Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 190 · 1 Jul 2026

Chaos Engineering Platform, Testing a CLI AI Agent, Self-Evolving AI Systems, Migrating from Slurm to Kubernetes, Hosting an AI Assistant

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Articles

3. Building self-evolving AI systems: exploring the architecture

   butschster.medium.com

   This article teaches how to build self-evolving AI systems using Kubernetes, Temporal workflows, and automated deployment pipelines, enabling AI agents to detect errors, fix code, and redeploy services without manual intervention.

4. Migrating from slurm to Kubernetes

   blog.skypilot.co

   This article explains how SkyPilot helps ML teams move from Slurm to Kubernetes with simpler job specs, interactive SSH based workflows, and easier porting of distributed training jobs.

5. Lessons Learnt Self-hosting an AI Assistant

   medium.com

   This article shares lessons from building a production-ready self-hosted AI assistant on Azure using OpenWebUI, with enterprise SSO, RAG, and multi-model routing across GPT, DeepSeek, and Perplexity.

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Tutorials

4. Automating Pod Disruption Budgets with Kyverno

   medium.com

   This tutorial shows how to use Kyverno policy engine to generate Pod Disruption Budgets for Kubernetes deployments with multiple replicas, preventing downtime during Karpenter node consolidation through intelligent API lookups and label matching.

Kubernetes jobs

1. • Software Engineer with Referrals Only

   • Salary: $45K to $154K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, continuous integration, AI tools, LLMs, AI

2. • Head of Site Reliability Engineering with Sumo Logic

   • Salary: $58.5K to $3.3L a year

   • Location: based in the office in Bengaluru, IN

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, Docker, alerting, monitoring, logging, GitHub, Git

3. • Support Engineer with Sumo Logic

   • Salary: $30 to $319K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Cloud SIEM, metrics, SIEM, log management, logging, observability

4. • Platform Engineer with Stacklok

   • Salary: $154.8K to $335.5K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, Cloud, private cloud, OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, traces, observability, Datadog

5. • Platform Engineer with Stacklok

   • Salary: $154.8K to $372.9K a year

   • Location: remote from

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, traces, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus

Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

Code & tools

1. Pumba

   github.com/alexei-led

   Pumba lets you kill, pause, and stress containers while injecting network delays, packet loss, and corruption.

   You can deploy it as a DaemonSet for cluster-wide chaos engineering.

2. Kroc: Kubernetes Reactive Object Creator

   github.com/pawelcit

   Kroc is an educational Kubernetes Operator built with Go and kubebuilder that watches arbitrary resources and reactively creates derived objects using Go templating.

3. Luxury Yacht: Kubernetes management app

   github.com/luxury-yacht

   Luxury Yacht is a cross-platform desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, built with Go and Wails.

4. Goldpinger: monitoring connectivity

   github.com/bloomberg

   Goldpinger is a monitoring tool that runs as a DaemonSet and makes calls between pod instances to test connectivity.

   It produces Prometheus metrics for visualization and alerting, while providing a web UI that displays network health and latency.

Other interesting projects:

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Upcoming Kubernetes events

2. DWX

   In-person conference organized by Ebner Media Group.

   • Location: Mannheim, DE

   • This event requires an entrance fee

4. AI Engineer World's Fair 2026

   In-person conference organized by Software 3.0.

   • Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

   • This event requires an entrance fee

5. Devopsdays Kraków

   In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.

   • Location: Kraków, PL

   • This event requires an entrance fee

Discover more Kubernetes events on Kube Events →

Kubernetes call for papers

2. ContainerDays & AI Context Singapore

   The Call For Paper is open until 31 July 2026 at UTC. More info →

   • Location: Singapore, SG

   • In-person conference organized by ContainerDays.

   • The conference starts on the 28 October 2026.

   • Apply here

6. OmniOpenCon 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 31 August 2026 at UTC. More info →

   • Location: Bucharest, RO

   • In-person conference organized by OmniOpenCon.

   • The conference starts on the 18 October 2026.

   • Apply here

7. Cloud Native AI Summit Europe

   The Call For Paper is open until 14 August 2026 at UTC. More info →

   • Location: Paris, FR

   • In-person conference organized by mate.dev.

   • The conference starts on the 3 December 2026.

   • Apply here

8. Cloud Security Space 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 15 August 2026 at UTC. More info →

   • Location: Buenos Aires, AR

   • In-person conference organized by Cloud Security Space.

   • The conference starts on the 9 October 2026.

   • Apply here

9. Devopsdays Cairo

   The Call For Paper is open until 17 July 2026 at UTC. More info →

   • Location: Cairo, EG

   • In-person conference organized by Devopsdays.

   • The conference starts on the 26 September 2026.

   • Apply here

Keep building.

Until next Wednesday.

— Gulcan

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