#61: Free Kubernetes Training

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🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

K8s v1.22 offered a new built-in admission controller called Pod Security Admission (PSA) meant to replace Pod Security Policies. This webinar discusses the pros and cons of PSA, and compare it with other alternatives.

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

How to secure Kubernetes deployment with signature verification
When running containers in a Kubernetes cluster, trusting the images you deploy is key to enforce security. The use of mutable images represents a risk to the secure Kubernetes deployment and highlights the importance of having a reliable mechanism to ensure you run what you expect.
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"The journey of migrating to Kubernetes" - This blog post will walk you through how folks at Optimizely migrated from apps running in EC2 (scaled up and down with autoscaling groups) to Kubernetes and the tools they used along the way - Read more »

"What happens when you press a key in your terminal?" - Ever wondered what happens when you press a key on your keyboard in a terminal (like Delete, or Escape, or a) and which bytes get sent? - Read more »

"How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?" - REST must be the most broadly misused technical term in computer programming history. Today, when someone uses the term REST, they are nearly always discussing a JSON-based API using HTTP - Read more »

"Access logs the smart way" - In this tutorial, you will learn how to access logs in Grafana through Grafana Loki. This includes installing your observability tools incl. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Promtail inside your Kubernetes cluster - Read more »

"How observability is redefining the roles of developers" - Your DevOps team might already be singing the praises of their observability platforms. But developers can benefit from them, too - Read more »

"Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)" - People often just want to know "which commands to run", which is a fair expectation, until they reach a threshold of what they can do without knowing the internals - Read more »

"Kubernetes: ImagePullBackOff!" - One of the message in Kubernetes, you either instantly know the solution or you go mental trying to find it - Read more »

"A crack in the Linux firewall" - A weird comparison that does not fully protect a copy within a buffer. It led to a heap buffer overflow that was exploited to obtain root privileges on Ubuntu 22.04. - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

This timeless classic should be on everyone's bookshelf. Eloquently written, the book serves as a short summary of history as it deals with politics, governments, wars, arts. In short, with humans. It is a very pleasant read that will leave everyone wondering and questioning, and hopefully, will serve as a trigger to start looking back when trying to see the future.
I have read this book three times and I keep discovering new gems in this collection of essays by the Durants. I recommend this surprisingly short but work.

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

Build your X - This repository is a compilation of well-written, step-by-step guides for re-creating our favorite technologies from scratch. It's a great way to learn - Read more »

Wheter you are studying for a Kubernetes Certification or powering your career as DevOps Engineer / SRE, this set of free trainings could prepare you well to face many Cloud Native applications challenges - Read more »

Kui takes your normal kubectl command line requests and responds with graphics. Instead of ASCII tables, you are presented with sortable ones. Instead of copying and pasting long auto-generated resource names, in Kui you just click - Read more »