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This article explains why ZStack open-sourced ZSvirt, a KVM virtualization platform used in large environments, to offer auditable code, a stable GPLv3 license, and vendor independence ➜ ku.bz/61LX467d4

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 7h

This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly: 🔥 Building Modelplane on Crossplane 🚪 Why Ingress Is Being Replaced 🛡️ Fragile VMs to Bulletproof GitOps 💾 500 MB Buffer Killed Our Job 🎮 GPU MIG + Kueue ⭐️ LearnKube Read it now: kube.today/issues/203

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 29/09/2026

Amos Wenger explains why his home Kubernetes node behaved differently from cloud VMs due to fundamental internet infrastructure limitations Watch the full episode: ku.bz/6Ll_7slr9

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 29/09/2026

ctlptl is a lightweight CLI tool for declaratively creating and managing local Kubernetes clusters across Docker Desktop, Kind, Minikube, and K3d ➜ ku.bz/-bzt26qYJ

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 28/09/2026

This article explains how slicing a big GPU with MIG and queueing jobs with Kueue lets several teams share the same card instead of one job sitting on all of it ➜ ku.bz/BbngZrcSZ

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 28/09/2026

MatrixHub is a self-hosted model registry you can run in place of Hugging Face, caching weights once and serving them quickly to many GPU nodes, including air-gapped networks ➤ ku.bz/6ty6V-QR3

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 28/09/2026

This article shows how a Java microservices app was built and deployed on a bare-metal k3s cluster with Jenkins, SonarQube, Trivy scans, and NGINX Ingress, plus the problems that showed up on the way ➜ ku.bz/sdCVByHYs

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 28/09/2026

Join us for LearnKube Day in Salt Lake City on November 9 A free day of hands-on Kubernetes, AI SRE agents, technical talks, and YAML Games Register: learnkube.com/learnkube-day-salt-la…

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 27/09/2026

This guide shows you how to implement chaos engineering on Amazon EKS using AWS Fault Injection Service to simulate CPU stress and pod terminations while monitoring resilience via ADOT and Grafana ➤ ku.bz/cGJ0nyxxS

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Kube Architect @kube.archi · 26/09/2026

This case study shows how Netflix moved millions of batch jobs from its homegrown queueing system to Kueue, without the people submitting those jobs noticing any change ➤ ku.bz/3WtH2Fml9

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 26/09/2026

l9gpu is a GPU telemetry agent that emits OpenTelemetry metrics with workload attribution built in, so you can see which pod, team or Slurm job is using each NVIDIA, AMD or Intel GPU ➤ ku.bz/JCtj79Xms

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Kube Architect @kube.archi · 25/09/2026

This case study explains how Modelplane was built entirely as a Crossplane configuration, with no custom controllers, to turn GPUs spread across clouds into one fleet behind a stable inference API ➜ ku.bz/Qk7c12L-R

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 25/09/2026

This case study shows how EXANTE replaced manual Saturday releases with a fully automated GitLab CI + Flux + Jira pipeline across 60+ Django modules, 7 GKE environments, and 30+ services to meet fintech regulatory audit requirements ➤ ku.bz/8BHV_JGB8

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 25/09/2026

This case study shows how one team ran LiteLLM as a single gateway to many model providers on EKS, kept it highly available, and managed the whole thing with ArgoCD ➤ ku.bz/YKJG9_NH_

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 25/09/2026

This repo is a GitOps-driven homelab blueprint where all infrastructure and apps are declaratively managed with tools like Talos, OpenTofu, ArgoCD, Cilium, Longhorn, Authentik, cert-manager, and more ➜ ku.bz/P-LYq2tV1

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 25/09/2026

🗣️ Tanat Lokejaroenlarb, Staff Site Reliability Engineer @ Adevinta, explains how Karpenter fundamentally transformed their Kubernetes upgrade process by decoupling control plane and data plane operations Watch the full episode: ku.bz/T6hDSWYhb

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 24/09/2026

🗣️ Niels Claeys, Lead data engineer & partner at Dataminded, explains how his team achieves 97% spot instance usage for their Kubernetes-based data platform Watch the full episode: ku.bz/hGRfkzDJW

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 24/09/2026

GROOT is a Go CLI that collects Kubernetes logs and cluster context into one archive, with preflight checks, config profiles and archive summaries so you can attach a single file to a ticket ➤ ku.bz/rXWYbrY1S

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 24/09/2026

This case study shows how one Fluentd DaemonSet kept losing logs during restarts, and how splitting collection (Fluent Bit) from aggregation (Fluentd) removed the gaps ➜ ku.bz/9q5nqwSW1

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 23/09/2026

Reloader is a Kubernetes controller that watches Secrets and ConfigMaps and triggers rolling updates on Deployments, StatefulSets, and more when changes are detected ➜ ku.bz/sPP_XdTc0

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 23/09/2026

🗣️ Vitalii Horbachov explains the technical architecture behind macOS VZ Kubelet and how it bridges Kubernetes with Apple's virtualization framework Watch the full episode: ku.bz/q_JS76SvM

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 23/09/2026

This week on the Learn Kubernetes Weekly: 🔥 From etcd to Spanner 😌 Deploying Made Boring 🐘 Zookeeper on GKE 🚀 Mixed Version Proxy Graduates to Beta 🌍 Multi-Region EKS with Crossplane & FluxCD ⭐️ Buoyant Read it now: kube.today/issues/202

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 22/09/2026

"In a monolith, your code base is your call graph. In microservices, service-to-service communication is your call graph." Elamaran Shanmugam on why visualization is a must-have 📺: ku.bz/DCxhgWQqS

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 22/09/2026

🗣️ Jorrick Stempher breaks down the 5-component architecture for predictive Kubernetes scaling: Prometheus, NestJS adapter, PostgreSQL, Prophet ML model, and Grafana visualization Watch: ku.bz/clbDWqPYp

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 22/09/2026

This article explains how running ZooKeeper on Google Cloud Z4D nodes with local SSDs removes the disk latency that slows consensus writes, plus the GKE anti-affinity, volume binding and JVM tuning it needs ➜ ku.bz/7WK7w0zK6

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 21/09/2026

This case study covers migrating a live k3s cluster from a flat network to a VLAN architecture, including an etcd quorum loss caused by moving too many nodes at once and the recovery steps using k3s server `--cluster-reset` ➤ ku.bz/Yxmxk1dbc

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 21/09/2026

Harvester turns bare-metal servers into a hyperconverged platform combining VMs and containers using Kubernetes, KubeVirt, Longhorn, and Rancher It supports live migration and distributed storage and is built for core-to-edge ops ➜ ku.bz/0-LL0mwyj

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 21/09/2026

New free book: Kubernetes Architecture in Financial Services Platform lessons from seven banks on tenancy, delivery, policy, reliability, and cluster replacement Supported by Buoyant, Sysdig, and Nirmata: learnkube.com/kubernetes-architectu…

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 20/09/2026

Goldpinger is a monitoring tool that runs as a DaemonSet and makes inter-pod calls to test connectivity ➤ ku.bz/D_P9JG76K

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 19/09/2026

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 ➤ ku.bz/qcvwrrzn0

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 19/09/2026

This tutorial shows how to replace always-on EC2 runners with autoscaling GitLab runners using the AWS fleeting plugin and an Auto Scaling Group, so instances start per job and shut down when the queue is empty ➤ ku.bz/nD6qbNZ3w

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 18/09/2026

This article explains how Go Fiber reached 1.16M RPS on Apple Silicon by running client and server benchmarks inside Docker Desktop's Linux VM to bypass macOS loopback TCP limits ➤ ku.bz/4_mmH26nZ

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 18/09/2026

Kor is a CLI tool that scans your cluster and lists the unused resources nobody cleaned up, from forgotten ConfigMaps and Secrets to stale Services and PVCs ➜ ku.bz/YzcpnL3gj

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 18/09/2026

MetalLB is a tool that provides a load-balancer implementation for bare metal Kubernetes clusters using standard routing protocols ➤ ku.bz/gP-LGPnJc

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 18/09/2026

This tutorial shows how to run Azure DevOps agents on AKS so that KEDA spins up a fresh agent pod whenever the pipeline queue grows and removes it when the job is done ➜ ku.bz/y7Kjp1WvS

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 18/09/2026

"I cached the biggest image in the AMI and it didn't help -- EBS lazy loading means the data isn't actually there when you need it." Jan Ludvik on why image caching on EBS isn't straightforward 📺: ku.bz/B7TzKXyxf

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 17/09/2026

Kubesafe is a tool that prevents accidental execution of dangerous commands on the wrong Kubernetes cluster by providing a safety net for cluster management ➜ ku.bz/3hC23K79L

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 17/09/2026

booter is a small container that PXE-boots Talos machines on the same subnet, and can pass Omni kernel arguments so new nodes register with your cluster automatically ➤ ku.bz/vVGjgXvmj

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 16/09/2026

KubeShark is a Kubernetes skill for Claude Code and Codex that feeds the agent official best practices, so generated manifests stop using deprecated APIs, wildcard RBAC or missing resource limits ➜ ku.bz/m6GhSVL9W

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 16/09/2026

🗣️ Ben Poland, Senior Staff Platform Engineer @ Faire, breaks down the fundamental architectural differences between Jenkins and Buildkite when running CI workloads on Kubernetes Watch the full episode: ku.bz/klBmzMY5-

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 16/09/2026

Kubernetes race conditions, rendered GitOps manifests, Headlamp migration, pod-level resources, and hidden cluster capacity Brought to you by LearnKube: ku.bz/hypSbyc-V Learn Kubernetes Weekly 201: kube.today/issues/201

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 15/09/2026

This article tells how a GPU passthrough on a k3s worker VM put a whole Proxmox host into a boot loop, and how masking the guest-start service at the GRUB prompt rescued it ➜ ku.bz/79pRFd6Zm

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 15/09/2026

“When you run one pizza order, you get 200 traces.” On Kube Signals episode two, Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino shows @brianteller.bsky.social why the demo needed 15 containers Watch: ku.bz/TlVjXdnb6 Presented by Learn Kubernetes Weekly

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Kube Architect @kube.archi · 14/09/2026

This article lays out a production EKS setup where Karpenter keeps a cheap On-Demand baseline and absorbs traffic spikes with Spot nodes that drain safely when AWS reclaims them ➜ ku.bz/f-CnXzXxb

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Daniele Polencic @danielepolencic.com · 14/09/2026

When does Kubernetes make sense? It is one of the questions we ask during private Kubernetes courses at @learnkube.com. My controversial answer is one application.

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 14/09/2026

tfplanctx turns a Terraform plan into a short, grep-friendly summary so coding agents can review what will change without burning context on raw plan output ➜ ku.bz/jm97DG4yh

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 14/09/2026

This article opens up Xatastor, the storage system Xata built for millions of Postgres databases, explaining why they chose ZFS zvols over NVMe-oF instead of Ceph or Longhorn, and how their Kubernetes operator drives it ➤ ku.bz/LcBp9Pl1h

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 13/09/2026

ModelExpress is an NVIDIA service that manages model weights across a cluster, caching them and moving them GPU-to-GPU over RDMA instead of reloading from storage, so new vLLM or Dynamo pods start serving much sooner ➤ ku.bz/RyyNYRgJs

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Kube Builders @kube.builders · 12/09/2026

This article describes the architecture behind a self-hosted cloud IDE, where each developer workspace is an isolated container on Kubernetes, requests are routed to small or large models by task, and clusters are spread across regions ➤ ku.bz/429V7pdXG

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Kubesploit @kubesploit.io · 12/09/2026

This article presents a three-layer tenant isolation design where each tenant gets its own control plane, VM nodes and isolated network via KubeFlex, KubeVirt and OVN-Kubernetes, with latency measurements ➤ ku.bz/YRcVzxByx

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