A controller inside the controller manager noticed the count was wrong and created a replacement before anything else happened.

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zeropod is a tool that automatically checkpoints containers to disk after a certain amount of time of the last TCP connection, allowing for fast and seamless scaling down to zero

➤ https://ku.bz/MjQ_WWsrx

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This case study shows how reducing JVM MaxRAMPercentage, cutting the Hikari connection pool from 50 to 20, and implementing aggressive HPA scale-up (0s stabilization, 4 pods/min) doubled traffic capacity while cutting baseline pods from 26 to 10

➤ https://ku.bz/ygN1g2XkZ

b4n is a k9s-inspired terminal UI for Kubernetes written in Rust, built on kube-rs and ratatui with full CRUD, log streaming, shell access, and port forwarding

➤ https://ku.bz/d-5zDDPY_