AWS★★★
Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. What struck me most wasn’t any single session, it was the energy of a technical community […]
AWS★★★
Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is the largest cloud developer community in Korea, with 20 meetup groups organized by topic and area that collectively host over 100 events each year, primarily in Seoul. My team regularly visits countries across the Asia-Pacific region, listens to feedback […]
KUBERNETES★★★
Kubernetes has quietly become the default platform for AI and machine learning. Whether you run notebook servers for data scientists, schedule distributed training jobs, tune hyperparameters, or orchestrate multi-step ML pipelines, those workloads increasingly land on a Kubernetes cluster. Kubeflow is one of the most popular ways to assemble that stack, and it does so the Kubernetes-native way: every capability is exposed as a Custom Resource Definition (CRD). That design is a gift to cluster operators, because it means ML workloads can be observed and managed with the same primitives as everything else in the cluster. But in practice the sp…
KUBERNETES★★★
1. Before you start: know what is changingKubernetes Dashboard and Headlamp both show what is running in a cluster, but they work differently. When Headlamp runs on the desktop, it uses your existing kubeconfig to connect to one or more clusters and can be extended with plugins. When Headlamp runs inside a cluster, it uses a Kubernetes ServiceAccount to access the API and follow RBAC rules. Kubernetes Dashboard, in contrast, only runs in-cluster and always relies on service account tokens. Understanding these models early helps you choose the right setup and permissions. 1.1 How Kubernetes Dashboard worksDashboard is a web app that runs insi…
AWS★★★
A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with startups. Last week I got a fresh dose of it: I spent a few days with the AWS Startups team, listening to stories of founders talking about the problems they’re actually solving. One story that stayed with me came […]
AWS★★★
AWS CloudFormation speeds up infrastructure deployment with Express mode, enabling AI agents and developers to receive deployment confirmation in seconds and iterate faster. Available in all commercial Regions at no additional cost.
SECURITY★★★
AI has really changed the game around software development. More people are leveraging AI than ever to contribute patches to projects they use. To me, this is a good thing as more folks will contribute patches rather than fork or not fix them. The main problem is that AI has made generating code fast but there has been very little improvement in maintaining code bases. In this post, we will highlight the ways the Kubernetes community is adapting to the world of AI assisted coding. The first step of this journey was to develop an AI policy. This seems mundane and bureaucratic but there were many PRs that derailed into discussions around AI us…
KUBERNETES★★★
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources directly from a browser. Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that brings declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster lifecycle management. It lets platform teams provision, upgrade, and manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters using standard Kubernetes objects stored and reconciled in a management cluster. Managing Cluster API resources has historically required raw kubectl commands and deep familiarity with ownership hierarchies. The Headlamp Cluster API plugin brings visual clarity, faster debugg…
KUBERNETES★★★
Volcano is a cloud native batch scheduler for Kubernetes, built for high-performance computing, AI/ML, and other batch workloads. Headlamp is an extensible Kubernetes web UI. With its plugin system, Headlamp can surface APIs and workflows beyond the built-in Kubernetes resources. The Volcano plugin brings core Volcano resources into Headlamp so you can inspect workload state, queue behavior, and gang scheduling details in one place. Kubernetes was originally designed around long-running services, where applications are expected to start and remain available over time. Batch, AI/ML, and HPC workloads often behave differently: jobs arrive dyna…
KUBERNETES★★★
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources. Knative brings serverless workloads to Kubernetes, handling traffic routing, autoscaling, and revision management so teams can deploy and iterate without fighting infrastructure. But operating Knative workloads day-to-day can be difficult, there's still a lot of jumping between the kn CLI, kubectl, and the Kubernetes UI to get a full picture of what's running. We built the Headlamp Knative plugin to bridge that very gap, allowing operators to inspect, understand and act on their workloads all from a single place.…
KUBERNETES★★★
The rising popularity of AI, Edge, and Telecommunications workloads on Kubernetes has led to new requirements for hardware management. We now need hardware specification beyond CPU time and memory allocations. This includes allocating GPUs, TPUs, network interfaces, and other hardware, sometimes after pod start and occasionally through time-sharing. Efficiently managing this specialized hardware is the mission of the Device Management Working Group. Their cornerstone project, Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA), recently graduated to GA, marking a fundamental shift in how the project handles hardware-intensive workloads at scale. In this spotl…
KUBERNETES★★★
For many people, Kubernetes Dashboard was their first window into Kubernetes. It offered a simple visual way to see what was running in a cluster, inspect resources, and build confidence without relying on the command line. For years, it helped developers, students, and operators make sense of Kubernetes, and it served as an important onramp into the ecosystem. The Kubernetes Dashboard project has now been archived. We deeply respect the work the team did and the role Dashboard played in making Kubernetes more approachable for so many users. Headlamp builds on that foundation and carries it forward. It keeps the clarity of a visual interface…