This article explains how Kubernetes user namespaces are implemented through pod UID/GID range allocation, idmap mounts, containerd, runc, and safeguards against privilege escalation.

More: https://ku.bz/z9DNn9t1D

This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 195:

🔍 Practical Detection Engineering for Kubernetes: Baselining Audit Logs
🤖 Building an AI Agent That Runs Your SRE Operations — What I Learned, What Works, and How You Can Do It Too
🛡️ Building an OSS Kubernetes Security Console
🧩 User Namespaces in Kubernetes: The Implementation
🔀 Vlan Migration: Moving a Live Kubernetes Cluster Without Downtime

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/195

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This tutorial explains how to build a PCI-DSS focused GKE security framework using:

- Workload Identity,
- Secret Manager,
- Binary Authorization,
- NetworkPolicy,
- VPC Service Controls,
- Private Service Connect,
- Istio mTLS,
- and audit logging.

More: https://ku.bz/cD6Lg9ppD

Karpenter can consolidate nodes and reduce cloud costs. But without Pod Disruption Budgets, those savings can expose workloads to avoidable downtime.

Ahmad Asmar from Zencity explains how they use Kyverno to generate PDBs automatically instead of relying on every developer to remember the required configuration.

You will learn:

- Why Karpenter consolidation and Spot instances make PDB coverage critical
- How Kyverno detects existing PDBs through workload labels
- Why percentage-based budgets work better for scaling workloads
- How ClusterRole aggregation extends Kyverno without modifying its Helm chart

Watch: https://ku.bz/xrlPJg54D

🌟 This episode is sponsored by LearnKube. Download the free book, The Technical Guide to Kubernetes Rightsizing, to understand what Prometheus and Grafana cannot tell you about safely reducing requests and limits. https://learnkube.com/kubernetes-rightsizing

With @Birthmarkb

New from LearnKube: Setting the right requests and limits in Kubernetes.

CPU and memory requests and limits appear together in a Pod manifest, but Kubernetes and Linux use them at different stages.

You will learn:

• How the scheduler compares requests with node allocatable capacity
• Why actual usage can exceed a request
• How CPU quotas cause throttling even when average CPU looks low
• Why an OOM kill is different from a node-pressure eviction
• How requests and limits determine Kubernetes QoS classes

The article is the first chapter of The Technical Guide to Kubernetes Rightsizing, co-authored by Gulcan and Daniele Polencic.

Read the chapter:
https://learnkube.com/setting-cpu-memory-limits-requests

Download the free technical guide:
https://learnkube.com/kubernetes-rightsizing

This book was made possible by CloudBolt Software.

This article presents a three-layer tenant isolation design where each tenant gets its own control plane, VM nodes and isolated network via KubeFlex, KubeVirt and OVN-Kubernetes, with latency measurements.

More: https://ku.bz/YRcVzxByx

This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 196:

🛠️ How I Rebuilt YouTube’s Load Balancing Algorithm in Go
💾 When ETCD Crashes, Check Your Disks First: A Pod CrashLoopBack Debugging Story
🧩 We Blamed CoreDNS for Weeks. The Real Culprit Was a Default We Never Questioned
🚚 Zero-Downtime EKS Migration: Production-Grade Kubernetes at Scale
⚡ Deterministic Routing: The Hidden Key to Low Latency

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/196

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This tutorial shows how to install Microsoft's managed cert-manager extension on an AKS cluster and use it with Gateway API to issue and auto-renew Let's Encrypt certificates.

More: https://ku.bz/DFLtYT8zG

Nicholaos Mouzourakis, Staff Product Security Engineer at Gusto, explains how Joel Spolsky's "Law of Leaky Abstractions" applies to Kubernetes environments. He emphasizes the profound concept that "abstraction saves us time working, but does not save us time learning" and introduces the idea of learning debt that must eventually be paid when abstractions leak.

Nicholaos describes how Kubernetes administrators often face complex problems with incomplete information and tight deadlines. He explains:

- Every lower-level technology you don't understand creates a learning debt
- Understanding the layers beneath your abstractions reduces troubleshooting time
- Modern containerized environments (often lacking shells for security) make this understanding even more critical
- Not understanding how layers interact creates security vulnerabilities like injection attacks

Watch the full episode: https://kube.fmhttps://ku.bz/S-2vQ_j-4

This tutorial shows how to build a simple bot-detection system from Nginx logs and use GCP controls to investigate and slow suspicious traffic.

More: https://ku.bz/GNLh0bWKs

"You don't want to inhibit developers from getting things done."

Gari Singh explains how platform teams can balance self-service capabilities with governance. He discusses the importance of centralization with guardrails—policies that restrict dangerous operations while enabling developers to work effectively without being inhibited.



Watch the full interview: https://ku.bz/F_t6Y2dxz

This interview is a reaction to Ben Poland's episode https://ku.bz/klBmzMY5-

Hubble is a fully distributed networking and security observability platform for cloud native workloads.

It is built on top of Cilium and eBPF to enable deep visibility into the communication and behaviour of services and the networking infrastructure.

More: https://ku.bz/fmj0PvVgk

CI updates Git while Argo CD updates the cluster.

At WSC Sports, Elad Cohen separates delivery responsibilities: CI patches a values file, and Argo CD reconciles the cluster. Self-healing keeps Git as the declared state.

- Why CI and CD need separate roles
- How ApplicationSets create shadow deployments
- How AppProjects restrict team access
- Why shared Helm charts reduce one-offs

Watch: https://ku.bz/wX5H5Mjwv

This episode is sponsored by LearnKube. Download the free book, The Technical Guide to Kubernetes Rightsizing, to understand what Prometheus and Grafana cannot tell you about safely reducing requests and limits.

Hosted by Bart Farrell.

This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 197:

🎛️ Kubernetes Through Control Theory Glasses: HPA
🔭 Engineering End-to-End Observability for Kubernetes Workloads
🌋 Inside Volcano Controllers: Gang Scheduling, State Machines, and Real Kubernetes Logs
🍴 We forked Apache Stateful Functions for Flink 2.x — here's why
📉 Dagster on Kubernetes: When More Nodes Won't Save You

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/197

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IPMan is a Kubernetes operator that automates IPSec VPN setup (via StrongSwan) so your workloads can securely connect across networks.

More: https://ku.bz/Stkf6J4qr

Kloak swaps placeholders for real secrets inside the kernel with eBPF, just before TLS encryption, so applications never hold credentials and need no sidecars or code changes.
Secrets can be pinned to specific hosts and ports.

More: https://ku.bz/2tGP1vSc3

Kubernetes is not difficult because there are too many commands.

It is difficult because networking, scheduling, deployments, storage, autoscaling, and security interact in ways that are hard to see.

Our live Advanced Kubernetes course connects those pieces into one practical mental model.

The next online course runs on 10, 11, 17, and 18 September.

- Four days of live instruction
- 60% hands-on labs
- Small classes
- Lifetime access to the material and private Slack

Joining individually?
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Nginx Rift is a proof of concept for CVE-2026-42945, a heap buffer overflow in NGINX's rewrite module that allows unauthenticated remote code execution on servers using rewrite and set directives.
The README lists affected and fixed versions.

More: https://ku.bz/PQSlZ7Khl