Learn from production

• When is a cluster really full? Unlocking hidden capacity with the k8s-overcommit Operator

  Inditex Tech

  This case study shows how Inditex reclaims idle node capacity with an open-source overcommit operator that rewrites pod requests through a mutating webhook, based on priority class.

• Finding a Race Condition in Kuberenetes — Like a Detective

  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.

• My Home Server: Learning Networking, Security, DevSecOps, and Kubernetes

  Ryan Waite

  This case study follows one engineer building a home data centre from scratch, running k3s on recycled hardware with NAS storage, Cloudflare Tunnels for public access and Argo CD for deployments.

• How We Migrated Microservices from Azure App Service to AKS and Cut Infrastructure Costs by 25%

  Prabhav Gupta

  This case study shows how a team migrated their Spring Boot microservices from Azure App Service to AKS, resulting in a 25% reduction in their infrastructure bill.

More case studies →

Matching jobs

1. • DevOps Engineer with Smile Digital Health

   • Salary: $67.5K to $440K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, OpenShift, Helm, Docker, Go, GraphQL, Javascript, Python

2. • DevSecOps Engineer with Gainsight

   • Salary: PLN 25K to PLN 28.5K a year

   • Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Wroclaw, PL

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Powershell, Python

3. • DevSecOps Engineer with SHEIN

   • Salary: $130K to $169K a year

   • Location: based in the office in Los Angeles, CA, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP

4. • Engineering Manager with Brightwheel

   • Salary: $86.4K to $423.5K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Python, SQL, Typescript, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Airflow

5. • Platform Engineer with Akuity

   • Salary: $113.4K to $401.28K a year

   • Location: remote within UTC+0 and UTC+12

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Go, SQL, MySQL, Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus

Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

Build something

• Automating SSL/TLS for Istio Ingress Gateway with Cert-Manager & Let’s Encrypt on GKE 🔐

  Raajkumar Tutika

  This tutorial walks through wiring cert-manager and Let's Encrypt into the Istio ingress gateway on GKE, so your HTTPS certificates just renew themselves.

• A Production Pattern for Hybrid OpenTelemetry Collector Deployments on Kubernetes

  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.

• Local Platform Engineering on Your Laptop: vind, Sveltos and ArgoCD

  Markof

  This tutorial builds a local multi-cluster lab with vind, then uses Sveltos and Argo CD to deploy to every cluster that carries the right label.

• Building a Hybrid Kubernetes Lab: Solving the “Host-Only vs. Bridged” Network Dilemma with MetalLB

  Abhi

  This tutorial shows how to build a local Kubernetes lab in Vagrant where MetalLB actually works, by giving each VM both a host-only and a bridged network.

More tutorials →

Call for Papers closing soon

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   AI Engineer NYC 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 12 September 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: New York, NY, USA

   • In-person conference organized by Software 3.0.

   • The conference starts on the 14 October 2026.

   • Apply here

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   Kubernetes Community Days Provence 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 13 September 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Provence, FR

   • In-person conference organized by CNCF.

   • The conference starts on the 10 December 2026.

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   CognitionX Emirates 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 15 September 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Dubai, AE

   • In-person conference organized by CognitionX.

   • The conference starts on the 15 October 2026.

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   AI DevWorld 2027

   The Call For Paper is open until 18 September 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA

   • In-person conference organized by DevNetwork.

   • The conference starts on the 11 February 2027.

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   Confoo 2027

   The Call For Paper is open until 20 September 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Montreal, CA

   • In-person conference organized by ConFoo.

   • The conference starts on the 26 February 2027.

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   BoyaConf 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 21 September 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Tunja, CO

   • In-person conference organized by BoyaConf.

   • The conference starts on the 21 November 2026.

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   UbuCon India 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 30 September 2026 at GMT-4. More info →

   • Location: Bengaluru, IN

   • In-person conference organized by Canonical.

   • The conference starts on the 15 November 2026.

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More articles

• Copy.Fail: When the Kernel Trusts Too Much

  This article examines why Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) breaks container assumptions and provides a small, safe Python check to determine whether your nodes can reach the vulnerable kernel path.

• Source Hydrated Infrastructure Models (SHIM)

  Lian Yuanlin

  This case study shows how to use Source Hydrated Infrastructure Models (SHIM), a GitOps pattern that commits fully rendered infrastructure manifests to Git for explicit auditing and reconciliation.

• The Four CRDs That Matter. Zero DBAs.

  Vitor Pavan

  This article shows how CloudNativePG replaces Patroni, HAProxy and barman with four Kubernetes resources that handle failover, backups and connection pooling for PostgreSQL.

• Kubernetes v1.36: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling

  This article explains how Kubernetes 1.36 moves scheduling toward whole workloads with the new PodGroup API, so AI and batch jobs get all their pods placed together instead of one by one.

Even more articles →