The Deploy That Pointed at Nothing: Firetiger's CI Race Condition and the One Check That Would Have Stopped It
A canceled CI build fooled Firetiger's deploy pipeline into shipping a container image ID that was never built, triggering an 8-hour ingest outage. Here's the exact failure chain, and the one registry check that would have caught it.
Do You Still Need kubectl for Cluster API Fleet Management? Headlamp's New Plugin Says Mostly No
Kubernetes retired its Dashboard and pointed operators at Headlamp's new Cluster API plugin — here's exactly what it replaces, what still needs kubectl and GitOps, and why bex should adopt it instead of building a bespoke fleet view.
K3s vs K0s Under Cluster API: Which Lightweight Distro Actually Fits a Hetzner Fleet's Machine Lifecycle
Most k3s-vs-k0s comparisons are written for a single Raspberry Pi. Under Cluster API on Hetzner, the real fork is where each distro puts your control plane — and it changes your upgrade and cert-rotation story more than either binary's size does.
Kamaji Turns Kubernetes Control Planes Into Pods — But It Only Cuts the Control-Plane Bill, Not the Worker-Node One
A worked cost model for Kamaji's Cluster API control-plane provider: what running tenant control planes as pods actually removes from a self-hosted fleet's bill, what it leaves untouched, and where its shared-kernel isolation stops being enough.
Kamal Supports Cloud Native Buildpacks, Not Just Dockerfiles: What That Means for bex's Own Build Path
Kamal, 37signals' zero-daemon deploy tool built specifically to avoid PaaS abstraction, now ships a pack builder option for Cloud Native Buildpacks alongside its default Dockerfile path. Here's the actual config, why a minimal-abstraction tool reached for a CNCF spec instead of writing its own builder, and what it means for bex's default.
Kubernetes 1.36 Just Removed gitRepo Volumes and IPVS kube-proxy — Here's the Audit Your Cluster API Fleet Needs Before You Upgrade
Kubernetes 1.36 permanently kills gitRepo volumes (closing a CVE-2024-10220-class RCE) and removes IPVS kube-proxy mode as hard failures, not warnings. Here are the exact audit commands a Cluster API fleet needs before upgrading, including the CAPI config gap that hides IPVS on Hetzner clusters.
Kubernetes Dashboard Is Officially Dead: What Breaks When You Move to Headlamp
Kubernetes Dashboard is archived for good. Here's exactly what breaks in a kubectl proxy workflow when you move to Headlamp, what RBAC setup transfers untouched, and what the Cluster API plugin gives a fleet operator that Dashboard never could.
The State of Platform Engineering Vol 4: 29.6% of Platform Teams Don't Measure Success at All
A 2026 survey of 518 platform engineers found nearly a third don't measure success at all. Here's what the budget and adoption data actually show — and three cheap metrics to instrument instead so your platform isn't next year's defunded line item.
Your Files Never Moved: What Plex's July 2026 Outage Reveals About Fake Self-Hosting
Plex's July 14, 2026 outage never touched a single self-hosted file — but users still got locked out, because auth and discovery route through Plex's cloud by default. Here's what that reveals about the gap between owning your disk and owning your infrastructure.