r/kubernetes
Founded September 2014 · Public — anyone can post
Kubernetes discussions, news, support, and link sharing.
Members
213,830
214K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+1.0%
+2.2K members · ≈33d
Published rules
15
4 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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Tracking since Aug 7 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What r/kubernetes's rules say about promotion
4 of 15 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
What kind of posts do we want?
rule 2 of 15
We want things that are interesting to the broad base of Kubernetes users and the Cloud Native ecosystem, and which will foster discussions here in the sub. Link posts are OK, as long as they have a good description. Ask and answer questions! Talking about AI is OK, as long as it is related to k8s. Talk about or link to articles about how you use k8s, successfully or otherwise. Announce new OSS projects, as long as they are related, but don't spam. These guidelines will evolve over time.
Removal reason shown to posters: Possibly off-target for the sub
No spam
rule 11 of 15
This includes obvious links to commercial products, gratuitous reposts, advertisements, and overall useless blech (at mods' discretion).
Removal reason shown to posters: Spam
Posts affiliated with commercial products must clearly state their affiliation
rule 12 of 15
Posts and comments that are affiliated with commercial products or companies must be transparent about their affiliation (in the subject or body). This includes: * Employees or contractors * Founders or maintainers * Investors or marketers * Anyone with a financial or promotional interest Your post should: * Provide value independent of the product * Share honest insights, challenges, or learnings * Avoid “problem/solution” setups where your product is always the answer
Removal reason shown to posters: Overly commercial
No selling
rule 13 of 15
This includes things that might seem relevant, like fun stickers and shirts. Sadly, if we allow it a little, it will be abused. Posts or comments with links to sales sites will be removed.
The other 11
- The CNCF Code of Conduct applies
- Put some effort into it
- Link posts need a description
- Don't post job openings, resumes, or job-seeking
- No certification discussions
- Use LLM-generated content sparingly
- No pay-walled links
- No more "how do I get started?" posts
- "New tool" posts must be in the weekly thread for the topic
- Avoid re-posting links for at least a month
- Be respectful posting OSS projects
Read from r/kubernetes’s published rules on Mar 12. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/kubernetes — frequently asked
How many members does r/kubernetes have?
r/kubernetes has 213,830 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 12. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/kubernetes growing?
Over the last ≈33 days r/kubernetes changed by +1.0% — a gain of 2.2K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/kubernetes?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/kubernetes yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/kubernetes created?
r/kubernetes was founded in September 2014 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/kubernetes?
r/kubernetes publishes 15 rules and 4 of them address promotion. The first, “What kind of posts do we want?”, says: We want things that are interesting to the broad base of Kubernetes users and the Cloud Native ecosystem, and which will foster discussions here in the sub. Link posts are OK, as long as they have a good description.… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/kubernetes for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/kubernetes into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/kubernetes's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/kubernetes's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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