platform engineering
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 ...
Jesse Suen | | ApplicationSets, Argo CD, cloud native, continuous delivery, devops, Fleet Management, GitOps, GitOps at Scale, karmada, KubeCon 2026, kubernetes, Kubernetes clusters, Kubernetes deployment, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes, Open Cluster Management, platform engineering, progressive delivery, Rancher Fleet, Release Promotion, Release Verification, Staged Rollouts
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 ...
One Model, Many Tenants: Testing a Shared P2P Cache Across Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
A reproducible lab with Dragonfly and vCluster shows how a platform-owned model distribution layer can reuse a public model payload across tenants without adding node-level privileges to tenant workloads. Multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms ...
When the Scheduler is Full but the Autoscaler Is Not
Docker Swarm autoscaling can look healthy at the VM layer while services remain unschedulable. Effective scaling needs scheduler capacity signals as well as host utilization ...
Praneeth Kodumagulla | | autoscaling, Azure autoscale, Azure Monitor, Azure VM Scale Set, capacity planning, cloud operations, container capacity, container orchestration, container scheduling, devops, Docker services, Docker Swarm, infrastructure autoscaling, memory reservations, platform engineering, resource reservations, schedulable capacity, scheduler metrics, VMSS, workload placement
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 ...
Ahmed Tariq | | Azure Key Vault, cloud native, Configuration Drift, deployment verification, devops, envFrom, Helm, Helm 4.2.3, kubectl, kubernetes, Kubernetes deployment, Kubernetes secrets, platform engineering, pod environment variables, post-deploy checks, rollout restart, secret synchronization, SecretProviderClass, Secrets Store CSI Driver
Why CPU-Based Autoscaling Fails for Rails — and What We Used Instead
Kubernetes autoscaling works best when teams match the metric to the workload: queue latency for synchronous web traffic, queue depth for background jobs ...
Write Access Is the Easy Part: The Verification Gap in Agentic Kubernetes Remediation
Giving an AI agent the power to change a cluster is now straightforward. Confirming the change landed, did not produce unintended duplicate effects and achieved the outcome the operator actually wanted is ...
K8sGPT and the Guardrails for AI-Assisted Kubernetes Troubleshooting
A practical way for platform teams to use AI for faster Kubernetes triage without giving agents unsafe control of the cluster. The first time an AI tool gets real cluster context, the ...
Kubernetes Did Not Miss the AI Wave. It Absorbed It
Enterprise AI is settling onto the cloud native stack, and the strongest evidence is not a vendor roadmap. It is what the ecosystem has already standardized ...
Alan Shimel | | AI gateways, AI Inference, AI infrastructure, AI observability, AI operations, cloud native, cloud native AI, cncf, Dynamic Resource Allocation, enterprise AI, gateway API, generative AI, GPU scheduling, kubernetes, Kubernetes AI, Kueue, llm-d, model routing, model serving, platform engineering
Manifestly Safer, Why Kubernetes Wants Developers to Speak KYAML
KYAML gives Kubernetes developers a stricter, more predictable YAML dialect designed to reduce configuration errors, ambiguity, indentation problems and unexpected type coercion ...
Adrian Bridgwater | | CI/CD, cloud native, cloud native security, cloud-native architecture, configuration management, containers, devops, DevSecOps, Helm, KEP 5295, kubectl, kubernetes, Kubernetes configuration, Kubernetes manifests, Kubernetes security, Kubernetes YAML, KYAML, open source, platform engineering, SIG CLI, YAML, YAML errors

