Most cloud-native tools obsess over clusters. Not developers. That means poor support for things like promoting code between environments or deploying by feature - not just by repo. The author pushes for a better way: platforms that hide the Kubernetes mess and tame CI/CD. Think feature-driven deplo.. read more  

Hexmos droppedudwall, a declarative firewall manager that finally makesUFWandDockerplay nice. Docker’s notorious for bulldozing past UFW rules via iptables. udwall patches that hole. It syncs rules across both, auto-reconciles changes, backs up configs, and plugs cleanly intoAnsible. No more duct-ta.. read more  

Stripped down and sharp, the blog lays out Kubernetes config best practices: keep YAML manifests in version control, use Deployments (not raw Pods), and label like you mean it - semantically, not just alphabet soup. It digs into sneaky pain points too, like how YAML mangles booleans (yes≠true), and .. read more  

Amazon Prime Video ditched its pricey microservices maze and rebuilt as asingle-process monolith, cutting ops costs by 90%. No big press release. Just results. Same move from Twilio Segment. And Shopify. Both pulled their tangled systems back intomodular monoliths- cleaner, faster, easier to test, a.. read more  

KIEMPossible is a new open-source tool for Kubernetes entitlement cleanup. It maps out who has access to what - roles, entities, permissions - and shows how those are actually used across your clusters. Think of it as a permission microscope for AKS, EKS, GKE, and even the DIY K8s crowd. It breaks d.. read more  

Grafana’s been busy clearing the shelves.Grafana Agent,Agent Flow, andOnCall? All deprecated. The replacement:Grafana Alloy- a one-stop observability agent that handles logs, metrics, traces, and OTEL without flinching. Meanwhile,Mimir 3.0ships with a Kafka-powered ingestion pipeline. More scalabili.. read more  

Docker Desktop 4.50 enhances software development with improved debugging, AI integration, and enterprise security features, streamlining workflows and boosting productivity.

Kubernetes v1.35 release removes cgroup v1 and containerd v1.X support, urging admins to migrate to newer versions and adopt enhancements like in-place Pod updates and OCI image volume support.

This guide cuts through modern Docker workflows. It coversBuildKitfor faster, smarter builds. Shows howmulti-stage Dockerfilesmake images slimmer. Breaks down howENTRYPOINTandCMDactually work. Walks through usingsupervisordto wrangle multi-process containers. Then zooms out toDocker Compose, where l.. read more