This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly:

👆 Moving up the stack
✂️ Cut container startup time
😈 Abusing Distroless
🥷 Hacking Kubernetes in AWS
🤔 2vCPU app run faster in a VM than in a container

Read it now: learnk8s.io/issues/77

Pluto is a utility to help users find deprecated Kubernetes API versions in their code repositories and their helm releases

➜ github.com/FairwindsOps/p…

This article explores the performance of running apps in VMs versus containers

It delves into the impact of CPU limits, thread usage, and CPU distribution, offering insights on how to avoid CPU throttling and improve application performance

➜ hwchiu.medium.com/why-does-my-2v…

k8s-collector is a Kubernetes Job to collect resources, logs and events from a Kubernetes cluster

➤ github.com/gianlucam76/k8…

democratic-csi implements the CSI spec providing storage for various container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes

The current focus is providing storage via iscsi/nfs from zfs-based storage systems predominantly FreeNAS/TrueNAS and ZoL on Ubuntu

➜ github.com/democratic-csi…

Kubernetes the Harder Way is a guide to setting up a production-like Kubernetes cluster on a local machine inspired by Kelsey Hightower's 'Kubernetes the Hard Way' and may be considered its lengthier, extended version, optimized for a local deployment

➤ github.com/ghik/kubernete…

This article covers the essentials of building a Kubernetes operator for Canary deployments, including defining CRDs and writing controller logic

➜ medium.com/@disha.20.10/u…

🤔 How do you keep up with the latest Kubernetes news?

Over the past seven years, I have built the tools to help me master Kubernetes as if I were starting again as a novice.

🥇So first came Learnk8s , Kubernetes Architect, Kubesploit and K3sDaily : curate news feeds with the best

k8s-image-swapper is a mutating webhook for Kubernetes, downloading images into your own registry and pointing the images to that new location

It is an alternative to a docker pull-through proxy

➤ github.com/estahn/k8s-ima…

KubeIP is a utility that assigns a static public IP to each node it manages

The IP is allocated to the node's primary network interface, chosen from a pool of reserved static IPs using platform-supported filtering and ordering

➤ github.com/doitintl/kubeip

talhelper is a tool to help create Talos configuration files declaratively in a GitOps way

➤ github.com/budimanjojo/ta…

Bottlerocket is a free and open-source Linux-based operating system meant for hosting containers

It is specifically designed to work with your container orchestrator (like Kubernetes) to automate the containers' lifecycle in your cluster

➤ github.com/bottlerocket-o…

vxlan-mesh is an agent that runs on hosts within a single layer 2 broadcast network and allows peers to discover each other

It provides a stable IP network environment for kubernetes clusters or any other application that is sensitive to changing IPs

➤ github.com/antongisli/vxl…

In this tutorial, you will learn how to combine the Dynamic Workload Scheduler (DWS) and Kueue to optimize the utilization of GPU resources in GCP

➜ medium.com/zencore/lookin…

Flatcar Container Linux is a fully open source, minimal footprint, secure by default and always up-to-date Linux distribution for running containers at scale

➤ flatcar.org

The article delves into the intricacies of executing `kubectl apply` in Kubernetes, detailing the roles of various Kubernetes components in this process

➜ davidcjw.medium.com/kubernetes-wha…

The Kubernetes Cluster API Provider Hetzner enables declarative provisioning of multiple Kubernetes clusters on Hetzner infrastructure

The Cluster API simplifies creating, updating, and operating production-ready clusters

➤ github.com/syself/cluster…

In this case study, you will learn how PTS decided to migrate its services to the cloud and Kubernetes

You will follow their steps, decisions and lessons learned in building KARGO — their internal development platform

➜ medium.com/tech-p7s1/movi…

This article delves into the inner workings of cgroups and how they are used to limit resource usage in containers, creating a hierarchical structure for effective resource management

➜ medium.com/@helmer_windle…

Kube-Hetzner is a highly optimized, easy-to-use, auto-upgradable, HA-default & Load-Balanced, Kubernetes cluster powered by k3s-on-MicroOS

➤ github.com/kube-hetzner/t…