This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 124:

🍎 Kubernetes at Mercado Libre
💸 From Autopilot to Standard GKE: The Key to 15x Cheaper Istio
🧨 How We Built a Dynamic Kubernetes API Server for the API Aggregation Layer in Cozystack
🥇 All my DevOps pipelines from GitLab commit to ArgoCD got beaten by FTP
🕵️‍♂️ Examining approaches and patterns for debuggability: ephemeral containers and Argo Workflows

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26 Mar, 21:00 UTC - Slash Kubernetes costs with policy-driven resource optimizations | Cloud Native Toronto - 📍 In-person meetup

26 Mar, 23:00 UTC - How to Know When to Migrate to Kubernetes | Cloud Native Pereira - 📍 Online & in-person meetup

27 Mar, 07:00 UTC - Voxxeddays Bucharest | Incremental Community - 📍 In-person conference

27 Mar, 10:00 UTC - Amazon EKS networking and security fundamentals | Tigera - 📍 Online workshop

27 Mar, 12:30 UTC - AI engineering for GPUs: scaling AI model training with Kubernetes & self-service | Cincinnati Cloud Native - 📍 Online meetup

27 Mar, 13:30 UTC - Road to Kubernetes's contributors: Let's start with the docs | Cloud Native Hanoi - 📍 Online meetup

27 Mar, 14:00 UTC - Exploring Kubernetes Autoscalers! | KodeKloud - 📍 Online webinar

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27 Mar, 17:00 UTC - GitOps in Action: Deploying with Argo CD | Cloud Native Molise - 📍 In-person meetup

27 Mar, 22:00 UTC - One mighty KRO, one giant leap for Kubernetes resource orchestration | Cloud Native Midtown - 📍 In-person meetup

28 Mar, 00:00 UTC - Booster Conference 2025 | Foreningen Boosterkonferansen - 📍 In-person conference

28 Mar, 01:30 UTC - The Future of Kubernetes on AWS | TechWave - 📍 In-person meetup

27 Mar, 18:00 UTC - Building a Debian Kubernetes team: packaging and maintaining Kubernetes tools | Cloud Native Dublin - 📍 In-person meetup

27 Mar, 23:00 UTC - Policy-as-Code for Kubernetes Governance & Troubleshooting for Kubernetes with GenAI | Kubernetes Austin - 📍 In-person meetup

27 Mar, 17:00 UTC - 🔥 Skip the operational overhead to unlock Kubernetes efficiency with AWS | StormForge - 📍 Online webinar

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28 Mar, 16:00 UTC - Building the foundation for supporting platform capabilities | Kubernetes Virtual Book Club - 📍 Online meetup

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29 Mar, 04:00 UTC - Introduction to k0rdent: Simplifying Platform Engineering at Scale | Cloud Native Chennai - 📍 In-person meetup

29 Mar, 04:45 UTC - Mastering Kubernetes Monitoring: Insights with Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana | Cloud Native Thane - 📍 In-person meetup

29 Mar, 09:45 UTC - Introduction to observability | Cloud Native Dakar - 📍 Online meetup

29 Mar, 13:30 UTC - KCNA Certification Bootcamp: Week2 | Cloud Native Gandhinagar - 📍 Online meetup

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1 Apr, 09:00 UTC - Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day Europe | Linux Foundation - 📍 In-person conference

1 Apr, 10:00 UTC - Serving an llm on GKE with ray | doIT - 📍 In-person workshop

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1 Apr, 14:00 UTC - Mastering Kubernetes ingress management with Kong gateway operator | Kong/WASHINGTON DC - 📍 Online meetup

1 Apr, 09:00 UTC - Data on Kubernetes Day | Linux Foundation - 📍 In-person conference

1 Apr, 09:00 UTC - Istio Day Europe | Linux Foundation - 📍 In-person conference

1 Apr, 09:00 UTC - Kubeflow Summit Europe | Linux Foundation - 📍 In-person conference

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1 Apr, 12:00 UTC - Linkerd Day Europe | Linux Foundation - 📍 In-person conference

1 Apr, 09:00 UTC - ArgoCon Europe | Linux Foundation - 📍 In-person conference

1 Apr, 09:00 UTC - CiliumCon Europe | Linux Foundation - 📍 In-person conference

1 Apr, 09:00 UTC - Kubernetes on Edge Day Europe | Linux Foundation - 📍 In-person conference

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1 Apr, 17:30 UTC - Kubernetes simplified: hands-on workshop to build production-ready applications | AWS - 📍 In-person workshop

1 Apr, 18:00 UTC - Prime Cuts & Cloud: Private KubeCon Dinner | simplyblock - 📍 In-person social event

2 Apr, 01:15 UTC - Building an Operator: How Challenging Is It? | Melbourne OpenShift Meetup - 📍 Online meetup

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This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 125:

💰 The infrastructure to handle 10m requests in 10 minutes for $0.0116
🏊‍♀️ Deep Dive into Kubernetes CPU Usage, Requests, and Limits
📈 Optimizing Kubernetes Resource Utilization: CPU and Memory Requests and Limits
🚮 We threw away 13 years of work for EKS
0️⃣ Proxyless scale-to-zero with eBPF

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