Pod-certificate-signer is a controller leveraging a new #Kubernetes API — PodCertificateRequests, introduced in v1.34 as alpha — to sign TLS/mTLS certificates for Pods, as specified in Pod annotations. GitHub repo: github.com/RafPe/pod-ce... // Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel

Sharing a real-world experience of upgrading a production #PostgreSQL cluster from v13 to v16 while keeping it highly available and involving minimal downtime. As usual, helpful lessons learned and lots of listings are provided 🙌 blog.palark.com/postgresql-u...

Perhaps you’ll think it’s just a random Friday photo from our office in Ulm? Well, close enough to reality… but it’s a bit more than that. It’s how our Ilia and Anton felt upon completing the ISO 27001 surveillance audit. Enjoy your weekend with no less level of well-deserved satisfaction! 😜

teleskopio is a new Web UI for #Kubernetes that allows you to manage various workloads, networking, and storage. It comes with admin/viewer role access, embedded Monaco editor, cluster overview, live resource changes, and more. github.com/roman-kisele... // Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel

Recently, #SpectroCloud unveiled the 5th edition of its State of Production #Kubernetes. It highlighted the following challenges with K8s in production: 1. Cost (42%) 2. Multi-environment consistency (41%, a significant increase from 32% last year) 3. Security (40%) 4. Skills and headcount (39%) 🧵

CR(D) Wizard is a new UI for exploring #Kubernetes CRDs and corresponding CRs. It displays CRD’s schema as browsable documentation, shows information about existing CRs, and draws a resource relationship graph: github.com/pehlicd/crd-... // Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel

Participating in #Money2020 earlier this summer was a game-changer in our expo experience! Seeing more customers from #fintech come for our #DevOps services is encouraging, and we can’t think of a better event to facilitate these connections 🚀 Our success story: europe.money2020.com/sponsor/succ...

The latest #Kubernative digest with Cloud Native software updates includes #Istio 1.27 with inference extension support; #CloudNativePG v1.27.0; #Crossplane v2.0 managing applications; #Nelm v1.12 debugging Helm charts; #OpenCost v1.116.0 with Promless configuration; #copa v0.11 t.me/kubernative/...

Recently, we launched a new service for companies that need #SelfHostedLLM setup for privacy, flexibility, and cost efficiency. You can get any #OpenSource LLMs on your premises with no limitations. Learn more about this offer, and let's discuss your #EnterpriseAI case! palark.com/services/pri...

The 2025 #StackOverflow Developer Survey landed recently. Its Cloud development section covers cloud platforms, containerization tools, package managers, build tools, and IaC. Some of its stats: - #Docker is the most used technology by developers (71.1%), and #Kubernetes is the 5th (28.5%). 🧵

Our latest #Kubernative digest with Cloud Native software updates covers #Freelens v1.5.0; #k8gb v0.15.0 with multi-zone DNS support; mariadb-operator 25.08.1 with physical-level backups; #Kyverno 1.15 with new policy types; kube-vip v1.0; #Cilium 1.18; #Sveltos v1.0.0. t.me/kubernative/...

We’ve just published a detailed overview of 13 new alpha features — including widely discussed KYAML — coming to #Kubernetes v1.34. The release itself will be out in 3 weeks, so you have enough time to learn about the new things; read and share! 🙌 blog.palark.com/kubernetes-1...

#CNOE published a GitHub repo with its #AWS reference implementation. It helps build a production-ready #IDP on EKS with Crossplane, Backstage, Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Keycloak, and other #CloudNative tools. Find it here: github.com/cnoe-io/refe... // Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel

Today’s article in our blog is all about #K8sGPT, a #CNCF Sandbox project! We will use this powerful AI-powered assistant to tackle several #Kubernetes issues and see how it performs, leveraging popular AI models and even self-hosted LLMs deployed via #LocalAI. blog.palark.com/k8sgpt-ai-tr...

Missed #CNSMunich? #Palark engineers visited this excellent event and made a list of the talks they'd like to highlight. Most importantly, they are all available online on YouTube already! Here's the link to a playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... — and find our recommendations in the thread 🔽

The 2025 #Kubernetes Cost Benchmark Report from #CastAI reveals a dramatic underutilisation of computing resources that we still experience today: - The average CPU utilisation for Kubernetes clusters is 10%. For memory, it’s 23%. - Average overprovisioning is 40% for CPU and 57% for memory. 🧵

You think having a #Kubernetes operator to schedule regular workloads restarts via cron is a joke? Well, perhaps that's a harsh reality some engineers live in, no matter how much they really like it 😜 github.com/archsyscall/...

kat is a new CLI tool that simplifies working with #Kubernetes manifests. It invokes manifest generators, such as #Helm and #Kustomize, and displays resources as a list. It supports search, filtering, and validation ▶️ GitHub repo: github.com/macropower/kat // Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel

Kube Terraform Reconciler is the latest #OpenSource project by LEGO engineers. It’s a #Kubernetes operator for managing #Terraform workspaces as K8s custom resources. You can enable auto-apply and use custom modules ▶️ GitHub repo: github.com/LEGO/kube-tf... // Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel

Presenting our overview of another bunch of recently added #CNCF projects! Have you heard of Ratify, Cartography, HAMi, KAITO, Kmesh, Sermant, LoxiLB, OVN-Kubernetes, Perses, Shipwright, KusionStack, youki, and OpenEBS? Learn what they do from this article and share: blog.palark.com/cncf-sandbox...

Our sincere congratulations to Viacheslav on finishing 66th out of 269 at the Erbacher Triathlon this Sunday🎉 He completed the Olympic distance: 1.5 km of swimming, 41 km of cycling, and 10 km of running. Proud to have software engineers who can excel not only in running troubleshooting marathons 😅👏

Our latest #Kubernative digest with Cloud Native software updates mentions #OpenEBS v4.3.0 with data-at-rest encryption; #werf v2.39.0 with template debugging; #ArgoCD v3.1.0-rc1 with OCI support; #OpenTofu v1.10.0; #Headlamp 0.32.0 with multi-cluster view; #OpenBao v2.3. t.me/kubernative/...

Following the recent news, let's spread the word about #werf as a #Kaniko alternative for container image building (and much more) in #Kubernetes for your CI! 🙌 dev.to/evgeniy_frol...

Imagine a #Kubernetes Pod that automatically scales to zero when there's no load! #Zeropod is a #containerd shim that checkpoints your container if no new connections are coming and restores it when they arrive again. ▶️ GitHub repo: github.com/ctrox/zeropod // Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel

Using Mac to work with containers? At #WWDC25, a brand-new CLI tool called container was introduced. It allows you to create/run #Linux containers on #Mac, works with OCI-compliant container images, and supports multiplatform images. It's #OpenSource and on GitHub already github.com/apple/contai...

#AWS announced a new project called AI on EKS, which aims to facilitate running #AIML workloads on its managed #Kubernetes service. It’s a GitHub repository with blueprints dedicated to LLM inference, fine-tuning language models, distributed training, and so on. awslabs.github.io/ai-on-eks/

The #Palark team rocks at #Money2020 in Amsterdam these days! An impressive fintech crowd is around, and we’re happy to share our remarkable experience in rendering DevOps and SRE services to meet their needs. Come to see how Kubernetes and other Cloud Native technologies let your business thrive 🚀

Our latest #Kubernative digest with Cloud Native software updates mentions #Crossplane v1.20.0 with realtime compositions in Beta; #vCluster v0.25.0; #Kmesh v1.1.0; #Kargo v1.5.0; #Backstage v1.39.0; #CloudNativePG v1.26.0 with declarative in-place PgSQL upgrades; #FluxCD v2.6.0 t.me/kubernative/...

BLAFS is a new #OpenSource project optimising #Docker container image size. It checks which files in the container are needed by examining the file access of binaries in the layered filesystem. Using BLAFS reduces the size of the Top 10 containers on Docker Hub by 65-95%. github.com/negativa-ai/...

This Monday in Berlin, Maksim and Anton represented #Palark at #TechInternalsConf #TIC2025. It’s been a pleasure to be part of all of its fantastic talks and folks — thanks to the great work done by the organisers! 🙌

🤔 Wondering what causes #Prometheus to consume so much memory? This research outlines how Prometheus works and explains what leads to growing resource consumption. More importantly, it shows the way to optimize your #monitoring setup ✊ blog.palark.com/prometheus-r...

Launching our #Kubernative channel on Telegram (t.me/kubernative) a year ago was a pure experiment. Now, seeing how it reached 1000+ subscribers makes it clear: our experiment was successful and helpful for a broad #Kubernetes and #CloudNative community! 🥳 Thank you, everyone, for your support! 🤗

Our latest #Kubernative digest with Cloud Native software updates mentions #etcd v3.6.0 with a new storage engine; #Kyverno 1.14 with two new policy types; #Helmfile v1.0.0; #Calico v3.30.0 with Calico Whisker; #ArgoCD v3.0.0; #Istio 1.26.0; #containerd 2.1.0; #Freelens v1.3.0. t.me/kubernative/...

Earlier this month, the #Palark team visited Berg Brauerei Ulrich in Ehingen, a family business founded in 1466 and one of the oldest breweries in the area. It’s been a fascinating and insightful tour, revealing a multistage process and secrets of artisanal brewing 👍

Two leading #GitOps projects just got their MCP servers, helping #Kubernetes operators to leverage the power of AI in their workflows. 1. #ArgoCD MCP Server by Akuity: github.com/akuity/argoc... 2. Experimental MCP server in #FluxCD Operator v0.20.0 by Control Plane: github.com/controlplane...

We’ll attend the Tech Internals Conf 2025 conference in Berlin in a few weeks! #Palark will be presented with: - Our new talk titled “How Kubernetes stores encrypted data in etcd, and why KMS v2 matters”; - a booth where our engineers are happy to argue whether #Kubernetes is a piece of cake 🙃

Our latest #Kubernative digest with Cloud Native software updates mentions #Envoy 1.34 with asynchronous load balancing; #PerconaEverest 1.6.0 with manual storage scaling; Rook v1.17; #ArtifactHub v1.21; #Linkerd 2.18 with experimental Windows support; #Vitess 22. t.me/kubernative/...

🔥 Our latest addition to the services truly stands out! By introducing #DevOps Emergency, we’re making an immense promise of putting our hands on your critical infrastructure issue within an hour of your request at any time! 😯 Want to have a plan B for any disaster? palark.com/services/eme...

Don't miss this YouTube playlist with 300+ videos from #KubeCon Europe 2025! A pure content treasury to explore and digest things about #Kubernetes and #CloudNative - available for everyone who joined or even missed the biggest KubeCon ever: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Our new #Kubernative digest for Cloud Native software updates mentions #Kubeflow 1.10 with Trainer 2.0; #KubeVirt v1.5 making volume migrations stable; #Headlamp 0.30.0; #FluentBit v4; #Thanos v0.38.0 with OTLP receiver; #Flagger 1.41.0; #kgateway v2.0.0; #KEDA v2.17.0. t.me/kubernative/...

🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Nelm (github.com/werf/nelm/)! Our #Helm 3 fork made a long way in being used inside #werf for years, and now it’s ready to be used as a standalone CLI to deploy your Helm charts in #Kubernetes. Announcement: blog.werf.io/nelm-cli-hel...

We’ve just published our #Ansible playbook to automate setting up #Linux #BareMetal servers in #Hetzner. See how it works and find a link to the GitHub repo in our latest article: blog.palark.com/ansible-hetz...

Freelens is an active #OpenSource fork of Lens, a well-known GUI for #Kubernetes. Its latest release — v1.1.0 — was issued 5 days ago. It is based on Electron 34.3.3 and works with Kubernetes 1.32. Find it on GitHub: github.com/freelensapp/...

Nelm is meant to be a direct replacement for Helm 3, providing first-class Helm chart support yet improving on what Helm 3 offers Nelm is based on Helm 3 — some parts of it improved and some, like the deployment subsystem, are rewritten from scratch ➤ https://github.com/werf/nelm

The SRE Report 2025 by @catchpointsystems.bsky.social highlights current trends in #SiteReliabilityEngineering. One of its key messages for the last year is “Slow is the new down”: most consider bad service performance to be as bad as being completely down. What are other insights from this report?🧵

Our new #Kubernative digest for Cloud Native software updates mentions Semaphore CI/CD platform v1 that went Open Source, #Dapr 1.15 with stable Workflow engine; #Envoy AI Gateway v0.1; #Hyperlight v0.2.0; #Istio 1.25; #Shipwright v0.15 with better control for node scheduling. t.me/kubernative/...

Our co-founder and CNCF Ambassador, @dshnow.bsky.social, will attend #FOSSASIA Summit 2025, a massive #OpenSource gathering in the Asian region, this week already! He will deliver a talk “werf and its ecosystem: efficient software delivery in Kubernetes and beyond.” Feel free to catch up! 🙌

In our ongoing effort to introduce newly added #CNCF projects, we’re happy to publish the 3rd part of this series. Read it to discover Radius, Stacker, Score, Bank-Vaults, TrestleGRC, bpfman, Koordinator, KubeSlice, Atlantis, Kubean, Connect, Kairos, Kuadrant, and openGemini!

LLMariner is an extensible platform for managing #GenAI workloads on #Kubernetes. It supports vLLM, Ollama, and Triton, numerous models (Llama, Gemma, DeepSeek, Mistral, etc.), allows fine-tuning, and integrates with Open WebUI and other tooling. ▶️ GitHub repo: github.com/llmariner/ll...

Our new #Kubernative digest for Cloud Native software updates includes: #Ratify v1.4.0; #Kmesh v1.0 with encrypted communication; #Prometheus v3.2.0; #Backstage v1.36.0 with new UI Library; #DexIdP v2.42; #Flux 2.5 featuring CEL-based health checks for custom resources. t.me/kubernative/...