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Sloth generates Prometheus Service Level Objectives with reliable SLI recording rules and multi-window, multi-burn-rate alerts from simple YAML specs

➤ https://ku.bz/SLVjZfYbV

This article explains how Dream11 built an in-house observability platform using SigNoz, ClickHouse, and OpenTelemetry to handle millions of metrics and traces across thousands of EC2 instances, saving millions in commercial tooling costs

➤ https://ku.bz/ZSb36t4t5

"The control plane is meant to be invisible. But at thousands of nodes and tens of thousands of API requests, it becomes a real challenge."

Alex Kestner on control plane bottlenecks



📺: https://ku.bz/blMzG_XM7

k8s-bootstrap generates GitOps-ready Kubernetes cluster configurations through a web UI where you select components such as ingress controllers, security tools, and observability platforms

➤ https://ku.bz/f5HxM0CBt

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This article compares Cinder CSI and Ceph RBD CSI on Rackspace Spot by analyzing persistent volume attach and detach behavior, showing that Ceph RBD delivers faster and more reliable lifecycle performance

➜ https://ku.bz/SNw_SqDdN

"Simple needs a container, a database, an S3 bucket, IAM roles, and 47 YAML files. The glue is the hard part." — Sebastien Allamand



📺: https://ku.bz/hGZChYmJ7

nix-csi is a Kubernetes CSI driver that mounts the Nix store into pods as ephemeral volumes, letting you reference any Nix derivation, flake, or store path directly from a PodSpec

➤ https://ku.bz/W0zZ1HRJV

DR-Syncer is a tool for disaster recovery synchronization between Kubernetes clusters, offering both a controller-based mode and a CLI mode to perform Stage, Cutover, and Failback operations

➜ https://ku.bz/c7FR_grvr

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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

"VPC flow logs give you IPs. Kubernetes gives you pods. Correlating the two is the real blind spot."

Elamaran Shanmugam on network traffic visibility



📺: https://ku.bz/DCxhgWQqS

This repo contains a GitOps-based IaC setup for a personal homelab, managing infrastructure and services declaratively via tools like Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, etc

➜ https://ku.bz/ym6b2gcTj

🗣️ Zain Malik explains how his team overcame limitations when implementing Cluster API for managed Kubernetes services like AKS, originally designed for self-managed clusters

Watch the full episode: https://ku.bz/5PLksqVlk

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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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This tutorial shows how to build a local data platform using KinD for Kubernetes and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, with Argo CD as the GitOps engine for deploying and managing applications

➜ https://ku.bz/jKGHDkGGL

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This case study debugs 30+ second GitHub ARC workflow pod startup delays caused by mixing nodeName with OpenEBS allowedTopologies constraints, resolving it by enabling `ACTIONS_RUNNER_USE_KUBE_SCHEDULER` to use nodeAffinity instead

➤ https://ku.bz/jxW7Rk9Bs

This framework helps you provision Kubernetes clusters via OpenTofu/Terragrunt, manage apps and system components via Helm + safehelm, and standardize secret encryption and lifecycle commands across environments

➜ https://ku.bz/JSfS0gTwd

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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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flux9s is a terminal interface for monitoring Flux GitOps resources in real time with K9s inspired navigation

It offers resource operations like:

- suspend,
- resume,
- reconcile,
- graph visualization,
- reconciliation history tracking

➤ https://ku.bz/jvKh9NH_1

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_

HAProxy Data Plane API is a sidecar process written in Go that runs alongside HAProxy and provides REST API endpoints for managing HAProxy configuration, requiring HAProxy version 1.9.0 or higher

➤ https://ku.bz/wyGW4WtdG

Actions Runner Controller (ARC) is a Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners

With ARC, you can:

- Deploy self-hosted runners on Kubernetes clusters with a simple set of commands
- Auto scale runners based on demand

➤ https://ku.bz/ZjFXy9Czk

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This tutorial shows how to add observability to an EKS cluster by migrating to ArgoCD's App of Apps pattern and deploying kube-prometheus-stack with a properly configured EBS CSI driver and kubelet cAdvisor configuration

➜ https://ku.bz/YXlCBPNXd

"Before Hadron, we were retrofitting general-purpose OS. Now we have a minimal system designed exclusively for edge workloads."

Ettore Di Giacinto on the shift



📺: https://ku.bz/wMhKpZ5bQ

📣: https://ku.bz/_9RmXnjDJ

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This case study describes rebuilding a fragile Kubernetes infrastructure into a production-grade platform for GPU-based ML workloads, improving deployment frequency from weekly to 10+ times daily

➤ https://ku.bz/lFNBx-8yT

This project provides a webhook provider for ExternalDNS that lets Kubernetes automatically manage DNS records on a MikroTik RouterOS via its API

➜ https://ku.bz/tGmy_4Bcn

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This case study shows building a centralized multi-account AWS monitoring platform managing 25+ accounts using Python Boto3 to fetch resource configurations into MongoDB, with Flask API and Next.js frontend achieving $30k annual savings

➜ https://ku.bz/LV7qH0CK1

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This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly:

🔥 RCE via Nodes/Proxy
🦅 Chaos to Engineering Excellence
☸️ Extended Toleration Operators
🔄 K8S to ECS Fargate
🗄️ SQL Server on AKS with GitOps

⭐️ StormForge

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/178

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ch-vmm lets you run Cloud Hypervisor virtual machines inside Kubernetes like regular pods with support for snapshots, rollbacks, and multi-VM management

➜ https://ku.bz/v_Tn_YMGf