Improve your Kubernetes self by digging into these great articles on controllers, workflow, affinities, aribtrate 😲, and a Magic Sandbox.

SpotInst Could Change The Way We Consume Cloud

A good ol’ Cloud Arbitrage! The idea behind spotinst is actually pretty neat: predict the killing of a spotinst - you could then turn that spot compute into reliable dedicated compute with a good scheduler ☸️😉. Throw in the fact that it’s multi-cloud and we can see what all the hype is about.

Taints and tolerations, pod and node affinities demystified

Are you a visual learner? Tired of yaml after yaml after yaml? Check out Banzai’s visuals and sweet animations about taints and affinities.

Three Patterns for an Effective Cloud Native Development Workflow

If you’re like us you have wasted countless hours, context switching between Terraform, Kubernetes, and Go workflows to build your Kubernetes apps. Read here to find out how to tighten up that development loop with service virtualization 😲, canarying 🐦 and infrastructure simulation👨‍🔬.

Become a Kubernetes Do’er

If you’re a Noob-bernetes, you’ve probably watched over 10 videos about Kubernetes. So maybe it’s time to take action and mess around with it! We’re happy to introduce you to Magic Sandbox, to help you switch from being a Kubernetes watcher to being a Kubernetes Do’er 😎. Enjoy!

What I learnt about Kubernetes Controllers

“You have to move the current state towards the desired state” - k8s controller

Dive into Kubernetes Controllers with Lorenzo Fontana - Informers, Handler funcs, Syncing and more!

Tweet of the week

Hooray for Kubernetes! Though I wonder about Nomad and Apollo? @craig1337 Do you know where this data comes from?