Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 194 · 29 Jul 2026
3-Person Team Built an AI SRE, $40, 000 GPU Bill Mystery, PSS Restricted Did Not Block AF_ALG, One Registry for 6 AKS Clusters, GitOps with Terraform
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Articles
We’re a 3-person tech team running production Kubernetes — So we built an AI SRE
medium.com
This case study shows how a 3-person team built a Claude-based AI SRE that triages SigNoz alerts, checks Kubernetes, GitLab, logs, traces, and Slack, then ignores noise, escalates, or runs safe fixes.
The GPU Bill Was $40,000. Nobody Knew Why.
medium.com
This article explains how to control runaway GPU spend in Kubernetes by adding taints, quotas, labels, Prometheus rules, and admission controls so teams can see who is using expensive GPU workloads and why.
Copy Fail in Kubernetes: PSS Restricted and RuntimeDefault Did Not Block AF_ALG
juliet.sh
This article explains why Kubernetes PSS Restricted and RuntimeDefault seccomp did not block AF_ALG access during Copy Fail testing.
It shows why kernel attack surface still matters even when pods follow strict runtime defaults.
dev.to
This case study explains how one private container registry was shared across six AKS clusters in three regions.
It covers ACR geo-replication, image pull reliability, network access, permissions, and operational breakages.
GitOps with Terraform using tofu-controller: Grafana and Hashicorp Vault as Code
medium.com
This article shows how to use tofu-controller to manage Terraform resources with GitOps for external systems like Grafana dashboards and HashiCorp Vault policies with continuous reconciliation and automatic drift detection.
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Tutorials
Making and scaling a game server in Kubernetes using agones
noe-t.dev
This tutorial builds a rock-paper-scissors game server in Go integrated with Agones SDK, deploys it as a Fleet on Kubernetes, creates a matchmaking service using Watermill Pub/Sub with GameServerAllocation, and sets up autoscaling with FleetAutoscaler.
Multi-Agent A2A with the Agent Development Kit(ADK), Amazon EKS, and Gemini CLI
dev.to
This tutorial shows how to deploy a 5-agent ADK system on Amazon EKS and test Agent-to-Agent workflows with Gemini CLI.
Docker Image Signing and Verification
medium.com
This tutorial explains how to sign and verify Docker images in Amazon ECR using Cosign and AWS KMS.
It also shows how trusted image enforcement can fit into EKS and Kyverno-based supply chain security.
Kubernetes jobs
Site Reliability Engineer with MyFitnessPal
Salary: $120K to $165K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, metrics, logs, traces, observability, Datadog, Envoy
Software Engineer with Optimove
Salary: US$72K to US$297K a year
Location: based in the office in Tel Aviv, IL
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Pub/Sub, GCP, alerting, monitoring, logging, tracing, CI/CD pipelines
Software Engineer with Pinterest
Salary: $177.19K to $364.8K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, EKS, AWS, logging, Envoy, Terraform, SCIM, DLP, OIDC
DevOps Engineer with RobCo
Salary: US$70.74K to US$440K a year
Location: based in the office in Munich, DE
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, EKS, AWS, alerting, monitoring, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus
Software Architect with IONOS EN
Salary: US$162 to US$303.6K a year
Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Karlsruhe, DE
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Vector Databases, distributed databases, AutoGen, RAG, CrewAI
Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →
Code & tools
PIQC: vLLM inference fact collector for Kubernetes
github.com/paralleliq
PIQC scans Kubernetes clusters for vLLM and Ray Serve workloads, collects GPU, model, cost, utilization, KV cache, and waste facts, then prints an actionable inference cost report.
Kogaro – Kubernetes Configuration Hygiene Agent
github.com/topiaruss
Kogaro continuously validates Kubernetes config with 60+ checks across reference, resource, security, image, and network domains, catching silent failures before they impact production.
Fulling: AI-Powered Full-Stack Development Platform
github.com/FullAgent
Fulling automatically sets up a complete development environment with Next.js, PostgreSQL, and Claude Code so you can build full-stack apps through natural language conversation.
Grafana Beyla: auto-instrumentation
github.com/grafana
Grafana Beyla is an open source eBPF-based tool that auto-instruments HTTP/gRPC apps to collect essential traces and RED metrics and exports them in OpenTelemetry or Prometheus formats.
NVIDIA AICR – AI Cluster Runtime for Kubernetes
github.com/NVIDIA
NVIDIA AICR provides optimized, validated, and reproducible GPU runtime tooling for Kubernetes, with recipes for deploying training and inference stacks on NVIDIA-accelerated clusters.
Other interesting projects:
Upcoming Kubernetes events
Jul
30
Online & in-person conference organized by Kuber Community Day.
Location: Moscow, RU and virtual
This is a free event.
Jul
30
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026
In-person conference organized by Linux Foundation.
Location: Yokohama, JP
This event requires an entrance fee
Aug
2
In-person meetup organized by Silicon Valley Hands On Programming Events.
Location: Mountain View, CA, USA
This is a free event.
Aug
4
Kubernetes Community Days Melbourne 2026
In-person conference organized by KCD Australia.
Location: Melbourne, AU
This event requires an entrance fee
Aug
5
Building Telkomsel's Autonomous Kubernetes Right-Sizing with ML
Online & in-person meetup organized by KSUG.AI Australia.
Location: Melbourne, AU and virtual
This is a free event.
Sept
10
Online workshop organized by LearnKube.
This is a virtual event
This event requires an entrance fee
Kubernetes call for papers
2
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
18
days
Kubernetes Community Days Suisse Romande 2026
The Call For Paper is open until 16 August 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Geneva, CH
In-person conference organized by KCD Suisse Romande.
The conference starts on the 9 December 2026.
- Apply here
2
days
Kubernetes Community Days Indonesia 2026
The Call For Paper is open until 1 August 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Bandung, ID
In-person conference organized by Cloud Native Indonesia.
The conference starts on the 24 October 2026.
- Apply here
33
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
16
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
17
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
30
days
The Call For Paper is open until 28 August 2026 at UTC. More info →
This is a virtual event
Online conference organized by ScyllaDB.
The conference starts on the 11 March 2027.
- Apply here
63
days
The Call For Paper is open until 30 September 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Bengaluru, IN
In-person conference organized by Canonical.
The conference starts on the 15 November 2026.
- Apply here
78
days
Global Summit on Data Science and Cloud Computing
The Call For Paper is open until 15 October 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Rome, IT
In-person conference organized by Noveltics Group.
The conference starts on the 20 October 2026.
- Apply here
That wraps things up.
Back next Wednesday.
— Gulcan