Ritesh Patel, Co-founder @ Nirmata, announces the recent launch of Nirmata's AI Platform Engineering Assistant.

He explains how platform engineering teams are currently overwhelmed by the need to master multiple new technologies, creating a significant productivity bottleneck. The AI assistant acts as a dedicated teammate that accelerates critical tasks in security, policy, and governance - areas that typically consume substantial time and expertise.

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Read the announcement: https://ku.bz/8_yYZZMG4

This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 160:

🌐 Kubernetes Networking from Packets to Pods
⚙️ Seamless Istio Upgrades at Scale
🔍 How I find and fix Kubernetes Exit Codes and Misconfigurations for free
🔒 Kubernetes security fundamentals: networking
📊 A Step-by-Step Guide to Jaeger Tracing on Kubernetes

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/160

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This tool provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for querying Kubernetes Audit Logs across cloud providers using AWS CloudWatch, GCP Logging, and Alibaba SLS.

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This tutorial walks you through enabling, running, and monitoring IPv6 networking on Kubernetes clusters using Cilium

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Kube No Trouble (kubent) is a tool to check whether you're using any deprecated APIs in your cluster and therefore should upgrade your workloads first, before upgrading your Kubernetes cluster.

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This article explores why using Kubernetes namespaces alone is not a sufficient isolation or security boundary.

It shows common pitfalls and many attack paths that let a tenant escape isolation even if you only gave them access to a single namespace.

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Tetragon enables powerful real-time, eBPF-based security observability and runtime enforcement.

It is Kubernetes-aware and understands identities, allowing security event detection to be configured in relation to individual workloads.

More: https://ku.bz/WrhnVyd2p

This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 161:

🔥 Kubernetes Informers Are So Easy... To Misuse!
🎤 KubeCon 2025: Three Things This Year’s Conversations Told Me About Kubernetes Optimization
🛑 Importance of Graceful Shutdown in Kubernetes
🚪 Breaking Boundaries: Kubernetes Namespaces and Multi-tenancy
🎯 Centralizing Helm Charts: Moving Beyond Ingress with HTTPProxy

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/161

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kubelogin is a kubectl plugin for Kubernetes OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, also known as kubectl oidc-login.

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This article explains how to remove permission checks from microservices and build a centralized authorization layer with Kong OSS and OpenFGA.

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This open-source tool helps you manage authentication and access across servers, databases and Kubernetes clusters via API or CLI.

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This article shows how to use the Kong OIDC plugin together with Keycloak to secure cluster services and HTTP routes at the API gateway level.

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This tool delivers real-time node/pod-level process, file and network visibility for Kubernetes and bare-metal environments, with rule-based alerts, dashboards and hybrid cloud support.

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This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 162:

🐍 Kubernetes Needs Its Python Moment
☁️ Migrating Kubernetes out of the Big Cloud Providers
📦 Kubernetes v1.34: DRA Consumable Capacity
🛠️ Managing APIs in Kubernetes with Kong Ingress Controller
🚑 Fixing Upstream Connect Errors (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot & More)

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/162

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This article introduces ChaosRoom, a playful tool that helps engineers learn chaos engineering by running mini-games simulating faults and observing how systems respond.

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This week's 6 best Kubernetes vacancies that focus on security are:

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Security Architect with Dexterity
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DevSecOps Engineer with Corelight
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This code tool helps you gather logs, metrics and code changes, then uses AI-powered root-cause analysis to surface what broke in production and suggest immediate fixes.

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This article explains how to use Vault Agent Injector (a mutating webhook) to inject secrets into Kubernetes pods securely, without modifying application code.

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This tool enables you to scan and enforce compliance across multi-cloud infrastructure with customizable YAML rules, alerts and integrations.

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This article explains how eBPF lets you run small, verified programs inside the Linux kernel to unlock powerful observability, security, and networking capabilities without custom kernel modules.

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This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 163:

🔥 What would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look Like
🐍 Trying to Break out of the Python REPL Sandbox in a Kubernetes Environment: A Practical Journey
🛠️ Karpenter at Beekeeper by LumApps: Fun Stories
💥 Extracting JVM Data from Crash-Looping Java Containers in Kubernetes
🎮 ChaosRoom: Hands-On Chaos Engineering Through Games

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/163

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