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• Prisma AIRS Guardrails for agentgateway in 150 Lines of Python
  3 projects | dev.to | 12 Oct 2026

  I ran this on kind with Enterprise agentgateway v2026.9.1 and Claude Haiku 4.5 behind it. test.sh sends five requests through the gateway:

• Kubernetes Memory Usage and cgroup v2: Telling OOM Kills from Evictions and Right-Sizing Memory Requests
  10 projects | dev.to | 9 Oct 2026

  If you omit image, the default image embedded in kind is used, but that changes with each kind version. The digest above is the same as the default of kind v0.33.0; to try a different Kubernetes version, replace it with the digest listed in the kind release notes.

• Local Kubernetes Development with Tilt: Fast Inner Loop
  4 projects | dev.to | 6 Oct 2026

  Start with a cluster that creates itself. We use Kind — "local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container nodes" (kubernetes-sigs/kind, 15.4k stars, a CNCF-certified conformant installer, 2026) — fronted by ctlptl to attach a local image registry. A small helper script makes the whole thing idempotent, creating the cluster only if one is not already running:

• Kubernetes in Docker
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2026
• Kubernetes NetworkPolicy Rules We Can Actually Prove
  1 project | dev.to | 23 Aug 2026

  For a disposable local cluster, we use kind with Cilium installed separately. This is optional if there’s already a policy-capable cluster available.

• k3d for Local Kubernetes: How We Cut Cluster Startup From 3 Minutes to Under 10 Seconds
  2 projects | dev.to | 2 Aug 2026

  kind — maximum prod parity; runs clusters as Docker "nodes," built to test Kubernetes itself, which is why the project uses it for its own CI (kind docs).

• Building a Production-Safe AI Remediation Firewall for Amazon EKS
  2 projects | dev.to | 28 Jul 2026

  Runs end-to-end on a local multi-node kind cluster and in CI on GitHub's free runners. Total cost: $0.

• Deploy Your First Go App with Docker and Kubernetes
  1 project | dev.to | 8 Jun 2026

  kind — recommended. Creates a cluster using kind. Requires the containerd image store. Locally built images must be explicitly loaded into the cluster with kind load docker-image before Kubernetes can use them.

• Kubernetes testing w/ Dagger.io
  4 projects | dev.to | 14 May 2026

  What we need is a way to bootstrap a Kubernetes Cluster itself. Being in a docker-like environment the best option is a Kubernetes in Docker solution, such as KinD or K3s. Both are available in Daggerverse and can be installed as external module to be reused.

• kind: o jeito mais rápido de ter um cluster Kubernetes sem gastar um centavo de cloud
  2 projects | dev.to | 19 Apr 2026

  # .github/workflows/test.yml name: Testes de integração on: [push, pull_request] jobs: test: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Instalar kind e kubectl run: | curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.23.0/kind-linux-amd64 chmod +x ./kind && sudo mv ./kind /usr/local/bin/kind curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl" chmod +x kubectl && sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/ - name: Criar cluster run: kind create cluster --name ci-cluster - name: Build e load da imagem run: | docker build -t minha-app:${{ github.sha }} . kind load docker-image minha-app:${{ github.sha }} --name ci-cluster - name: Deploy e testes run: | kubectl apply -f k8s/ kubectl wait --for=condition=ready pod -l app=minha-app --timeout=120s # Rodar testes de integração aqui - name: Deletar cluster if: always() run: kind delete cluster --name ci-cluster

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