Cloud Native
Kubernetes For AI: CIQ Packages The Moving Parts Into One Binary
CIQ is taking aim at Kubernetes complexity with Stratum Kubernetes Engine (SKE), a free, open source, single-binary platform designed to simplify cluster deployment, upgrades and AI-driven operations without vendor lock-in ...
Scaling GitOps With Release Promotion
GitOps pipelines that work well across a handful of Kubernetes clusters can become risky at fleet scale. For organizations managing hundreds of clusters, faster synchronization doesn't solve the challenge of validating releases ...
Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code in the Age of Agentic Development
Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) goes far beyond provisioning cloud resources. As Kubernetes environments evolve and AI agents take on more operational responsibilities, IaC provides a controlled, reviewable approach to managing infrastructure changes. From Kubernetes ...
Kubernetes Deployment Validation in Two Minutes
Sai Joshitha Kathari joins Alan Shimel to explain how embedding pod-readiness and workload-health checks in Jenkins reduced her Kubernetes deployment validation time from 45 minutes to two ...
What Service Virtualization Tools Need to Handle in a Cloud Native Architecture
Independent deployment changes what service virtualization tools must handle. Understand how the top service virtualization tools compare for cloud native teams ...
Why One of Two Kubernetes Pods Missed a Secret That Already Existed
A Kubernetes Secret can look correct while running pods still hold different environments. This case shows why CSI sync timing and per-pod verification matter ...
Microsoft Bakes Linux Container Support Directly into Windows
Linux developers relegated to working on corporate Windows machines no longer have to wrangle with Docker Desktop, file system translations or container lifecycle incompatibilities. This week, Microsoft has released into general availability ...
Kubernetes and AI Put FinOps Cost Allocation to the Test
Yasmin Rajabi joins Alan Shimel to examine accurate Kubernetes chargeback, the cost of AI agents and GPUs, and the controls needed as infrastructure provisioning becomes easier ...
A Missing Binary Turned a Kubernetes Liveness Probe Into a Restart Loop
A Node.js Redis worker shows why Kubernetes liveness and readiness probes need different responsibilities — and why readiness alone cannot drain a background queue consumer ...
Cloud Observability Is More Than a Cloud-Native Story
Cloud-native systems have come to define much of the public conversation about observability. Discussions often begin with Kubernetes, microservices, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing. But enterprise teams are responsible for a much wider ...
