Tag: kubernetes

Two Kubernetes-native pipeline engines from CNCF — Argo Workflows and Tekton. Different philosophies, same goal: stop using Jenkins. Honest comparison.

kubeadm is the official Kubernetes bootstrapper. k3sup is a one-shot SSH installer for k3s. Here's which one to use for your homelab cluster.

etcd powers Kubernetes. Consul is the service-discovery Swiss army knife. ZooKeeper is the grizzled veteran. Here's how to pick a coordination store.

Alpine gives you a shell and apk; Distroless gives you nothing but the app. Compare attack surface, image size, and multi-stage build complexity.

Rancher Desktop, Podman Desktop, and Docker Desktop go head-to-head on cost, k8s, resource use, and real-world friction for local dev.

Three inner-loop dev tools for Kubernetes — Garden, Tilt, and Skaffold. Which one actually makes K8s development bearable? Honest comparison, no fluff.

Containers are not VMs. Here are the real escape vectors — privileged mode, mounted sockets, kernel CVEs — and the runtime hardening that actually helps.

The CRI runtime under your Kubernetes cluster — cri-o vs containerd compared on footprint, distros, performance, and day-2 operability.

Containers aren't security boundaries — Sysbox, gVisor, and Kata fix that. Here's which isolation runtime fits your actual threat model.

ArgoCD vs Flux for Kubernetes GitOps: compare UI-focused ArgoCD with automation-first Flux CD. Sync workflows, install examples, and when to use each.

Talos OS is an immutable, API-driven OS designed purely for running Kubernetes — no SSH, no package manager, pure GitOps.