This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 167:

⚖️ Kubernetes & KEDA: Avoiding System Failures from Imbalanced Scaling
🔐 Why DevOps should Sec: making a case for DevOps Engineers to transition to DevSecOps
🌐 Optimizing Pod IP Allocation in AWS EKS with Amazon VPC CNI Prefix Delegation
🎮 GPU Starvation in Kubernetes: How Dynamic MIG Partitioning Saved Our GPU Budget
🔄 Migrating from F5 NGINX ingress controller to the F5 NGINX gateway fabric

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/167

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21 Jan, 20:00 UTC - Automating Kubernetes Rightsizing and Container-Level Cost Allocation | CloudBolt Software - 📍 Online webinar

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22 Jan, 17:30 UTC - Lean mindset, Kubernetes skillset | Cloud Native Aix-Marseille - 📍 In-person meetup

22 Jan, 23:00 UTC - KEDA: a case study | Cloud Native Salvador, Bahia - 📍 Online meetup

23 Jan, 00:00 UTC - Platform Engineering in Action: Backstage and Cloud-Native CI/CD | Cloud Native Calgary - 📍 In-person meetup

22 Jan, 18:00 UTC - A central AKS setup for multi-team delivery & Orchestrating Cloud-Native operations with kagent | Cloud Native Belgium - 📍 In-person meetup

23 Jan, 01:30 UTC - hat It’s Like to Learn Cloud-Native Today — A Beginner’s Kubernetes Story | Cloud Native Portland - 📍 In-person meetup

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28 Jan, 01:30 UTC - EBS CSI Driver and Beyond | AWS User Group Hermosillo - 📍 In-person meetup

28 Jan, 02:00 UTC - Fast, Intelligent Node Autoscaling on Amazon EKS | DevOps Vancouver BC Canada - 📍 In-person meetup

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This week on Learn Kubernetes Weekly 168:

🗑️ What Happens When You Delete a Kubernetes CustomResourceDefinition?
🌱 Making ML Training Carbon-Aware with Compute Gardener
⚡ 8 vLLM Serving Setups That Handle Spiky Traffic
🛡️ How I Prevent My Kubernetes Resources from Being Deleted When Argo Apps Are Removed
🔄 Reproducible Kubernetes Infrastructure with NixOS and OKD

Read it now: https://kube.today/issues/168

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