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It's Friday, which means it's time to deploy! This week we're covering two weeks of news. On the Octopus side, we have new videos on vibe deployments and proving ROI with the Value Metrics Dashboard, a new Kubernetes migration webinar, and more! In the wider ecosystem, Kubernetes 1.36 "Haru" shipped with user namespaces going GA and Ingress-NGINX officially retired. Docker launched microVM sandboxes for AI coding agents. And Google said developer loyalty to AI tools is at zero.

In this episode of the Kubernetes for Humans podcast, Itiel sits down with the internet's favorite cloud contrarian, Corey Quinn of the Duckbill Group. Corey shares his unconventional career path as a "cautionary tale," explaining why his knack for fixing horrifying AWS bills makes him a terrible employee, and why he absolutely refuses to touch Kubernetes in production.

In the April edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss updates to the version 4.0 release, the upcoming 4.1 feature release, and we discuss the upcoming deprecation of the 1.x and 2.0 versions.

In this episode, Andrew Hillier and Bijit Ghosh discuss the evolving landscape of AI, discussing the growing prominence of inference over training, hybrid cloud strategies, balancing cost with performance, and the orchestration of complex hardware environments. The conversation also touches on emerging concepts like AI factories, the challenges of sovereign cloud, and how enterprises are navigating data gravity and regulatory constraints. It's a deep dive into optimizing AI infrastructure, managing costs, and the disruptive changes that are transforming both technology and business outcomes.

In this video, I walk through the three main pieces of the new Kubernetes monitoring experience in Splunk Observability Cloud: the Kubernetes overview page for monitoring the status and top issues across your environment, the Kubernetes Entities page for troubleshooting individual instances with correlated metrics, logs, events, and configuration, and the Workload Optimization view for getting actionable recommendations on your CPU and memory resource allocation.

In this episode of Dr. Argo Called, we examine the GitOps “manifest dilemma” by comparing Helm, Kro, Kustomize, and Crossplane for Kubernetes deployments, and explore what their differences mean in a GitOps-driven workflow. We also delve into the often-overlooked topic of custom resource health checks in Argo CD—why they matter, why they shouldn’t reside within Argo CD, and how they could be designed more effectively.