Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 167 · 21 Jan 2026
KEDA Scaling Failures, DevOps to DevSecOps, Pod IP Allocation in EKS, GPU Starvation with MIG, F5 NGINX Migration
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Articles
Kubernetes & KEDA: Avoiding System Failures from Imbalanced Scaling
tinkerd.medium.com
This article explains how to prevent system failures caused by imbalanced scaling in Kubernetes using KEDA with proper trigger configurations and scaling strategies.
Why DevOps should Sec: making a case for DevOps Engineers to transition to DevSecOps
kube.today
This article explains why DevOps engineers should consider transitioning to DevSecOps by comparing salary data, remote work options, and job availability between the two roles.
It shows that DevSecOps positions pay 18-20% more on average and most don't require full-time office presence.
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Optimizing Pod IP Allocation in AWS EKS with Amazon VPC CNI Prefix Delegation
medium.com
This tutorial teaches how to optimize pod IP allocation in AWS EKS using VPC CNI prefix delegation to increase pod density per node and reduce IP address exhaustion in VPCs.
GPU Starvation in Kubernetes: How Dynamic MIG Partitioning Saved Our GPU Budget
medium.com
This case study explains how the authors used dynamic MIG partitioning to split large GPUs like NVIDIA A100/H100 into multiple isolated slices, letting many small jobs share GPU efficiently.
Migrating from F5 NGINX ingress controller to the F5 NGINX gateway fabric – NGINX community blog
blog.nginx.org
This article explains why and how to move from the classic NGINX Ingress Controller (NIC) to NGINX Gateway Fabric (NGF).
How We Manage an 80M User Infrastructure with a 5-Person Team
medium.com
This case study shows how a tiny infra team uses Kubernetes CRDs, GitOps, and massive YAML/templating to automate provisioning, CI/CD, VM scaling and more to operate a global infrastructure for 80M users with minimal manpower.
Master production-ready Kubernetes in 4 days with hands-on labs in Amsterdam.
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Tutorials
Cloud-Native RAG: embeddings + vectors, fully self-hosted
medium.com
This tutorial teaches how to build a fully self-hosted RAG system with embeddings and vector search on Kubernetes using open-source tools like Weaviate and local LLMs.
Build your own Managed Kubernetes Service on Proxmox with CAPI
akyriako.medium.com
This tutorial teaches how to build a managed Kubernetes service on Proxmox using Cluster API (CAPI) for automated cluster provisioning and lifecycle management.
Kubernetes jobs
Platform Engineer with AMERICAN SYSTEMS
Salary: $155.7K to $260K a year
Location: remote from the United States of America
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Ansible, Shell, Python, Gitlab, Helm, Rancher
Systems Performance Engineer with Datadog
Salary: $187K to $240K a year
Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Boston, MA / New York, NY, USA
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Datadog, containerd, AWS, Go, Javascript, Rust, C
Platform Engineer with Peraton
Salary: $112K to $179K a year
Location: based in the office in Washington, D.C, USA
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Grafana, AWS, Terraform, Shell, Python, Prometheus, Helm, ArgoCD
DevSecOps Engineer with Corelight
Salary: $221K to $268K a year
Location: remote from North America
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Go, Splunk
DevOps Engineer with Corelight
Salary: $158K to $198K a year
Location: remote from North America
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Grafana, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Puppet
Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →
Code & tools
Prom Analytics Proxy: Query Cost Tracking for Prometheus
github.com/nicolastakashi
This tool acts as a proxy for Prometheus that tracks query costs and provides analytics on expensive queries to help optimize observability resource usage.
github.com/yokecd
Yoke is an IaC tool inspired by Helm that leverages WebAssembly and Go to dynamically deploy Kubernetes packages with executable runtime capabilities.
It supports revision tracking, rollback, and inspection.
Tofu Controller: Terraform controller
github.com/flux-iac
Tofu Controller is a controller for Flux to reconcile OpenTofu and Terraform resources in the GitOps way.
It allows you to GitOps-ify infrastructure and application resources in the Kubernetes and IAC universe at your own pace.
Smesh: Lightweight Kubernetes-Integrated Sidecar Mesh Without Proxies
github.com/thebsdbox
smesh is a proof-of-concept service mesh for Kubernetes that utilizes eBPF to intercept and redirect pod traffic to a sidecar proxy.
OCI Registry As Storage (ORAS)
oras.land
ORAS is a CLI and Go library that packages any file—binaries, Helm charts, SBOMs—into the OCI image format, allowing you to upload or download these artifacts from any container registry using the same workflow as Docker images.
Other interesting projects:
Upcoming Kubernetes events
Jan
26
Advanced Kubernetes course (London)
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Jan
24
Cloud Native Days Bangladesh 2026
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Jan
23
hat It’s Like to Learn Cloud-Native Today — A Beginner’s Kubernetes Story
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Jan
22
A central AKS setup for multi-team delivery & Orchestrating Cloud-Native operations with kagent
In-person meetup organized by Cloud Native Belgium.
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Jan
26
Advanced Kubernetes course (San Francisco)
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Kubernetes call for papers
25
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34
days
Kubernetes Community Days Beijing 2026
The Call For Paper is open until 24 February 2026 at UTC. More info →
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The conference starts on the 30 December 2025.
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27
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Kubernetes Community Days Toronto Canada 2026
The Call For Paper is open until 17 February 2026 at UTC. More info →
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In-person conference organized by KCD Toronto.
The conference starts on the 13 May 2026.
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Kubernetes Community Days Texas 2026
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The conference starts on the 15 May 2026.
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58
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The Call For Paper is open until 20 March 2026 at UTC. More info →
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In-person conference organized by Cloud Native Amsterdam.
The conference starts on the 22 May 2026.
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41
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Kubernetes Community Days Panama 2026
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Until next time!
— Gulcan