1+ hour, 24+ min ago  (1081+ words) Field Lab record: Prometheus #12244 This field test was about documentation, but not "just documentation." The public issue reported confusion around Docker Swarm task discovery metadata in Prometheus. The user expected __meta_dockerswarm_container_label_ to expose labels from the running container or image, such…...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago  (381+ words) I've found that Kubernetes observability is a unique beast, different from monitoring your application, you're dealing with infrastructure, workloads, and the cluster itself, but fortunately the tooling has come a long way so you don't have to start from scratch…...

2+ hour, 14+ min ago  (247+ words) Docker Compose runs multi-container applications from a single YAML file. One command can start an API, a database, a message broker, and supporting tools for local development - without installing each service on the host machine. This post covers Compose concepts…...

4+ hour, 11+ min ago  (187+ words) I wanted an AI agent that could actually run my Proxmox cluster " create VMs, fix storage, tail logs inside a container " not just read it back to me. Then I pictured it deleting a storage pool and learning, at the…...

6+ hour, 21+ min ago  (623+ words) These are not exotic failures. They are the default outcome of setting up synthetic monitoring without a discipline. Here is the discipline. Every browser check costs compute and, more importantly, costs maintenance. A check on a path that does not…...

6+ hour, 27+ min ago  (386+ words) Kubernetes began as Google's internal container orchestration system called Borg. They open-sourced it in 2014, and it's now the standard for running containerized workloads at scale. If you're running Docker containers in production, you likely need Kubernetes. Kubernetes automates deployment, scaling,…...

7+ hour, 31+ min ago  (625+ words) Building applications for the cloud isn't just about running code on someone else's servers. It's about fundamentally rethinking how we design, build, and operate software. Cloud native applications are built for the cloud from the ground up, not adapted to…...

8+ hour, 10+ min ago  (1492+ words) OTel's CNCF stable status arrives precisely when enterprises need unified telemetry across LLM inference, vector databases, and embedding pipelines at scale. Open Telemetry's graduation to stable status within the CNCF signals a maturity inflection point that directly benefits teams running…...

8+ hour, 7+ min ago  (272+ words) Homebrew 6. 0 shipped a Linux sandbox. Here's what that actually means in practice. The sandbox isn't containers. It's systemd sleep confinement applied per-formula at install/run time. When a formula runs, systemd places it in a cgroup slice with restricted access…...

12+ hour, 4+ min ago  (220+ words) Flipkart has won the CNCF End User Case Study Contest after building a large-scale chaos engineering platform on Kubernetes and Litmus Chaos, while contributing five enhancements back to the open-source project and planning further community releases. Flipkart has won the…...