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All-in-one #DevOps & #SRE services powered by #Kubernetes and other Cloud Native technologies. Kubernetes Certified Service Provider. Based in Germany; delivering business value worldwide. https://palark.com/
Here we are with our latest overview of recently added @cncf.io projects! This time, it covers Podman Container Tools and Podman Desktop, bootc, composefs, k0s, KubeFleet, SpinKube, container2wasm, Runme Notebooks for DevOps, SlimFaas, Tokenetes, CloudNativePG, and Drasi.

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Exploring Cloud Native projects in CNCF Sandbox. Part 5: 13 arrivals of January 2025 | Tech blog | Palark
Learn about the following new CNCF projects: Podman Container Tools and Podman Desktop, bootc, composefs, k0s, KubeFleet, SpinKube, container2wasm, Runme Notebooks for DevOps, SlimFaas, Tokenetes, Clo...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Kite is a new #Kubernetes dashboard, boasting a modern UI alongside numerous features: resource management for all popular resources and CRDs, multi-cluster management, RBAC management, and observability capabilities.

GitHub repo: github.com/zxh326/kite

// Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel
December 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The latest #Kubernative digest for Cloud Native software updates comes with Gateway API 1.4, Istio 1.28, Kustomize v5.8.0, Spin v3.5 with WASI Preview 3 support, Kueue v0.15.0, KubeVirt v1.7.0 with decentralised live migration, and Freelens v1.7.0. Read it here: t.me/kubernative/...
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Sharing a recent interview that @dshnow.bsky.social, our co-founder, gave to Tech Times.

“With 20 years of experience in IT operations and Open Source, I view #Kubernetes as a natural evolution of global engineering efforts to address real-world operational challenges.”

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Navigating the Kubernetes Landscape: Expert Insights on Cloud Native Operations and DevOps Best Practices
We spoke with Dmitry Shurupov, co-founder of Palark, a DevOps agency that is one of the Top 100 contributors to the Kubernetes project, about the evolving Cloud Native ecosystem, operational best prac...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
How do you imagine a gang of Pods? More “capable” #Kubernetes nodes than ever? If you’re not sure, reading our deep dive into new features coming to K8s v1.35 is a must! 😁

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Kubernetes 1.35: Deep dive into new alpha features | Tech blog | Palark
The Kubernetes v1.35 release (December 2025) introduces 15 new alpha features. Learn why these changes were made and what they bring.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Happy Black Friday, everyone! @dshnow.bsky.social, our co-founder and a #CNCF Ambassador, is here to talk about lemons 🍋 oh wait… He’s to inform you that, during #CyberWeek, Linux Foundation Education offers the best discounts on its certifications and learning courses. Don’t miss it! 🙌
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Ingress2gateway is a Gateway API SIG-Network subproject, focusing on translating Ingress and provider-specific CRDs to #GatewayAPI resources. Notably, it supports the Ingress NGINX controller that will be retired soon

GitHub repo: github.com/kubernetes-s...

// Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel
GitHub - kubernetes-sigs/ingress2gateway: Convert Ingress resources to Gateway API resources
Convert Ingress resources to Gateway API resources - kubernetes-sigs/ingress2gateway
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November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
LazyHelm is a terminal UI allowing you to navigate through #Helm repos, find new charts at Artifact Hub, modify the values, view deployed Helm releases in your #Kubernetes cluster, see the revision history, and more!

GitHub repo: github.com/alessandropi...

// Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
348 videos from #KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 are now available on YouTube via this playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

And that's not all! Almost 300 more videos are scattered over other playlists named after co-located events (such as ArgoCon): www.youtube.com/@cncf/playlists
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Have you seen the latest news about in-place Pod resizing in #Kubernetes? It’s in Beta (enabled by default) since K8s v1.33, and has become even better in the most recent v1.34. Discover how this feature works and how you can use it: palark.com/blog/in-plac...
In-place Pod resizing in Kubernetes: How it works and how to use it | Tech blog | Palark
Updating container resources in Kubernetes on the fly has been a long-awaited feature for various workloads. Read how it works, how you can use it, and what its latest improvements are.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The latest #Kubernative digest for Cloud Native software updates covers #Mimir 3.0.0 with its new architecture; #HolmesGPT 0.15; Backstage v1.44.0; #Calico v3.31.0; #Vitess v23 based on MySQL 8.4.6; #ArgoCD v3.2.0, deprecating v2.x; #ExternalSecretsOperator v1.0.0 marking GA. t.me/kubernative/...
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our most immense respect to Viacheslav, whose dream just came true! ✨ In 2018, our engineer started chasing a dream of becoming an Ironman. Last week, he joined the IRONMAN Florida 140.6 and, for the first time in his life, he completed 3,9 km of swimming, 180 km of cycling and 42,2 km of running 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Visiting #KCDPorto this week was a pure pleasure for our Dmitry and Aleksei! Monday and Tuesday were filled with both local and international tech enthusiasts sharing their experiences through 30+ formal talks and endless discussions on #Kubernetes, #CloudNative, observability, FinOps, and whatnot.
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
kubectl-find is a #kubectl plugin that helps you find #Kubernetes resources based on various criteria (including custom jq filters) and perform some actions.

GitHub repo: github.com/alikhil/kube...

// Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel
GitHub - alikhil/kubectl-find: Missing kubectl UNIX-find-like plugin to find resources and perform action on them
Missing kubectl UNIX-find-like plugin to find resources and perform action on them - alikhil/kubectl-find
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October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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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PG Back Web overview: GUI to manage PostgreSQL backups | Tech blog | Palark
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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October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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

// Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel
GitHub - sadoyan/aralez: Aralez (Արալեզ), Reverse proxy and service mesh built on top of Cloudflare's Pingora
Aralez (Արալեզ), Reverse proxy and service mesh built on top of Cloudflare's Pingora - sadoyan/aralez
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October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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

// Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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/...
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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.
October 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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 😉
September 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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...

// Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel
GitHub - RafPe/pod-certificate-signer: Custom signer for PodCertificateRequests
Custom signer for PodCertificateRequests. Contribute to RafPe/pod-certificate-signer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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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Upgrading PostgreSQL with no data loss and minimal downtime
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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September 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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! 😜
September 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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...

// Source: #Kubernative Telegram channel
September 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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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September 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM