Contributed Content Archives

Navigating the Ingress NGINX Sunset: Four Migration Strategies and How to Choose

Ingress NGINX reached end-of-life in March 2026. Explore four migration strategies—alternate controllers, forks, direct Gateway API migration, and dual-support controllers (e.g., Traefik Ingress NGINX Provider)—plus a three-phase audit→swap→modernize plan for zero-downtime transition ...

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Why Service Mesh is Poised for a Dramatic Comeback in 2026

Sidecarless service mesh architectures like Istio Ambient Mode are reducing complexity and reigniting enterprise adoption in 2026 ...

Ratan Tipirneni | March 5, 2026 | cloud-native networking, Istio, platform engineering, service mesh, zero-trust

Promotion Across Kubernetes and Hybrid Environments

In 2026, multi- and hybrid environments are increasingly the norm. For platform engineering, DevOps and application developers, this adds complexity to the software delivery lifecycle. For cloud-native teams, Kubernetes may anchor application ...

Jesse Suen | March 5, 2026 | Argo CD, devops, GitOps, kubernetes, platform engineering

TLS, certificates, Docker, vulnerabilities, supply chain, KubeCon, SigStore, Kubernetes TrapX container security

The Missing Control Plane in Cloud-Native Supply Chains

Explore how an artifact access plane can improve Kubernetes platform performance, scalability, and security by standardizing how artifacts are governed and delivered, aligning with CNCF ecosystem initiatives ...

Adrian Herrera | March 4, 2026 | artifact access plane, artifact decentralization, artifact firewall, artifact flow optimization, artifact governance, cloud infrastructure, cloud-native platforms, CNCF ecosystem, developer velocity, devops, GitOps, kubernetes, OCI artifacts, platform resilience., software supply chain, Virtual Registry

SRE, autoscaling, Tailscale, Kubernetes, argo cd, Kubernetes v1.33, AI, Nelm, Kubernetes, architecture, , architecture, Rackspace, GPUs, Kubernetes, Solo.io Kubernetes cloud foundry keptn cloud-native automation

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 | March 3, 2026 | 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 | February 27, 2026 | 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

Hybrid Cloud at Enterprise Scale: Private Kubernetes for Portability and Control

Private Kubernetes is the missing abstraction layer for enterprise hybrid cloud. Learn how a private Kubernetes platform enables portability, security, governance, and freedom from vendor lock-in across on-prem, private cloud, and public ...

Scaling a Financial Reconciliation Pipeline With Serverless

An event-driven reconciliation pipeline on AWS ran into Lambda timeouts and DynamoDB hot partition keys when batch sizes grew. Learn how a hybrid Step Functions pattern (Lambda for small files, ECS Fargate ...

metrics, agents, ai, cloud-native, cloud native, project, istio, ambient, architecture, modules, cloud native, CCoE Kubernetes Virtana CrowdStrike cloud native

The Rise of Context-Aware Platforms in Cloud-Native Engineering

Context-aware platforms are reshaping cloud-native engineering by unifying metadata, governance and delivery signals to boost developer flow and operational intelligence ...

Arul Watson | February 20, 2026 | cloud-native architecture, context-aware platforms, delivery automation, kubernetes, platform engineering

Building an Enterprise-Ready AKS Cluster: Architecture, Networking and Security Baselines

Running Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in enterprise environments requires more than just creating a cluster. This guide details the essential architecture, networking, security measures, and observability practices necessary for deploying robust AKS ...