Daily Kubernetes news, events, jobs, podcast and more

Spotlight

Vadim Alekseev

This article compares major Kubernetes log collectors with a reproducible benchmark focused on:

Kubernetes Optimization Beyond Requests and Limits — Node Scaling Blockers
David B Chase
This article explains why reducing requests and limits does not always lower Kubernetes cost, and shows how node scale-down blockers can keep autoscalers from actually removing idle infrastructure.
Two Production Incidents That Taught Me More Than Any Course
Ejiroghene Laurel Dafe
This case study shows how one engineer resolved two real Kubernetes production incidents involving an overly aggressive Ingress rate limit and Istio breaking non-HTTP socket traffic.
Securing Production Debugging in Kubernetes
This article explains how to secure production debugging in Kubernetes with least-privilege RBAC, controlled exec access, ephemeral containers, and short-lived just-in-time credentials for on-call teams.

Tools and utilities

Sympozium
Sympozium runs AI agents as isolated pods with CRDs, Jobs, RBAC, and network policies, so teams can orchestrate agent workflows and let agents diagnose or remediate cluster issues safely.
Audicia
Audicia is an open source Kubernetes operator that reads audit logs and generates least-privilege RBAC policies, compliance reports, and GitOps-ready manifests.
YAML Schema Router
YAML Schema Router is a proxy for yaml-language-server that detects YAML file types from content and path, then injects the right JSON schema for better validation in editors like Neovim, Helix, and Emacs.
K8s cleaner
K8s cleaner is a controller that identifies, removes, or updates stale/orphaned or unhealthy resources in a Kubernetes cluster.
Omni Infrastructure Provider for Proxmox
Omni Infrastructure Provider for Proxmox is a Go-based tool that lets Sidero Omni automatically provision and scale Talos Linux nodes as virtual machines on a Proxmox cluster.

Events starting soon

LinuxFest Northwest
April 24, 2026
- Location: Washington, DC, USA
- This event requires an entrance fee
Google Cloud Next
April 24, 2026
- Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
- This event requires an entrance fee
Kubernetes in real life, day to day
April 24, 2026
- Location: Arequipa, PE
- This is a free event.
Enabling High Availability for Your Disks with Longhorn on k3s
April 25, 2026
- Location: Ahmedabad, IN
- This is a free event.
From Code to Cluster: Building and Securing Cloud-Native Systems
April 25, 2026
- Location: Mysuru, IN
- This is a free event.
Scaling to Zero: Practical GreenOps for Kubernetes with Kube-Green
April 25, 2026
- Location: Hyderabad, IN
- This is a free event.

Learn from production

Simplifying Model Serving with Kubernetes and Ray: Inside DoubleVerify’s ML Platform
DV Engineering
This case study shows how DoubleVerify built a Kubernetes and Ray serving platform to deploy and scale ML models in production.
It also covers RayService wrapped with Helm, fault tolerance with external Redis, and platform gains like 30% lower GPU cost.
Building a Centralized Multi Account AWS Monitoring Platform
Varun Arora
This case study shows building a centralized multi-account AWS monitoring platform managing 25+ accounts using Python Boto3 to fetch resource configurations into MongoDB, with Flask API and Next.js frontend achieving $30k annual savings.
Database State Management in Kubernetes: Running SQL Server on AKS with GitOps
Firas Sboui
This case study shows how to run SQL Server on Azure Kubernetes Service using StatefulSets, persistent volumes, and GitOps for multi-tenant database deployments.
Reducing Complexity By Migrating from K8S to ECS Fargate for NetworkLessons
Danny Steenman
This case study shows how NetworkLessons migrated from Kubernetes to ECS Fargate using AWS CDK, reducing operational complexity while implementing multi-account architecture, automated cost controls, and infrastructure as code.

Matching jobs

- Data Engineer with SOSi
- Salary: $54K to $297.88K a year
- Location: based in the office in Washington, DC, USA
- Tech stack: Kubernetes, Docker, C++, Java, Python, Scala
- DevOps Engineer with Chabez Tech
- Salary: $67.5K to $539K a year
- Location: based in the office in Atlanta, GA, USA
- Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Docker, Python, Cloudformation, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef
- DevOps Engineer with Protolabs
- Salary: $67.5K to $539K a year
- Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Maple Plain, MN, USA
- Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Ansible
- DevOps Engineer with Renesas Electronics
- Salary: $150K to $160K a year
- Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Sentry, Datadog
- DevSecOps Engineer with Clarity Innovations
- Salary: $81K to $445.5K a year
- Location: remote from
- Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, ArgoCD, Docker, Java, Javascript, SQL

Build something

Hardware-backed TLS certificates with cert-manager and yubihsm 2
Charles Sullivan
This tutorial teaches how to build a cert-manager external issuer that uses a YubiHSM 2 to sign TLS certificates via Go's crypto.Signer interface.
Mastering KEDA on GKE: A Deep Dive into Event-Driven Autoscaling
Saeed Anwar Ansari
This tutorial explains how to use KEDA on GKE to autoscale workloads based on event-driven signals rather than just CPU or memory.
CloudNativePG - install and first test: transient failure
Franck Pachot
This tutorial shows how to install CloudNativePG 1.28 operator and deploy a three-node PostgreSQL cluster with synchronous replication and quorum-based failover, then tests transient failure recovery by pausing the primary container.
Building a Local Data Platform with Kubernetes and Terraform
George Zefkilis
This tutorial shows how to build a local data platform using KinD for Kubernetes and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, with Argo CD as the GitOps engine for deploying and managing applications.