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Kubernetes costs keep rising. Can AI bring relief?

88% of Kubernetes users say their total costs keep climbing—thanks to overprovisioned clusters, messy architectures, and hands-on ops. So now, 92% are bringing inAI-driven cost toolsto automate rightsizing and squeeze waste from sprawling workloads. System shift:AI isn't just sneaking into cluster .. read more  

Kubernetes costs keep rising. Can AI bring relief?
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Elon Musk's xAI Offers Up To $440K For Infrastructure Engineers, Calls It 'Adventure Of A Lifetime'

xAI wants infrastructure engineers to help scale itssupercomputing stack—and they're not playing small. They're after folks who knowKubernetes, can wrangleL4/L7 proxies, and speak fluentcloud networking. The goal: pushmulti-cluster production inferenceacross the Memphis supercluster (yeah, the one .. read more  

Elon Musk's xAI Offers Up To $440K For Infrastructure Engineers, Calls It 'Adventure Of A Lifetime'
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Kubernetes Learning Roadmap

The Kubernetes Learning Roadmap covers key concepts such as understanding Kubernetes use cases, installing Kubernetes locally, interacting with Kubernetes using YAML and kubectl, managing deployments and replica sets, and networking in Kubernetes. Additionally, it includes topics like managing envir.. read more  

Kubernetes Learning Roadmap
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OpenTelemetry configuration gotchas

Zero-code OpenTelemetry still feels like a myth. Python skips logs out of the box. Quarkus wires up tracing, nothing else. Micrometer Tracing (Spring Boot) ignores OTel env vars unless you’re on 3.5 or later. Every stack plays by its own rules... read more  

OpenTelemetry configuration gotchas
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How to Deploy a Kubernetes App on AWS EKS

AWS EKS takes the grunt work out of running Kubernetes. It handles the control plane, automates upgrades, hooks into IAM and VPC, and scales without breaking a sweat. Witheksctlandkubectl, devs can launch clusters fast, drop in their YAML, and wire up services through built-in load balancers... read more  

How to Deploy a Kubernetes App on AWS EKS
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Critical Kubernetes Capsule Vulnerability Allows Arbitrary Namespace Label Injection

Capsule v0.10.3had a problem. Tenant users could sneak their own labels into system namespaces—an easy way to punch holes in Kubernetes multi-tenancy. v0.10.4shuts that down. It tightens namespace validation and clamps down on label injection... read more  

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Tuning Linux Swap for Kubernetes: A Deep Dive

Kubernetes v1.34makesNodeSwapofficial. For the first time, swap on Linux nodes is fully supported—breaking with the old norm of just turning it off. Why it matters: NodeSwap gives the kubelet a pressure valve. Instead of firing off OOM kills, it can push some memory to disk. But this isn’t a free w.. read more  

Tuning Linux Swap for Kubernetes: A Deep Dive
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How Imagine Learning Reduced Operational Overhead by 20% With Linkerd

Imagine Learning tore down its old platform and rebuilt it onLinkerdwithAWS EKS, layering inArgo CDandArgo Rollouts. The result? GitOps deploys, canary releases via the Gateway API, and mTLS baked in from the start. The payoff: Over80%cut in compute costs. 97%fewer service mesh CVEs. 20%drop in op.. read more  

How Imagine Learning Reduced Operational Overhead by 20% With Linkerd
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5 of the best distros for building Kubernetes clusters

More devs are spinning upKubernetes clusters on stripped-down Linux distros—thinkRaspberry Pi OS,Debian,Talos Linux,Fedora CoreOS. MicroK8s and k3s make low-power, ARM-first deployments feel less like a science project. Talos Linux? It’s the wildcard—API-only node opsand animmutable, locked-down de.. read more  

5 of the best distros for building Kubernetes clusters
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Kubernetes v1.34 Sneak Peek: A Game-Changer for the Kubernetes Expert’s Lifecycle

Kubernetes v1.34 lands August 2025 with a clear agenda: smarter scheduling, tighter control, fewer surprises. Dynamic Resource Allocationgoes stable, letting clusters actually reason about GPUs, FPGAs, and NICs. AI/ML and HPC jobs stop guessing and start requesting what they need. ServiceAccount t.. read more  

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