DevOps & Kubernetes Goodies

20 new features introduced in K8s v1.36 include workload-aware preemption, topology-aware workload scheduling, Pod-level resource managers, manifest-based admission control, DRA driver improvements, and many others.

Why would anyone move a monolith app to Kubernetes? Which benefits will it bring? What might the final architecture, CI/CD, and performance improvements look like? Learn from our real-world experience of migrating high-traffic websites to K8s.

Dealing with public Helm charts as they are may bring limitations and challenges. Here’s how we addressed those issues and applied best practices to run Sentry reliably in Kubernetes.

Learn about the following new CNCF projects: Podman Container Tools and Podman Desktop, bootc, composefs, k0s, KubeFleet, SpinKube, container2wasm, Runme Notebooks for DevOps, SlimFaas, Tokenetes, CloudNativePG, and Drasi.

16 new features introduced in K8s v1.35 include gang scheduling support, node-declared features mechanism, constrained impersonation, extended toleration operators for threshold-based placement, and many others. Discover how Kubernetes evolves!

Updating container resources in Kubernetes on the fly has been a long-awaited feature for various workloads. Read how it works, how you can use it, and what its latest improvements are.

Explore what this tool offers for performing and scheduling PostgreSQL database backups, restoring from them, and ensuring the backups and databases themselves are up and running. Then, follow the quick instructions to deploy it in Kubernetes.

Learn from a real-world journey of upgrading a heavily loaded PostgreSQL cluster from v13 to v16 while keeping it highly available. This story comes with detailed listings and pitfalls encountered on the way to success.

Prepare for the upcoming Kubernetes release by learning about the 13 alpha features it brings. They cover various areas of the project, from asynchronous API calls to the new KYAML format.

Learn what K8sGPT offers and how it helps Kubernetes operators become more efficient. This article challenges various GenAI models with several issues and covers running local LLMs.

Familiarise yourself with the following recently added CNCF projects: Ratify, Cartography, HAMi, KAITO, Kmesh, Sermant, LoxiLB, OVN-Kubernetes, Perses, Shipwright, KusionStack, youki, OpenEBS!

Explore the Prometheus design and see which components consume the most resources. Find out why it happens, what affects it, and how you can optimize your setups to get the best performance in monitoring.

Our Ansible playbook, released as an Open Source project, helps you deploy and configure bare-metal servers in the Hetzner data centre. See how it works, and leverage it for your needs!

Another batch of newly added CNCF projects include Radius, Stacker, Score, Bank-Vaults, TrestleGRC, bpfman, Koordinator, KubeSlice, Atlantis, Kubean, Connect, Kairos, Kuadrant, and openGemini. Learn more about them!

Downsizing a PostgreSQL cluster’s primary server can manifest into an exciting engineering adventure. Here’s our recent experience performing such a routine task and the lessons we learned from it.