The New Stack: “A live Kubernetes cluster can still have an ownership gap”
After a Kubernetes cluster goes live, platform and application teams need clear responsibilities for upgrades, access, recovery, and shared workloads.
Every SaaS company has the same uncomfortable question after a major incident: who noticed first, the monitoring or the customers? For a long time our honest answer was “it depends”. This post describes how a small…
TFiR: “Kubernetes 1.37: Scale to Zero, Checkpoint Restore, and API Server Resilience | Dipesh Rawat”
In this interview on TFiR, Dipesh Rawat, Kubernetes v1.37 Release Lead at CNCF, walks through every major enhancement in the 1.37 release, covering HPA scale to zero, Resilient Watch Cache, Pod-level Checkpoint and Restore, key deprecations, and the broader…
The New Stack: “Kubernetes can run AI inference. But can it count the real cost?”
One bank cut token-processing costs 60% with a Kubernetes stack. But a warning about its resource model raises questions about AI inference economics.
Running OpenBao on Kubernetes with a CloudNativePG PostgreSQL backend
Managing infrastructure secrets on Kubernetes needs a backend that is self-healing and free of vendor lock-in, and that is exactly what OpenBao (the Linux Foundation’s open-source fork of HashiCorp Vault) and CloudNativePG give you: an entirely…
The New Stack: “Kubernetes v1.37 brings 67 enhancements. Which matter for operators?”
Kubernetes is gaining AI and operations tools. Road to KubeCon explores what’s changing and the access-control gap teams still need to address.
Kubernetes disaster recovery: Guidance from three reproducible failure scenarios
Scope This document describes three failure scenarios that separate having backups from being able to recover, and the guidance that follows from each. Every scenario is reproducible on a laptop from the lab repository above, and…
Whose GPUs are these, anyway? Secure, self-service metrics for multi-tenant Kubernetes
The question that stopped the meeting It was a routine cost review. The slide showed the month’s GPU spend, the biggest line on the whole infrastructure bill, and someone asked a five-word question: “Are we using…
Kubernetes access via an identity provider: Public client, not confidential
Access control belongs on the same day-zero checklist as networking and storage. On most on-prem clusters, it never makes the list. The Identity Gap Managed cloud Kubernetes ships IAM or SSO integration out of the box….
New cloud native platform lifted average accelerator compute utilization from 35% to more than 60% and cut inference cost per 1 million tokens by more than 60% Key Highlights SHANGHAI, China – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon +…