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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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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 23h

Freelens Pod File Browser adds a graphical file browser to Freelens, so you can open, edit, upload and download files inside a pod container instead of running kubectl exec over and over ➜ ku.bz/1svsbPlzm

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 29/09/2026

"Two people in the same conversation: too much AI, not enough AI. That's what we're trying to balance." Abby Bangser on chairing KubeCon 📺: ku.bz/5Rqq275dl

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Kubesploit @kubesploit.io · 28/09/2026

This article follows a secret from an external store into a pod through the Secrets Store CSI Driver, explaining the registrar, the SecretProviderClass and the provider plugin It also covers syncing back into a native Kubernetes Secret for env vars ➜ ku.bz/m70bP2hJs

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 28/09/2026

kubectl-x is a kubectl plugin that runs the same read-only command against every context in your kubeconfig in parallel, and can merge the results into valid JSON or YAML ➤ ku.bz/DKVVbR-vB

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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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KubeFM @kube.fm · 28/09/2026

Mai Nishitani, Director Enterprise Architecture @ NTT Data, discusses how AI is transforming Kubernetes administration and the critical balance between leveraging AI capabilities and maintaining human oversight Watch the full episode: ku.bz/3hWvQjXxp

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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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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 27/09/2026

This article explains the technical transition of Kubernetes port-forwarding and streaming commands from the deprecated SPDY protocol to WebSockets to improve proxy compatibility ➤ ku.bz/wz1d-v4qY

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Kube Architect @kube.archi · 27/09/2026

diffyml compares YAML files by structure instead of line by line, and knows enough about Kubernetes resources to match them up even when the order changes ➤ ku.bz/69kPj1b9R

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 26/09/2026

Praesto is a Kubernetes-native operator and CSI driver that automates the caching and mounting of AI model artifacts from Hugging Face into workloads using local node storage or shared PVCs ➤ ku.bz/nl0_KD09R

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Kubesploit @kubesploit.io · 25/09/2026

This tutorial builds a Docker image with a secret, then shows how it still sits in an earlier image layer after you delete it, and pulls it back out with docker history, jq and tar ➜ ku.bz/S8r6yFdbS

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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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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 25/09/2026

crd-schema-publisher pulls CRD schemas straight from your own cluster and publishes them as a searchable docs site plus JSON schemas your editor can use to validate manifests ➜ ku.bz/6V1yDRfS7

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 24/09/2026

Kubie is an alternative to kubectx and kubens that gives every shell its own Kubernetes context and namespace, and can load contexts from split config files ➤ ku.bz/-tvB-G9Cx

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 24/09/2026

This case study shows how to migrate from fragile EC2-based infrastructure to AWS EKS with GitOps using ArgoCD, Jenkins, and SonarQube for a URL shortening platform, achieving 80% faster deployments and self-healing infrastructure ➜ ku.bz/RGMgc_zBz

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 23/09/2026

infra-bench is an open benchmark suite that measures how well AI agents handle real infrastructure tasks, starting with a Kubernetes dataset of easy, medium and hard problems ➜ ku.bz/HG49twFgX

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 23/09/2026

"Every time we think this must be the peak, there's still so many new users, new adopters." Phil Estes from AWS on Kubernetes' next 10 years 📺: ku.bz/_ZLldHwVC

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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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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 22/09/2026

This tutorial walks through the llm-d quickstart on Kubernetes, pausing after each step to explain what you just deployed ➜ ku.bz/-29f-Q-2W

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 21/09/2026

🗣️ Sai Vennam has been in the Kubernetes world for the better part of 10 years. His prediction: operators will spend less and less time on the heavy lifting of cluster management as AI agents and LLMs streamline operations Watch the full interview: ku.bz/VVfQ4G891

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 21/09/2026

Rune is a fast native macOS app for people who debug clusters every day, with unified pod logs, YAML editing with server dry-run, port-forwarding and a command palette ➜ ku.bz/zRfTn2ZwJ

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 21/09/2026

This tutorial builds a real k6 test suite against Google's Online Boutique running on a home lab Kubernetes cluster, with a shared client library, smoke, load, stress, and browser tests, and the two bugs the first run exposed ➤ ku.bz/WdN67jxpY

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 21/09/2026

"More AI. There's no way around it. That's going to be the most dominant trend." Itiel Shwartz on what's next for Kubernetes in 2026 📺: ku.bz/b9bDXQ_xq

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Kube Architect @kube.archi · 21/09/2026

This article argues that MCP servers for Kubernetes ship the accelerator without the brake, and walks through a two-tier design in which an agent can only propose a change, and a human approves the exact plan before it is applied ➤ ku.bz/qwTBzbg1y

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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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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 20/09/2026

OpenDepot is a self-hosted, Kubernetes-native registry for your OpenTofu/Terraform modules and providers, so you control distribution and versions rather than relying on the public registry ➤ ku.bz/ZqbpsnrrQ

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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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Kubesploit @kubesploit.io · 18/09/2026

Hubble is a fully distributed networking and security observability platform for cloud native workloads It is built on top of Cilium and eBPF to enable deep visibility into the communication and behaviour of services and the networking infrastructure ➤ ku.bz/fmj0PvVgk

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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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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 17/09/2026

yaml-schema-detect.nvim is a Neovim plugin that automatically detects and applies YAML schemas for your YAML files using yaml-language-server (yamlls) ➤ ku.bz/ymQNlqKdQ

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 17/09/2026

This article explains how the Mixed Version Proxy reached beta in Kubernetes 1.36, so during an upgrade an older API server forwards requests it does not know to a newer peer instead of answering 404 ➜ ku.bz/SfbjnMQZY

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KubeFM @kube.fm · 17/09/2026

🗣️ Owumi Festus breaks down what Kubernetes actually does at its fundamental level - it's essentially a state management system that continuously moves from current state to desired state Watch: ku.bz/pf5kK9lQF

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 16/09/2026

mcp-server-kubernetes exposes a complete Kubernetes management layer via Model Context Protocol (MCP), letting tools like Claude Desktop and mcp-chat run kubectl and Helm commands securely ➜ ku.bz/J-BnR0D6V

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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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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 15/09/2026

This article explains how Kubernetes 1.36 lets the kubelet assign CPU and memory at the pod level, so the main container keeps exclusive NUMA-aligned cores while sidecars share the rest ➜ ku.bz/zXsfljslJ

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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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KubeFM @kube.fm · 14/09/2026

"The human gets brought into the loop only when absolutely necessary." Greg Eppel on what autonomous Kubernetes operations looks like in the next 10 years 📺: ku.bz/KZRgrbmwt

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 14/09/2026

kubectl tree is a kubectl plugin that follows ownerReferences and prints the whole object tree under a Deployment or custom resource, so you can see what created what ➜ ku.bz/D2qCz0wDD

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 14/09/2026

This article explains why Kubernetes observability falls apart when metrics, logs and traces don't share context, and how consistent service identity, bounded label cardinality and OpenTelemetry pull them back together ➤ ku.bz/36ZySjmLB

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

This article explains Kubernetes operators as feedback controllers, connecting reconciliation, informers, queues, spec/status, and self-healing behavior to database operations ➤ ku.bz/93cbkRmhc

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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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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 13/09/2026

This tool gives you a find-like experience for Kubernetes resources, letting you search by name regex, age, labels, status, image name or node, then patch, exec or delete the matching items ➤ ku.bz/S9g9fRBmJ

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 12/09/2026

This article reads the HPA as a proportional controller from control theory, showing why the deadband, high gain and slow response trade-offs are unavoidable, and what dead time and pod quantization do to a PID version of it ➤ ku.bz/FdGgBK2q8

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 11/09/2026

This code tool allows you to start containers only when needed and automatically stop them after a period of inactivity ➤ ku.bz/8KYgckdWf

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LearnKube @learnkube.com · 11/09/2026

This article explains what changes when you move from the archived Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp, mapping each familiar workflow onto the new UI ➜ ku.bz/v8jGN5MqH

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