Kubernetes & containers
Everything filed under kubernetes & containers.
- The Kubernetes upgrade treadmill has a price tag nowEKS extended support costs six times the standard control plane price. Falling behind on Kubernetes versions used to be technical debt. Now it is a line item.
- Kubernetes requests are a purchase orderEvery CPU and memory request reserves capacity you pay for, whether the pod uses it or not. Get them right and the cluster gets smaller and more stable.
- Your Helm chart is a public API. Version it like one.The day a second team installs your chart, values.yaml becomes an interface other people depend on. Most chart breakages are API breakages nobody called that.
- Ingress NGINX is retired. Your ingress still works. For now.The community ingress-nginx controller stopped getting fixes in March 2026. Nothing broke that day, which is exactly why it is easy to ignore.
- Moving EC2 to ECS without anyone noticingThe best migration is one where the only people who notice are the ones reading the bill.