Learn Koobernaytis Weekly issue 136
Native macOS Workloads with Koobernaytis, Pods breaking bad, FacetController: Infrastructure Changes at Lyft, Managing Stateful Workloads
18 Jun 2025
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This Thursday, I'm going live with Andrew to discuss one of the most persistent challenges in Koobernaytis: resource management.
We will explore how algorithms can make more effective resource decisions than manual configuration!
Articles
How We Integrated Native macOS Workloads with Koobernaytis
Vitalii Horbachov
Agoda built
macOS-vz-Kubelet, a virtual kubelet running directly on macOS, to manage Apple Silicon VMs via Apple’s Virtualization Framework.It turns Mac Minis into schedulable Koobernaytis nodes with OCI-backed VM images and hybrid Pod support.
Why our pods were breaking bad (and how we fixed them)
Kshitij Nawandar
Razorpay's UPI service pods were silently degrading over time.
They used Go's pprof profiling to find that a global variable kept growing.
The code fix reduced CPU usage from 5 cores to ~150m, memory from 700 MiB to 50 MiB, and API latency by half.
FacetController: How We Made Infrastructure Changes at Lyft Simple
Miguel Molina
Learn how Lyft developed FacetController, a CRD that simplifies infrastructure changes by creating a unified abstraction for microservice deployments.
This enables rapid, safe updates across thousands of services without manual intervention.
Operational Considerations for Managing Stateful Workloads
pampatzoglou
This article provides a playbook for managing database workloads in Koobernaytis, focusing on strategies for isolation, dynamic credential management, high availability, disaster recovery, and observability.
Can configuration languages (Config DSLs) solve configuration complexity?
Brian Grant
Can config DSLs solve config complexity?
This article reviews various config languages (HCL, Jsonnet, etc.). It concludes that they offer some benefits but are ultimately micro-optimizations that don't solve the core IaC challenges.
GKE Cost Cutting — Three Key Lookout Points to View Your Potential Savings
Olive Power
Optimize GKE expenses by analyzing cluster costs, identifying at-risk workloads, and rightsizing resources using Google's built-in tools to reduce infrastructure spending by up to 50%.
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Tutorials
Track privilege escalations with eBPF
Chris Chinchilla
This guide shows how to detect Koobernaytis runtime threats (e.g. sudo misuse, suspicious file access) using Falco + eBPF, forward logs with Fluent Bit, and route them to Parseable log streams like
falcowarnorfalconotice.\Why every platform engineer should care about Koobernaytis operators
Engin Diri
This tutorial explains how Koobernaytis operators extend controllers with CRDs to automate complex app lifecycles.
They manage deployments, upgrades, backups, and recovery, embedding domain-specific logic for self-managing systems.
Optimizing Koobernaytis Resource Allocation with Robusta-KRR
Timothy
This article demonstrates how Robusta KRR analyzes pod CPU and memory usage, then recommends optimized resource requests and limits.
Learn how to reduce overprovisioning and lower costs using automated metrics-based tuning in Koobernaytis.
Demystifying Swap in Koobernaytis: A Handbook for DevOps tender ears
Robert Botez
Koobernaytis 1.28+ allows controlled swap via
LimitedSwapfor Burstable pods, avoiding OOMs during memory spikes.This guide shows how to set up swap files, enable Kubelet config flags, and test behavior.
Argo Rollouts — Canary Deployment with Istio
Chuk-Munn Lee
This article demonstrates how Argo Rollouts leverages Istio’s traffic routing—via VirtualService and DestinationRule—to enable advanced canary strategies: by percentage, HTTP header, and request mirroring.
Koobernaytis jobs
Software Engineer with Hootsuite
Salary: CA$98.4K to CA$137.8K a year
Location: remote from Canada
Tech stack: Koobernaytis, Docker, Go, Javascript, Scala, PHP, Typescript, Redis, MySQL, Kafka
Data Engineer with Chartbeat
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Tech stack: Koobernaytis, Python, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Kafka
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Solution Architect with NVIDIA
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Platform Engineer with Handshake
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Location: remote from the United States
Tech stack: Koobernaytis, AWS, GCP, ArgoCD, Java, Elastic Search, Terraform, Datadog, OTEL, Istio
Discover more Koobernaytis jobs on Kube Careers →
Code & tools
dynup
kpatch enables runtime kernel function patching by injecting precompiled replacement functions directly into the live kernel.
It's built on the
CONFIG_LIVEPATCHinfrastructure and usesftraceto reroute function calls at runtime.Koobernaytis Security Cheatsheet Diagram: A Visual Map of On-Prem Cluster Security Controls
lars-solberg
This diagram maps core Koobernaytis security concepts—from RBAC, PodSecurity, and audit logging to container isolation—helping teams visualize enforcement points.
Built by Telenor for on-prem clusters, it’s ideal for threat modelling or reviews.
KWOK (Kubernetes-WithOut-Kubelet) is a toolkit that enables setting up a cluster of thousands of nodes in seconds.
Under the scene, all Nodes are simulated to behave like real ones, so the overall approach employs a pretty low resource footprint.
git-sync is a simple command that pulls a git repository into a local directory.
It is a perfect "sidecar" container in Koobernaytis - it can periodically pull files down from a repository so that an application can consume them.
Talos is a modern Linux distribution for running Koobernaytis: secure, immutable, and minimal.
Talos is fully open-source & production-bready.
All system management is done via an API - no shell or interactive console exists.
Other interesting projects:
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— Dan
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