Morgan Stanley presented their journey scaling Flux to manage over 500 clusters and tens of thousands of resources. They detailed their transition from push-based CI/CD pipelines to a pull-based, continuous reconciliation model using Flux to eliminate configuration drift. The article outlines their strategy for handling enterprise-grade security, performance tuning for scale, and adapting architecture (like moving from Git to S3) to meet high availability and compliance needs.

https://fluxcd.io/blog/2026/03/stairway-to-gitops-morgan-stanley/

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/06/25/building-a-cluster-aware-ai-agent-with-kubernetes-argo-cd-and-gitops/
Practical walkthrough for a self-hosted, read-only cluster AI agent with GitHub Actions, Argo CD Image Updater, and no cluster data leaving the network. Good pattern material for safe “AI assistant inside the cluster” experiments.

How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety

https://github.blog/engineering/infrastructure/how-github-uses-ebpf-to-improve-deployment-safety/

From Silos to Service Topology: Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Service Map

https://netflixtechblog.com/from-silos-to-service-topology-why-netflix-built-a-real-time-service-map-0165ba13a7bc

Agentic CI/CD: Kubernetes Deployment Gates with Elastic MCP Server — Elastic Observability Labs

https://www.elastic.co/observability-labs/blog/agentic-cicd-kubernetes-mcp-server

A command-line tool for Jira workflow management. Quickly select issues, track your current work, and generate consistent branch names.

https://github.com/tutunak/jcli

The article challenges the traditional "three pillars" of observability (metrics, logs, traces), arguing that they are insufficient for modern, distributed architectures. Through three real-world incident examples at a large financial institution, the author demonstrates that application-level telemetry often fails to reveal actual customer impact. Instead of siloed data, the author advocates for "single threads"—clear, end-to-end distributed traces of individual customer requests—enriched with business context and measured by customer-facing Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/you-dont-need-three-pillars-you-need-single-threads

🛡 Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)

https://github.com/bunkerity/bunkerweb

A lightweight AWS service emulator written in Go


https://github.com/sivchari/kumo