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Envoy Gateway Deep Dive: Inside the Gateway API Reference Implementation
In 2026, with the Ingress API frozen and Gateway API established as the standard successor, this post takes a deep look at Envoy Gateway, the reference-grade implementation built by the Envoy community itself, covering a
2026-06-14 · 17 min read #envoy-gateway#gateway-api#envoy#kubernetes#ingressIngress WAF - Applying ModSecurity/Coraza and the OWASP CRS
A practical guide to applying a WAF at the Kubernetes Ingress layer. It covers the difference between legacy ModSecurity and its successor engine Coraza, ingress-nginx integration, OWASP CRS tuning and false-positive man
2026-06-14 · 18 min read #ingress#waf#modsecurity#security#kubernetesAutomating Ingress TLS — Fully Automated Certificates with cert-manager and ACME
A hands-on guide to fully automating TLS certificates for Kubernetes Ingress using cert-manager and Let’s Encrypt ACME. Covers the Issuer/Certificate CRD model, HTTP-01 versus DNS-01 challenges, wildcard certificates, re
2026-06-14 · 17 min read #ingress#kubernetes#cert-manager#tls#acmeIngress Observability — Metrics, Access Logs, and Tracing
Define the golden signals for an Ingress controller and build a practical observability stack: ingress-nginx Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, structured access logs shipped to Loki, OpenTelemetry distributed traci
2026-06-14 · 11 min read #ingress#kubernetes#nginx#observability#networkingingress-nginx Deep Dive — Architecture, Annotations, and Templates
A practitioner-focused deep dive into the ingress-nginx controller: its internal architecture, the essential annotation catalog, ConfigMap global tuning, snippet security risks, and the 2026 reality of maintenance mode a
2026-06-14 · 12 min read #ingress#kubernetes#nginx#networking#devopsIntegrating Ingress with ExternalDNS and Cloud Load Balancers — From Domain to L4
This post walks the full path traffic travels, from domain registration through the cloud load balancer to the Ingress controller. It covers AWS/GCP/Azure LB integration annotations, ExternalDNS automation, MetalLB, Prox
2026-06-14 · 18 min read #ingress#kubernetes#externaldns#loadbalancer#dnsIngress Multitenancy and Cost Optimization — A Platform Teams Choice
The trade-offs of a shared controller vs per-tenant controllers, namespace isolation, load balancer cost, resource quotas, noisy-neighbor prevention, security boundaries, and showback models — multi-tenant Ingress operat
2026-06-14 · 9 min read #ingress#kubernetes#networking#multitenancy#devopsIngress-level Authentication — Applying SSO with oauth2-proxy and Forward Auth
A practical guide to implementing SSO at the Ingress level using the external auth pattern. We walk through wiring oauth2-proxy as a forward auth service to layer OIDC login onto multiple apps without touching applicatio
2026-06-14 · 18 min read #ingress#oauth2-proxy#sso#authentication#kubernetesThe Complete Contour Guide - Managing Kubernetes Traffic with Envoy-Based Ingress and HTTPProxy
Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller that uses Envoy as its data plane. We cover the HTTPProxy CRD, multi-tenancy through delegation, and Gateway API support with hands-on examples, plus operational tuning and trou
2026-06-14 · 16 min read #contour#envoy#ingress#kubernetes#httpproxyContainers Are a Lie — The Kernel Truth Behind cgroups and Namespaces
There is no container object in the kernel. A tour of the seven namespaces, hands-on cgroup v2 file manipulation, building a mini container with unshare and pivotroot, overlayfs, capabilities, and seccomp — we dissect ea
2026-06-13 · 17 min read #linux#kernel#container#cgroups#namespacesKubespray Deep Dive — Building Production On-Prem Kubernetes with Ansible
A complete walkthrough of building production-grade Kubernetes clusters on bare metal with Kubespray. Covers inventory design, dissecting key groupvars, HA control planes, air-gapped environments, day-2 playbooks for upg
2026-06-13 · 30 min read #kubernetes#kubespray#ansible#onprem#baremetaleBPF Observability in Practice — Opening the Black Box with bpftrace
Ten battle-tested bpftrace one-liners and a tour of the BCC toolbox for inspecting live systems without touching application code. Covers latency histogram interpretation, flame graphs, container environments, and three
2026-06-13 · 15 min read #ebpf#bpftrace#observability#linux#profilingeBPF Runtime Security — Tetragon, Falco, and BPF LSM
Why runtime security is essential in the era of supply chain attacks and container escapes, and how eBPF answers the call. Covers Falco rule writing, kernel-level blocking with Tetragon TracingPolicy, the principles of B
2026-06-13 · 15 min read #ebpf#security#falco#tetragon#kubernetesCluster API Deep Dive — Managing Clusters as Kubernetes Resources
In an era of cluster sprawl, Cluster API lets you declare Kubernetes clusters themselves as Kubernetes resources and have controllers reconcile them. This deep dive dissects the architecture and core CRD relationships, a
2026-06-13 · 24 min read #kubernetes#cluster-api#multi-cluster#gitops#infrastructureIstio Ambient vs Sidecar — Choosing Your Service Mesh Architecture in 2026
A quantitative look at the resource cost and operational pain of the sidecar model, followed by a deep dive into the Ambient architecture built from ztunnel and waypoint proxies. Covers data path comparison, feature pari
2026-06-13 · 18 min read #istio#ambient-mesh#sidecar#ztunnel#kubernetesFinancial-Grade Kubernetes Platforms — Making Regulation and Cloud Native Coexist
How to design and operate a Kubernetes platform under financial regulations such as network segregation and electronic finance supervision rules. Covers multi-tenancy isolation criteria, Kyverno policy gates, audit trail
2026-06-13 · 20 min read #kubernetes#finance#security#compliance#multi-tenancyIstio Security in Practice — mTLS, AuthorizationPolicy, and the Zero Trust Mesh
From the mesh security model built on SPIFFE identities and the istiod CA, through the PERMISSIVE-to-STRICT migration strategy for PeerAuthentication, least-privilege AuthorizationPolicy design, JWT end-user authenticati
2026-06-13 · 21 min read #istio#mtls#security#authorizationpolicy#zero-trustIstio Traffic Management in Practice — From VirtualService to Automated Canaries
A hands-on guide covering the relationships between Istio traffic APIs, header and weight-based routing, canary automation with Flagger and Argo Rollouts, mirroring, fault injection, and how to derive circuit breaker set
2026-06-13 · 17 min read #istio#virtualservice#canary#traffic-management#kubernetesBuilding an IDP with Backstage Part 1 — The Software Catalog Is Everything
A deep dive into the software catalog, the foundation of any Backstage-based Internal Developer Portal. Covers the entity data model, practical catalog-info.yaml authoring, GitHub auto-discovery, the ownership model, met
2026-06-13 · 15 min read #backstage#idp#platform-engineering#devops#software-catalogHubble and ClusterMesh — Cilium Observability and Multi-Cluster Operations
Covers the architecture of Hubble, the observability layer of Cilium, with practical CLI queries, Prometheus metrics, and long-term flow log retention, then walks through configuring ClusterMesh for multi-cluster service
2026-06-13 · 13 min read #cilium#hubble#clustermesh#observability#multi-cluster