Migrating a gigantic financial system to 20,000 pods in the cloud
While migrating workloads to the cloud is not easy at all - scale usually makes things significantly harder. I like this article because of its relation to the real world: super restricted environments, archaic and naturally grown monoliths, JVM everywhere, and software developers asked to migrate this stack to Kubernetes.
Running Nomad for home server
Setting up a single node Nomad and Consul server to deploy self-hosted workloads. The world needs more Nomad content to realize: Kubernetes is not always the answer! This is related and worth reading Hacker News thread.
Extending applications on Kubernetes with multi-container pods
I'm amazed about the consistency of learnk8s bringing top-notch quality material for teaching people Kubernetes. Kudos for their always on-point visuals! Their latest shot deals with some multi-container patterns. A must-read!
Networking
Kubernetes 101 - Network Policy
Quite a formal analysis of how Network Policies work. Maybe not the very first source to consult to understand NWP, but probably a good one for a deeper understanding of their capabilities and constraints.
salesforce/cloudsplaining
"Cloudsplaining is an AWS IAM Security Assessment tool that identifies violations of least privilege and generates a risk-prioritized report."
Infrastructure
Building Custom Control Planes using Crossplane
"A walk-through of Crossplane v1. Learn how to use Crossplane to compose & package infrastructure as code & build your own control plane on top cloud providers or any API."