What does it take to get a job as a Kubernetes engineer?

Do you need a Kubernetes certification to apply for a job?

What's the average salary for a Kubernetes engineer?

We analyzed 97 Kubernetes jobs for the first three months of 2022 and found that:

- The average Kubernetes job pays €83,398 in Europe and $123,126 in North America.
- The majority of the job listings are for Senior DevOps Engineers.
- Only 1% of the total listings offer a position to Junior Engineers 😢
- As usual, AWS, Python, Terraform, Prometheus and Jenkins!!! are the top terms mentioned in any Kubernetes job denoscriptions.

You can read the full report here: https://kube.careers/kubernetes-trend-report-2022-q1

Skaffold and Telepresence give developers a development workflow for Kubernetes.

1. Skaffold handles building and deploying your local service, and
2. Telepresence allows you to test it against your cluster.

Learn how to use them in this article.

Read more https://blog.getambassador.io/super-fast-inner-development-loops-for-kubernetes-with-skaffold-and-telepresence-1cd3e42ba665

The idea behind branch testing is to create an ephemeral, throw-away environment that spins up a copy of the production application being served to clients.
In this article you will learn how to do so with: cdk8s, Java and Kubernetes.

Read more https://medium.com/softwareimprovementgroup/on-demand-deployment-environments-with-k8s-at-sig-8915bcf5af88

Learn how you can create a new environment (and dispose of it) to test your pull requests with ArgoCD and the ApplicationSet Controller.

Read more https://awstip.com/dynamic-deployments-for-prs-with-help-of-argocd-and-applicationset-controller-994deb31e5d4

Camel K is a Kubernetes extension that speeds up the process of deploying Camel applications on Kubernetes. Camel K runs as a Kubernetes operator after installation and listens for new application deployment requests from a CLI tool aptly named kamel.

Read more https://itnext.io/camel-k-containerless-deployments-349da12bfa9d

This post looks at helmfile, and how it determines the order in which releases are deployed.
It also includes a bash noscript that you can use to discover (i.e. print to the console) this order, without having to type helmfile sync/helmfile apply.

Read more https://dev.to/derlin/helmfile-understand-and-visualize-the-order-in-which-releases-are-deployed-516o

Karpenter is an open-source cluster autoscaler that automatically provisions new nodes in response to unschedulable pods.

In this guide, you will learn the best practices to run Karpenter on EKS.

Read more https://aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/karpenter

There are various approaches for debugging Microservices hosted within Kubernetes. The approach used here does not alter the Kubernetes cluster in any way to support developing Microservices within your IDE.

Read more https://medium.com/@blgreco72/debugging-kubernetes-services-locally-8cb14bf8745a

ytt takes a different approach to work with YAML files. Instead of interpreting configuration as plain text, it works with structures such as maps, lists, YAML documents, scalars, etc.
Learn how you can leverage ytt to deploy to multiple environments.

Read more https://carvel.dev/blog/multi-env-deployment-ytt-kapp

🗓 Kubernetes events starting in the next 24 hours:

02 May 8:00 am GMT - Jax Hybrid (JaxCon) - 📍 Online & in-person conference

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02 May 1:00 pm GMT - Microsoft Azure virtual training day: cloud native apps (Microsoft) - 📍 Online webinar

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In this article, you'll learn why you should avoid Sealed Secrets in your GitOps deployment:

1. The keys to which environment?
2. The secrets are … right there.
3. The key to secure all keys is still a key.
4. There are better solutions.


➜ https://dnastacio.medium.com/why-you-should-avoid-sealed-secrets-in-your-gitops-deployment-e50131d360dd

With time, Helm charts might end up with more and more logic.
And as the complexity keeps on increasing you might want to write unit tests to validate your logic.
Learn how to do so in this tutorial.

➜ https://blog.ediri.io/how-to-unit-test-your-helm-charts

In this article, you'll learn how you can build and configure a system of (micro) services automatically deployed with Kubernetes, using Helm and some additional tools, and not get lost in a variety of templates and manifests.

➜ https://mlepeshkin.medium.com/automated-kubernetes-deployment-with-helm-and-additional-templating-dc960689609f

In this article, you will deep-dive into Helm testing. Specifically:

- What and how to test (template vs integrations tests).
- Golden files test.
- Property test.
- Automating chart testing with GitHub Actions.

More: https://dev.to/zelldon/advanced-test-practices-for-helm-charts-57gp

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up scalable self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions using Azure and AKS.

More: https://hectormrejia.medium.com/scalable-self-hosted-runner-system-for-github-actions-509052905817

Helm has Flow Control which can be used to manipulate dynamic values in the template.

In this article, you will create a single cron resource and then loop through the collections of cronjob commands to create multiple cronjob resources.

More: https://dev.to/ujwaldhakal/manage-multiple-cron-with-helm-flow-control-32i7

When you are moving from a traditional kind of development to a cloud-native one, you usually need to access some out-of-the-box information available in a conventional environment.
Learn how to extract & inject metadata into your pods with fieldRef

More: https://alexandrev.medium.com/empower-your-pods-with-your-cloud-native-metadata-646abce6b43

In this article, you will learn how to use Flagger to roll out canary deployments with the NGINX Ingress controller and Linkerd.
You will then compare the two approaches and discuss their strength and weaknesses.

More: https://devopsian.net/posts/kubernetes-canary-deployments

Volcano is a Kubernetes native system for high-performance workloads, which has been accepted by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as its first and only official container batch scheduling project.

More: https://martin-grigorov.medium.com/native-integration-between-apache-spark-and-volcano-kubernetes-scheduler-488f54dbbab3

pod-lifetime-limiter is a Kubernetes operator that allows setting maximum lifetime for pods.

This program deletes all pods which have the label "pod.kubernetes.io/lifetime=86400" (in this case, the pod is deleted after 24 hours).


More: https://github.com/nuetoban/pod-lifetime-limiter

This article explores how the cert-manager can be used for on-premises Kubernetes applications to manage their certificate lifecycles.

More: https://itnext.io/certificate-management-for-on-premises-cloud-native-apps-dbca82e3c405