Kubernetes pod pending is ubiquitous in every cluster.

In this article, you learn the different situations that cause this issue, allowing you to find the solution quickly and, best of all, avoid it as much as possible.

More: https://sysdig.com/blog/kubernetes-pod-pending-problems

In this article, you'll take a closer look at what taints and tolerations are, compare them to other advanced scheduling techniques, and walk through a hands-on tutorial.



More: https://medium.com/kubecost/kubernetes-taints-tolerations-tutorial-with-examples-8ad3acd25c17

Ephemeral containers are special type of container that runs temporarily in an existing pod. This container is never automatically restarted and its lifetime is only up to the life of a pod.
Learn how to use it for troubleshooting it in this article.

More: https://medium.com/linux-shots/debug-kubernetes-pods-using-ephemeral-container-f01378243ff

kubectl-ice is a kubectl plugin that lets you see the configuration of all pod's containers.

You can inspect volumes, images, ports and executable configurations, along with current CPU and memory metrics at the container level.

More: https://github.com/NimbleArchitect/kubectl-ice

Master Kubernetes with this a 4-day Advanced Kubernetes workshop on the 9th of June!

What should you expect?

- Learn how to architect and design clusters from the ground up (in the cloud or on-prem).
- Explore the Kubernetes internal component and how the system is designed with resiliency in mind.
- Deep-dive into the networking components and observe the packets flowing into the cluster.
- Hands-on labs to test the theory with real-world scenarios!


You can sign up here: https://learnk8s.io/online-advanced-june-2022

A cool home lab built out of 4 Raspberry PIs and another RPI as a NAS server.

It features Kubernetes, K3S, Gitops, Flux, Grafana, Prometheus, Plex, and Longhorn.


More: https://medium.com/@ilankushnir/kws-cluster-e7e079cf103b

Learn how to design a Kafka cluster to achieve high availability using standard kubernetes resources and test how it tolerates maintenance and total node failures.

More: https://learnk8s.io/kafka-ha-kubernetes

This repo covers Kubernetes objects' and components' details (Kubectl, Pod, Deployment, Service, ConfigMap, Volume, PV, PVC, Daemonset, Secret, Affinity, Taint-Toleration, Helm, etc.), and possible example usage scenarios (how-to, hands-on labs, etc.).

More: https://github.com/omerbsezer/Fast-Kubernetes

Skaffold is a tool that:

- Builds Docker images.
- Pushes them.
- Deploys your Kubernetes resources with the docker images it just built.

And it does everything with one single command.

Learn how to use it in this tutorial.

More: https://dev.to/otomato_io/local-kubernetes-development-with-skaffold-i0k

In this article you will learn how you can use the ambassador, adapter, sidecar and init containers to extend yours apps in Kubernetes without changing their code.

More: https://learnk8s.io/sidecar-containers-patterns

Master Kubernetes with this a 4-day Advanced Kubernetes workshop on the 9th of June (next week)!

What should you expect?

- Learn how to architect and design clusters from the ground up (in the cloud or on-prem).
- Explore the Kubernetes internal component and how the system is designed with resiliency in mind.
- Deep-dive into the networking components and observe the packets flowing into the cluster.
- Hands-on labs to test the theory with real-world scenarios!


You can sign up here: https://learnk8s.io/online-advanced-june-2022

In this article, you will compare 7 tools to manage your Helm releases declaratively:

1. Flux Helm controller.
2. Argo CD.
3. Helmfile.
4. Captain.
5. Terraform Helm provider.
6. Orkestra.
7. Fleet.


More: https://helm.sh/blog/tools-to-manage-helm-declaratively

This GitHub action starts a k3s cluster of chosen version and sets KUBECONFIG to created cluster. This is helpful for testing applications/operators on top of a Kubernetes cluster.

More: https://github.com/debianmaster/actions-k3s

If you're challenged with maintaining a pile of YAMLs for your Kubernetes clusters, there is one more (advanced) language that could come to the rescue: Dhall.
In this article, you will learn how to use it to replace YAML.

More: https://blog.flant.com/dhall-language-for-kubernetes-manifests

Kube-ns-suspender watches namespaces and "suspends" them by scaling to 0 some of the resources. Once a namespace is suspended, it will not be restarted automatically. This allows to "reactivate" namespaces only when required and reduces costs.

More: https://github.com/govirtuo/kube-ns-suspender

fubectl reduces repetitive interactions with kubectl.

More: https://github.com/kubermatic/fubectl

Master Kubernetes with this a 4-day Advanced Kubernetes workshop on the 9th of June (next week)!

What should you expect?

- Learn how to architect and design clusters from the ground up (in the cloud or on-prem).
- Explore the Kubernetes internal component and how the system is designed with resiliency in mind.
- Deep-dive into the networking components and observe the packets flowing into the cluster.
- Hands-on labs to test the theory with real-world scenarios!


You can sign up here: https://learnk8s.io/online-advanced-june-2022

Kubeswitch is a command-line tool designed to ease switching between different kubectl contexts. Kubeswitch is a drop-in replacement for kubectx.

More: https://github.com/danielfoehrKn/kubeswitch

In this article, you'll cover an overview of the autoscaling feature provided by Kubernetes. You'll also explore how autoscaling works and how you can configure it.

More: https://containiq.com/post/kubernetes-autoscaling

tabloid is a simple command line tool to parse and filter column-based cli outputs from commands like kubectl or Docker

More: https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/tabloid

Thundernetes is a project originating from the Azure PlayFab Multiplayer Servers (MPS) team and other teams in Azure/XBOX that enables you to run Linux game servers on your Kubernetes cluster.

More: https://github.com/PlayFab/thundernetes