Learn from production

• How We Built a Searchable Chat Archive With OpenSearch, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes

  Ameypande

  This case study shows how a team turned an old chat export into a searchable archive with OpenSearch, a Spring Boot app and a Kubernetes deployment behind HTTPS.

• When is a cluster really full? Unlocking hidden capacity with the k8s-overcommit Operator

  Inditex Tech

  This case study shows how Inditex reclaims idle node capacity with an open-source overcommit operator that rewrites pod requests through a mutating webhook, based on priority class.

• Finding a Race Condition in Kuberenetes — Like a Detective

  Tom Klinovsky

  This case study walks through a production debugging session where orphaned Kubernetes pods kept blocking new deployments due to a race condition between the job controller, garbage collector, and an undocumented default propagation policy behavior.

• My Home Server: Learning Networking, Security, DevSecOps, and Kubernetes

  Ryan Waite

  This case study follows one engineer building a home data centre from scratch, running k3s on recycled hardware with NAS storage, Cloudflare Tunnels for public access and Argo CD for deployments.

More case studies →

Matching jobs

1. • DevOps Engineer with Commvault

   • Salary: $18.23K to $2.75L a year

   • Location: based in the office in Bangalore, IN

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, On-premise, OpenShift, Docker, C++, Python, GitHub Actions, Ansible

2. • Platform Engineer with League

   • Salary: CA$150K to CA$206K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, GCP, Go

3. • Site Reliability Engineer with LayerZero Labs

   • Salary: CA$64.2K to CA$339.24K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Helm, Typescript

4. • Software Engineer with Artefact

   • Salary: $85.65K to $364.1K a year

   • Location: based in the office in Paris, FR

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, SQL, Go, Java, Javascript, Python

5. • Solution Engineer with Teleport

   • Salary: $48.96K to $412.61K a year

   • Location: fully remote

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Terraform

Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

Build something

• Linkerd multicluster: federation, mirroring on GKE

  This tutorial shows how to link three GKE clusters with Linkerd multicluster, mixing federation and mirroring so a service keeps answering even when a whole cluster disappears.

• Automating SSL/TLS for Istio Ingress Gateway with Cert-Manager & Let’s Encrypt on GKE 🔐

  Raajkumar Tutika

  This tutorial walks through wiring cert-manager and Let's Encrypt into the Istio ingress gateway on GKE, so your HTTPS certificates just renew themselves.

• A Production Pattern for Hybrid OpenTelemetry Collector Deployments on Kubernetes

  Eresh Gorantla

  This tutorial teaches how to deploy OpenTelemetry Collectors on Kubernetes using both DaemonSet agents and sidecar collectors together, with a tail-sampling gateway that merges telemetry from both topologies without breaking trace continuity.

• Local Platform Engineering on Your Laptop: vind, Sveltos and ArgoCD

  Markof

  This tutorial builds a local multi-cluster lab with vind, then uses Sveltos and Argo CD to deploy to every cluster that carries the right label.

More tutorials →

Call for Papers closing soon

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   CognitionX Emirates 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 15 September 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Dubai, AE

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   • The conference starts on the 15 October 2026.

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   AI DevWorld 2027

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

   • Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

   • In-person conference organized by DevNetwork.

   • The conference starts on the 11 February 2027.

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   Confoo 2027

   The Call For Paper is open until 20 September 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Montreal, CA

   • In-person conference organized by ConFoo.

   • The conference starts on the 26 February 2027.

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   BoyaConf 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 21 September 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Tunja, CO

   • In-person conference organized by BoyaConf.

   • The conference starts on the 21 November 2026.

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   UbuCon India 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 30 September 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Bengaluru, IN

   • In-person conference organized by Canonical.

   • The conference starts on the 15 November 2026.

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   The Call For Paper is open until 1 October 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Amsterdam, NL

   • In-person conference organized by SREDay.

   • The conference starts on the 2 November 2026.

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   Devopsdays Almaty

   The Call For Paper is open until 1 October 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Almaty, KZ

   • In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.

   • The conference starts on the 16 October 2026.

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More articles

• How I Built a Custom Kubernetes Ingress in Rust/Go That Outperforms Nginx by 11%

  Abdullrahman Eissa

  This article describes Silex, a homemade Kubernetes ingress controller with a Go control plane and a Rust data plane, and benchmarks it against the Nginx ingress controller.

• How EKS Cross-AZ Traffic Quietly Inflates Your AWS Bill (And the K8s 1.35 One-Line Fix)

  Matias Coca

  This article explains why EKS sends most pod-to-pod traffic across availability zones and how the Kubernetes 1.35 trafficDistribution: PreferSameZone setting keeps it local and cuts the transfer bill.

• AWS EKS Vulnerability

  This article shows how a default AWS EKS setting lets any pod reach the node's metadata service and steal its IAM credentials, then walks through the simple fix.

• Copy.Fail: When the Kernel Trusts Too Much

  This article examines why Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) breaks container assumptions and provides a small, safe Python check to determine whether your nodes can reach the vulnerable kernel path.

Even more articles →