@cloudnativeboy.bsky.social
Host of youtube.com/@cloudnativefm podcast, CNCF Ambassador
Season 4 opener — Episode 144: Agentic DevOps: Automation, Autonomy, & the Risk of Vendor Lock-In
🎧 I talk with MahirVora from @CDFoundation Ambassador about safe agent workflows, trust budgets, RBAC for remediation, and pricing & lock-in risks.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/bQdRpfmSXnI
🎧 I talk with MahirVora from @CDFoundation Ambassador about safe agent workflows, trust budgets, RBAC for remediation, and pricing & lock-in risks.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/bQdRpfmSXnI
January 22, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Season 4 opener — Episode 144: Agentic DevOps: Automation, Autonomy, & the Risk of Vendor Lock-In
🎧 I talk with MahirVora from @CDFoundation Ambassador about safe agent workflows, trust budgets, RBAC for remediation, and pricing & lock-in risks.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/bQdRpfmSXnI
🎧 I talk with MahirVora from @CDFoundation Ambassador about safe agent workflows, trust budgets, RBAC for remediation, and pricing & lock-in risks.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/bQdRpfmSXnI
In case you didn't notice:
ingress2gateway is a CLI that reads Kubernetes Ingress resources and outputs equivalent Gateway API manifests
It maps hosts, paths, and routing rules directly, allowing you to adopt Gateway API resources instead of legacy Ingress
github.com/kubernetes-s...
ingress2gateway is a CLI that reads Kubernetes Ingress resources and outputs equivalent Gateway API manifests
It maps hosts, paths, and routing rules directly, allowing you to adopt Gateway API resources instead of legacy Ingress
github.com/kubernetes-s...
GitHub - kubernetes-sigs/ingress2gateway: Convert Ingress resources to Gateway API resources
Convert Ingress resources to Gateway API resources - kubernetes-sigs/ingress2gateway
github.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
In case you didn't notice:
ingress2gateway is a CLI that reads Kubernetes Ingress resources and outputs equivalent Gateway API manifests
It maps hosts, paths, and routing rules directly, allowing you to adopt Gateway API resources instead of legacy Ingress
github.com/kubernetes-s...
ingress2gateway is a CLI that reads Kubernetes Ingress resources and outputs equivalent Gateway API manifests
It maps hosts, paths, and routing rules directly, allowing you to adopt Gateway API resources instead of legacy Ingress
github.com/kubernetes-s...
Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is widely misunderstood. a fancy web UI where developers click buttons. That’s not a platform.
Design like a public cloud: services/APIs/UIs
My choice for building IDP in 2026 -> Backstack (Backstage, Argo CD, Crossplane, Kyverno) 🧵 / (1/1)
Design like a public cloud: services/APIs/UIs
My choice for building IDP in 2026 -> Backstack (Backstage, Argo CD, Crossplane, Kyverno) 🧵 / (1/1)
January 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is widely misunderstood. a fancy web UI where developers click buttons. That’s not a platform.
Design like a public cloud: services/APIs/UIs
My choice for building IDP in 2026 -> Backstack (Backstage, Argo CD, Crossplane, Kyverno) 🧵 / (1/1)
Design like a public cloud: services/APIs/UIs
My choice for building IDP in 2026 -> Backstack (Backstage, Argo CD, Crossplane, Kyverno) 🧵 / (1/1)
Back at university, doing what I love, teaching and learning. Thank you @CUSTislamabad for hosting my Cloud Native DevOps Roadmap 2026 talk. The students who stayed after, asked great questions, and showed real hunger for DevOps & GenAI reminded me why I do this. 🙏 #GenAI #DevOps
January 14, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Richard walks through what reskilling looks like in 2026 for people in cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure roles: from prompt/context engineering to MLOps, agentic AI roadmaps, and vendor learning paths that you can actually start today.
Watch -> youtu.be/lI5m5ILq8yY #CloudNativeFM
Add your 🤔 ✍️👇
Watch -> youtu.be/lI5m5ILq8yY #CloudNativeFM
Add your 🤔 ✍️👇
January 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Richard walks through what reskilling looks like in 2026 for people in cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure roles: from prompt/context engineering to MLOps, agentic AI roadmaps, and vendor learning paths that you can actually start today.
Watch -> youtu.be/lI5m5ILq8yY #CloudNativeFM
Add your 🤔 ✍️👇
Watch -> youtu.be/lI5m5ILq8yY #CloudNativeFM
Add your 🤔 ✍️👇
Will 2026 be a year of new protocols? Will you care about it?
Google just opensourced Universal Commerce Protocol.
AI Agents can now discover products, fill carts, and complete purchases autonomously.
Works with Agent2Agent (A2A), Agents Payment Protocol (AP2) and MCP.
100% Opensource.
Google just opensourced Universal Commerce Protocol.
AI Agents can now discover products, fill carts, and complete purchases autonomously.
Works with Agent2Agent (A2A), Agents Payment Protocol (AP2) and MCP.
100% Opensource.
January 14, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Will 2026 be a year of new protocols? Will you care about it?
Google just opensourced Universal Commerce Protocol.
AI Agents can now discover products, fill carts, and complete purchases autonomously.
Works with Agent2Agent (A2A), Agents Payment Protocol (AP2) and MCP.
100% Opensource.
Google just opensourced Universal Commerce Protocol.
AI Agents can now discover products, fill carts, and complete purchases autonomously.
Works with Agent2Agent (A2A), Agents Payment Protocol (AP2) and MCP.
100% Opensource.
MIT says ~95% of GenAI pilots show no measurable P&L impact. Wharton finds ~75% of firms report positive ROI. Different questions = different headlines.
Short clip w/ RichardSimon unpacks why
#CloudNativeWisdom18: youtu.be/fTE_tSW1NzA
Short clip w/ RichardSimon unpacks why
#CloudNativeWisdom18: youtu.be/fTE_tSW1NzA
January 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM
MIT says ~95% of GenAI pilots show no measurable P&L impact. Wharton finds ~75% of firms report positive ROI. Different questions = different headlines.
Short clip w/ RichardSimon unpacks why
#CloudNativeWisdom18: youtu.be/fTE_tSW1NzA
Short clip w/ RichardSimon unpacks why
#CloudNativeWisdom18: youtu.be/fTE_tSW1NzA
Resilience vs High Availability, following the AWS US-East-1 outage,
Richard Simon and I explain why AZ-level resilience wasn’t enough and how true HA needs cross-region failover and practice
Watch our quick explainer 👇
youtu.be/WMx3kV-qwXE
Richard Simon and I explain why AZ-level resilience wasn’t enough and how true HA needs cross-region failover and practice
Watch our quick explainer 👇
youtu.be/WMx3kV-qwXE
#CloudNativeWisdom17 Resilience ≠ HA: What the US-East-1 Outage Taught Us
YouTube video by Cloud Native Podcast
youtu.be
January 6, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Resilience vs High Availability, following the AWS US-East-1 outage,
Richard Simon and I explain why AZ-level resilience wasn’t enough and how true HA needs cross-region failover and practice
Watch our quick explainer 👇
youtu.be/WMx3kV-qwXE
Richard Simon and I explain why AZ-level resilience wasn’t enough and how true HA needs cross-region failover and practice
Watch our quick explainer 👇
youtu.be/WMx3kV-qwXE
#CloudNativeWisdom16 How AI and generative agents are reshaping cloud migration from automated discovery & dependency mapping to vendor tools, including those from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, and newcomers like Fluid Cloud.
Watch on #CloudNativeFM -> youtu.be/13eEAOCA6SQ
Watch on #CloudNativeFM -> youtu.be/13eEAOCA6SQ
January 6, 2026 at 3:23 AM
#CloudNativeWisdom16 How AI and generative agents are reshaping cloud migration from automated discovery & dependency mapping to vendor tools, including those from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, and newcomers like Fluid Cloud.
Watch on #CloudNativeFM -> youtu.be/13eEAOCA6SQ
Watch on #CloudNativeFM -> youtu.be/13eEAOCA6SQ
With the release of K8s 1.35, In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling has officially hit GA.
We no longer have to restart pods (and risk minor disruptions) just to adjust CPU or memory limits.
Check out the details here: kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12...
We no longer have to restart pods (and risk minor disruptions) just to adjust CPU or memory limits.
Check out the details here: kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12...
Kubernetes 1.35: In-Place Pod Resize Graduates to Stable
This release marks a major step: more than 6 years after its initial conception, the In-Place Pod Resize feature (also known as In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling), first introduced as alpha in Kubernetes ...
kubernetes.io
January 2, 2026 at 5:48 PM
With the release of K8s 1.35, In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling has officially hit GA.
We no longer have to restart pods (and risk minor disruptions) just to adjust CPU or memory limits.
Check out the details here: kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12...
We no longer have to restart pods (and risk minor disruptions) just to adjust CPU or memory limits.
Check out the details here: kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12...
December 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Is there anything JavaScript can’t do?
December 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Is there anything JavaScript can’t do?
Docker Hardened Images (DHI) is now free and open source (Apache 2.0) 🎉
- hardened, minimal, near-zero CVEs images & helm charts
- SBOM & provenance attestations
Read more:
www.docker.com/blog/docker-...
- hardened, minimal, near-zero CVEs images & helm charts
- SBOM & provenance attestations
Read more:
www.docker.com/blog/docker-...
Hardened Images for Everyone | Docker
Security for everyone. Docker Hardened Images are now free to use, share, and build on with no licensing surprises.
www.docker.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Docker Hardened Images (DHI) is now free and open source (Apache 2.0) 🎉
- hardened, minimal, near-zero CVEs images & helm charts
- SBOM & provenance attestations
Read more:
www.docker.com/blog/docker-...
- hardened, minimal, near-zero CVEs images & helm charts
- SBOM & provenance attestations
Read more:
www.docker.com/blog/docker-...
I can't make it to the #KubeCon, b/c none of my CFPs have been accepted for the last 6 years, but I can give a keynote talk thanks to "new ChatGPT Images."
December 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I can't make it to the #KubeCon, b/c none of my CFPs have been accepted for the last 6 years, but I can give a keynote talk thanks to "new ChatGPT Images."
🧵 (1/1) A new Kid in the Policy Town Cedar by AWS access controls for Kubernetes! Cedar is an open-source policy language created by AWS and is now a CNCF Sandbox Project. This project enables writing expressive Kubernetes permissions.
aws.amazon.com/blogs/openso...
aws.amazon.com/blogs/openso...
Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project | Amazon Web Services
Cedar, an open source authorization policy language and SDK, has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project. CNCF provides a neutral home for early stage and developing o...
aws.amazon.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🧵 (1/1) A new Kid in the Policy Town Cedar by AWS access controls for Kubernetes! Cedar is an open-source policy language created by AWS and is now a CNCF Sandbox Project. This project enables writing expressive Kubernetes permissions.
aws.amazon.com/blogs/openso...
aws.amazon.com/blogs/openso...
Last livestream of 2025, Thank you everyone, for giving up your precious time to be with us #ReInvent re: Call Livestream.
Guy Brodetzki (@InfrOS)
Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu (LeanerCloud)
Mike Mead (The Scale Factory)
Randi Belz (@NirmataCloud)
Jon Brookes (AJBC)
The Vegas Airport Slot Machines 😀
Guy Brodetzki (@InfrOS)
Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu (LeanerCloud)
Mike Mead (The Scale Factory)
Randi Belz (@NirmataCloud)
Jon Brookes (AJBC)
The Vegas Airport Slot Machines 😀
December 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Last livestream of 2025, Thank you everyone, for giving up your precious time to be with us #ReInvent re: Call Livestream.
Guy Brodetzki (@InfrOS)
Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu (LeanerCloud)
Mike Mead (The Scale Factory)
Randi Belz (@NirmataCloud)
Jon Brookes (AJBC)
The Vegas Airport Slot Machines 😀
Guy Brodetzki (@InfrOS)
Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu (LeanerCloud)
Mike Mead (The Scale Factory)
Randi Belz (@NirmataCloud)
Jon Brookes (AJBC)
The Vegas Airport Slot Machines 😀
AI and programmers then vs AI and programmers now......
Can you spot a BIG difference?
Can you spot a BIG difference?
December 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
AI and programmers then vs AI and programmers now......
Can you spot a BIG difference?
Can you spot a BIG difference?
Learn how Perforator fetches continuous profiling data (via Pyrocope), allows you to copy a contextual prompt for a bottleneck, & then utilizes an MCP-enabled AI agent to request the profiling payload and automatically refactor the code, saving dev time & surfacing real fixes, not guesses.
Link 👇
Link 👇
December 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Learn how Perforator fetches continuous profiling data (via Pyrocope), allows you to copy a contextual prompt for a bottleneck, & then utilizes an MCP-enabled AI agent to request the profiling payload and automatically refactor the code, saving dev time & surfacing real fixes, not guesses.
Link 👇
Link 👇
Happy Monday, Software Engineers!!!
December 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Happy Monday, Software Engineers!!!
OpenAI has completed its recapitalization/restructuring.
I sit down with Richard Simon to unpack OpenAI’s recapitalization, the new OpenAI Foundation, and what the reshuffle means for Microsoft, cloud providers, and the open-source community.
Watch -> youtu.be/Bh6iG64MOaA
I sit down with Richard Simon to unpack OpenAI’s recapitalization, the new OpenAI Foundation, and what the reshuffle means for Microsoft, cloud providers, and the open-source community.
Watch -> youtu.be/Bh6iG64MOaA
#CloudNativeWisdom15 Open AI Restructuring
YouTube video by Cloud Native Podcast
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
OpenAI has completed its recapitalization/restructuring.
I sit down with Richard Simon to unpack OpenAI’s recapitalization, the new OpenAI Foundation, and what the reshuffle means for Microsoft, cloud providers, and the open-source community.
Watch -> youtu.be/Bh6iG64MOaA
I sit down with Richard Simon to unpack OpenAI’s recapitalization, the new OpenAI Foundation, and what the reshuffle means for Microsoft, cloud providers, and the open-source community.
Watch -> youtu.be/Bh6iG64MOaA
You need an enterprise-grade inventory, a system of record that tells you what you own, where it runs, and what policies apply.
"InfraGraph" aims to restore the single source of truth we lost moving to the cloud.
Watch the full episode:
youtu.be/qKN5o0IwiJQ
"InfraGraph" aims to restore the single source of truth we lost moving to the cloud.
Watch the full episode:
youtu.be/qKN5o0IwiJQ
#cloudnativewisdom12 HashiCorp Project Infragraph — The “Google Maps” for Cloud Infrastructure?
YouTube video by Cloud Native Podcast
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
You need an enterprise-grade inventory, a system of record that tells you what you own, where it runs, and what policies apply.
"InfraGraph" aims to restore the single source of truth we lost moving to the cloud.
Watch the full episode:
youtu.be/qKN5o0IwiJQ
"InfraGraph" aims to restore the single source of truth we lost moving to the cloud.
Watch the full episode:
youtu.be/qKN5o0IwiJQ
🎙️ Code to Culture: Platform Engineering Unpacked for Enterprises
Ep 3: Golden Paths vs Developer Freedom
- How do we resolve conflicts b/w Golden Paths and dev preferences?
- What does it take to turn developers into fans of platform teams?
Watch #CloudNativeFM: youtu.be/_FPdHexAyfk
Ep 3: Golden Paths vs Developer Freedom
- How do we resolve conflicts b/w Golden Paths and dev preferences?
- What does it take to turn developers into fans of platform teams?
Watch #CloudNativeFM: youtu.be/_FPdHexAyfk
Code To Culture, Ep 3: Golden Paths vs Developer Freedom: Can We Both?
YouTube video by Cloud Native Podcast
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🎙️ Code to Culture: Platform Engineering Unpacked for Enterprises
Ep 3: Golden Paths vs Developer Freedom
- How do we resolve conflicts b/w Golden Paths and dev preferences?
- What does it take to turn developers into fans of platform teams?
Watch #CloudNativeFM: youtu.be/_FPdHexAyfk
Ep 3: Golden Paths vs Developer Freedom
- How do we resolve conflicts b/w Golden Paths and dev preferences?
- What does it take to turn developers into fans of platform teams?
Watch #CloudNativeFM: youtu.be/_FPdHexAyfk
MemoriLabs - Memori project just hit 10,000 GitHub stars
Gives you structured, persistent memory using the SQL databases you already use (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite), and it works with any model, GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or local LLMs, without changing your code.
github.com/MemoriLabs/M...
Gives you structured, persistent memory using the SQL databases you already use (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite), and it works with any model, GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or local LLMs, without changing your code.
github.com/MemoriLabs/M...
GitHub - MemoriLabs/Memori: SQL Native Memory Layer for LLMs, AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
SQL Native Memory Layer for LLMs, AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems - MemoriLabs/Memori
github.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
MemoriLabs - Memori project just hit 10,000 GitHub stars
Gives you structured, persistent memory using the SQL databases you already use (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite), and it works with any model, GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or local LLMs, without changing your code.
github.com/MemoriLabs/M...
Gives you structured, persistent memory using the SQL databases you already use (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite), and it works with any model, GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or local LLMs, without changing your code.
github.com/MemoriLabs/M...
Friendly 🔔 happening tomorrow, 𝗮𝘁 𝟰𝗣𝗠 𝗚𝗠𝗧.
The CloudTherapist and #CloudNativeFM
YouTube channels are proud to announce #AWSreInvent2025 𝗿𝗲:𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺, the newest trends and everything worth paying attention to.
Bookmark the link 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whhe...
The CloudTherapist and #CloudNativeFM
YouTube channels are proud to announce #AWSreInvent2025 𝗿𝗲:𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺, the newest trends and everything worth paying attention to.
Bookmark the link 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whhe...
AWS re:Call 2025 Livestream
YouTube video by Cloud Therapist
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Friendly 🔔 happening tomorrow, 𝗮𝘁 𝟰𝗣𝗠 𝗚𝗠𝗧.
The CloudTherapist and #CloudNativeFM
YouTube channels are proud to announce #AWSreInvent2025 𝗿𝗲:𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺, the newest trends and everything worth paying attention to.
Bookmark the link 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whhe...
The CloudTherapist and #CloudNativeFM
YouTube channels are proud to announce #AWSreInvent2025 𝗿𝗲:𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺, the newest trends and everything worth paying attention to.
Bookmark the link 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whhe...
To help students and professionals understand the real roadmap ahead, #CloudNativeIslamabad, in collaboration with CSS IIUI, brings you a deep-dive workshop on the DevOps Roadmap 2026.
📅 Dec 23rd
🕐 10:00 AM
Secure your spot now: luma.com/ku6fo7w7
📅 Dec 23rd
🕐 10:00 AM
Secure your spot now: luma.com/ku6fo7w7
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
To help students and professionals understand the real roadmap ahead, #CloudNativeIslamabad, in collaboration with CSS IIUI, brings you a deep-dive workshop on the DevOps Roadmap 2026.
📅 Dec 23rd
🕐 10:00 AM
Secure your spot now: luma.com/ku6fo7w7
📅 Dec 23rd
🕐 10:00 AM
Secure your spot now: luma.com/ku6fo7w7