PVC Stuck in Pending: Every Reason and the Fix
A Pending PVC is always one of a few causes: missing provisioner, topology conflicts, WaitForFirstConsumer timing, or quota. Here's how to tell them apart.
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StatefulSets: When You Actually Need One
StatefulSets give pods stable names, storage, and ordered rollout. When that matters, when a Deployment is fine, and the headless service nobody explains.
Read the postVelero: Backups That Survive a Real Disaster
Velero backups are easy to set up and easy to set up wrong. Schedules, kopia file-system backups, snapshot pitfalls, and the restore test that matters.
Read the postBuilding Images Inside Kubernetes: Kaniko vs BuildKit
Kaniko vs BuildKit for in-cluster image builds: why docker:dind is a dead end, how each tool actually works, real caching setups, and which one I'd pick.
Read the postArgo Rollouts: Canary Deploys Without a Platform Team
A practitioner's guide to Argo Rollouts: canary steps, AnalysisTemplates with Prometheus metrics, aborts and rollbacks, and the gotchas that bite small teams.
Read the postArgoCD vs Flux: After Running Both in Production
An honest ArgoCD vs Flux comparison from someone who ran both in production: install, day-two ops, multi-tenancy, drift handling, and which one I'd pick when.
Read the postExternal Secrets Operator: Stop Committing Secrets
Why encrypted secrets in git still lose, and how to wire External Secrets Operator to Vault or a cloud secret manager with rotation that actually works.
Read the postPromoting Between Environments in GitOps Without Losing Your Mind
How to promote from staging to prod in GitOps: repo layouts, Kustomize overlays, image tag promotion via PR, and the habits that prevent drift.
Read the postHelm vs Kustomize: An Honest Take From Both Sides
Helm vs Kustomize without the tribalism: templating vs overlays, release management vs GitOps, drift behavior, and how I use both on the same cluster.
Read the postWhy Your Cluster Autoscaler Isn’t Scaling
Pods Pending, cluster autoscaler doing nothing? The usual causes: PDBs, node group limits, taints, labels, and resource requests no node can satisfy.
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