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Palark @palark.com · 6d

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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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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Palark @palark.com · 8d

Another photo with our engineers during Cloud Native Days Austria 2025 #CNDAustria 🥰🙌

GitHub - sadoyan/aralez: Aralez (Արալեզ), Reverse proxy and service mesh built on top of Cloudflare's Pingora

Palark @palark.com · 8d

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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Aralez (Արալեզ), Reverse proxy and service mesh built on top of Cloudflare's Pingora - sadoyan/aralez

Palark @palark.com · 19d

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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Palark @palark.com · 25d

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/...

Palark @palark.com · 26d

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.

GitHub - RafPe/pod-certificate-signer: Custom signer for PodCertificateRequests

Palark @palark.com · Sep 30

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 😉

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Palark @palark.com · Sep 26

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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Custom signer for PodCertificateRequests. Contribute to RafPe/pod-certificate-signer development by creating an account on GitHub.

Upgrading PostgreSQL with no data loss and minimal downtime

Palark @palark.com · Sep 23

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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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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Palark @palark.com · Sep 19

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! 😜

Palark @palark.com · Sep 12

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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Palark @palark.com · Sep 3

Find the full report with other insights on AI workloads, edge environments, IDPs, KubeVirt, and more here: www.spectrocloud.com/state-of-kub...

Palark @palark.com · Sep 3

Other findings include:
- AI workloads are the fastest-growing ones running on Kubernetes.
- While 60% of organisations adopt a multi-cloud strategy for K8s, repatriating cloud workloads to on-prem is also a popular trend (56%).
- The visibility of Kubernetes TCO improved dramatically, reaching 78%.

Palark @palark.com · Sep 3

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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Palark @palark.com · Aug 22

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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Palark @palark.com · Aug 20

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...

Palark @palark.com · Aug 18

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/...

Palark @palark.com · Aug 13

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...

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Palark @palark.com · Aug 12

- #Docker is the most desired tech (50.4% of developers want to use it) and the second most admired (63.6% want to continue using it).
- #Kubernetes is the 3rd most desired (27.9%) and the 5th most admired (58%) for cloud development.

More stats from this survey: survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/

Palark @palark.com · Aug 12

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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Palark @palark.com · Aug 11

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/...

Kubernetes 1.34: Deep dive into new alpha features

Palark @palark.com · Aug 7

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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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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Palark @palark.com · Aug 5

#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

K8sGPT for Kubernetes troubleshooting: How AI helps in different cases

Palark @palark.com · Jul 31

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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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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