Field notes on running Kubernetes with less toil — AI SRE and incident response, CI/CD and golden paths, continuous security, cost, and the internal developer platform that ties them together.
FeaturedOn Kubernetes, MTTR is dominated by diagnosis, not the fix. Six proven strategies to reduce Kubernetes MTTR — unified telemetry, incident grouping, AI root-cause analysis, and automated GitOps remediation.
Platform EngineeringNine internal developer platforms compared honestly — Backstage, Port, Cortex, OpsLevel, Humanitec, Qovery, Northflank, Cycloid and Atmosly — organised by the one distinction that matters: portals that organise vs execution layers that ship.
AI SREA live kubectl patch on a GitOps cluster gets reverted at the next sync. GitOps remediation fixes incidents in Git — the automated alert-to-PR pattern, and how to keep it safe.
KubernetesA NotReady node stops scheduling and can evict your pods. This guide covers what NotReady means, the exact kubectl commands to diagnose it, and the fix for every cause — kubelet, runtime, resource pressure, CNI, and certificates.
SecurityKubernetes audit logging end to end: the four audit levels, a production audit policy YAML, enabling logs on EKS (off by default), GKE, and AKS, retention that satisfies SOC 2, PCI DSS, and HIPAA, and the five alerts worth wiring up.
SecurityWiz, Prisma Cloud, Aqua, Sysdig, ARMO/Kubescape, and Atmosly compared honestly — by the three jobs Kubernetes security platforms actually do (posture, CVEs, runtime), with a coverage table and a decision path to your shortlist.
SecurityKubernetes compliance, end to end: what CIS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HIPAA actually require of a cluster, the shared responsibility line on managed Kubernetes, the six control families that satisfy every framework at once, and the scan-fix-evidence loop that passes audits.
SecurityISO 27001 never mentions Kubernetes, so the clause-to-control mapping is on you. This guide covers the ten Annex A clauses a cluster scan can evidence, the four it cannot, and a full walkthrough of A.8.22.
SecurityFirst CIS scans land in the 60s because Kubernetes defaults favour startup over containment. Here is how to run the benchmark, remediate the four checks every fresh EKS cluster fails, and verify each fix.
Cost IntelligenceSeven Kubecost alternatives compared for 2026 — OpenCost, CAST AI, ScaleOps, CloudZero, Finout, Densify and Atmosly — organised by the reason teams actually leave Kubecost, plus what the IBM acquisition changed and how to migrate without losing your cost history.
Cost IntelligenceA complete breakdown of Amazon EKS pricing in 2026 — control plane fees, extended support, Auto Mode surcharge, Fargate, EBS, NAT Gateway, cross-AZ transfer and load balancers — with worked monthly totals for small, mid-size and enterprise clusters in us-east-1.
Cost IntelligenceTwelve Kubernetes cost optimization tools compared for 2026 — OpenCost, Kubecost, CAST AI, Karpenter, StormForge, ScaleOps, Densify, Zesty, CloudZero, Goldilocks, AWS Compute Optimizer and Atmosly — mapped to the four layers of cluster waste, with a two-week evaluation runbook.
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