Pulumi ESC just leveled up withApprovals—structured reviews for environment config changes, straight from Console, CLI, SDK, or VS Code. Think pull requests, but for your infra settings. No more YOLO updates. Teams can now lock down config changes with required sign-offs. More control. Cleaner logs..

Typeform rolled their ownTerraform providerto wrangle runtime data through an internal API. Built with HashiCorp’sGo SDK, the official scaffolding framework, and wired up withacceptance testsfor full lifecycle muscle. They skipped the publicTerraform Registryentirely. Instead, they shipped provider..

Grafana Beyla 2.5 goes all-in on upstreamOpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation, baking it right into the core. This release addsauto-instrumentation for MongoDB and JSON-RPC,manual spans in Go, and tightertrace correlation for NodeJS. New in town:survey mode. Think lightweight service discovery—no ful..

CNCF just dropped anAI workload conformance program, built like the Kubernetes one—so AI tools play nice across clusters. Portability, meet your referee. It’s tightening the loop betweenOpenTelemetry and OpenSearch, turning ad-hoc hacks into actual cross-project coordination. AndBackstage and GitOp..

Google Cloud's pushingGKEbeyond container orchestration, framing it as an AI inference engine. Meet the new crew: theInference Gateway(smart load balancer, talks models and hardware),custom compute classes, and aDynamic Workload Schedulerthat tunes for both speed and spend. The setup handles GPU an..

A fresh pattern’s gaining traction:Docker + Tailscale sidecarsreplacing old-school reverse proxies and clunky VPNs. Each service runs as its ownmesh-routed node, containerized and independent. The trick?Network namespace sharing.App containers hook into the Tailscale mesh with no exposed ports, no ..

MariaDB Kubernetes Operator 25.08.0 drops some real upgrades. First up:physical backups. Now supported through native MariaDB tools and Kubernetes CSI snapshots—huge win if you're dealing with chunky datasets and tight recovery windows. It alsodefaults to MariaDB 11.8, which brings in anative vect..

SQL Server 2025 rolls outspinvokeexternalrestendpoint, a new way to hit REST APIs straight from T-SQL. That includes calling the Kubernetes API—thanks to a reverse proxy in front. The setup’s not exactly plug-and-play. You’ll need custom TLS certs, an nginx reverse proxy, and Kubernetes RBAC to kee..

Headlamp just dropped an AI Assistant plugin that foldsLLM-driven actions and queriesstraight into the Kubernetes UI. It taps intocontext-aware promptsto spot issues, restart deployments, and hunt down flaky pods—without leaving the interface. System shift:This pushes Kubernetes toward intent-based..

Kubernetes observability isn’t just about catching metrics or tailing logs. It’s about stitching togethermetrics, logs, and tracesto see what’s actually happening—across services, over time, and through the chaos. Thing is, Kubernetes doesn’t come with this built in. So teams hack together toolchai..