How do you know if a rollout is successful? (・・？) Argo Rollouts uses a Kubernetes custom resource called an AnalysisTemplate to check real metrics as updates progress. Nicholas Morey explains how observability drives safe deployments below. Watch the full episode (~20 min) → youtu.be/ToF9fb2sjlE

Migrating from K8s Deployments to Argo Rollouts? It’s easier than you think. ☆彡 Nicholas Morey explains how Rollouts extend Kubernetes with progressive delivery and are designed for smooth adoption. Watch the full 🌩️ Thunder episode → youtu.be/ToF9fb2sjlE #ArgoRollouts #K8s #ProgressiveDelivery

She’s finally getting back to the light board: www.youtube.com/live/S6zyprF...

Here I am trying to describe what it is I actually do now…

Spectacle.

⚡️ Enlightning is BACK, bay-bee!!! After almost a year hiatus! Join @aparker.io and me live next week for a bleeding-edge talk about OpenTelemetry and GenAI! Click 'Notify me': youtu.be/S6zyprFIapM

I miss Denver already

In this episode of Software Defined Interviews, @rachelchalmers.bsky.social talks about whether you have to come from money to be a VC, what she looks for in founders, and why she backs women leading infrastructure and AI companies. Listen here: www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/108 @cote.io

Ozzie and Nova steal the show at #devopsdaysrox #devopsdays - a fantastic talk

This is one of my favorite presentations ever. It’s incredibly informative while also being fun and light-hearted.

Kubernetes Security can be Fun?: https://whitneylee.com/2025/09/16/kubernetes-security-can-be-fun.html

DevOpsDays Rockies is today in Denver! The venue is cool, the weather is nice, the people are wonderful ♫

Argo Rollouts makes Kubernetes updates safer without slowing teams down. In this new 🌩️ Thunder episode, Nicholas Morey walks through how Argo Rollouts automates blue/green and canary deployments by verifying rollouts with real metrics as they progress. youtu.be/ToF9fb2sjlE

Denver friends ♥

Kittens on stairs in Berkeley ♫

Currently reading: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher 📚 I know this is for middle schoolers, but it is witty, irreverent, whimsical, and delightful in a way that is really hitting the spot right now.

What’s a “design” in Meshery? (˚ㄥ_˚) It’s a Kubernetes Custom Resource — a collaborative blueprint that captures resources, components, and relationships. @leecalcote.bsky.social explains more in the full 🌩️ Thunder episode (≈26 min) → youtu.be/GT7ecEDqHWQ #Meshery #PlatformEngineering

How do you know if your infrastructure config really performs? ᕙ(`▽´)ᕗ #Meshery can deploy, reconfigure, generate load, and persist test results so teams can compare runs and see what actually improves. @leecalcote.bsky.social explains more in the full 🌩️ Thunder (≈26 min) → youtu.be/GT7ecEDqHWQ

Infrastructure that works like a Google Doc? Yes please. ☆ミ #Meshery lets teams co-edit platform designs, add comments, and keep human context separate from what gets orchestrated. See how it works in the full 🌩️ Thunder episode (≈26 min) with @leecalcote.bsky.social → youtu.be/GT7ecEDqHWQ

KubeCon Europe is accepting talk proposals NOW! And the CFP closes Oct 12, before KubeCon NA! You don’t need to be a pro speaker. You just need a story, a lesson, or an experiment worth sharing. ☆彡 My CNCF blog post on teaming up with GenAI when writing proposals: www.cncf.io/blog/2025/08...

What is #Meshery? (・・？) It’s a management plane that turns diverse infrastructure into something teams can actually share and understand together. Watch this 🌩️ Thunder episode (≈26 min) where @leecalcote.bsky.social explains Meshery: youtu.be/GT7ecEDqHWQ #PlatformEngineering #CloudNative #CNCF

The Linux Foundation just launched the Developer Relations Foundation at dev-rel.org @mary-grace.bsky.social joins @cote.io and me on Software Defined Interviews to share what she’s learned building and shaping the DevRel community. ♫ www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/107

#Meshery provides a management plane for cloud tools and infrastructure where teams can share designs, reuse patterns, and run performance tests together. ☆ In this new 🌩️ Thunder, @leecalcote.bsky.social talks about how Meshery supports collaboration. Watch the episode → youtu.be/GT7ecEDqHWQ

Telemetry collection and storage are standardized. But visualization? Still a missing piece. ☆ミ That’s where Perses comes in, filling the gap with dashboards-as-code, validation, and GitOps-ready workflows. Catch the full 7-minute 🌩️ Thunder episode: youtu.be/jx7JeZdJESo #Perses #DashboardsAsCode

Tracing in Jaeger, metrics in Prometheus, logs with Fluent Bit… where do dashboards fit into this observability flow? (⊙_☉) Eric D. Schabell maps it out in the 7-minute 🌩️ Thunder episode: youtu.be/jx7JeZdJESo #Perses #Observability #Prometheus #Jaeger #FluentBit #CNCF

What if your dashboards could fit into the same GitOps and CI/CD workflows you already use? ☆ Eric D. Schabell shares how Perses makes this possible in 🌩️ Thunder: youtu.be/jx7JeZdJESo #Perses #DashboardsAsCode #GitOps #CICD #Observability

What does it mean for a CNCF project to call itself an exploration? (・・？) Eric D. Schabell explains how #Perses is defining an open standard for #observability dashboards: dashboards as code, validation, GitOps-friendly workflows, and more. Watch the full 🌩️ Thunder: youtu.be/jx7JeZdJESo

If observability dashboards matter, they should be built like code. Version control, validation, repeatability—Perses makes it all possible. This CNCF project brings GitOps principles to dashboards from the start. 🌩️ Thunder guest @schabell.org explains: youtu.be/jx7JeZdJESo

What’s the difference between monitoring and APPLICATION monitoring? 🌩️ Thunder guest Jonah Kowall explains how APM (Application Performance Monitoring) became a thing, and why distributed tracing is always part of the story. ☆ Watch the full episode → youtu.be/DGELUM-tSq4 #Jaeger #OpenTelemetry

Jaeger takes trace data from your apps, stores it, and gives you a way to explore it. ♫ 🌩️ Thunder: Full episode with Jaeger maintainer Jonah Kowall → youtu.be/DGELUM-tSq4 #Jaeger #OpenTelemetry #Observability #DevOps #CloudNative

How does Jaeger use OpenTelemetry? OTel collects the traces, and Jaeger helps you explore them. .｡.:*☆ Watch the full 🌩️ Thunder episode → youtu.be/DGELUM-tSq4 Featuring Jaeger maintainer Jonah Kowall! #Jaeger #OpenTelemetry #Observability #CloudNative #DevOps

What does an ultramarathon have in common with public speaking, Stoicism… and YouTube thumbnails? This conversation that @cote.io and I had with @jameseastham.co.uk on Software Defined Interviews took us everywhere. ♫ P.S. I *love* talking about books! www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/106

A glimpse into life before distributed tracing. Multiple teams. Siloed tools. Confused users. ヽ(。_°)ノ In this 🌩️ Thunder short, Jaeger maintainer Jonah Kowall explains how painful debugging used to be, and why tracing changed everything. Full episode → youtu.be/DGELUM-tSq4 #Jaeger #OpenTelemetry

How do you trace a user’s journey through a maze of microservices? ヽ(。_°)ノ In this 10-min 🌩️ Thunder episode, Jaeger maintainer Jonah Kowall covers tracing, scaling, sampling, and how OpenTelemetry fits in. Watch → youtu.be/DGELUM-tSq4 #Jaeger #OpenTelemetry #Observability #DevOps #Kubernetes

Don’t let big tech use your data to manipulate you. Own your data, and use it to manipulate yourself. @chrisdancy.bsky.social wears a pendant that records every word he says and hears. He’s systemized his life in ways that are wild, funny, and deeply human. www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/105

I'm grateful to have been part of the team that developed the new CNPA certification. It was a thoughtful, collaborative process, and I'm proud to hold the Exam Developer badge from the Linux Foundation. www.credly.com/badges/19193... ( ＾◡＾)っ ♡

Istio Ambient Mesh is a sidecarless service mesh redesign, with a twist! In this 🌩️ Thunder clip, @boredabdel.bsky.social breaks it down (with a little nudge from me): Z-Tunnel handles Layer 4… not Layer 7 (◠‿・)—☆ Full episode → youtu.be/Up4A0oQbY4Q #Kubernetes #ServiceMesh #IstioAmbient

When the service mesh benefits are ˚⋆｡°✩₊ chef’s kiss ˚⋆｡°✩₊ Just ask @boredabdel.bsky.social ! Full 🌩️ Thunder episode → youtu.be/Up4A0oQbY4Q #Kubernetes #ServiceMesh #Istio #Observability

(👁 ͜ʖ👁) What observability data do you get from service mesh? In this 🌩️ Thunder clip, learn from @boredabdel.bsky.social what is and isn't collected. Full episode → youtu.be/Up4A0oQbY4Q #Kubernetes #ServiceMesh #Observability #Istio

Thanks to service mesh, you can trace a request from ingress all the way through your microservices. @boredabdel.bsky.social explains in this 🌩️ Thunder clip. Full episode → youtu.be/Up4A0oQbY4Q (⁠人⁠*⁠´⁠∀⁠｀⁠)⁠｡⁠*ﾟ⁠+

With service mesh, Kubernetes Services aren’t used for traffic. Pods talk to each other directly. @boredabdel.bsky.social explains in this clip from 🌩️ Thunder. Full episode → youtu.be/Up4A0oQbY4Q *:･ﾟ✧ #ServiceMesh #Kubernetes #Istio

New 🌩️ Thunder: Service Mesh and Observability ♫ Where does service mesh fit in your observability story? What it shows, what it misses, and why it matters. Watch it here → youtu.be/Up4A0oQbY4Q With @boredabdel.bsky.social #Kubernetes #ServiceMesh #Observability

Semantic observability means using meaningful data, not just raw metrics #OpenTelemetry helps you enrich signals with context that actually reflects your system ( ＾◡＾) Learn more in the full 🌩️ Thunder episode on OpenTelemetry: youtu.be/0WIyBbGn4fU #Observability #CloudNative #DevOps @aparker.io

Why does #OpenTelemetry separate its API from the SDK? This choice gives you a clear separation between how you write and how you configure. (・・？) Curious how the pieces fit together? Watch the full 🌩️ Thunder episode on OpenTelemetry: youtu.be/0WIyBbGn4fU #CloudNative #Observability @aparker.io

OpenTelemetry’s real strength? Correlating logs, metrics, traces, and more into one connected picture. (👁 ͜ʖ👁) See how it works in the full 🌩️ Thunder episode: youtu.be/0WIyBbGn4fU #OpenTelemetry #Observability #CloudNative #DevOps @aparker.io

Did you know? OpenTelemetry began when two competing projects teamed up to build a unified model for observability. *:･ﾟ✧ Curious how it works? Watch the full 🌩️ Thunder episode → youtu.be/0WIyBbGn4fU #OpenTelemetry #Observability #CloudNative #DevOps @aparker.io

There's a new 🌩️ Thunder episode! Huzzah! OpenTelemetry is a model for turning raw system events into useful, correlated observability data. Learn what it does and how to make it work for you! With guest Austin Parker. youtu.be/0WIyBbGn4fU #OpenTelemetry #Observability #CloudNative

Not satisfied with ONE talk, our own @puja.dev is teaming up with the fantastic @wiggitywhitney.bsky.social for another talk this time at OpenSSF Community Day. Ozzie & Nova - Supply Chain Shenanigans: A Kubernetes Security Play About OpenSSF Standards openssfcdjapan2025.sched.com/event/23VH0/

Logs! Metrics! Traces! Profiles! Each one tells part of the story In this 🌩️ Thunder short, Pete Wall explains how these signals work together to power modern Kubernetes observability (^-^)/ Watch the full episode: youtu.be/AwwhHW4Ev38 #Kubernetes #Observability #Monitoring #DevOps #CloudNative