Spotlight
Aviral Agarwal
This article follows a secret from an external store into a pod through the Secrets Store CSI Driver, explaining the registrar, the SecretProviderClass and the provider plugin. It also covers syncing back into a native Kubernetes Secret for env vars.
Deepak Verma
This article explains how slicing a big GPU with MIG and queueing jobs with Kueue lets several teams share the same card instead of one job sitting on all of it.
Luka Klaric
This tutorial builds a Docker image with a secret, then shows how it still sits in an earlier image layer after you delete it, and pulls it back out with docker history, jq and tar.
Chinedu Mba
This case study shows how to migrate from fragile EC2-based infrastructure to AWS EKS with GitOps using ArgoCD, Jenkins, and SonarQube for a URL shortening platform, achieving 80% faster deployments and self-healing infrastructure.
Tools and utilities
Freelens Pod File Browser adds a graphical file browser to Freelens, so you can open, edit, upload and download files inside a pod container instead of running kubectl exec over and over.
crd-schema-publisher pulls CRD schemas straight from your own cluster and publishes them as a searchable docs site plus JSON schemas your editor can use to validate manifests.
infra-bench is an open benchmark suite that measures how well AI agents handle real infrastructure tasks, starting with a Kubernetes dataset of easy, medium and hard problems.
Rune is a fast native macOS app for people who debug clusters every day, with unified pod logs, YAML editing with server dry-run, port-forwarding and a command palette.
Kor is a CLI tool that scans your cluster and lists the unused resources nobody cleaned up, from forgotten ConfigMaps and Secrets to stale Services and PVCs.
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Learn from production
Tom Klinovsky
This case study walks through a production debugging session where orphaned Kubernetes pods kept blocking new deployments due to a race condition between the job controller, garbage collector, and an undocumented default propagation policy behavior.
EXANTE Technology
This case study shows how EXANTE replaced manual Saturday releases with a fully automated GitLab CI + Flux + Jira pipeline across 60+ Django modules, 7 GKE environments, and 30+ services to meet fintech regulatory audit requirements.
Anastassios Nanos
This case study shows how etcd CrashLoopBack pods on a Karmada/k3s demo cluster turned out to be a ZFS I/O latency problem, and how four ZFS tuning settings fixed it — including the exact etcd Prometheus metrics to watch.
Leo Blondel
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.
Matching jobs
DevOps Engineer with Valarian Technologies Limited
Salary: US$72K to US$324.5K a year
Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in London, GB
Tech stack: Kubernetes, On-premise, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux, Go, Python, Rust, Terraform, Tekton
Infrastructure Architect with North Point Technology
Salary: $95.67K to $253K a year
Location: based in the office in Chantilly, VA, USA
Tech stack: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Java, Python
Machine Learning Engineer with Valarian Technologies Limited
Salary: US$112.5K to US$330K a year
Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in London, GB
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Python
Platform Engineer with New Relic
Salary: $126K to $158K a year
Location: based in the office in Portland, OR, USA
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux, Go
Platform Engineer with Valarian Technologies Limited
Salary: US$66.6K to US$303.6K a year
Location: based in the office in London, GB
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Bare-metal, GCP, On-premise, Helm, Kustomize, Flux, Docker, Go, Javascript
Build something
Eresh Gorantla
This tutorial teaches how to deploy OpenTelemetry Collectors on Kubernetes using both DaemonSet agents and sidecar collectors together, with a tail-sampling gateway that merges telemetry from both topologies without breaking trace continuity.
LearnKube
This tutorial shows how two in-cluster services can authenticate each other with Service Account tokens and the TokenReview API, then makes it safer with audience-bound projected tokens.
Matthew Wimpelberg
This tutorial builds a real k6 test suite against Google's Online Boutique running on a home lab Kubernetes cluster, with a shared client library, smoke, load, stress, and browser tests, and the two bugs the first run exposed.
Abasi-ifreke Uwem
This tutorial shows how to deploy an ML inference app on GKE using FastAPI, Streamlit, GCS FUSE, Workload Identity, Jenkins CI/CD, and HPA.
More articles
This article explains how the Mixed Version Proxy reached beta in Kubernetes 1.36, so during an upgrade an older API server forwards requests it does not know to a newer peer instead of answering 404.
This article explains how Kubernetes 1.36 lets the kubelet assign CPU and memory at the pod level, so the main container keeps exclusive NUMA-aligned cores while sidecars share the rest.
This article explains what changes when you move from the archived Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp, mapping each familiar workflow onto the new UI.
Alon Halfon
This article explains how to benchmark LLM inference by replaying production agent traces to capture realistic session-level metrics and dependencies using OpenTelemetry Trace Replay for Inference Perf.
