? Offensive techniques, Reaching the limitations of Linux, Beyond java -jar, Attacking and defending clusters, Advanced Gatekeeper policies

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1. Top offensive techniques for Kubernetes
2. Understanding the Kubernetes release cycle and how to prepare for EOL
3. Reaching the limitations of Linux with environment variables
4. Running JVM applications on Kubernetes: beyond java -jar
5. Attacking and defending Kubernetes clusters
6. Advanced Gatekeeper policies?: ?rejecting a node assignment
7. Troubleshooting containers
8. Faster startup times for Kubernetes workloads with Kube Startup CPU Boost
9. Nginx reverse proxy DNS issue
10. Distributed full fine-tuning of Llama2 on Kubernetes
11. A tale of two VLANs
12. Progressive Delivery for Stateful Services Using Argo Rollouts
13. Optimize Java performance on Kubernetes
14. Exploring Kubernetes API groups and versions
15. K3s Traefik Ingress: configured for your homelab!
16. Distributed systems horror stories: Kubernetes deep health checks

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3. Securing front-end applications in Kubernetes with SSL/TLS
4. Calico and Kubernetes: a perfect pair for robust Network Policy

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?? Tools and libraries

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3. Kubeinvaders
4. Kubernetes E2E Framework
5. pv-migrate: migrate persistent volumes
6. kusion: deliver intentions to Kubernetes
7. K8s cleaner
8. Cloudflare Operator

?? Upcoming Kubernetes events

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Kubernetes 1.30 release ?? May 23

The impact of leader election on the Kubernetes API and an investigation into alternatives ?? May 23

?? Advanced Kubernetes course (Singapore) ?? May 27

Devopsdays Montréal ?? May 27

?? Should you use Kubernetes and Docker in your next project? ?? May 30

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?? CloudX 2024 ? closes Jun 14

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?? Platform Engineering 2024 ? closes Aug 5

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— Dan