? Fairness aware load distribution, Kubernetes configuration in 2024, Container communication inside a pod, What determines a ready node?

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?? Articles

1. Fairness aware load distribution
2. The rise of open source time series databases
3. Kubernetes configuration in 2024
4. Container communication inside a Kubernetes pod
5. What determines if a Kubernetes node is ready?
6. Do pods really get evicted due to CPU pressure?
7. Debugging Distroless Images with kubectl and cdebug
8. Maturing Istio ambient: compatibility across various Kubernetes providers and cnis
9. Injecting External Secrets in a Kubernetes cluster

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?? Tutorials

1. How to reduce expenses on monitoring: be smarter about data
2. ImagePolicy webhook in Kubernetes
3. Turbocharge ArgoCD with app of apps pattern and kustomized Helm
4. Backup k3s with litestream

?? This week on the KubeFM podcast

Tortoise: outpacing the optimization challenges in Kubernetes

?? Kubernetes jobs

Site Reliability Engineer ?? $127.8K to $196K a year · ?? remote from the United States

DevOps Engineer ?? $104.83K to $144.14K a year · ?? based in the office in Centennial / Broomfield / Louisville, CO, USA

Site Reliability Engineer ?? €40.8K to €52.8K a year · ?? based in the office in Vilnius, LT

?? Discover more opportunities on Kube Careers.

?? Tools and libraries

1. Kubernetes-WithOut-Kubelet
2. Kobs: Kubernetes observability platform
3. Shell operator
4. Kamaji: control plane manager
5. Chart-testing: linting and testing charts
6. netfetch: scan Network Policies
7. DevSecOps for air gap & limited-connection systems
8. Gatekeeper library
9. Netshoot: network troubleshooting
10. KubeEdge: edge computing
11. JuiceFS: distributed file system for cloud
12. Cozystack: building clouds
13. Knative: serveless and event-driven apps
14. Helm chartsnap: testing charts
15. Helm controller
16. DirectPV: Direct Attached Storage

?? Upcoming Kubernetes events

?? Kubernetes Community Days Washington DC 2024 ?? Sep 24

GPUs in Kubernetes: past, present, and future ?? Sep 18

?? Edgecase 2024 ?? Sep 24

Towards standardized volumes: transitioning Odin's volume management to Kubernetes ?? Sep 18

Backstage and Crossplane & delivery strategies with Argo CD and Kubernetes ?? Sep 21

?? You can find more events on Kube Events.

?? Call for papers closing soon

?? Dutch Cloud Native Day 2024 ? closes Oct 31

Tech Internals Conf ? closes Nov 1

Cloud Native Sustainability Week 2024 ? closes Sep 24

?? DevSecOps 2024 ? closes Nov 4

QCon San Francisco ? closes Sep 18

?? Cybersec Asia 2025 ? closes Nov 30

Devopsdays Chicago ? closes Oct 20

RuhrSec 2025 ? closes Nov 10

DevIgnition ? closes Sep 27

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

Until next time!

— Dan