Learn from production

• We Had Secrets in Kubernetes. Then We Got Audited.

  Alex

  This case study explains how a Kubernetes secrets audit exposed weak secret handling and forced a move toward safer secret management.

  It covers encoded secrets, RBAC, encryption, external secret stores, and audit-ready controls.

• ClickHouse Shard Rebalancing on Kubernetes: From Talk to Operator

  Saurabh Kumar Ojha

  This case study shows how a team built a Kubernetes operator to rebalance old ClickHouse partitions across shards during cluster size changes.

• Our Kubernetes operator didn't scale, so we rebuilt it

  Infisical's case study explains why its Kubernetes operator hit memory and authentication scaling limits and how a reference-based CRD design fixed secret sync.

• When CoreDNS Becomes the Bottleneck: A Stress-Testing Story on EKS with kube-burner

  Aadhith

  This case study shows how CoreDNS became an EKS bottleneck under heavy DNS traffic and uses kube-burner test results to explain why NodeLocal DNSCache helped.

More case studies →

Matching jobs

1. • AI Solution Architect - Educational Content Author, Nebius Academy with Nebius

   • Salary: $30 to $485.65K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, On-premise, Python, Terraform

2. • DevOps Engineer with North Point Technology

   • Salary: $70.74K to $440K a year

   • Location: based in the office in Herndon, VA, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Java, Python, SQL, Cloudformation, Gitlab, Jenkins

3. • DevSecOps Engineer with Nebius

   • Salary: $135K to $385K a year

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4. • DevSecOps Engineer with NinjaTrader

   • Salary: $145K to $195K a year

   • Location: based in the office in Chicago, IL, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, GCP, Go, Python, Terraform

5. • DevSecOps Engineer with North Point Technology

   • Salary: $77.76K to $485.65K a year

   • Location: based in the office in Springfield, VA, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Typescript

Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

Build something

• Installing and Configuring Node Problem Detector in my Home Cluster

  Timothy Bryant

  This tutorial explains how to install Node Problem Detector in a home Kubernetes cluster using Helm and Argo CD.

  It shows how node-level issues like disk I/O errors, filesystem corruption, and kernel panics become Kubernetes node conditions.

• Multi-Tenant SaaS Architecture on Amazon EKS: Real-World Deployment Notes

  Muhammad Muzammil

  This tutorial shows how to build a per-user SaaS setup on EKS Auto Mode with one pod, one subdomain, one persistent volume, wildcard TLS, and a shared ALB.

• Running Hermes Agent on MicroK8s and Leveraging K8s CronJobs

  Mo Figueroa

  This tutorial shows how to run Hermes Agent on MicroK8s as a stateful gateway, move scheduled briefings into Kubernetes CronJobs, and use PVCs, ConfigMaps, retry jobs, and Helm for a small agent system.

• Pod Auto-Scaling (HPA) and CDN

  Chris St. John

  This tutorial shows how to set up Horizontal Pod Autoscaler with CloudFront CDN on Amazon EKS, using k6 for load testing to demonstrate CPU-based autoscaling from 3 to 10 pods and identifying node capacity limits.

More tutorials →

Call for Papers closing soon

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   Subsurface 2026 — The Open Data and AI Conference

   The Call For Paper is open until 17 July 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • This is a virtual event

   • Online conference organized by Dremio.

   • The conference starts on the 2 October 2026.

   • Apply here

2. 1

   days

   Devopsdays Cairo

   The Call For Paper is open until 17 July 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Cairo, EG

   • In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.

   • The conference starts on the 26 September 2026.

   • Apply here

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   days

   Kubernetes Community Days Sofia 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 18 July 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Sofia, BG

   • In-person conference organized by KCD Sofia.

   • The conference starts on the 29 September 2026.

   • Apply here

4. 8

   days

   WeAreDevelopers Conference India

   The Call For Paper is open until 24 July 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Bengaluru, IN

   • In-person conference organized by WeAreDevelopers.

   • The conference starts on the 26 November 2026.

   • Apply here

5. 15

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   ContainerDays & AI Context Singapore

   The Call For Paper is open until 31 July 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Singapore, SG

   • In-person conference organized by ContainerDays.

   • The conference starts on the 28 October 2026.

   • Apply here

6. 15

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   Cloud Native Summit APAC 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 31 July 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Melbourne, AU

   • In-person conference organized by Cloud Native Summit.

   • The conference starts on the 29 October 2026.

   • Apply here

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   ServerlessDays Cardiff 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 31 July 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Cardiff, GB

   • In-person conference organized by ServerlessCWL.

   • The conference starts on the 3 October 2026.

   • Apply here

More articles

• GOMAXPROCS Is Lying to Your Kubernetes Pod (Costing You CPU)

  Gabriel Anhaia

  This article explains why Go services in Kubernetes can waste CPU when GOMAXPROCS does not match pod CPU limits.

  It covers automaxprocs, Go 1.25 behavior, stale env vars, and throttling checks.

• I built a custom load balancer in Go. The hardest part wasn’t the code.

  sathwick

  This article shows how a probe-driven Go load balancer was tested against Kubernetes workloads and why benchmark discipline mattered more than the algorithm.

• Invisible OOMkill: Java pods crashing in Kubernetes

  Ramya vani Rayala

  This article explains why Java pods can be OOMKilled when JVM heap settings ignore off-heap memory and shows how to align JVM flags with Kubernetes limits.

• SELinux Volume Label Changes goes GA (and likely implications in v1.37)

  This article explains the Kubernetes v1.36 SELinux volume labeling change and why clusters using SELinux should audit workloads before SELinuxMount becomes the default.

Even more articles →