⎈ Kubernetes failure stories, Scaling to the future with Graviton, YAML templating was a mistake, SLOs and SLIs for ArgoCD, Pods partying hard

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📚 Articles

1. 🔥 Kubernetes failure stories

2. What is OpenTelemetry?  An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

3. YAML templating was a mistake

4. What to do when Pods are partying too hard for a node

5. Defining and Implementing Effective SLOs and SLIs for ArgoCD

6. Scaling to the future: Kubernetes reimagined with Graviton processors

7. Tracing Strategies For LLMs Running On Google Cloud Run

8. Graphs in Your Head: Assessing Kubernetes Workloads

9. Pwning Kubernetes

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📖 Tutorials

1. Migrating an Event-Driven Architecture to Kubernetes

2. Integrate Dynatrace into Backstage to level up developer experience

3. From laptop to hybrid cloud: building a modern and frugal Kubernetes network with Cilium

💼 Kubernetes jobs

Data Engineer 💰 $144K to $166K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America

DevOps Engineer 💰 $48K to $60K a year · 🌏 fully remote

Software Engineer 💰 $66K to $130K a year · 🏢 based in the office in State College, PA, USA

DevSecOps Engineer 💰 $169K to $223K a year · 🏢 based in the office in Annapolis Junction, MD, USA

Head of Platform Engineering 💰 $240K to $310K a year · 🌎 remote from the United States of America

👉 Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Yoke: WASM IaC deployer

2. Sealed secrets

3. Freelens: Cross-Platform GUI for Kubernetes Cluster Management

4. Kubetail: logging dashboard

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

6. Union: Self-Hosted Cloudflare Workers on Kubernetes

7. kcp: isolated workspaces

8. Rook: Kubernetes-Native Storage Operator for Ceph

9. k8sgpt: Kubernetes analyzer

10. Nelm: Helm replacement

11. kubescape/cel-admission-library

12. Blixt: Experimental Rust-Based eBPF Load Balancer

13. kubeseal-convert

14. K8z: the Kubernetes manager

15. kubectl.nvim: Kubernetes navigator

16. kubethanos: chaos engineering tool

📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

🔥 Leveraging EKS Auto Mode + StormForge to achieve holistic cost efficiency on Kubernetes 📅 Jul 23

Bratislava Cloud Native Chapter 📅 Jul 23

Building World Class Cloud and AI Platform with Cloud Native and AKS 📅 Jul 24

cTENcf Birthday Bash New York 📅 Jul 24

The Architecture of Failure: Unpacking Cloud Native Anti-Patterns 📅 Jul 25

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course (Singapore) 📅 Sep 15

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

📢 Call for papers closing soon

🔥 Kubernetes Community Days Sri Lanka 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 4

CloudCon Sydney 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 1

Cloud Native Bergen 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 1

KubeVirt Summit 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 6

Texas Linux Festival 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 3

Open Source Summit Japan 2025 ⏳ closes Aug 4

🔥 Devopsdays Detroit ⏳ closes Aug 16

PWNEDCR 0x8 ⏳ closes Jul 31

Devopsdays Bogotá ⏳ closes Sep 16

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

Until next time!

— Dan