Pixel Robots. ☁️☸️ (Richard Hooper)

After years of running AKS in production (and learning the hard way), I wrote a book about the decisions that really matter. 📘 The AKS Book: Every AKS Decision That Will Save You a Cluster Rebuild It’s out now. More info 👇 pixelrobots.co.uk/2026/03/the-ak… #AKS #PlatformEngineering #Kubernetes

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GitHub Copilot app is available in technical preview as a native desktop tool to start, isolate, steer, and complete development sessions tied to GitHub work. github.blog/changelog/2026…

🚀 I wrote the AKS book I wish I’d had years ago. The AKS docs explain features well. What they don’t always tell you is which decisions are effectively permanent, which ones get expensive fast, and which ones come back to hurt you in production. The AKS Book is a real-world guide to Azure Kubernetes Service focused on: - irreversible setup choices - production operations - cost and security trade-offs - scaling and resilience - lessons from real deployments If you work with AKS beyond hello-world clusters, this is for you. Kindle US: amazon.com/dp/B0GNNVSG67 Kindle UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GNNVSG67 Paperback US: amazon.com/dp/B0GS6BFY5P Paperback UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GS6BFY5P

@KasunSJC The links not working.

Why You Should Never Lock AKS-Managed Resources: A Volume Outage Story blog.kasunrajapakse.me/blog/aks-resou… #AKS #Azure #Kubernetes #CNCF #DevOps

Planning on taking the Cloud Native Platform Engineering #CNPE exam? Here's a study guide for ya! 🔖 paulyu.dev/article/cnpe-s…

@cra Oh now this looks interesting.

👀 "Falco-powered policy and visibility layer for AI coding agents" github.com/falcosecurity/…

@ibuildthecloud @ProgenticEngine Oh now I am interested. Anything to share?

@ProgenticEngine oh, but that thing I am trying to build.

Before I would think that I wouldn't want to compete with GitHub because they've put so much time and energy into the interface but now that it's all gone to crap and we have AI, why not?

Most Kubernetes production failures are contract failures between the app and Kubernetes. Gulcan and I made an interactive readiness checklist and PDF worksheet for the app behavior that Kubernetes will test before go-live. learnkube.com/production-bes…

🔥 Based on the content I'm seeing for the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, I'd say you CAN'T MISS IT! Great speakers and great deep-dive content! 🔗 If you haven't already, register for the FREE on-line event here: aka.ms/MAIS-REG #AzOps #ITPro #Azure

If you maintain an open source library with a decent install base, I literally want to give you money. Any ecosystem is welcome: JavaScript, Java, .NET, even you Rust. All I ask if that you have a decent deprecation policy written somewhere public you follow.

Big news for the #CloudNative community! 5 CNCF projects have been officially selected for Google Summer of Code 2026! From AI-native networking to compliance-as-code, these projects are defining the future of the stack: 🔹 kgateway (AI Inference Routing) 🔹 Drasi & Dapr (Reactive AI Agents) 🔹 kpt (K8s Package Management) 🔹 OSCAL (Secure signing in compliance-trestle) 🔹 OpenKruise Rollout (Safe Progressive Delivery) Check out the full project breakdown and the incredible contributors behind them: summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/… #GSoC2026 #CNCF #OpenSource #DevOps #AI #CloudNative

April Azure Monitor documentation updates are live! See what changed across monitoring, telemetry, and observability. learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-mo… #AzureMonitor #Azure #Observability #CloudMonitoring #ApplicationInsights #OpenTelemetry #Microsoft

⚠️ PSA: patch your AlmaLinux systems. Copy Fail lets any local user escalate to root. We shipped fixes for AL 8, 9 & 10 ahead of upstream—they're in production now. almalinux.org/blog/2026-05-0…

Performance comparison Cilium native routing on Azure Kubernetes Service BYOCNI danielstechblog.io/performance-co… #Azure #AzureKubernetesService #Kubernetes #Cilium

🚨 Just in time for the weekend we have a brand new Linux kernel vulnerability to keep an eye on 👀 “DirtyFrag” has landed with two CVEs now assigned and AKS already tracking the issue: ⚠️ CVE-2026-43284 (ESP) ⚠️ CVE-2026-43500 (RxRPC) If you’re running AKS or Kubernetes workloads on Linux, now would be a good time to: 🔍 Check your node kernel versions 📦 Keep an eye on AKS release guidance 🛠️ Plan patching/maintenance windows 🧪 Review exposed workloads and network paths Nothing says “relaxing weekend” quite like emergency vulnerability reviews 😅 Microsoft AKS tracking issue: github.com/Azure/AKS/issu… #AKS #Azure #Kubernetes #CyberSecurity #Linux #CloudSecurity #DirtyFrag

Testing multi-protocol APIs shouldn't be a headache. 🛠️ Microcks has officially moved to CNCF Incubation! It helps teams mock and test REST, gRPC, and event-driven APIs natively on Kubernetes without the usual overhead. Why builders are using it: ✅ Turn specs into mocks in seconds ✅ Unified testing for sync & async APIs ✅ Integrates with OpenTelemetry & Dapr Check out how the project has grown and what’s on the roadmap: bit.ly/4nz6W6R #CNCF #Microcks #CloudNative #Kubernetes

Here's another reason why @Microsoft Foundry is the BEST platform in the world to build and run your agents: Our durable, long running agents come with Toolbox 🔨 Toolbox allowed me to reduce input tokens 90%(!!) and significantly simplify the amount of code needed Check out the demo below and see how you can bring hundreds of tools through a single MCP endpoint -- all running in Foundry at cloud scale! ☁️

Headlamp 0.42.0 is out! Highlights: 🔍 Search resources by label 📝 Guided form-based Pod creation (no YAML required!) 🔗 Deep-link support for pod terminals & logs 🪵 Log severity filter 🐞 Fixes + much more at: github.com/kubernetes-sig…

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Europe’s demand for cloud and AI continues to grow. Azure is expanding its datacenter footprint across Europe to support scale, performance, and compliance. Learn more: msft.it/6011vMgd7