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Best Practices

24 minute read

| July 23, 2025

Kubernetes Add-Ons Need Love Too: Increasing Cluster Security Through Add-On Maintenance

This is the transcript of a talk presented at KubeCon Japan titled "Add-Ons Need Love Too: Increasing Cluster Security Through Add-On Maintenance." Read More

Best Practices

9 minute read

| July 9, 2025

Kubernetes Policy as Code: The Foundation of Modern Cluster Governance

At KubeCon EU this April, I was on a panel presenting “A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code.” I was joined by Rita Zhang, a Principal Engineer at Microsoft, the SIG... Read More

Best Practices

11 minute read

| July 3, 2025

Why Your Kubernetes Platform Needs Both Freedom and Control to Succeed

Building and managing a Kubernetes-based platform for multiple development teams is a complex project. On one side, you want to empower developers with the flexibility to... Read More

Best Practices

9 minute read

| May 15, 2025

Balancing Security, Compliance, and Visibility in Kubernetes Infrastructure

The shift to cloud-native infrastructure has introduced a difficult dilemma for many security and compliance teams: do compliance requirements and the desire for visibility... Read More

Best Practices

8 minute read

| December 19, 2024

6 Kubernetes Cost Control Strategies You Need in Place for 2025

Organizations have increasingly undertaken cloud migration initiatives, moving from on-premises data centers to adopting containers and Kubernetes to change their... Read More

Best Practices

16 minute read

| December 12, 2024

Guide to Understanding Your Kubernetes Liveness Probes Best Practices

Kubernetes, initially released in 2014, is an open source container orchestration system released under Apache License 2.0 and written in the programming language Go. Google... Read More

Best Practices

15 minute read

| December 3, 2024

What Do You Need To Know When Upgrading Kubernetes?

Keeping your Kubernetes infrastructure up-to-date is critical for security, compliance, stability, and performance, and it usually gives your cluster feature enhancements as... Read More

Best Practices

9 minute read

| November 20, 2024

It's Time To Seriously Talk About Disaster Recovery

It’s always a good time to reflect on something that should send shivers down the spine of any organization: disaster recovery. As climate-related disruptions (most recently,... Read More

Best Practices

11 minute read

| September 12, 2024

4 Best Practices for Leveraging Cloud-Native Infrastructure for AI Workloads

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest buzzwords these days, dominating headlines and rocking the stock market. Many companies have already added AI functionality... Read More

Best Practices

13 minute read

| August 28, 2024

Top 10 Lessons Learned from Managing Kubernetes from the Trenches

Welcome to our deep dive into the world of Kubernetes, where we share some of the top lessons our site reliability engineers (SREs) have learned from years of managing this... Read More

Best Practices

6 minute read

| May 30, 2024

How Old Are Your Kubernetes Nodes?

How old are your Kubernetes nodes? Most often, people don’t know the answer to this question, or if they do, they know that “most” of their nodes are a certain age, and some... Read More

Best Practices

36 minute read

| April 22, 2024

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

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AI Runs Best On Cloud Native—But Who's Managing the Kubernetes Platform?