⎈ Long-lived connections in Kubernetes, Build your service mesh, Optimizing database performance, Don't use Cilium's default pod CIDR

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📚 Articles

1. 🔥 Load balancing and scaling long-lived connections in Kubernetes
2. Choosing Karpenter vs Cluster Autoscaler for maximizing cluster efficiency
3. 🔥 Build your service mesh
4. Optimizing database performance: Exploring pgpool2 deployment on Azure Kubernetes Service
5. Learned it the hard way: Don’t use Cilium’s default pod CIDR
6. Reducing cloud costs of Kubernetes clusters
7. Kubernetes network security: exploring Cilium and Istio implementations
8. Building containers from scratch: layers
9. Kubernetes: appreciate your resources!
10. Understanding container scheduling in Kubernetes: Resource Allocation vs Priority Management
11. Golang: memory limits for running in Kubernetes
12. Achieving zero downtime: how we upgraded our postgres clusters at KOHO
13. Karpenter: EKS best practices guides
14. How to migrate from Helm monorepo to versioned charts
15. Seccomp for Kubernetes workloads
16. Accessing the Kubernetes service in the default namespace from your pods
17. CloudNative-PG in the homelab with Longhorn
18. Is vanilla Kubernetes too heavy for Raspberry Pi?

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📖 Tutorials

1. Advanced Autoscaling in Kubernetes with KEDA
2. Using kubernetes_groups in EKS access entry: when and how
3. Reclaim your unused Kubernetes resources
4. Managed SSL for TCP load balancer in GKE

📺 This week on the KubeFM podcast

When Kubernetes and Go don't work well together

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🛠 Tools and libraries

1. Azure Service Operator v2
2. Kondense: automated resouce sizing
3. kr8s: Python library for Kubernetes
4. GitOps bridge
5. Goldilocks: requests and limits
6. Sealed Secrets Web
7. kubeip: assign static public IPs
8. Sveltos Kubernetes add-on controller

📅 Upcoming Kubernetes events

Human errors and social engineering exploits in Kubernetes 📅 Oct 23

P99 Conf 2024 📅 Oct 24

🔥 Open Source Observability Day 📅 Oct 24

Multitenancy, autoscaling workloads with Karpenter & Application Lifecycle Management: disconnected 📅 Oct 24

All Things Open 2024 📅 Oct 29

🔥 Choosing the right requests, limits and nodes in Kubernetes 📅 Nov 7

🔥 Advanced Kubernetes course 📅 Nov 14

👉 You can find more events on Kube Events.

📢 Call for papers closing soon

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 ⏳ closes Nov 25

Tech Internals Conf ⏳ closes Nov 1

CfgMgmtCamp 2025 ⏳ closes Nov 1

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🔥 Cybersec Asia 2025 ⏳ closes Nov 30

Devopsdays Zurich ⏳ closes Jan 15

RuhrSec 2025 ⏳ closes Nov 10

QCon London ⏳ closes Jan 7

👉 You can find more Call for Papers on Kube Events.

Until next time!

— Dan