Learn from production

• Debugging the One-in-a-Million Failure: Migrating Pinterest’s Search Infrastructure to Kubernetes

  Pinterest Engineering

  This case study explains how Pinterest migrated its search system (Manas) to Kubernetes and tracked down a rare performance issue.

  They found cAdvisor’s memory metric scanning caused huge latency spikes.

• How We Shrunk a Kubernetes Sidecar from 421MB to 90MB (With No OS Inside)

  Soumya Ranjan Rout

  This article explains how to reduce a Kubernetes sidecar container from 421MB to 90MB by building a statically linked Go binary and using FROM scratch base image instead of Alpine Linux.

• Building Production-Ready Micro Frontends in Kubernetes: A Pragmatic Approach

  Tamer Abdulghani

  This tutorial teaches how to build and deploy production-ready micro frontends in Kubernetes.

  It also covers configuring ingress routing for module federation, and implementing CI/CD pipelines for isolated micro frontend teams.

• How We Migrated MonoVM to Next.js While Keeping Our Old Stack Alive

  Sina Nasiri

  This case study shows how MonoVM migrated from a legacy PHP and cPanel stack to Next.js on Kubernetes without breaking SEO or user experience.

More case studies →

Matching jobs

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   • Location: fully remote

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, On-premise, VMware Tanzu, OpenShift, Shell, Python, Java, Javascript, Typescript, C++

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   • Salary: $170K to $175K a year

   • Location: based in the office in Colorado Springs, CO, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Shell, Python, SQL, GraphQL, Javascript, Java, Scala, PHP, Typescript

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   • Salary: $144K to $250.47K a year

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   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Python, Javascript, Typescript, ARM templates, Terraform, Cloudformation, CDK

4. • DevSecOps Engineer with Maania Consultancy Services

   • Salary: $58.5K to $539K a year

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

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Azure, Helm, Docker, Shell, Python, Terraform, Gitlab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions

5. • Platform Engineer with Bright Vision Technologies

   • Salary: $51.57K to $18.97M a year

   • Location: based in the office in Bridgewater, NJ, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux, Docker, Shell, Python

Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

Build something

• Health Probes & Lifecycle - Building Self-Healing Systems

  SystemDR

  This tutorial teaches how to implement production-grade health monitoring in Kubernetes using liveness, readiness, and startup probes with lifecycle hooks for self-healing systems.

• Configuring VPA to use historical metrics for recommendations and expose them in kube-state-metrics

  Adin Hodovic

  This tutorial demonstrates configuring Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) with custom kube-state-metrics to expose recommended metrics, enabling Prometheus scraping and Grafana visualization of detailed resource data.

• An eBPF Loophole: Using XDP for Egress Traffic

  Alex Sørlie

  This tutorial teaches how to use XDP for egress traffic processing by exploiting veth interface RX queues, achieving 194Gbps throughput compared to 21Gbps with Traffic Control.

• kubeconfig-generator: Create Kubeconfig Files for Kubernetes Service Accounts

  muntashir islam

  This tutorial teaches how to generate kubeconfig files for Kubernetes service accounts using a simple Go tool that works with both modern clusters (1.24+) and legacy versions.

More tutorials →

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   Kubernetes Community Days Kuala Lumpur 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 27 February 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: Kuala Lumpur, MY

   • In-person conference organized by KCD Kuala Lumpur 2026.

   • The conference starts on the 27 June 2026.

   • Apply here

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   Container Days Hamburg 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 28 February 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: Hamburg, DE

   • In-person conference organized by Container Days.

   • The conference starts on the 4 September 2026.

   • Apply here

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   IEEE Cloud Summit 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 28 February 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: Washington, D.C., USA

   • In-person conference organized by IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing.

   • The conference starts on the 26 June 2026.

   • Apply here

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   The Cloud & AI Summit 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 28 February 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: St. Louis, MO, USA

   • In-person conference organized by The Cloud and AI Summit.

   • The conference starts on the 2 October 2026.

   • Apply here

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   Devopsdays Sibiu

   The Call For Paper is open until 28 February 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: Sibiu, RO

   • In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.

   • The conference starts on the 27 May 2026.

   • Apply here

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   Kubernetes Community Days Kochi 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 28 February 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

   • Location: Kochi, IN

   • In-person conference organized by KCD Kochi.

   • The conference starts on the 11 April 2026.

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   Devopsdays Tokyo

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   • Location: Tokyo, JP

   • In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.

   • The conference starts on the 14 April 2026.

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More articles

• Auto-scaling and Load-based Scaling

  Felipe Rodrigues

  This article explains auto-scaling principles for dynamically adjusting infrastructure capacity, covering reactive metric-based scaling versus proactive schedule-based scaling.

• Using AWS IAM with STS as an identity Provider

  Jonathan Merlevede

  This article explains how EKS authentication tokens work by pre-signing AWS STS GetCallerIdentity calls, and how you can use this technique to implement IAM-based authentication in your own services.

• The Kubelet Deep Dive: Understanding Pod Startup Failures

  Issaouiadam

  This article provides a comprehensive deep dive into kubelet architecture and systematic troubleshooting of pod startup failures with source code references.

• 10,000 eBPF Events to 1 Alert: Don’t burn the CPU

  Parth Shah

  This article explains how to efficiently handle millions of eBPF events per second without burning CPU by using a three-stage funnel architecture for filtering and aggregation.

Even more articles →