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AI SRE in Practice: Accelerating Engineer Onboarding with Contextual Expertise

Onboarding new engineers to complex Kubernetes environments is expensive. Junior engineers need to learn cluster architecture, understand organizational conventions, navigate internal documentation, and build relationships with senior team members who can answer questions. The process takes weeks or months, and during that time, senior engineers spend significant time mentoring instead of working on complex problems.

AWS vs Google Cloud vs Azure for Cloud-Native and Kubernetes

Cloud adoption is no longer about “moving to the cloud.” It’s about building cloud-native platforms that are scalable, observable, automated, and Kubernetes-driven. This guide provides a deep comparison of with a focus on Kubernetes, platform engineering, DevOps, and modern workloads, aligned with standards pioneered by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Kubernetes Namespaces: What They Are, How They Work, And What They Don't Solve

Using Kubernetes to manage containerized applications has its fair share of challenges. One of those challenges is managing complexity. Using namespaces can help minimize that complexity. Yet, a common misconception is that using multiple namespaces in a single Kubernetes cluster can degrade performance. Another issue: Kubernetes namespaces can reduce visibility into costs. There’s more to it than that.

Is Your File Integrity Monitoring Outdated? Kubernetes Needs Runtime FIM

If your file integrity monitoring (FIM) still relies on scheduled scans… it was built for static servers — not Kubernetes. In cloud-native environments, traditional FIM creates detection delays, wasted CPU, excessive I/O, and alert noise. And if a malicious process modifies a file and exits before the next scan? You might miss it entirely. In this video, we break down: Modern runtime FIM works differently. Instead of scanning everything on a schedule, it.

Rancher Live: Konveyor's Cloud Native Modernisation Blueprint

Join Divya Mohan as she hosts Savitha Raghunathan, Konveyor maintainer & Red Hat Senior Software Engineer to learn more about the CNCF Sandbox project, Konveyor. Dive into some of the open source strategies for legacy app migration to Kubernetes using the 6 Rs: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor & learn blueprint tools for analysis, containerization & AI-powered refactoring.

How to write annotations in Kubernetes with JSON for Datadog Autodiscovery | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Pod annotations in Kubernetes with invalid JSON syntax can prevent Datadog Autodiscovery from detecting integrations, resulting in missing metrics and gaps in monitoring. Watch this video for a step-by-step process to write annotations: Note: This video focuses on Datadog Autodiscovery v2 syntax.

Don't Panic: A Low-Risk Strategy for Ingress NGINX Retirement

The Ingress NGINX project is winding down. For many organizations, this means planning a migration for critical infrastructure. While the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller is the natural successor for these workloads, a "rip and replace" strategy isn’t always viable. You might have complex configurations, customized annotations, or deployment freezes that make a sudden switch risky. There's a lower-risk path: Place HAProxy in front of your existing Ingress NGINX deployment.

Build and test your first Kubernetes operator with Go, Kubebuilder, and CircleCI

Kubernetes operators extend the Kubernetes API with custom logic, automating tasks like provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement. Instead of managing these tasks manually or with ad hoc scripts, Operators codify your workflows into controllers that run natively inside the cluster. In this tutorial, you’ll build a simple operator using Go and Kubebuilder; a framework that scaffolds much of the boilerplate so you can focus on core logic.