This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly: 🔍 Which of our Containers are Chainguard? 💸 $1,800 for One Notebook 🔄 Syncing Clusters with GitOps 📉 Spark Cost Optimization 🚪 Migrating to Kgateway ⭐️ LearnKube Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/193

Three Kubernetes tools worth watching: Ray, K8sGPT, and Kro Phil Estes from AWS on what's moving the ecosystem forward 📺: https://ku.bz/_ZLldHwVC

k8s-ingress-gen is a visual diagram builder for Kubernetes resources with bidirectional YAML workflow ➜ https://ku.bz/v84YBJFK2

Kagent, Agent Gateway, Dapr — three CNCF tools making Kubernetes the home for AI agents Elamaran Shanmugam on the tools to watch 📺: https://ku.bz/DCxhgWQqS

"We probably need to deal with more than just CPU, GPU, and volumes in Kubernetes." Nick Eberts on why DRA is critical for the next generation of workloads 📺: https://ku.bz/G1QSYQTn2

Webernetes is a browser-based Kubernetes simulator that allows users to run a subset of Kubernetes features, including Pods, Services, and Deployments, entirely in the Browser without backend infrastructure ➜ https://ku.bz/9M7CfFK16

🗣️ Zain Malik explains how his team doubled the number of managed Kubernetes clusters without growing headcount through automation with Cluster API and GitOps Watch: https://ku.bz/5PLksqVlk

k8s-ingress-gen is a visual diagram builder for Kubernetes resources with bidirectional YAML workflow ➤ https://ku.bz/BhccCttby

Hortator lets AI agents spawn sub-agents at runtime, with each agent running in its own pod with budget caps, network policies, PII redaction, and capability inheritance so children can never escalate beyond their parent's permissions ➤ https://ku.bz/kh47Xb28t

KRO for composition, Kueue for gang scheduling, Karpenter for node provisioning Tsahi Duek on the three Kubernetes tools he's watching in the AI era 📺: https://ku.bz/2r41YKBZb

This article explains how kube-gpu-top helps Kubernetes teams find idle or compute-idle GPUs by mapping NVIDIA GPU metrics to owning pods and estimating monthly waste without Prometheus or Grafana ➜ https://ku.bz/RztgvXMZZ

This article explains: - why Kubernetes operator status conditions should be the single source of truth, - how phase should be derived from conditions via declarative rules, - and introduces a Go library for doing this with an interactive browser demo ➤ https://ku.bz/m0NRS-XR2

Migratowl is an AI-powered dependency migration analyzer that upgrades dependencies in isolated sandboxes, runs tests, reads changelogs, explains breakages, and suggests fixes ➜ https://ku.bz/5Ddt6Pjj1

This repo contains 20+ tools that auto-generate Kubernetes architecture diagrams from manifests, Helm charts, or cluster state ➤ https://ku.bz/VrpBRx5MF

kubectl-mcp-server lets AI assistants use natural language to inspect and manage Kubernetes clusters through kubectl operations, Docker support, kubeconfig mounting, and MCP-compatible tooling ➜ https://ku.bz/r2PJ8Y4zs

"KRO, KServe, and Karpenter are the three tools I'm watching closely for AI workloads." Olawale Olaleye on the Kubernetes tools he is tracking 📺: https://ku.bz/LKc3mB0lp

This article explains that Kubernetes operators become hard to maintain without explicit component and resource-primitive layers between the controller and raw objects ➤ https://ku.bz/HZM7QVPJ1

This article explains how to detect which running Kubernetes containers use Chainguard or other base images by reading runtime OS data through node-level proc inspection ➜ https://ku.bz/_hgKPc3L-

This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly: 🔧 Operator Didn't Scale 🔀 ClickHouse Shard Rebalancing 💥 Invisible OOMkill 🗂️ ConfigMaps as a Real-Time State Store 🚨 Container Escape to Cloud Takeover ⭐️ Buoyant Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/192

LFK is a keyboard-first terminal UI for navigating Kubernetes clusters with a Miller-column layout, owner-based resource hierarchy, logs, Helm, ArgoCD, Trivy, RBAC, and crash investigation views ➜ https://ku.bz/-GycMtgx6

🗣️ Amine Hilaly, Software Development Engineer @ AWS, shares his biggest takeaway from KubeCon: gang scheduling - a Kubernetes concept for scheduling multiple pods simultaneously Watch the full interview: https://ku.bz/DVM_j_Qjw

This article shows how a probe-driven Go load balancer was tested against Kubernetes workloads and why benchmark discipline mattered more than the algorithm ➜ https://ku.bz/4RK0ZTM26

k8s-d2 generates D2 diagram files from Kubernetes cluster topology, visualizing namespaces, workloads, services, and their relationships with customizable grid layouts and filtering options ➜ https://ku.bz/xQh3dWh5q

🗣️ Molly Sheets, Director of Engineering, Kubernetes at Zynga, explains the strategic decision points for when teams should create separate clusters instead of continuing with multi-tenant approaches Watch the full episode: https://ku.bz/Rmpl8948_

hanoi-cli analyzes pod distribution across nodes, detects CPU/memory hotspots, generates safe redistribution plans, and simulates node failures — all without touching the cluster ➤ https://ku.bz/7jV8-XGg8

This article describes how Red Hat's Konflux team built an AI-powered "finally task" for Tekton pipelines that automatically distills 170,000-line failure logs into a 10-line diagnosis ➤ https://ku.bz/Zt_KHg85B

🗣️ Sai Vennam from AWS discusses Kubernetes evolution over its first decade and the next 10 years. The community has matured from learning basics to complex patterns and best practices at scale Watch the full interview: https://ku.bz/MgHpbXg4Y

This operator automates provisioning and operating Redis in standalone, cluster, replication, or sentinel mode on Kubernetes with support for TLS, monitoring (via Redis Exporter), dynamic PVCs, and failover management ➤ https://ku.bz/JX2wSX0PZ

Ariadne turns Kubernetes cluster state into a Memgraph property graph so agents can answer relationship-heavy questions with read-only Cypher instead of raw YAML dumps ➜ https://ku.bz/s3Pyv-5M9

"KRO, Kueue, KubeVirt: three tools worth watching in 2025." Raglin Anthony on emerging Kubernetes tools 📺: https://ku.bz/2XqMJnLVx

🗣️ Tanat Lokejaroenlarb explains their wave-based approach to Kubernetes upgrades despite thorough preparation with node rebuilds and API deprecation checks Watch the full episode: https://ku.bz/VVHFfXGl_

KRO, ACK, and Karpenter — Jason Deal on the three emerging Kubernetes tools worth keeping an eye on 📺: https://ku.bz/1_-DTgLsg

This case study shows how Palark migrated high-traffic Drupal 8 monoliths to Kubernetes to improve resilience, autoscaling, deployment automation, and DDoS handling while reducing infrastructure waste ➤ https://ku.bz/-t8tPTV8p

Infisical's case study explains why its Kubernetes operator hit memory and authentication scaling limits and how a reference-based CRD design fixed secret sync ➜ https://ku.bz/-V6qjC7h-

zeropod is a tool that automatically checkpoints containers to disk after a certain amount of time of the last TCP connection, allowing for fast and seamless scaling down to zero ➜ https://ku.bz/DXHBX4qqQ

"I always keep an eye on Karpenter because it's something that I launched a few years ago." Alex Kestner on three emerging Kubernetes tools 📺: https://ku.bz/blMzG_XM7

Kelos runs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and OpenCode as ephemeral Kubernetes pods, with CRDs for Tasks, Workspaces, AgentConfigs, and TaskSpawners that can auto-create PRs from GitHub issues, and chain tasks with dependsOn pipelines ➤ https://ku.bz/YYPXcLthX

Kubernetes MCP Server lets Claude, VS Code, Cursor, and other MCP clients inspect and manage Kubernetes or OpenShift resources through a native Go server ➜ https://ku.bz/GkblZ6HvP

90% of teams don't need Kubernetes - a controversial thesis from Danyl Novhorodov explaining how Kubernetes became the dominant force in container orchestration and why it's over-adopted Watch: https://ku.bz/BYhFw8RwW

This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly: 🔥 What 4.4% GPU Utilization Means 🛠️ GKE IP Exhaustion Fix 🧹 Evicting MCP Tool Calls 🔄 Feedback Loops Behind Kubernetes 🧠 You Don't Have a GIL Problem ⭐️ LearnKube Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/191

This tutorial shows how to design ASP.NET Core health checks for Kubernetes using separate liveness, readiness, and startup probes ➜ https://ku.bz/Pxw14_JCD

Kubetail is a Kubernetes logging tool that streams workload logs into a browser or terminal, merges multi-container logs into one timeline, and works without sending logs to an external service ➜ https://ku.bz/-c_dwmWJp

Sealed Secrets Web is a tool that provides a web interface for managing and encrypting sensitive data in Kubernetes using the Sealed Secrets service by Bitnami ➤ https://ku.bz/WS8Y2DHgS

This tutorial shows how to take a multi-service app from local source to a Kubernetes environment with OAuth, TLS, Stripe webhooks, in-cluster CI, and automated deployment using Kindling ➤ https://ku.bz/qJ2fF1Vkc

This blog post tells how the Render team: - tracked down Kubernetes memory waste caused by many daemonset namespace watches, - fixed config issues, - and freed over 7 TiB of memory across clusters by reducing unnecessary listwatch overhead ➤ https://ku.bz/2vS0QsvjY

OpenRun is an open-source alternative to Cloud Run and App Runner that declaratively deploys single-container web apps via Starlark config in Git with OAuth/OIDC/SAML auth, RBAC, auto-TLS, scale-to-zero, staged deployments, and Helm support ➤ https://ku.bz/g0mmN-7Fd

Pumba lets you kill, pause, and stress containers while injecting network delays, packet loss, and corruption You can deploy it as a DaemonSet for cluster-wide chaos engineering ➤ https://ku.bz/K7_RB9tSq