Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 190 · 1 Jul 2026
Chaos Engineering Platform, Testing a CLI AI Agent, Self-Evolving AI Systems, Migrating from Slurm to Kubernetes, Hosting an AI Assistant
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Articles
Taming the Storm: Building Groww’s Internal Chaos Engineering Platform
medium.com
This case study explains how Groww built an internal chaos engineering platform on Kubernetes to run controlled failure drills like network faults, dependency outages, and traffic replay before real incidents hit production.
Taracode Testing a Go-Based CLI AI Agent in My Homelab
medium.com
This article tests Taracode, a Go-based CLI AI agent, against real K3s homelab tasks like Kubernetes troubleshooting, manifest generation, and GitOps workflows using a local Ollama LLM.
Building self-evolving AI systems: exploring the architecture
butschster.medium.com
This article teaches how to build self-evolving AI systems using Kubernetes, Temporal workflows, and automated deployment pipelines, enabling AI agents to detect errors, fix code, and redeploy services without manual intervention.
Migrating from slurm to Kubernetes
blog.skypilot.co
This article explains how SkyPilot helps ML teams move from Slurm to Kubernetes with simpler job specs, interactive SSH based workflows, and easier porting of distributed training jobs.
Lessons Learnt Self-hosting an AI Assistant
medium.com
This article shares lessons from building a production-ready self-hosted AI assistant on Azure using OpenWebUI, with enterprise SSO, RAG, and multi-model routing across GPT, DeepSeek, and Perplexity.
This four-day advanced kubernetes course teaches you:
- networking,
- autoscaling,
- security,
- and scheduling
through hands-on labs, led by engineers who run Kubernetes clusters in production every day.
Tutorials
Cilium Network Policies: L7 HTTP Filtering with eBPF on Kubernetes
medium.com
This tutorial shows how to use Cilium and Hubble to enforce HTTP path based network policies in Kubernetes with eBPF, so you can allow or block specific endpoints without sidecars.
Exposing Kubernetes: Dual HAProxy Setup on Proxmox & Ingress Controller
substack.com
This tutorial shows how to expose a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster on Proxmox using a dual HAProxy setup one on the host as an edge gateway and one as an in-cluster ingress controller.
Debugging processes across container boundaries on Kubernetes
enterprisedb.com
This tutorial shows how to use Kubernetes ephemeral containers with kubectl debug to attach gdb debugger across container boundaries, working around pod security contexts and mount namespaces for in-place debugging.
Automating Pod Disruption Budgets with Kyverno
medium.com
This tutorial shows how to use Kyverno policy engine to generate Pod Disruption Budgets for Kubernetes deployments with multiple replicas, preventing downtime during Karpenter node consolidation through intelligent API lookups and label matching.
LLMs on Kubernetes — Terraform K3s Cluster ArgoCD setup with Ollama & Open-WebUI
medium.com
This tutorial teaches how to build a local AI stack on Kubernetes using K3s cluster provisioned with Terraform, deploying Ollama and Open-WebUI via ArgoCD helm charts for running LLMs.
Kubernetes jobs
Software Engineer with Referrals Only
Salary: $45K to $154K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, continuous integration, AI tools, LLMs, AI
Head of Site Reliability Engineering with Sumo Logic
Salary: $58.5K to $3.3L a year
Location: based in the office in Bengaluru, IN
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, Docker, alerting, monitoring, logging, GitHub, Git
Support Engineer with Sumo Logic
Salary: $30 to $319K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Cloud SIEM, metrics, SIEM, log management, logging, observability
Platform Engineer with Stacklok
Salary: $154.8K to $335.5K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, Cloud, private cloud, OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, traces, observability, Datadog
Platform Engineer with Stacklok
Salary: $154.8K to $372.9K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, traces, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus
Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →
Code & tools
github.com/alexei-led
Pumba lets you kill, pause, and stress containers while injecting network delays, packet loss, and corruption.
You can deploy it as a DaemonSet for cluster-wide chaos engineering.
Kroc: Kubernetes Reactive Object Creator
github.com/pawelcit
Kroc is an educational Kubernetes Operator built with Go and kubebuilder that watches arbitrary resources and reactively creates derived objects using Go templating.
Luxury Yacht: Kubernetes management app
github.com/luxury-yacht
Luxury Yacht is a cross-platform desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, built with Go and Wails.
Goldpinger: monitoring connectivity
github.com/bloomberg
Goldpinger is a monitoring tool that runs as a DaemonSet and makes calls between pod instances to test connectivity.
It produces Prometheus metrics for visualization and alerting, while providing a web UI that displays network health and latency.
Awesome Kubernetes Architecture Diagrams – Tools and Frameworks for Visualizing K8s
github.com/philippemerle
This repo contains 20+ tools that auto-generate Kubernetes architecture diagrams from manifests, Helm charts, or cluster state.
Other interesting projects:
Upcoming Kubernetes events
Jul
1
What I'll Tell My Kids About Kubernetes Security
In-person meetup organized by Platform Engineering Amsterdam.
Location: Amsterdam, NL
This is a free event.
Jul
2
In-person conference organized by Ebner Media Group.
Location: Mannheim, DE
This event requires an entrance fee
Jul
2
Solving Kubernetes Chaos with SUSE Rancher
In-person meetup organized by Modern Infra Knowledge Hub - by I-share.
Location: Bunnik, NL
This is a free event.
Jul
2
In-person conference organized by Software 3.0.
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
This event requires an entrance fee
Jul
4
In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.
Location: Kraków, PL
This event requires an entrance fee
Sept
10
Online workshop organized by LearnKube.
This is a virtual event
This event requires an entrance fee
Kubernetes call for papers
5
days
Kubernetes Community Days São Paulo 2026
The Call For Paper is open until 6 July 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: São Paulo, BR
In-person conference organized by KCD Brasil.
The conference starts on the 26 September 2026.
- Apply here
30
days
ContainerDays & AI Context Singapore
The Call For Paper is open until 31 July 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Singapore, SG
In-person conference organized by ContainerDays.
The conference starts on the 28 October 2026.
- Apply here
15
days
Kubernetes Community Days Porto 2026
The Call For Paper is open until 16 July 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Porto, PT
In-person conference organized by KCD Porto.
The conference starts on the 20 November 2026.
- Apply here
14
days
Kubernetes Community Days Gujarat 2026
The Call For Paper is open until 15 July 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Ahmedabad, IN
In-person conference organized by KCD Gujarat.
The conference starts on the 19 September 2026.
- Apply here
17
days
Kubernetes Community Days Sofia 2026
The Call For Paper is open until 18 July 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Sofia, BG
In-person conference organized by KCD Sofia.
The conference starts on the 29 September 2026.
- Apply here
61
days
The Call For Paper is open until 31 August 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Bucharest, RO
In-person conference organized by OmniOpenCon.
The conference starts on the 18 October 2026.
- Apply here
44
days
The Call For Paper is open until 14 August 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Paris, FR
In-person conference organized by mate.dev.
The conference starts on the 3 December 2026.
- Apply here
45
days
The Call For Paper is open until 15 August 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Buenos Aires, AR
In-person conference organized by Cloud Security Space.
The conference starts on the 9 October 2026.
- Apply here
17
days
The Call For Paper is open until 17 July 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Cairo, EG
In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.
The conference starts on the 26 September 2026.
- Apply here
Keep building.
Until next Wednesday.
— Gulcan