Learn from production

• ingress-nginx Is Archived: How We Migrated to kgateway (and Didn’t Break Prod)

  Nick Georgiou

  This case study explains how Plum migrated from ingress-nginx to kgateway and Gateway API in 12 weeks without production downtime.

  It covers inventory, staging validation, parallel running, mTLS decisions, and custom observability.

• Cost Optimization of Spark on Kubernetes Batch Workloads on Public Clouds

  Ankit Prakash Gupta

  This case study shows how Spark on Kubernetes batch workloads cut cloud costs by colocating executors with drivers, reducing inter-zone shuffle costs, and moving executors to Spot VMs safely.

• How an Admin Cluster Keeps Application Clusters in Sync with GitOps

  De.Code – Deloitte Germany Engineering Blog

  This case study shows how Deloitte built a multi-cluster Kubernetes platform on STACKIT with an admin cluster, Argo CD ApplicationSets, GitLab pipelines, and shared platform tooling.

• 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.

More case studies →

Matching jobs

1. • Engineering Manager with Muon Space

   • Salary: $210K to $234K a year

   • Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in San Jose, CA, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, InfluxDB, Grafana

2. • Site Reliability Engineer with Motional

   • Salary: US$86.4K to US$330K a year

   • Location: based in the office in Singapore, SG

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Docker, C++, Go, Python, Cloudformation, Terraform, Jenkins

3. • Site Reliability Engineer with Movable Ink

   • Salary: $184.2K to $240K a year

   • Location: based in the office in New York City, NY, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Python, Ruby, Cassandra, Terraform, Chef, Grafana, Prometheus

4. • Site Reliability Engineer with Movable Ink

   • Salary: $48.6K to $330K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Go, Python, Ruby, Terraform, Prometheus, Thanos, Loki

5. • Test Automation Engineer with Moniepoint Group

   • Salary: $162 to $264K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Docker, SQL, Java, Javascript, Typescript, Kafka, Gitlab, Jenkins

Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

Build something

• Catching Helm Drift Before It Catches You

  Seralahthan

  This tutorial explains how to catch Helm drift in Kubernetes before manual kubectl changes break GitOps source-of-truth workflows.

• The Split-Brain Health Check: Fixing 502 Bad Gateway in GKE & Istio

  Kenrick Tandrian

  This tutorial explains why standard GKE Ingress breaks under Istio STRICT mTLS and shows how to replace it with an Istio Ingress Gateway, Gateway resource, and VirtualService.

• Kubernetes Operator for Synology Reverse Proxy Rules

  Julian Hassler

  This tutorial explains how to build a Kubernetes operator that automatically manages Synology DSM reverse proxy rules from annotated Services, Ingresses, and Argo CD Applications.

• From patterns to CEL: modernizing Kyverno policies with practical examples

  All Things In Cloud

  This tutorial shows how to modernize Kyverno policies with CEL using practical Kubernetes security examples like namespace rules, image checks, service account tokens, and safer policy testing.

More tutorials →

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

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   • The conference starts on the 26 November 2026.

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   ContainerDays & AI Context Singapore

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

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   • The conference starts on the 28 October 2026.

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   Cloud Native Summit APAC 2026

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

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   • The conference starts on the 29 October 2026.

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

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   • In-person conference organized by ServerlessCWL.

   • The conference starts on the 3 October 2026.

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   Kubernetes Community Days Indonesia 2026

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

   • Location: Bandung, ID

   • In-person conference organized by Cloud Native Indonesia.

   • The conference starts on the 24 October 2026.

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   The Call For Paper is open until 12 August 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

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   • The conference starts on the 4 December 2026.

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More articles

• Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps as a Real-Time State Store

  Özcan Yarımdunya

  This article shows how to use Kubernetes ConfigMaps as a lightweight real-time state store by watching ConfigMap changes and faning events out with Python asyncio.

• Code Execution Isolation Patterns for AI Agents in Kubernetes

  Guo Xiang Ng

  This article explains four Kubernetes isolation patterns for AI agents: no exec, sidecar exec, separate exec pod, and ephemeral job dispatchers, with OpenShift-validated threat modeling.

• One forgotten notebook on an A100. $1,800 a month.

  Jay Gao

  This article explains how kube-gpu-top helps Kubernetes teams find idle or compute-idle GPUs by mapping NVIDIA GPU metrics to owning pods and estimating monthly waste without Prometheus or Grafana.

• You Don’t Have a GIL Problem — You Have a CPU Problem

  Prashant Pathak

  This article explains how Kubernetes CPU throttling can amplify Python GIL contention and cause unstable P95/P99 latency even when average CPU and P50 latency look normal.

Even more articles →