Pavan Madduri is a Cloud-Native Architect and a certified Golden Kubestronaut. With over a decade of experience transitioning from Java development to hyperscale Kubernetes ecosystems, he focuses on the intersection of GitOps, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and automated infrastructure. He is an active contributor to the CNCF ecosystem and speaks regularly on DevOps evolution.
The Inference Bottleneck: Architecting Kubernetes Autoscaling for Production LLMs
Generative AI (GenAI) is moving into production, but native Kubernetes autoscaling is fundamentally broken for large language model (LLM) inference ...
Architecting Enterprise GitOps: Scaling Argo CD on OKE
The industry is shifting to pull-based GitOps with Argo CD to solve configuration drift across Kubernetes fleets ...
Pavan Madduri | | App-of-Apps Pattern, ApplicationSets, Argo CD, automation, Cloud Controller Manager (CCM), Configuration Drift, continuous deployment, Enterprise Cloud-Native., External Secrets Operator (ESO), GitOps, IAM Policies, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes Secret Management, multi-cluster orchestration, OCI Flexible Load Balancer, OCI Vault, OCIR, OIDC, OKE, Oracle Kubernetes Engine, Private VCN, Pull-based CI/CD, workload identity, Zero-Trust Architecture
Deploying Docker AI Agents on OCI and OKE
This guide details the architectural transition of AI agents from experimental scripts to "first-class production workloads" using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). It emphasizes a zero-trust, scalable approach ...
Pavan Madduri | | Agentic Architecture, AI, AI agents, containerization, Data Minimization, docker, Event-Driven Autoscaling, GitOps, infrastructure as code, kagent, KEDA, Kubernetes CRD, Kyverno, LLM Inference, MCP server, Model Context Protocol, oci, OCI Generative AI, OCI Vault, OCIR, OKE, OpenTelemetry, Oracle Kubernetes Engine, Production Workloads., Terraform, Virtual Nodes, Zero-Trust Security
Zero-Trust on OKE: How to Actually Secure Your Clusters With Terraform
Secure your OKE production clusters on Oracle Cloud (OCI). Learn how to use Terraform to implement VCN-Native CNI, private API endpoints, AMD SEV memory encryption, and OCI Workload Identity for a zero-trust ...
Pavan Madduri | | AMD SEV OCI, cloud-native isolation, Confidential Computing Kubernetes, infrastructure as code security, Kubernetes compliance OCI, Kubernetes Secrets best practices, micro-segmentation OKE, OCI Bastion Service, OCI IAM policy Kubernetes, OCI Network Security Groups pods, OCI VCN routing, OCI VCN-Native CNI, OCI Workload Identity, OKE 2026 security., OKE Enhanced Cluster, OKE node pool Terraform, OKE Terraform guide, Oracle Kubernetes Engine security, Private Kubernetes API Server, Shielded Instances OCI
Beyond the Green Checkmark: Using Formal Verification to Stop ArgoCD Drift
In the cloud-native landscape, GitOps leads the way for continuous delivery, yet relying solely on synchronization can mask systemic issues. This article outlines the importance of formal verification in deploying Kubernetes manifests ...
The Efficiency Era: How Kubernetes v1.35 Finally Solves the “Restart” Headache
Kubernetes v1.35 introduces in-place resource resizing, revolutionizing how stateful workloads are managed. Discover the benefits of dynamic resource allocation, traffic distribution, and the improvements that enhance operational efficiency for platform engineers ...
Pavan Madduri | | AI/ML workloads, cloud costs, Dynamic Resource Allocation, efficiency era, FinOps, immutability, Kubernetes architecture, Kubernetes enhancements, Kubernetes v1.35, Openshift, operational efficiency, resource resizing, self-healing infrastructure, Stateful Workloads, system performance, traffic distribution, vertical scaling
From PagerDuty to ‘Agentic Ops’: The Rise of Self-Healing Kubernetes
Explore how the role of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) is transforming with Agentic Ops, integrating technologies like eBPF, LLMs, and Kubernetes Operators to shift problem-solving from humans to intelligent systems ...
Pavan Madduri | | 3 A.M. PagerDuty, Agentic Ops, AI in DevOps, Automated Ops, cloud cost optimization, devops, eBPF, incident management, Kubernetes operators, LLMs, observability, policy as code, predictive scaling, root cause analysis, Site Reliability Engineer, SRE, System Automation, Technology Evolution

