A CNCF Ambassador shares highlights and key technical themes from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, focusing on AI, platform engineering, and security.
Explains why stopping a listener immediately during app shutdown causes failed requests and details the correct graceful shutdown sequence.
Explains how to integrate Azure Application Gateway for Containers with Istio service mesh for TLS encryption in Kubernetes, focusing on sidecar mode.
Explains how to patch CoreDNS configuration on a Kubernetes cluster using Terraform's kubernetes_config_map_v1_data resource.
Discussion on Kubernetes' suitability for AI workloads and Google's new AI agent technology, following KubeCon 2025.
A curated list of recommended sessions for Microsoft Ignite 2025, focusing on cloud-native tech, AI, Azure, and DevOps.
A guide for enterprises on migrating virtual machine workloads to Kubernetes using KubeVirt, driven by industry shifts like the VMware acquisition.
Azure AKS Automatic SKU now offers a preview feature to host system components on Azure's infrastructure, removing the need for a dedicated system node pool in your subscription.
A first look at using Flatcar Container Linux, an immutable container-optimized OS, as a node pool option in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
A curated list of articles on software architecture, development, and testing, covering event-driven systems, chaos engineering, and AI-assisted workflows.
Microsoft introduces a preview feature for AKS to block pod access to the Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS), enhancing cluster security.
Explains how Kubernetes API server concurrency controls like --max-requests-inflight work to manage performance and prevent overload.
Explains how to implement Web Application Firewall (WAF) support in Azure Application Gateway for Containers for Kubernetes security.
A practitioner's key takeaways from the fwd:cloudsec 2025 conference, focusing on cloud security research, offensive techniques, and defensive strategies.
A technical deep-dive into diagnosing and resolving a persistent 'StopPodSandbox' error in Kubernetes Kubelet logs, focusing on network and CNI issues.
Explains how Kube-proxy uses iptables for load-balancing in Kubernetes and the implications for gRPC/HTTP/2 traffic.
A guide to using Azure Chaos Studio for controlled reliability testing, turning assumptions into evidence through safe, structured chaos experiments.
Explains how Azure Arc provides unified management for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, bringing on-prem and other cloud resources into Azure's control plane.
Explores Bicep extensions for deploying resources beyond Azure, covering their limitations and the new local deployment preview feature.
Explains CPU throttling in Kubernetes, how to identify it via metrics, and discusses a Linux kernel regression causing the issue.
