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Learn Kubernetes from Scratch (Without the Hype)
Who is this for? Someone who has never touched Kubernetes but wants to understand it well enough to discuss it confidently and eve...
Why Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Finally Joined Forces
Discover how Prometheus 3.0 and OpenTelemetry ended years of technical friction to create a unified observability standard for mod...
Kubernetes Operators, Explained by a Production Engineer
A senior engineer’s deep dive into Kubernetes Operators: CRDs, reconciliation loops, caches, finalizers, webhooks, and production-...
Kubernetes at Scale: A Five-Layer Model for Fixing Broken Dev Environments
This article proposes a five-layer environment model—local, ephemeral, feature namespace, dev integration, stage, and prod—to elim...
The Clean Way to Access AWS, Azure, and GCP From Kubernetes (No Secrets, No Rota...
A multi-cloud strategy, building a distributed system, your Kubernetes pods need secure, passwordless authentication across AWS, A...
mTLS Explained: Mutual Authentication for Cloud Microservices
Understand mTLS, how it works in cloud environments, and why it’s becoming a standard practice for service-to-service communicatio...
Why Kubernetes Outages Are Usually Human Failures, Not Platform Bugs
Kubernetes isn’t inherently complex—teams create fragility through undocumented tooling, hero engineering, and unchecked operation...
How to Use EKS Pod Identity to Isolate Tenant Data in S3 With a Shared IAM Role
Learn how to use EKS Pod Identity principal tags to isolate each tenant’s S3 access with a single shared IAM role.
The Credential Precedence Mistake That Shows Up Two Weeks Later in an Audit
A real-world EKS incident shows how AWS credential precedence can silently override IRSA/Pod Identity—leading to unexpected permis...
Moving Logic Out of Pods: Extending the Argo Workflows Controller
Argo Workflows typically runs every step as its own Kubernetes pod, which is great for isolation but expensive for fast, lightweig...
Securing LLM Inference Endpoints: Treating AI Models as Untrusted Code
A troubling pattern is emerging in AI deployments across the industry. Traditional application security is deterministic; AI attac...
