Learn Koobernaytis weekly — issue 17

8 Mar 2023

Articles

  1. Koobernaytis scalability thresholds

    Koobernaytis contributors

    In this write up you will find a list of scalability thresholds for Koobernaytis.

  2. Does Koobernaytis really give you multicloud portability?

    Seth Dobson, John Roach

    In this article, the team at McKinsey deployed the same app in GKE, AKS, and EKS and measured the effort with the intent to test multi-cloud portability.

    Spoiler: it did not go well.

  3. Koobernaytis traffic discovery

    Evyatar Meged

    In this article, you'll learn how you can use Koobernaytis service discovery to figure out "who's calling whom" within a cluster.

  4. Koobernaytis security best practices: network policies

    Renate Schosser

    In this blog post, you'll cover the following topics:

    1. What a NetworkPolicy is, and why do you need it.
    2. How NetworkPolicies are structured.
    3. Best practices for defining NetworkPolicies.
    4. An example of defining NetworkPolicies.

  5. The potential of pod migrations in Koobernaytis

    Adrian Stobbe

    In this article (and related links), you will learn the challenges, progress and future of migrating pods (live, without destroying them) in Koobernaytis.

  6. When Koobernaytis pods are stuck mounting large volumes

    Stefan Franziskus

    In this article, you'll discover how the team at Deutsche Telekom solved an issue with mounting volumes in Koobernaytis: volume in the test environment took ~7 minutes to mount. On prod, 24 minutes.

Articles worth checking out:

Tutorials

  1. Deploying and autoscaling Koobernaytis with Knative

    NearForm

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

    • Install and use Knative.
    • Autoscale your pods with the KPA.
    • Shape the traffic in your cluster.
    • Collect metrics (Prometheus/OTEL).

  2. A simple end-to-end application (DB, API, UI) in a local Koobernaytis cluster

    Pasupathy Devaraj

    In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Koobernaytis by building and deploying a simple application from scratch.

    The application is a simple TODO list that stores the nodes in MongoDB.

  3. GKE with Consul service mesh

    Joaquín Menchaca (智裕)

    This article shows how to set up and get started with Consul Service Mesh on Koobernaytis.

    Dgraph, a distributed graph database, will be used to demonstrate a real-world application using the service mesh.

  4. Supply Chain Security on EKS using AWS KMS, Kyverno, and Cosign

    Imtranur Rahman

    In this post, you'll learn how you can implement supply chain security using open-source tools on Amazon EKS with AWS KMS and Cosign with Kyverno.

  5. Policies as code in Koobernaytis using jsPolicy

    Pavan Kumar

    jsPolicy is a policy engine for Koobernaytis that allows you to write policies in JavaScript or TypeScript.

    Learn how to use it in this tutorial.

Koobernaytis jobs

    • DevOps Engineer with Defense Unicorns

    • Salary: $150K to $170K a year

    • Location: remote from the United States

    • Tech stack: Koobernaytis, AWS, GCP, Azure, Helm, Terraform, Pulumi

    • DevOps Engineer with WellSaid Labs

    • Salary: $170K to $190K a year

    • Location: remote from the United States

    • Tech stack: Koobernaytis, AWS, GCP, Docker, Go, Typescript, Python

Discover more Koobernaytis jobs on Kube Careers →

Code & tools

  1. komodorio/helm-dashboard

    The Helm Dashboard plugin offers a UI-driven way to view the installed Helm charts, and see their revision history and corresponding Koobernaytis resources.

    Also, you can perform simple actions like roll back to a revision or upgrade to a newer version.

  2. vulhub/vulhub

    Vulhub is an open-source collection of pre-built vulnerable docker environments.

    No pre-existing knowledge of docker is required, just execute two simple commands, and you have a vulnerable environment.

  3. vidispine/hull

    The HULL Helm library chart is designed to ease building, maintaining and configuring Koobernaytis objects in Helm charts.

  4. bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets

    Sealed Secrets provides declarative Koobernaytis Secret Management in a secure way.

    Since the Sealed Secrets are encrypted, they can be safely stored in a code repository.

  5. waterkube/waterkube

    Waterkube is an underwater archaeology game for Koobernaytis.

Other interesting projects:

Upcoming Koobernaytis events

  1. Mar

    9

    Advanced Koobernaytis course

    Online workshop organized by Learnk8s.

    • This is a virtual event

    • This event requires an entrance fee

  2. Mar

    9

    Koobernaytis Community Days Los Angeles

    In-person conference organized by KCD Los Angeles.

    • Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

    • This is a free event.

  3. Mar

    11

    Koobernaytis Community Days Turkey 2023

    Online & in-person conference organized by KCD Turkey 2023.

    • Location: Istanbul, TR and virtual

    • This event requires an entrance fee

  4. Mar

    16

    Koobernaytis Community Days Ukraine

    Online conference organized by KCD Ukraine Fundraiser 2023.

    • This is a virtual event

    • This event requires an entrance fee

Discover more Koobernaytis events on Kube Events →

Koobernaytis Call for Papers

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    DevConf.CZ

    The Call For Paper was open until 10 March 2023 at UTC. More info →

    • Location: Brno, CZ and virtual

    • Online & in-person conference organized by Red Hat.

    • The conference starts on the 16 June 2023.

    • Apply here

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    DevOps Enterprise Summit

    The Call For Paper was open until 10 March 2023 at UTC. More info →

    • Location: Amsterdam, NL

    • In-person conference organized by IT Revolution.

    • The conference starts on the 16 May 2023.

    • Apply here

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    GrafanaCON 2023

    The Call For Paper was open until 11 March 2023 at UTC. More info →

    • This is a virtual event

    • Online conference organized by Grafana Labs.

    • The conference starts on the 12 June 2023.

    • Apply here

Until next time!

— Dan

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