Learn from production

• We Cut Our Kubernetes Pods by 60% and Doubled Traffic Capacity

  Farid Guluzade

  This case study shows how reducing JVM MaxRAMPercentage, cutting the Hikari connection pool from 50 to 20, and implementing aggressive HPA scale-up (0s stabilization, 4 pods/min) doubled traffic capacity while cutting baseline pods from 26 to 10.

• How We Cut Build Debugging Time by 75% with a DevEx AI Assistant

  Ron Matsliah

  This article describes how the team at Next Insurance built an AI-powered microservice that watches build failures via Jenkins, analyzes logs automatically and posts clear, helpful feedback to Slack.

• How We Turned a Forced OS Migration into a 30% Infrastructure Reduction

  Scout24

  This case study shows how Scout24 turned an Amazon Linux 2 end-of-life deadline into a 30% reduction in nodes across their EKS clusters by combining OS migration with Karpenter adoption.

• Building Production-Ready Micro Frontends in Kubernetes: A Pragmatic Approach

  Tamer Abdulghani

  This tutorial teaches how to build and deploy production-ready micro frontends in Kubernetes.

  It also covers configuring ingress routing for module federation, and implementing CI/CD pipelines for isolated micro frontend teams.

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Matching jobs

1. • Data Engineer with Astranis

   • Salary: $29 a year

   • Location: based in the office in San Francisco, CA, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Python, SQL

2. • Data Engineer with Coface

   • Salary: $64.8K to $2.48L a year

   • Location: based in the office in Mumbai, IN

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, Python

3. • DevOps Engineer with AssureSoft

   • Salary: $90K to $198K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, ArgoCD, Terraform

4. • DevOps Engineer with Avride

   • Salary: $54K to $325.49K a year

   • Location: based in the office in Austin, TX, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, C++, Python, GitHub Actions

5. • DevOps Engineer with Candidly

   • Salary: $70.74K to $539K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, On-premise, Docker, Python, SQL, MySQL, Cloudformation, CDK

Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

Build something

• Data Streaming in Practice (Kafka + Flink): Building a Flight Baggage Tracking System

  Tobby Kuo

  This tutorial teaches how to build an end-to-end real-time baggage tracking system using Kafka for event streaming, Flink for state processing, ClickHouse for analytics, and Grafana for visualization on Kubernetes.

• Kubernetes Gateway API on AKS Exposed via Azure Application Gateway

  Shanaka Jayasundera

  This tutorial shows how to expose Kubernetes Gateway API from AKS through Azure Application Gateway by fixing health probe failures with a dedicated HTTPRoute and connection timeouts using externalTrafficPolicy Local for Azure DSR.

• Automating Pod Disruption Budgets with Kyverno

  Ahmad Asmar

  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.

• Startup CPU Boost in Kubernetes with In-Place Pod Resize

  piotr.minkowski

  This tutorial teaches how to use the In-Place Pod Resize feature in Kubernetes version 1.35 combined with Kube Startup CPU Boost controller to speed up Java application startup by temporarily increasing CPU resources during the startup phase.

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More articles

• Agent-driven SRE investigations: a practical deep dive into multi-agent incident response

  Ar Hakboian

  This article describes an experiment using three autonomous AI agents to conduct multi-agent SRE incident investigations in a sandboxed Kubernetes environment with real tooling access.

• Kube Resource Orchestrator: Manage any group of resources as one unit

  Vasily Pilitsyn

  This article shows how KRO manages ephemeral test environments as single Kubernetes API objects by orchestrating resource deployment in dependency order, with readiness conditions and a unified status across namespace, frontend, backend, and database.

• GitOps with Terraform using tofu-controller: Grafana and Hashicorp Vault as Code

  Rodrigo Caldas

  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.

• 10 HPA Signals That Actually Autoscale (Not Just React)

  Velorum

  This article covers 10 Kubernetes HPA scaling signals beyond CPU — RPS, queue lag, p95 latency, in-flight requests, error rate, and saturation metrics — with YAML examples and pitfalls for each.

Even more articles →