? We disabled GKE image streaming, pod kills due to memory spikes, feature-branches: vanilla Kubernetes + Bitbucket pipelines, scheduling shenanigans

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?? Articles

1. Faster machine learning deployments: why we disabled GKE image streaming
2. Split Queues To Share Cloud Development Environments
3. How we handled pod kills due to memory spikes while running heavy scripts
4. Feature-branches: vanilla Kubernetes + Bitbucket pipelines
5. Scheduling shenanigans: the wild world of cloud wrangling from Kubernetes to Microsoft’s bandwidth-hungry octopus
6. Developing an ETL pipeline for massive NOAA sensor data: from raw files to predictive insights
7. Kubernetes: Seccomp, AppArmor, SELinux & Pod Security Standards and Admission Control
8. Injecting certificates into Kubernetes workloads
9. Overview of Kubernetes: GPU Scheduling, Device Plugin, CDI, NFD, and GPU Operator
10. Deploying RAG on Kubernetes: lessons learned

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Cloud development can feel like a slow, repetitive loop—writing code, deploying, testing, and fixing.

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The future is remolocal

?? Tutorials

1. How to Debug a Go Microservice in Kubernetes
2. Horizontal Pod Autoscaling with Kubernetes using external metric (cluster worker nodes count)
3. Mirrord Mirrord on the wall, who's most processed of them all
4. Configuring Istio Authorization Policy in Kubernetes namespaces

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?? Tools and libraries

1. OCM: multi-cluster orchestration
2. Kargo: application lifecycle orchestration
3. Coroot: eBPF-based observability
4. Descheduler
5. Caretta: visual map
6. Kargo: application lifecycle orchestration
7. Headlamp: Kubernetes web UI
8. Kubero: Heroku PaaS alternative with GitOps
9. Timoni: package manager for Kubernetes
10. Kubeshark: API traffic analyzer for Kubernetes
11. Kube bench
12. Pinniped: authentication servicer

?? Upcoming Kubernetes events

?? Advanced Kubernetes course ?? Mar 20

?? Kubernetes Community Days Rio de Janeiro 2025 ?? Mar 22

Build your own IaaS with ironcore utilizing controller-runtime and Kubernetes aggregation layer ?? Mar 19

Voxxeddays Bucharest ?? Mar 27

Open Source Day 2025 ?? Mar 21

?? You can find more events on Kube Events.

?? Call for papers closing soon

?? ContainerDays ? closes Mar 31

Kubernetes Community Days Bengaluru 2025 ? closes Mar 26

?? Kubernetes Community Days Utrecht 2025 ? closes Apr 6

?? Kubernetes Community Days Taipei 2025 ? closes Apr 20

Kubernetes Community Days Sofia 2025 ? closes Apr 21

Cloud Native Days Austria ? closes May 31

?? DevOps Pro Europe ? closes Apr 30

GitOpsCon Europe 2025 ? closes Mar 23

Devopsdays Eindhoven ? closes May 10

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

Until next time!

— Dan