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All-in-one #DevOps & #SRE services powered by #Kubernetes and other Cloud Native technologies. Kubernetes Certified Service Provider. Based in Germany; delivering business value worldwide. https://palark.com/
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The latest #Kubernative digest for Cloud Native software updates covers #Mimir 3.0.0 with its new architecture; #HolmesGPT 0.15; Backstage v1.44.0; #Calico v3.31.0; #Vitess v23 based on MySQL 8.4.6; #ArgoCD v3.2.0, deprecating v2.x; #ExternalSecretsOperator v1.0.0 marking GA. t.me/kubernative/...
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Our most immense respect to Viacheslav, whose dream just came true! ✨ In 2018, our engineer started chasing a dream of becoming an Ironman. Last week, he joined the IRONMAN Florida 140.6 and, for the first time in his life, he completed 3,9 km of swimming, 180 km of cycling and 42,2 km of running 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Visiting #KCDPorto this week was a pure pleasure for our Dmitry and Aleksei! Monday and Tuesday were filled with both local and international tech enthusiasts sharing their experiences through 30+ formal talks and endless discussions on #Kubernetes, #CloudNative, observability, FinOps, and whatnot.
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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kubectl-find is a #kubectl plugin that helps you find #Kubernetes resources based on various criteria (including custom jq filters) and perform some actions.

GitHub repo: github.com/alikhil/kube...

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GitHub - alikhil/kubectl-find: Missing kubectl UNIX-find-like plugin to find resources and perform action on them
Missing kubectl UNIX-find-like plugin to find resources and perform action on them - alikhil/kubectl-find
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October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Ready to try PG Back Web, a simple and convenient GUI for #PostgreSQL backups? See what it offers, how you can deploy it to #Kubernetes, and why it was just renamed to UFO Backup.

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PG Back Web overview: GUI to manage PostgreSQL backups | Tech blog | Palark
Explore what this tool offers for performing and scheduling PostgreSQL database backups, restoring from them, and ensuring the backups and databases themselves are up and running. Then, follow the qui...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Aralez is a high-performance reverse proxy written in #Rust and available as an Ingress controller for #Kubernetes. It features dynamically loaded SSL certificates, a built-in load balancer, a rate limiter, and more.

GitHub repo: github.com/sadoyan/aralez

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GitHub - sadoyan/aralez: Aralez (Արալեզ), Reverse proxy and service mesh built on top of Cloudflare's Pingora
Aralez (Արալեզ), Reverse proxy and service mesh built on top of Cloudflare's Pingora - sadoyan/aralez
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October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Orbit is a CLI tool that unifies the discovery of and access to the managed #Kubernetes clusters across different cloud providers (AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE). It adds newly discovered clusters to your existing kubeconfig.

gitlab.com/RMJx1/orbit

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October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The latest #Kubernative digest for Cloud Native software updates has #Flux v2.7.0 with image automation controllers, #K3s v1.34, #Freelens 1.6.0, #Podman Desktop 1.22 with simplified YAML manifests apply, Headlamp 0.36.0, #Keycloak 26.4.0, #Cozystack v0.37.0 with brand-new GUI. t.me/kubernative/...
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Happy to visit Cloud Native Days Austria (#CNDAustria) again! This time, we didn’t present a talk, but our DevOps engineers fully enjoyed the event as visitors 👏 Lots of insightful talks and discussions in a company of Cloud Native folks. The experience is even better thanks to beautiful Vienna.
October 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Another #EinsteinMarathon in Ulm last Sunday for our engineers! Tired and happy are Viacheslav and Maksim, who completed their half-marathons in 1:41:27 and 1:49:46, respectively. Congratulations and kudos to them from all of us at Palark! 👏 Hopefully, we’ll see even more coworkers there next year 😉
September 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Pod-certificate-signer is a controller leveraging a new #Kubernetes API — PodCertificateRequests, introduced in v1.34 as alpha — to sign TLS/mTLS certificates for Pods, as specified in Pod annotations.

GitHub repo: github.com/RafPe/pod-ce...

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GitHub - RafPe/pod-certificate-signer: Custom signer for PodCertificateRequests
Custom signer for PodCertificateRequests. Contribute to RafPe/pod-certificate-signer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Sharing a real-world experience of upgrading a production #PostgreSQL cluster from v13 to v16 while keeping it highly available and involving minimal downtime. As usual, helpful lessons learned and lots of listings are provided 🙌

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Upgrading PostgreSQL with no data loss and minimal downtime
Learn from a real-world journey of upgrading a heavily loaded PostgreSQL cluster from v13 to v16 while keeping it highly available. This story comes with detailed listings and pitfalls encountered on ...
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September 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Perhaps you’ll think it’s just a random Friday photo from our office in Ulm? Well, close enough to reality… but it’s a bit more than that. It’s how our Ilia and Anton felt upon completing the ISO 27001 surveillance audit. Enjoy your weekend with no less level of well-deserved satisfaction! 😜
September 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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teleskopio is a new Web UI for #Kubernetes that allows you to manage various workloads, networking, and storage. It comes with admin/viewer role access, embedded Monaco editor, cluster overview, live resource changes, and more. github.com/roman-kisele...

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September 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Recently, #SpectroCloud unveiled the 5th edition of its State of Production #Kubernetes. It highlighted the following challenges with K8s in production:

1. Cost (42%)
2. Multi-environment consistency (41%, a significant increase from 32% last year)
3. Security (40%)
4. Skills and headcount (39%)

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September 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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CR(D) Wizard is a new UI for exploring #Kubernetes CRDs and corresponding CRs. It displays CRD’s schema as browsable documentation, shows information about existing CRs, and draws a resource relationship graph: github.com/pehlicd/crd-...

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August 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Participating in #Money2020 earlier this summer was a game-changer in our expo experience! Seeing more customers from #fintech come for our #DevOps services is encouraging, and we can’t think of a better event to facilitate these connections 🚀 Our success story: europe.money2020.com/sponsor/succ...
August 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The latest #Kubernative digest with Cloud Native software updates includes #Istio 1.27 with inference extension support; #CloudNativePG v1.27.0; #Crossplane v2.0 managing applications; #Nelm v1.12 debugging Helm charts; #OpenCost v1.116.0 with Promless configuration; #copa v0.11 t.me/kubernative/...
August 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Recently, we launched a new service for companies that need #SelfHostedLLM setup for privacy, flexibility, and cost efficiency. You can get any #OpenSource LLMs on your premises with no limitations. Learn more about this offer, and let's discuss your #EnterpriseAI case! palark.com/services/pri...
August 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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The 2025 #StackOverflow Developer Survey landed recently.
Its Cloud development section covers cloud platforms, containerization tools, package managers, build tools, and IaC. Some of its stats:

- #Docker is the most used technology by developers (71.1%), and #Kubernetes is the 5th (28.5%).

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August 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Our latest #Kubernative digest with Cloud Native software updates covers #Freelens v1.5.0; #k8gb v0.15.0 with multi-zone DNS support; mariadb-operator 25.08.1 with physical-level backups; #Kyverno 1.15 with new policy types; kube-vip v1.0;
#Cilium 1.18; #Sveltos v1.0.0. t.me/kubernative/...
August 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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We’ve just published a detailed overview of 13 new alpha features — including widely discussed KYAML — coming to #Kubernetes v1.34. The release itself will be out in 3 weeks, so you have enough time to learn about the new things; read and share! 🙌

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Kubernetes 1.34: Deep dive into new alpha features
Prepare for the upcoming Kubernetes release by learning about the 13 alpha features it brings. They cover various areas of the project, from asynchronous API calls to the new KYAML format.
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August 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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#CNOE published a GitHub repo with its #AWS reference implementation. It helps build a production-ready #IDP on EKS with Crossplane, Backstage, Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Keycloak, and other #CloudNative tools. Find it here: github.com/cnoe-io/refe...

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GitHub - cnoe-io/reference-implementation-aws: This is the reference implementation of CNOE and its toolings on AWS
This is the reference implementation of CNOE and its toolings on AWS - cnoe-io/reference-implementation-aws
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August 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Today’s article in our blog is all about #K8sGPT, a #CNCF Sandbox project! We will use this powerful AI-powered assistant to tackle several #Kubernetes issues and see how it performs, leveraging popular AI models and even self-hosted LLMs deployed via #LocalAI.

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K8sGPT for Kubernetes troubleshooting: How AI helps in different cases
Learn what K8sGPT offers and how it helps Kubernetes operators become more efficient. This article challenges various GenAI models with several issues and covers running local LLMs.
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July 31, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Missed #CNSMunich? #Palark engineers visited this excellent event and made a list of the talks they'd like to highlight. Most importantly, they are all available online on YouTube already! Here's the link to a playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... — and find our recommendations in the thread 🔽
CNS 2025 - YouTube
Welcome back to the Cloud Native Summit Munich 2025 (formerly known as KCD Munich). This year we have over 45 fantastic speakers in the line up, distributed ...
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July 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM