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News, Events, Jobs, Interviews, Announcements and Podcast episodes on Kubernetes.

[Daniele Polencic — @[email protected] @danielepolencic]

etcd is the database behind every Kubernetes cluster.

You can run one for years without thinking about it. Then your cluster gets big enough, and etcd is all you think about.

A thread on why. 🧵

[YAML games @YAMLGames]

The YAML Games are going online

Be wrong. Be loud. Win stickers. The only quiz where overthinking Kubernetes is a competitive disadvantage

📅 Feb 19
📍 Online · 5pm CET / 8am PT

Zero config required

→ https://t.co/woy5DYiDgA

[Kube Events @K8sEvents]

We're giving away 10 tickets to DeveloperWeek

The world's largest indie dev conference — 250+ speakers across AI, DevOps, & more

📅 18-20 Feb
📍 San Jose, CA + Virtual

📧 [email protected]

https://t.co/6pYGjHYVOS

[Daniele Polencic — @[email protected] @danielepolencic]

Last year, I mapped the K8s multitenancy spectrum. This year, I'm adding AI agent sandboxing — where does it fit when the tenant isn't a human but a machine acting autonomously?

In collaboration with @loft_sh

Feb 24 — 10:00 AM ET
https://t.co/FRPBd2KKiz

[Daniele Polencic — @[email protected] @danielepolencic]

The Kubernetes scheduler doesn't randomly assign pods to nodes

It runs a two-phase pipeline: filter, then score

Here's how it works, in 7 diagrams

[kubetoday @kubetoday]

DevSecOps pays 18-20% more than DevOps. But there's a catch—80% of roles want senior-level experience

We broke down the 2025 job market: https://t.co/QeKfSvHVAq

[Daniele Polencic — @[email protected] @danielepolencic]

83% of Kubernetes teams use network policies. 60% struggle to understand what they're actually doing

I surveyed 530 practitioners and here is what I found: https://t.co/flF5OewKsU

[Daniele Polencic — @[email protected] @danielepolencic]

🚀 It's that time of the year! What did I achieve in 2025?

A thread 🧵

[Daniele Polencic — @[email protected] @danielepolencic]

1,317 Kubernetes practitioners shared how they manage resources:

→ 56% still do it manually despite wanting automation
→ 45% regularly hit CPU throttling/OOM kills
→ 57% estimate 20%+ waste in compute costs

Report: https://t.co/VCnEtJDb5x

[LearnKube @learnk8s]

🤝 What does it take to become part of the Kubernetes community?

We're releasing "Kubernetes World: Finding Your Path," a book that explores the journey into cloud native, beyond certifications and code contributions

Read it now: https://t.co/qyebiqv4mM

[Daniele Polencic — @[email protected] @danielepolencic]

I designed two things for KubeCon Atlanta that I'm proud of:

👾 @YamlGames: 10-min quiz rounds. Same format as our Advanced K8s workshop https://t.co/SfWnYSa1by

🔨 Platform Engineering Challenge: Teams of 4 build a platform in 90 mins https://t.co/788e4yKcpK