Argo Workflows in 2026 — Pipelines on Kubernetes That Actually Work

Practical Argo Workflows: DAG vs steps, parameters, artifacts, retries, when Argo wins over Airflow / Prefect, and operational realities.

May 5, 2026 · 5 min · 880 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

Kubernetes Resource Limits in 2026 — CPU, Memory, and the Cost of Getting It Wrong

Practical K8s resource sizing: requests and limits, OOMKill and CPU throttling, VPA / Goldilocks for sizing, QoS classes, and avoiding noisy neighbors.

May 3, 2026 · 5 min · 900 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

Debugging Kubernetes in 2026 — kubectl Patterns, Ephemeral Containers, and the Tools Worth Knowing

Practical Kubernetes debugging: kubectl tricks, ephemeral containers, port-forward + tcpdump, network debug pods, stern logs, k9s, kubeshark, and the discipline.

May 2, 2026 · 4 min · 785 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

Kubernetes Cost Engineering in 2026 — Where the Money Actually Goes

Practical Kubernetes cost reduction in 2026. Right-size requests / limits, Karpenter for node management, VPA / HPA, spot pools, and the dashboards that find waste.

April 30, 2026 · 3 min · 543 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

Kubernetes in 2026 — What Changed, What Didn't, and What You Should Use

Where Kubernetes stands in 2026: eBPF-default networking, Gateway API, sidecarless meshes, KEDA, Argo, and the operational realities you’ll face.

April 30, 2026 · 3 min · 472 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

Cilium and eBPF in Production — The Sidecarless Service Mesh of 2026

Why eBPF won the cloud-native networking layer in 2026. Cilium architecture, sidecarless service mesh, network policy at L7, mTLS, observability with Hubble + Tetragon + Pixie, and the migration path from Istio.

April 29, 2026 · 8 min · 1541 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

WebAssembly on Kubernetes in 2026 — Spin, wasmCloud, and When WASM Beats Containers

A grounded look at WebAssembly on Kubernetes in 2026. WASI 0.2’s component model, Spin and wasmCloud, runwasi shims, the workloads where WASM is genuinely better than containers, and the ones where it isn’t.

April 28, 2026 · 7 min · 1292 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

GitOps with Argo CD and Flux — How It Actually Works in 2026

GitOps mechanics, Argo CD vs Flux, app-of-apps, ApplicationSets, secret management, multi-cluster patterns, drift detection, and the production gotchas — explained without the cargo cult.

April 28, 2026 · 8 min · 1508 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms in 2026

What platform engineering is in 2026, what makes a good Internal Developer Platform, the building blocks (Backstage, golden paths, paved roads, Crossplane), and a pragmatic path to introducing one without a 12-person platform team.

April 28, 2026 · 8 min · 1590 words · Manvendra Rajpoot

Kubernetes for App Developers: The Practical Subset

A no-fluff Kubernetes intro for app developers — what pods, deployments, services, and ingress really are, and how to ship your app onto a cluster without becoming a cluster operator.

April 28, 2026 · 8 min · 1651 words · Manvendra Rajpoot