Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 207 · 27 Oct 2026
Apollo Router Test, Client-Side Load Balancing at One Million Requests, KubeClaw, Insurance Job 4000x, Self-Scaling Object Detection
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Articles
medium.com
This case study shows how Preply tested Apollo Router with a Rust mock service and Vegeta, found a safe range of 1,200–1,500 requests per second, and chose CPU-based autoscaling.
Client-side load balancing at a million requests per second
engineering.zalando.com
This case study shows how Zalando moved over one million requests per second to in-process load balancing, kept caches warm during scaling, and saved more than $1,000 a day.
agentnativedev.medium.com
KubeClaw is a production-grade Helm chart for running OpenClaw AI agents on Kubernetes with secure defaults, pinned images, default-deny egress via Blocky, digest-locked upgrades, and batteries-included observability.
We Scaled an Insurance Batch Job 4000x — Here’s Every Bottleneck We Hit
medium.com
This case study shows how an insurance platform scaled from 50 to 200,000 insured objects per policy with parallel batch processing, dynamic workers, Kubernetes autoscaling, database scaling, and caching.
How I Built a Production-Grade Object Detection System That Scales Itself
medium.com
This article walks through a real-time object detection pipeline where Kafka absorbs bursty camera traffic, YOLOv8 workers autoscale on Kubernetes, and MLflow tracks every model version.
How We Built Production-Like Staging Environments on Kubernetes for Every Feature Branch
medium.com
This case study shows how a team gives every feature branch its own staging environment on Kubernetes, generating manifests in CI and letting an Argo CD ApplicationSet create and delete them.
Articles worth checking out:
Kubernetes Architecture in Financial Services
See how 7 banks design Kubernetes platforms for isolation, policy enforcement, reliable delivery, and safe infrastructure changes.
Tutorials
An eBPF Loophole: Using XDP for Egress Traffic
loopholelabs.io
This tutorial teaches how to use XDP for egress traffic processing by exploiting veth interface RX queues, achieving 194Gbps throughput compared to 21Gbps with Traffic Control.
Building a 100% Local RAG System on Kubernetes
dev.to
This tutorial shows how to run a fully local RAG system on Kubernetes with PostgreSQL and pgvector, local embeddings, and a CPU-based Qwen model without API keys.
Multiple VLAN MetalLB on OpenShift4 Without BGP
medium.com
This tutorial shows you how to run MetalLB in L2 mode across several OpenShift 4 VLANs by creating IP-free VLAN interfaces with the NMState Operator, without BGP.
An application release can flood a shared Kubernetes cluster with logs, even though another team owns the logging infrastructure. Who has enough context to find the cause—and who owns the fix?
Molly Sheets joins Daniele Polencic and Bart Farrell to examine how tenancy decisions affect coordination, maintenance, and staffing costs. She connects ownership to business goals and explains why faster AI-assisted changes still need controlled releases.
In this episode:
- The cost of one central team supporting multiple tenancy models
- Why AI Ops needs context from application and platform teams
- Network boundaries for AI-generated workloads
- Maintenance as quality, with canary and cell-based releases
Kubernetes jobs
Software Engineer with Smartsheet
Salary: $57.6K to $297K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, K8s, Hashicorp, DynamoDB, MySQL, AI tools, AI
Software Engineer with ERGO NEXT Group INTERNAL
Salary: US$90K to US$313.5K a year
Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Kfar Saba, IL
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, AWS, GCP, monitoring, logging, tracing, CI/CD, Jenkins
DevSecOps Engineer with Simple Technology Solutions
Salary: $70.74K to $440K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, CloudTrail, alerting, CloudWatch, logging, tracing, GitHub, Git
Site Reliability Engineer with Schonfeld
Salary: US$90K to US$308K a year
Location: based in the office in Hong Kong, HK
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, metrics, observability, Datadog, GitHub Actions, AWS Cloud Services, Postgres, AWS S3
Software Engineer with Sezzle
Salary: $1.35K to $132K a year
Location: remote from
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Git, Gitlab, Postgres, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Claude, end-to-end tests
Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →
Code & tools
github.com/dockloghq
DockLog is a lightweight, self-hosted Docker log viewer for teams, with real-time streaming, RBAC and audit logging, plus optional Kubernetes visibility.
github.com/saiyam1814
ing-switch scans your cluster, maps 50+ NGINX annotations for compatibility, and generates ready-to-apply manifests for Traefik or Gateway API with a React web UI dashboard for the full scan → analyze → migrate → validate lifecycle.
github.com/Checkmarx
KICS stands for Keeping Infrastructure as Code Secure, and it is a tool designed to find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code.
wellcake: Kubernetes operator for Valkey
github.com/melancholictheory
wellcake is a Kubernetes operator for Valkey that runs standalone, replication, sentinel and cluster topologies from one CRD, with failover, rolling restarts, S3 backups and secret rotation.
Kubey: Web-based Kubernetes Dashboard
github.com/justinbehncodes
Kubey is a web-based Kubernetes dashboard that provides team visibility across multiple clusters, with cross-cluster deployment comparison, real-time monitoring, and web access.
Upcoming Kubernetes events
Oct
28
ContainerDays & AI Context Singapore
In-person conference organized by ContainerDays.
Location: Singapore, SG
This event requires an entrance fee
Oct
29
In-person conference organized by Dutch CND.
Location: Utrecht, NL
This event requires an entrance fee
Oct
29
Online & in-person conference organized by Yay Yay Events.
Location: Malaga, ES and virtual
This event requires an entrance fee
Oct
30
Kubernetes Community Days Budapest 2026
In-person conference organized by KCD Budapest.
Location: Budapest, HU
This event requires an entrance fee
Use KCDBP26-KUBEVENTS-Y3MR to get 10% off
Nov
2
In-person conference organized by SREDay.
Location: Amsterdam, NL
This is a free event.
Nov
9
LearnKube Day: Salt Lake City 2026
In-person conference organized by LearnKube.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
This is a free event.
Kubernetes call for papers
27
days
The Call For Paper is open until 23 November 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Vilnius, LT
In-person conference organized by DATA MINER.
The conference starts on the 27 November 2026.
- Apply here
4
days
The Call For Paper is open until 1 November 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
In-person conference organized by DevopsDays.
The conference starts on the 2 April 2027.
- Apply here
46
days
The Call For Paper is open until 12 December 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Apenheul, NL
In-person conference organized by Stichting Meetups.
The conference starts on the 11 December 2026.
- Apply here
9
days
Open Source Conference Kolkata
The Call For Paper is open until 5 November 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Kolkata, IN
In-person conference organized by Open Source Con India.
The conference starts on the 5 December 2026.
- Apply here
65
days
The Call For Paper is open until 1 January 2027 at UTC. More info →
Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.
The conference starts on the 27 April 2027.
- Apply here
5
days
The Call For Paper is open until 1 November 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Kathmandu, NP
In-person conference organized by wwktm.
The conference starts on the 8 January 2027.
- Apply here
4
days
The Call For Paper is open until 31 October 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Paris, FR
In-person conference organized by Build It Summit.
The conference starts on the 1 December 2026.
- Apply here
35
days
ContainerDays & AI Context London 2027
The Call For Paper is open until 1 December 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: London, GB
In-person conference organized by Dockland Media Group.
The conference starts on the 11 February 2027.
- Apply here
52
days
The Call For Paper is open until 18 December 2026 at UTC. More info →
Location: Amsterdam, NL
In-person conference organized by Dawn Technology..
The conference starts on the 19 March 2027.
- Apply here
Enjoy this one.
— Gulcan