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When Kubernetes restarts your pod — And when it doesn’t
A production internals guide verified against Kubernetes 1.35 GACompanion repository: github.com/opscart/k8s-pod-restart-mechanics The terminology problem Engineers say “the pod restarted” when they mean four different things. Getting this wrong leads to flawed runbooks and bad on-call decisions....
March 17, 2026 | Shamsher Khan, Project Maintainer
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From public static void main to Golden Kubestronaut: The Art of unlearning
Ten years ago, my entire world fit inside a public static void main. I was a Java developer. Infrastructure? That was someone else’s problem a black box where my JAR files went to live, or quietly...
April 20, 2026 | Pavan Madduri, CNCF Kubestronaut
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Peer-to-Peer acceleration for AI model distribution with Dragonfly
The problem: AI model distribution is broken at scale Large-scale AI model distribution presents challenges in performance, efficiency, and cost. Consider a typical scenario: an ML platform team manages a Kubernetes cluster with 200 GPU nodes....
April 6, 2026 | Pavan Madduri, CNCF Kubestronaut
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Celebrating 100 Golden Kubestronauts
The Kubestronauts program has been growing at an incredible pace. We recently celebrated over 2000 kubestronauts across the globe, and today we’re excited to celebrate another milestone: over 100 Golden Kubestronauts have achieved Golden status in...
August 21, 2025 | Christophe Sauthier, Cloud Native Training and Certification Lead
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Jana Vonšák
Get to know Jana We’re thrilled to recognize Jana Vonšák from Slovakia as our first-ever female Golden Kubestronaut. A dedicated DevOps Security Engineer with a background in software development, Jana brings a rare blend of development...
April 29, 2025
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Iliyan Petkov
Get to know Iliyan His fascination with computers and electronics began early, sparked by his father and fueled by various games and sci-fi movies. Over the years, he developed a passion for open-source technologies, system administration,...
April 8, 2025
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Willem Berroubache
Get to know Williem Willem Berroubache is a cloud native and Security Architect based in Paris, France, currently working at Orange. Over the years, he has worked on private cloud security use cases and telco cloud...
March 19, 2025
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Gerardo López
Get to know Gerardo Gerardo is a passionate Cloud Native Advocate, Kubernetes expert, and Docker Captain with a strong focus on DevOps, software development, and security. Based in Costa Rica, he has earned several certifications, including...
March 6, 2025
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Samah Eddaoudi
Get to know Samah This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit is Samah Eddaoudi! As a recent graduate in networks and telecommunications, Samah transitioned into the field of DevOps and cloud engineering, building on her strong technical foundation....
February 26, 2025
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Nelson Hilario Filipe
Get to know Nelson This week’s Kubestronaut in orbit is Nelson Hilario Filipe, a DevSecOps Engineer and our first Kubestronaut in Mozambique. Nelson has a strong passion for shift-left security, and embarked on the Kubestronaut program...
February 11, 2025
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Shikha Priyedarshi
Get to know Shikha This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit is Shikha Priyedarshi, a DevOps Engineer based in Pune, India. Shikha has experience delivering products in every phase, from requirements gathering to final delivery. She specializes in...
January 29, 2025
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Sathish Kumar Venkatesan
Get to know Sathish This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit is Sathish Kumar Venkatesan, an IT professional from Brampton, Canada, with over 16 years of diverse experience spanning cloud technologies, DevOps, and system administration. Currently serving as...
January 14, 2025
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Sofonias Mengistu
Get to know Sofonias This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit is Sofonias Mengistu, a DevOps Engineer at Gebeya.INC based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With 14 years of IT experience—five of those dedicated to cloud-native technologies—Sofonias has led...
December 31, 2024
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Announcing 1000 Kubestronauts
CNCF is excited to share that since launching the Kubestronauts program less than a year ago, over 1000 Kubestronauts have joined the program. A special welcome to our 1,000th Kubestronaut, Remy Mollandin! Each of these 1000+ Kubestronauts...
December 20, 2024
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: David Mukuzi
Get to know David This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit, David Mukuzi, is a DevOps Engineer in Nairobi, Kenya. David is driven by a deep-rooted enthusiasm for continuous learning and exploration of emerging technologies. He enjoys working...
December 17, 2024
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Eyal Zekaria
Get to know Eyal This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit, Eyal Zekaria is a Senior Cloud Architect in Berlin, Germany. Eyal has a DevOps and SRE background and has experience operating Kubernetes clusters at scale at different...
December 3, 2024
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Dmitri Telinov
Get to know Dmitri This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit, Dmitri Telinov, a Senior DevOps Engineer in Chișinău, Moldova, is a curious and avid learner and considered himself a complete beginner in Kubernetes only 3 years ago....
November 19, 2024
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Rishabh Sharma
Get to know Rishabh This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit, Rishabh Sharma, our first Kubestonaut from Finland, is a senior software development engineer where he manages cloud native tech solutions for Capgemini Finland Oy. He is currently...
November 5, 2024
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The Kubestronaut origin story
An interview with Ramesh Kumar A special thanks to one of our CNCF Ambassadors, Ramesh Kumar for inspiring us to create the Kubestronaut program. We recently interviewed Ramesh to ask about how the Kubestronaut program came...
October 23, 2024
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Maria Salcedo
Get to know Maria This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit, Maria Salcedo, is a full stack DevOps backend engineer in Germany with experience in cloud native Kubernetes deployments. Maria is passionate about GitOps, cloud native development of...
October 22, 2024
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Camila Soares Câmara
Get to know Camila This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit, Camila Soares Câmara, is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Wellhub in Brazil with experience in Cloud and DevOps, working with technologies such as Kubernetes, CI/CD, AWS, and...
September 24, 2024