Kapitan generators as supply-chain artifacts
Kapitan's kadet generators are Python packages that turn an inventory into Kubernetes manifests, Terraform JSON or anything else. They are also code…
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Daily Dose of DevOps — Kubernetes observability: for regulated workloads
Kubernetes observability: for regulated workloads Scale converts an informal convention into an outage mechanism. For kubernetes observability for r…
We Treat Applications as Products. Why Is the Platform Still a Black Box? Introducing Platform BOM (PBOM)
An application team can point to the feature it shipped this week. A platform team may have spent that same week making deployments safer, improving…
Optimizing Kubernetes Cluster Costs: Spot Instances, Autoscaling, and Resource Quotas
Introduction & Industry Context In the competitive landscape of 2026, managing cloud infrastructure is no longer merely a system engineering con…
Addressing Uneven Kubernetes Knowledge: Deepening Critical Areas for Platform Engineering Strength
Bridging the Expertise Gap in Kubernetes and Platform Engineering Achieving mastery in Kubernetes and platform engineering demands more than broad f…
Amazon EKS: More Control Over the Kubernetes Control Plane
Introduction One of the main perks of Amazon EKS is that AWS manages the Kubernetes control plane for you. You do not have to operate components lik…
Kubernetes in the Enterprise: Scalability, Resilience, and Release Speed Explained
Kubernetes in the Enterprise: Scalability, Resilience, and Release Speed Explained Kubernetes has become a standard platform for many teams building…
Kubernetes Cost Optimization: Real-World Strategies That Actually Work
September 2026 | ~15 min read The $170,000 Wake-Up Call $14,200/month on EKS with 38% average utilization. We cut it to $4,180/month — a 71% reducti…
Etcd Defragmentation: Reclaiming Space Without Cluster Disruption
My etcd database was 508 MB on disk and only 84 MB of it held live data. The other 400-odd megabytes were free pages that etcd had no intention of h…
The Homelab Is the New Resume
The Homelab Is the New Resume Certificates say you studied the technology. A homelab says you run it. Anyone can pass a multiple choice exam. Few pe…
Security Telemetry on a Budget: Building a Practical Elastic Baseline for a Growing Product Team
Security Telemetry on a Budget How a growing product team turned the Elastic stack it already had into a practical security telemetry baseline — wit…
My Open Source Journey: From a license switch to the first PR
Why am I writing this? I was listening to Madelyn Olson's podcast, one of the core maintainers of Valkey, and she mentioned that she'd love to hear…
Agent Loops Don't Have a Token Problem. They Have a Feedback Problem.
Read this article on Signadot . Loop-based development means agents run longer, in parallel, and without anyone watching each attempt. What that cos…
Harden & Lockdown RKE2 Cluster with a 4-Layer DevSecOps Stack
Introduction Before you move furniture into a new house, you install the locks, the cameras, and the gates. Kubernetes is no different, yet engineer…
I asked Claude to draw my homelab from the repo that runs it
Three years of Pulumi, a few weeks of corrections, and a 3D rack with a sheet behind every device. My homelab has run on Pulumi for a few years. Pro…
Kubernetes v1.35 (Timbernetes): Why This Release Actually Matters for Production & AI Workloads
Introduction AI workloads are exploding. Enterprises are now scaling distributed training across hundreds of GPUs while battling flaky scheduling an…
The Great Architectural Cycle; And the Next Wave Just Hit
Building modern software platforms often feels like riding an endless pendulum. Every decade, the tech industry promises a revolutionary paradigm sh…
AliangBoard – A K8s dashboard I built while learning
Hi everyone, While learning Kubernetes, I developed my own K8s dashboard – AliangBoard. I've been using it in my daily deployments, and it feels pre…
ADR: EKS Provisioned Control Plane and 40x HPA Concurrency
On July 28, 2026, AWS announced that EKS Provisioned Control Plane increases HPA sync concurrency to up to 40 times the Kubernetes default — with no…
🔒 HomeLab Chronicles: Episode 7 - Locked Out of My Own House
Hey all 👋 Short episode. Painful episode. The kind where the call is coming from inside the house, the house is the control plane, and nobody inside…
Which Team Is Eating Your Kubernetes Bill? Cost Attribution Without Perfect Tagging
The Kubernetes bill arrives as one number. The cluster is shared. Ten teams run on it. And when finance asks "who is spending this," the honest answ…
Three Silent Failures Between You and Sidecar Injection
Running kubectl label deployment my-app pandocore.io/inject=enabled modifies the Deployment's top-level metadata.labels , not spec.template.metadata…
CI/CD Pipelines That Actually Work: Lessons from The Matrix
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) Honestly, I used to stare at my CI/CD yaml files like they were ancient runes. Every push felt like a gamble: “Will the…
Building Sluice: QoS-Aware Capacity Governance for Self-Hosted LLM Inference
📦 Project: https://github.com/VampiricCyborg/sluice 1. The Problem: When Capacity Becomes the Bottleneck A self-hosted vLLM deployment runs on a GPU…
The real LLMOps risk isn't the model. It's shadow AI.
Large language models broke the clean "train it, test it, ship it" model of production ML. The thing being operated is now a system that chains prom…
Introduction to the Cloud-Native World with Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) - Series Part 4
Efficient CI/CD Pipelines for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS): Automation and Scalability In modern cloud-native environments, Continuous Integratio…
User Connectivity: Making the System Scale with Event Hub Partitions, ACA, and KEDA
Part 3 of the User Connectivity Architecture series. Introduction The first post in this series described the pattern: a heartbeat on a timer, an Ev…
When You Should Not Run Kubernetes, and What a Single Docker Compose Host Really Costs You
Do not run Kubernetes for a client project that fits on one server, has no autoscaling requirement, and is maintained by fewer than three people who…
Golden Paths Aren't About Standardization. They're About Reducing Developer Decisions.
TL;DR Golden Paths aren't about forcing every team to work the same way. They're about removing repetitive infrastructure decisions so developers ca…
How I added initContainers and env vars to every deployment without Kyverno
TL;DR We needed to modify deployments in the background and decided against Kyverno (too big). Instead a leightweight mutating Webhook called "kTail…