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Kubernetes API Access Security Hardening
 
 
In a Kubernetes cluster, Control Plane controls Nodes, Nodes control Pods, Pods control containers, and containers control applications. But what controls the Control Plane? This article by Teleport focuses on recipes and best practices concerning API access control hardening in the Kubernetes cluster. Learn more.
 
 

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Data and System Visualization Tools That Will Boost Your Productivity
 
 
As files, datasets and configurations grow, it gets increasingly difficult to navigate them. There are however many tools out there, that can help you to be more productive when dealing with large JSON and YAML files, complicated regular expressions, confusing SQL database relationships, complex development environments and many others.
 
 
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A set of modern Grafana dashboards for Kubernetes   ✅
 
 
David Calvert presents a set of modern Grafana dashboards they made for Kubernetes and explains why they decided to create them and how they work.
 
 
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Troubleshooting Amazon EKS API servers with Prometheus
 
 
The following guide is designed to help operators that have experience with production Kubernetes environments. It assumes that you already have access to a Prometheus/Grafana setup.

You will use the newer Grafana 8.5.0 features, which might be disorienting at first, but with a modest time investment you will also find them effective for pinpointing complex problems quickly.
 
 
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Fast Feedback Loop for Kubernetes Product Development in a Production Environment
 
 
Learn how DoorDash used Signadot and multi tenancy to create a fast feedback loop for Kubernetes port forward deployment strategy
 
 
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Why Mercedes-Benz runs on 900 Kubernetes clusters   ✅
 
 
The German automaker runs a massive fleet of Kubernetes clusters to support a wide range of project teams around the world. ‘For us, managing Kubernetes is not that hard.’
 
 
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Kubernetes as a Service using Amazon EKS
 
 
Amazon EKS is a popular AWS service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on the AWS cloud. This blog will help you set up & manage EKS & take advantage of the native integration of EKS with other AWS services.
 
 
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Opinion: Don't Use Kubernetes, Yet
 
 
According to the author, it's OK to build and deploy containers locally or with a simple script on GitHub actions when Kubernetes is not needed.
 
 
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Kubernetes Requests and Limits Demystified
 
 
How to implement a system of boundaries using requests and limits to prevent Kubernetes environment resource waste and costly failures.
 
 
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K8s Gateway API is here - what's in it for you?
 
 
What are the basics of K8s Gateway API, and what are its benefits? Get a better understanding of the ever-changing K8s landscape.
 
 
 
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AKS now supports deploying clusters with no pre-configured Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin.
 
 
AWS patched the authenticator bypass bug in the AWS IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes with version 0.5.9.
 
 
GKE Autopilot has new networking GA features: Egress NAT policy for IP masquerading and the eBPF-based Dataplane V2 for Network Policy and Network Policy Logging.
 
 
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for Calico on Windows Server is now generally available.
 
 
Prometheus 2.37.0 is out. This release is a LTS (Long-Term Support) release of Prometheus and will receive security, documentation and bugfix patches for at least 6 months.
 
 
Cilium 1.12 is now GA. The release includes new features from new contributors, several features maturing to stable, significant enhancements to Cilium’s security model, bug fixes, and a new community program around the documentation.
 
 
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Automatic Reliability Testing for Kubernetes Controllers
 
 
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