LinkedIn has been working on new AI-powered experiences that leverage generative AI, such as collaborative articles to promote knowledge sharing and GAI-powered writing assistant in profiles and job descriptions. - The company prioritized an engineering philosophy of exploration over building a matu.. read more  

PagerDuty has developeda new Kubernetes pluginthat enables users to leverage ephemeral containers for debugging purposes. - The plugin is designed to automate the process of collecting diagnostic data during an incident, providing users with a way to retrieve debugging information without having to .. read more  

Kubernetes, an open-source system used to automate software deployment and manage and scale containerized applications, has become popular due to its ability to enable developers and allow businesses to scale horizontally. However, organizations also need to focus on Kubernetes security, as cybercri.. read more  

The author of a rust operator was curious about how the underlying networking in Kubernetes worked, so they built a CNI plugin in rust. - The CNI specs require handling ADD, DEL, CHECK and VERSION commands to communicate with kubelet or other implementations. - The plugin replicates the bridge CNI p.. read more  

- Database vendors need to become more involved in cloud-native computing to overcome scaling issues related to Kubernetes and stateful applications, according to attendees of the latestKubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023. - Stateless applications benefit from containerization's inherent scalabilit.. read more  

- LLMs are being used in many cool projects, unlocking real value beyond simply generating text. - One use case is K8sGPT, an AI-based Site Reliability Engineer running inside Kubernetes clusters, which diagnoses and triages issues in simple English. - LocalAIis a drop-in API-compatible replacement .. read more  

Maker Alexander Rau has used eight Raspberry Pi CM4 modules to power his custom Kubernetes cluster, which he documented in athorough blog post. Rau developed a custom carrier PCB for the CM4 modules to provide necessary features and created a cluster tray from scratch. - He used Rancher to manage th.. read more  

Google has found that some Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) customers delay security patching their clusters, citing concerns over interrupting production operations. - This delay increases the risk customers face. - GKE customers can mitigate this by configuring and orchestrating their Kubernetes env.. read more  

Mirantis has updated its open-source Kubernetes distribution, k0s, to be compatible with the latest release of Kubernetes 1.27 and to include support for containerD plug-ins. - The update enables pre-built system images, improving compatibility with upstream Kubernetes functionality and streamlining.. read more  

Kubernetes 1.27 enables the ContainerResource type metric feature in beta, which allows for autoscaling based on the resource usage of individual containers in a pod. This differs from the previously available Resource type metric, which calculates the average utilization of all containers in a pod.. read more