
Kubernetes Pods, Deployments, and Services: A Visual Guide
Kubernetes complexity concentrates in three core objects: Pods, Deployments, and Services. This visual guide explains what they do, how they connect, and what happens during rolling updates.
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Kubernetes complexity concentrates in three core objects: Pods, Deployments, and Services. This visual guide explains what they do, how they connect, and what happens during rolling updates.

The Gateway API is the official successor to Kubernetes Ingress. Compare routing features, controller support from NGINX to Istio, and follow a practical migration guide from Ingress to HTTPRoute.

ArgoCD offers a rich web UI and centralized multi-cluster management. FluxCD is CLI-first and Kubernetes-native with lower resource usage. Compare reconciliation models, Helm support, security, and performance benchmarks.

Platform engineering builds Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) -- self-service layers that abstract infrastructure complexity. Learn the five pillars, golden paths, tooling (Backstage, Crossplane, ArgoCD), anti-patterns, and when your org needs a dedicated platform team.

Automate TLS certificates with Let's Encrypt, ACME protocol, and cert-manager in Kubernetes. Covers HTTP-01, DNS-01, wildcards, private CAs, and expiry monitoring.

eBPF enables kernel-level observability without application code changes. Learn how Cilium, Pixie, Falco, and bpftrace use eBPF for network monitoring, security, profiling, and tracing in production Kubernetes environments.

End-to-end guide to deploying ML models -- from ONNX export and FastAPI serving to Kubernetes GPU workloads, canary deployments, and Prometheus monitoring.

Understand the Linux kernel features behind containers. Learn namespaces for PID, network, and mount isolation, cgroups for CPU and memory limits, and how to build a container by hand with unshare and nsenter.

Canary deployments route a small percentage of traffic to the new version, catching problems before they affect everyone. Learn implementation with Nginx, Argo Rollouts, Flagger, and feature flags.
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