1. “Building the lightest-weight Kubernetes dev ephemeral environments” by Galen Marchetti, Kardinal.
“We’re excited to introduce Kardinal, an open-source tool that’s designed to make development and test environments for Kubernetes-deployed applications as lightweight as possible. If you manage multiple application deploys across dev, test, and QA, or you’re spinning up expensive development sandboxes, Kardinal can cut down resource usage and time-to-test by over 90%.”
2. “Exploring Cloud Native projects in CNCF Sandbox. Part 1: 13 arrivals of 2023 H1” by Konstantin Nezhbert & Dmitry Shurupov, Palark.
“New projects are joining CNCF and can surely help with your Cloud Native needs. Let’s discover Inspektor Gadget, Headlamp, Kepler, SlimToolkit, SOPS, Clusternet, Eraser, PipeCD, Microcks, kpt, Xline, HwameiStor, and KubeClipper!”
3. “An Introduction to the OpenTelemetry Collector” by Josh Lee, Altinity.
“By now you’re probably hearing about OpenTelemetry quite often. Maybe you’ve already read the description at opentelemetry.io. Maybe you’re asking yourself, “that’s a lot of words about metrics, traces, logs, and such — but how do I actually start using this thing?” If that sounds like you, then read on…”
4. “The Complete Process of How an External HTTP Request Reaches a Pod Container in Kubernetes” by Rifewang.
“How does an external HTTP/HTTPS request reach a container within a Pod in a Kubernetes cluster?”
5. “Making SRE Workflows Smoother with AI Helpers: Using Ollama, OpenWebUI, and k8sGPT” by Krishnadas N S.
“With Ollama, OpenWebUI, and K8sGPT, you can use AI-powered models to automate initial debugging and reporting steps, streamlining incident response and giving deeper insights into your cluster. [..] For Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), this integrated solution provides an initial overview of their Kubernetes cluster. Meanwhile, our locally hosted AI-powered chatbot assists in safeguarding sensitive information, helping SREs focus on generating reports and composing emails without worrying about data protection.”
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