From Bash Script to Operational Triage: What Eight Months of Kubernetes Debugging Taught Me
Kubernetes operational triage taught me that finding failures is easy. Knowing where to start is the hard part.
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Building Production-Safe Agentic Remediation with Docker MCP Gateway: Lessons from 43% to 100% Accuracy
Docker MCP Gateway is one of the first production tools that takes this seriously — one that treats the infrastructure around the agent as the security layer, not the agent itself.
Docker Sandbox for DevOps Engineers: Real Experiments, Real Findings, and Running Kubernetes Inside a microVM
A DevOps engineer’s hands-on evaluation of Docker Sandbox — network policy findings, isolation proof, and running k3d inside a microVM with a real AI agent scenario.
Production AI Agents in Kubernetes: A 7-Control Checklist for Platform Teams
A practical seven-control checklist for shipping tool-using AI agents to production — identity, authorization, audit, rate limits, rollback, and fallbacks
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Beyond the 90-Second Gap: Four More Ways Kubernetes Destroys Your Evidence
Kubernetes has five evidence destruction mechanisms. After the 90-second OOMKill gap, scheduler decisions, debug sessions, and ghost pods vanish silently.
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The Docker Security Guide Fortune 500 Teams Wish Existed
Enterprise-grade Docker security guide from managing 8 production clusters. 10 labs covering auditing, hardening, SBOM, escapes. 35,000 words
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Debugging Kubernetes Control Plane Failures
Debug issues with Kubernetes control plane components and common failure points, including API server, etcd, and scheduler.
Debugging Kubernetes Storage (PV/PVC)
How Kubernetes pods accessing Persistent Volumes and common storage failure scenarios.
Debugging Kubernetes Scheduling Problems
Kubernetes scheduler assigning pods to nodes, showing common resource and scheduling problems.
When Kubernetes Restarts Your Pod — And When It Doesn’t
A production engineer’s internals guide to ConfigMap sync, in-place resize, Istio xDS, CrashLoopBackOff vs recreation, and Stakater Reloader — verified against Kubernetes 1.35 GA with hands-on lab evidence.
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