Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 181 · 29 Apr 2026
Benchmarking Log Collectors, ListenerSet in Gateway API v1.5, eBPF GPU Monitoring, Modernizing Image Promoter, Zero-Downtime Disk Migration
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Articles
victoriametrics.com
This article compares major Kubernetes log collectors with a reproducible benchmark focused on:
- throughput,
- CPU,
- memory,
- and log loss under production-like load.
Understanding OpenTelemetry Support in kgateway
www.dash0.com
This article analyzes how kgateway handles OpenTelemetry observability across traces, logs, and metrics, covering signal quality, semantic conventions, and what works well versus where it falls short for platform teams.
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Exploring ListenerSet in Gateway API v1.5
blog.howardjohn.info
This article explains how ListenerSet in Gateway API v1.5 separates listeners from Gateways so teams can restore self-service TLS management across namespaces and scale beyond the old listener limit.
X-Ray Vision for GPUs: eBPF Monitoring on Kubernetes
mketkar.substack.com
This article explains how to monitor GPU inference nodes on Kubernetes with eBPF and bpftrace by tracing NVIDIA driver calls, kernel behavior, and DaemonSet-based deployment patterns.
The Invisible Rewrite: Modernizing the Kubernetes Image Promoter
kubernetes.io
This article explains how the Kubernetes Image Promoter was rewritten to improve rate limiting, observability, and resilience in the pipeline that publishes and signs images for registry·k8s·io.
In-place PVC re-binding: zero-downtime disk migration on Kubernetes
blog.cleancompute.net
This case study explains how to migrate bound Kubernetes volumes from deprecated in-tree Azure Disk provisioning to CSI with in-place PVC re-binding, minimal restarts, and no data loss across production disks.
Articles worth checking out:
"Supports OpenTelemetry" means nothing anymore.
75% of organizations run or evaluate OTel, yet two projects can both claim support while delivering completely different results.
A proposed 7-dimension maturity model finally gives platform teams a shared language to tell them apart.
Tutorials
Teach Your AI Coding Agent OpenTelemetry Best Practices with Dash0 Agent Skills
www.dash0.com
This guide shows how to use Dash0 Agent Skills to give AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf proper OpenTelemetry knowledge, covering instrumentation across 10 languages, Collector configuration, semantic conventions, and Kubernetes deployment patterns.
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From Docker Compose to Kubernetes on AWS: A Hands-On Migration Story
medium.com
This tutorial walks through moving a five-service Java app from Docker Compose to Kubernetes on AWS by rebuilding networking, secrets, ingress, persistence, and service discovery step by step.
Connecting Multi-Cloud Applications with Cilium
aws.plainenglish.io
This tutorial explains how to connect applications across AWS and GCP Kubernetes clusters with Cilium Cluster Mesh, VPN networking, and VXLAN to enable east-west multi-cluster communication.
Automated GitOps: from ECR push to EKS deploy
medium.com
This tutorial shows how to automate EKS deployments with Argo CD, Argo CD Image Updater, GitHub, and Amazon ECR so new container images flow to the cluster through GitOps without manual deployment steps.
Build a Kubernetes Cluster at Home with Raspberry Pis
dev.to
This tutorial teaches how to build a home Kubernetes cluster with four Raspberry Pis, including network design, NAT, DHCP, Ubuntu setup, and worker node connectivity on a private subnet.
A single Kubernetes CRD for every service request turns small changes into full-platform reconciliations.
Alexander Held, former platform engineer at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation, describes a production refactor from a 2,000-line CRD to purpose-built resources and controllers. He shows how teams can model business workflows as Kubernetes APIs and then use owner references, finalizers, and events to keep platform operations predictable.
You will learn:
- Why monolithic CRDs create performance and troubleshooting problems
- How controllers turn database provisioning and backups into reconciliation loops
- How finalizers clean up external resources such as S3 backups
- Why Kubernetes events make platform workflows easier to debug
Kubernetes jobs
Support Engineer with ClickHouse
Salary: $45K to $176K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, distributed systems, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Docker, GCP, cloud-native SaaS, SQL databases, RabbitMQ
DevOps Engineer with Coherent Solutions
Salary: PLN 17.82K to PLN 521.84K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, monitoring, logging, tracing, GitOps, Harness, Nexus
Software Engineer with Coherent Solutions
Salary: $9 to $533.5K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, EKS, AWS, Docker, observability tools, CI/CD, compliance, security
DevOps Engineer with Codal
Salary: $120K to $150K a year
Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Toronto, CA
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Docker, GCP, monitoring, logging, observability, Datadog
Platform Engineer with CoreWeave
Salary: $139K to $220K a year
Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Livingston, NJ, USA
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Observability tooling, metrics, Bazel, GitOps, GitHub, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions
Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →
Code & tools
github.com/softcane
KubeAttention is a Kubernetes scheduler plugin that uses eBPF telemetry and machine learning to place latency sensitive pods on nodes with lower contention from noisy neighbors.
github.com/gianlucam76
K8s cleaner is a controller that identifies, removes, or updates stale/orphaned or unhealthy resources in a Kubernetes cluster.
github.com/traiproject
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.
github.com/AlexsJones
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.
github.com/kelos-dev
Kelos runs autonomous coding agents as Kubernetes resources, with tasks, workspaces, reusable agent configs, and trigger-based task spawners for continuous software workflows.
Other interesting projects:
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— Gulcan