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Last week, our team visited Hohle Fels in the Swabian Jura (also known as the Swabian Alps), which is one of the caves with the oldest Ice Age art and is therefore a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. This journey in time turned out to be a great experience! ✨

What do we feel about #Palark being recognised as one of the fastest-growing companies in Germany? Genuinely proud of doing the right thing at the right time! Today, delivering real business value while offering services in Platform Engineering, DevOps, and SRE is an art. palark.com/news/palark-...

Excited to discover this new video from Morris Musumi: “Werf: The Smarter Way to Build and Deploy Containerized Apps”! It provides a fantastic overview of #werf and explains when and why our tool can be helpful. Check it out and share with your #DevOps friends 🤗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM5H...

Our new #Kubernative digest for #CloudNative software updates includes Argo Workflows 4.1; Prometheus 3.14 with PromQL duration expressions; Crossplane 2.4.0; Strimzi 1.2.0 with server-side apply in GA; Open Policy Agent 1.20.0; Istio 1.31.0; Inspektor Gadget v0.56.0. Read it: t.me/kubernative/...

sofka is a new #OpenSource TUI tool for managing #Kubernetes from your terminal, which is similar to the well-known #k9s. It follows a different implementation approach and is written in #Rust. ▶️ GitHub repo github.com/nklmilojevic... // Source: the #Kubernative Telegram channel

Steering the Kubernetes wheel is quite exciting, but to be honest, it has become so trivial for most of us at #Palark 🥲 Thus, we decided to have a boat trip on the Danube River, which turned out to be a fantastic and truly refreshing experience! 💦👏

This new kube-oidc-proxy fork offers multi-issuer #OIDC authentication to managed #Kubernetes clusters, such as EKS, GKE, and AKS. GitHub repo github.com/RafPe/kube-o... // Source: the #Kubernative Telegram channel

Our new #Kubernative digest for #CloudNative software updates covers Rancher v2.15 with CAPI going GA; Karpenter v1.14 with the allocator for DRA; Cilium 1.20.0 with Gateway API v1.6; Cozystack v1.6.0; KServe v0.20.0 with managed DRA for LLM inference; wasmCloud v2.7.0. Read it: t.me/kubernative/...

Kubernetes Practitioner Workshop is a new GitHub repo that offers structured educational content for engineers looking to learn and practice #Kubernetes. It has 28 topics, each with slides and a lab. All content is #OpenSource github.com/platformrela... // Source: the #Kubernative Telegram channel

Agent Substrate is an experimental #OpenSource system from #Google for running agents and similar workloads on #Kubernetes at scale. GitHub repo github.com/agent-substr... // Source: the #Kubernative Telegram channel

#Kubernetes v1.37 will be released in a month. It will come with 22 new alpha features, including the CompositePodGroup API, nftables as the default kube-proxy backend, topology for volume snapshots, a volume health monitor… Read our article to learn what awaits us ahead! palark.com/blog/kuberne...

#PostgreSQL logical replication with #Patroni can be tricky. Our latest blog investigates a practical case where you can unexpectedly lose data and explains what you can do to ensure fault tolerance and consistency in your setup. palark.com/blog/patroni...

Our latest #Kubernative digest for #CloudNative software updates has Argo CD 3.5 RC with an ApplicationSets UI; Headlamp 0.43.0; Podman v6.0.0 with a huge networking overhaul; CloudNativePG 1.30.0; Dragonfly v2.5.0; Flux 2.9 with a plugin system; cert-manager v1.21.0. Read it: t.me/kubernative/...

This case study shows how Palark migrated high-traffic Drupal 8 monoliths to Kubernetes to improve resilience, autoscaling, deployment automation, and DDoS handling while reducing infrastructure waste ➤ https://ku.bz/-t8tPTV8p

Koney is a #Kubernetes operator that implements so-called security deception policies by creating fake sensitive files in your cluster's Pods to attract malicious users and monitor their activity. GitHub repo github.com/dynatrace-os... // Source: the #Kubernative Telegram channel

A new article just landed on our blog! Dmitry, our co-founder and CNCF Ambassador, continues reviewing the recent additions to the CNCF Sandbox. Check it out to learn about the following #CNCF projects: KitOps, OpenTofu, kagent, Cadence, Hyperlight, interLink, urunc, kgateway, and Cozystack!

This case study shows how Palark migrated high-traffic Drupal 8 monoliths to Kubernetes to improve resilience, autoscaling, deployment automation, and DDoS handling while reducing infrastructure waste ➜ https://ku.bz/-t8tPTV8p

Our latest #Kubernative digest for #CloudNative software updates includes Kyverno 1.18, NATS 2.14 with feature flags, Freelens v1.9.0, OpenYurt v1.7.0 with image preheating for OTA upgrades, Traefik v3.7.0 with many nginx annotations, Istio 1.30, and Crossplane v2.3.0. Read it: t.me/kubernative/...

Launching something new in the market: DevOps insurance! The idea is similar to health or car insurance. We offer subscriptions with small monthly fees and ensure expert assistance from our #DevOps and #SRE engineers in the event of infrastructure-related incidents. The prices start at just €500+!

At #Money2020 Europe next week, we will share our #DevOps and SRE expertise, discuss any related challenges in #fintech, and explain how and when AI is actually applicable to today’s IT operations, especially when you’re running software in regulated environments. Swing by our booth 1C181 👋

Congratulations to our Ivan and Anton, who aced their Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exams! The Cloud Native community considers this #Kubernetes certification the most challenging. The feedback we got from our engineers confirms that. Well done, folks! #Palark is proud to have you 👏

KCD Czech & Slovak #kcdczsk26 has started in Prague today, and our Viacheslav and Alexey are surely enjoying this event with other #CloudNative folks. If you see their blue #Palark t-shirts around, come to say hi! 👋

Our latest blog post tells the story of implementing autoscalable #GitLab runners on #AWS. It will guide you through choosing the right executor, configuring GitLab Runner and Fleeting plugin, setting up AWS IAM, AMI, Auto Scaling Groups, etc. — enjoy! palark.com/blog/autosca...

👋 Are you joining #CloudLand2026? We do! This Wednesday, #Palark will deliver a talk, "The past, present, and future of Dex for Cloud Native authentication", and present Dex and werf #CNCF projects at CNCF Land during the CNCF Showcase. If you’re around — let's connect!

Canary checker is a monitoring tool that includes 35+ ready-to-use health checks for various #Kubernetes workloads, including popular protocols, databases, infrastructure components, file systems, and more. GitHub repo: github.com/flanksource/... // Source: the #Kubernative Telegram channel

The recent #Kubernetes v1.36 release is now covered at @infoq.com www.infoq.com/news/2026/05... — and I'm happy to see our Palark's related blog post being referred to there 😇

Your #Vercel costs are growing too fast? Security concerns triggered by a critical April incident don’t let you sleep? We’re launching a new offer for everyone considering migrating from Vercel to various alternatives, from well-known serverless solutions to Kubernetes: palark.com/services/ver...

Last Friday, the #Palark team enjoyed the magic show of a world-renowned illusionist, Florian Zimmer. Let's see if learning from magic tricks might help our DevOps & SRE engineers to handle all those monitoring alerts, reliability and performance issues, and sophisticated CI/CD pipelines? 😜

K8s cleaner is a #Kubernetes controller that finds stale and unhealthy resources and removes them. It can apply custom selection logic, notifies via Slack/Discord/Teams, and provides a web UI. GitHub repo: github.com/gianlucam76/... // Source: the #Kubernative Telegram channel

#KubeCon Europe 2026 talks are now available for everyone! Find 400+ videos in this YouTube playlist to enjoy over this weekend 😅 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Wondering what the next #Kubernetes release will bring? Our in-depth overview covers 20 newly added alpha features for K8s v1.36, which will be out in 2 weeks. Read and share! 🙌 palark.com/blog/kuberne...

Homernetes is a #Kubernetes cluster for a homelab, built on #Talos, Proxmox, Terraform, and #ArgoCD. It’s GitOps-driven, integrated with cert-manager, Vault, Cilium, Grafana, and other popular tools. GitHub repo: github.com/okwilkins/h8s // Source: the #Kubernative Telegram channel

Yesterday, our teammates presented werf at the #KubeCon Project Pavilion. Today, Maksim showcases another #CNCF project — Dex, a well-known OIDC identity and OAuth 2.0 provider. Using it within your #Kubernetes platform or considering doing so? Come to the kiosk P-6B before 14:00! 👋

Thanks, everyone, for coming to the #werf kiosk at #KubeCon today, for your interest, and for the meaningful talks!

Are you at #KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam these days? Our Maksim and Ilia are there — be sure to say "hi" to them if you're around! 👋 They will represent two #CNCF Sandbox projects at the Project Pavilion: - Wed @ 14:00-17:00, Kiosk P-6B, werf (@werf.io) - Thu @ 10:00-14:00, Kiosk P-6B, Dex

Our latest #Kubernative digest for #CloudNative software updates includes Cozystack 1.1 with OpenBao for secret management, Agentgateway v1.0.0, Backstage v1.49.0 with New Frontend System enabled by default, Harbor v2.15, Argo CD 3.4 RC, k8gb v0.19.0, OpenChoreo v1.0.0. Read it: t.me/kubernative/...

Pal, the mascot of #Palark, loves to travel. He is lucky to have teammates who are happy to bring him along on their vacations. His latest trips include Thailand and Japan. What did he see there? From a tropical island’s beach to the Hachiko statue… the photos say it all much better, don't they? ✨

Next week, we’ll be exhibiting at #CloudFest 2026 in Europa-Park! If you’re around, find our booth at the Startup Alley (S01) to discuss everything related to DevOps and Cloud Native — our team will be there and happy to chat 🙌

cek (container exploration kit) is a tool for exploring the OCI images filesystem without running them. It can not only pull from remote registries but also read directly from #Docker, #Podman, or #containerd. GitHub repo: github.com/bschaatsberg... // Source: the #Kubernative Telegram channel

Sharing our collection of #Kubernetes best practices' articles for the FAUN community: faun.dev/c/stories/sh...

Debuting at #CTOCraftCon in London with Ilya and Renat representing #Palark for all CTOs and tech leaders challenged by any DevOps-, SRE-, and Cloud Native-related issues! Excited to be here, having meaningful discussions and establishing new connections 🙌

Observatory is a visualisation dashboard for watching your #Kubernetes Pods in real-time 3D space. Using it, you can also monitor their actual state and memory/CPU usage. GitHub repo: github.com/craigderingt... // Source: the #Kubernative Telegram channel

Sometimes, you have to deal with legacy stuff. Here’s the real-world story of migrating a really old #Drupal installation to #Kubernetes. It comes with helpful, practical insights for anyone dealing with old monoliths in K8s. palark.com/blog/migrate...

Radar is a new #Kubernetes dashboard that provides detailed interactive graphs for K8s resources, network traffic visualisation, a timeline of changes, and manages Helm releases and GitOps resources. GitHub repo: github.com/skyhook-io/r... // Source: the #Kubernative Telegram channel

CruiseKube is a new controller that watches your #Kubernetes workloads and adjusts the CPU/memory resource requests accordingly. It considers CPU pressure (PSI metrics) and other Pods on the node when resizing. GitHub repo: github.com/truefoundry/... // Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel