Mumbai Maha Mahotsav – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India edition
Welcome to Mumbai – the City of Dreams, where ambition is the only dress code – and the host city for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026. As a co-chair of this year’s program, I’ve spent months…
Modern software delivery is no longer constrained by application code — it is constrained by the platform that runs it. This article presents the design of a cloud-native Internal Developer Platform (IDP) built on Kubernetes and…
The Kubernetes integration tax: Prometheus, Cilium and production reality
I still remember the first time we lost sleep over something that wasn’t a bug. It was a Tuesday. Grafana dashboards showed blank panels for Cilium network metrics. Hubble was working fine — DNS visibility, TCP…
Zero-Downtime migration from ingress NGINX to Envoy Gateway
Teams running Ingress NGINX in production are increasingly evaluating migration paths as Kubernetes networking evolves toward Gateway API. For many organizations, the challenge is not just selecting a Gateway API implementation, but designing a migration strategy…
Extending AI gateways with Rust: Custom transformations in kgateway
Every gateway ships with a set of built-in policies. Authentication. Rate limiting. Request routing. Prompt guards. These cover most use cases. But what about the ones they don’t cover? What if you need to add a…
Challenges The aim was to reduce dependency on vendor-specific implementations, improve scalability, and ensure data sovereignty and regulatory compliance, while competing with public cloud providers. Technical challenges included building a platform capable of handling 600+ clusters…
Securing GitHub Actions CI dependencies: Recipe card
Recipe GitHub Actions CI dependencies Target audience (the chef) Project maintainers and developers who need practical, concrete steps to efficiently secure CI dependencies within their GitHub Actions workflows Scope (ingredients) Dependencies within the GitHub Actions, Github…
The challenge Flex CI & CD transformed software delivery at Adobe by making GitOps the foundation of how teams deploy and manage applications. We established Git as the source of truth, adopted declarative infrastructure and application…
How To Measure the ROI of Developer Tools
There’s been a growing emphasis in the cloud native community on investing in tools that improve developer experience. Platform engineering, accompanied with the rise of projects like Backstage, is all about making developers more productive by…
ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway migration on CNCF internal services cluster
CNCF hosts a Kubernetes cluster to run some services for internal purposes (namely; codimd, GUAC, kcp). The Kubernetes Project announced the ingress-nginx retirement (not to be confused with NGINX or NGINX Ingress Controller), which also affects the above mentioned Cluster. So…