We recently started migrating Kafka clusters from EC2 to EKS using Strimzi. As soon as we moved the first cluster, we saw persistent disk reads across the brokers and higher latency than we expected on comparable hardware.

Picture this. A developer asks an AI assistant to "scale down staging to save costs." The AI, helpful as always, executes: kubectl scale deployment critical-api --replicas=0 -n production. Wrong namespace. Right outcome, wrong cluster. The API is down.

I'm currently working with a client to build out an agent-based automation system designed to reduce the manual labor associated with weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc operational activities.

In part 1 I covered k6's philosophy and the anatomy of a first test. This post is where things get real — a production-grade test suite running against a live microservices app on a homelab Kubernetes cluster, including what went wrong on the first run and how I debugged it.

We recently migrated our production GKE cluster from the traditional Ingress controller to the Kubernetes Gateway API — and honestly, we should have done it sooner.

This article shares our experience of getting rid of continuously running EC2 instances, setting up scalable GitLab Runners in AWS, and significantly cutting CI infrastructure costs.

IPMan is a Kubernetes operator that simplifies the management of IPSec connections, enabling secure communication between your Kubernetes workloads and the outside world.

Klarity is an open-source, enterprise-grade Kubernetes observability dashboard built for teams that follow GitOps practices.

Kstack is a skill pack for Claude Code that helps you perform monitoring, troubleshooting and auditing tasks on your K8s clusters in a smart and efficient way.

The k8s-overcommit Operator is a Kubernetes operator designed to intelligently manage resource overcommit on pod resource requests. It automatically adjusts CPU and memory requests based on configurable overcommit classes, enabling better cluster resource utilization while maintaining workload performance.

What doesn't usually happen is anyone asking: what if she hadn't been there? Because that heroic save, for all the heartfelt celebration around it, was actually a near miss from a systemic point of view.