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Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility

11 minute read | December 22, 2025

It’s been a while since Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and by now, most of us have felt its impact...

General

17 minute read

| December 23, 2025

How to Get Started with Kubernetes: Learn Architecture Basics & Definitions

This series is intended for engineers new to Kubernetes and GKE. It provides a basic overview of Kubernetes, definitions and a quick start for building a Kubernetes cluster... Read More

Featured

11 minute read

| December 22, 2025

Understanding AWS End of Service Life Is a Key FinOps Responsibility

It’s been a while since Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced extended support prices for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and by now, most of us have felt its impact... Read More

How to Kube

15 minute read

| December 18, 2025

7 Common IDP Implementation Pitfalls (and How to Avoid Them)

For platform engineering and DevOps leaders, implementing and scaling an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) has become both a top priority and a major source of risk. This... Read More

Best Practices

40 minute read

| December 10, 2025

A Step-by-Step Guide to Securely Upgrading Your EKS Clusters

As an agile open source project, Kubernetes continues to evolve, as does the cloud computing landscape. Keeping up with the latest versions isn’t practical for many... Read More

How to Kube

7 minute read

| December 9, 2025

22 Essential Kubernetes Concepts — Updated for 2026

Cloud native has changed how infrastructure is designed and operated. Whether you are new to Kubernetes or already starting to take on production responsibilities, these 22... Read More

How to Kube

9 minute read

| December 9, 2025

Top 28 Kubernetes Resources for 2026: Learn and Stay Up-to-Date

The cloud native community is thriving and Kubernetes has a lot to do with it. In this open source ecosystem, practitioners are continually sharing knowledge, tools, and... Read More

Best Practices

16 minute read

| December 5, 2025

Guide to Understanding Your Kubernetes Liveness Probes Best Practices

Kubernetes, initially released in 2014, is an open source container orchestration system written in Go that continues to evolve with each release. Google originally created... Read More

Best Practices

11 minute read

| November 26, 2025

It's Time To Seriously Talk About Disaster Recovery

It’s always a good time to reflect on something that should concern any organization: disaster recovery. As climate-related disruptions (including the record-breaking ... Read More

General

10 minute read

| November 20, 2025

Rewriting the Rules of Platform Engineering with IDPs and EKS

Recently, we joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) to talk about one of the fastest-moving transformations in the cloud industry: how Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are... Read More

Governance

12 minute read

| November 13, 2025

Replacing Manual Workarounds: The Business Case for IDPs

Software teams today crave velocity, autonomy, and reliability, but end up spending too much of their time wrangling cloud infrastructure, stitching together CI/CD pipelines,... Read More

General

12 minute read

| November 5, 2025

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 — Must-See Sessions

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 is almost here, and whether you’re a cloud-native newcomer, seasoned SRE, or Kubernetes fan, Atlanta will be full of energy this... Read More

Managed Kubernetes

8 minute read

| October 29, 2025

Planning Your 2026 Budget for Managed Services: Approval Strategies That Work

As 2025 draws to a close, IT and business leaders face a shrinking window to proactively secure managed services budget approval for 2026. In a year shaped by volatility,... Read More