SsoftverseAdmin2h ago · 10 min readKubernetes Networking & Ingress Basics (2026): Pods, Services, DNS and Getting Traffic InTL;DR The model in one line: every pod gets a real IP and can talk to every other pod; Services give those shifting pods a stable address; Ingress (or Gateway API) is the front door for HTTP from outdevopsenginer.hashnode.dev
SsoftverseAdmin52m ago · 10 min readKubernetes Cost Optimization 2026: Stop Paying for Requests You Don't UseTL;DR: In Kubernetes you don't pay for what your apps use — you pay for what they request, plus the nodes those requests force you to run. The fix is a loop, not a tool: measure allocation vs. real usdevopsenginer.hashnode.dev
SsoftverseAdmin2h ago · 12 min readKubernetes Resource Requests and Limits (2026): Set Them Right and Prevent OOMKilled & FailedSchedulingTL;DR Requests are what the scheduler spends; limits are what the kernel enforces. A pod is placed based on its requests, and killed or throttled based on its limits. CPU and memory fail differently:devopsenginer.hashnode.dev
SsoftverseAdmin3h ago · 19 min readKubernetes Troubleshooting in 2026: CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff, Pending Pods and 20+ Errors — Diagnosis Steps That Actually WorkTL;DR Almost every pod failure is diagnosed with the same four moves, in order: kubectl describe → events → kubectl logs (including --previous) → kubectl debug / exec. CrashLoopBackOff is a symptom, devopsenginer.hashnode.dev
SsoftverseAdmin5h ago · 19 min readArgo CD Tutorial 2026: GitOps Deployment Step by Step — Install, Sync, Rollback, and the Mistakes to AvoidTL;DR GitOps with Argo CD means one thing: the desired state of your cluster lives in Git, and Argo CD continuously works to make the cluster match it. If it is not in Git, it is not deployed for londevopsenginer.hashnode.dev
SsoftverseAdmin5h ago · 18 min readkubectl Commands Cheat Sheet (2026): The Commands DevOps Engineers Actually UseTL;DR Nobody uses all of kubectl. Working engineers cycle through maybe thirty commands, organised by the job in front of them: look, deploy, debug, clean up. This cheat sheet is organised the same wdevopsenginer.hashnode.dev
SsoftverseAdmin11h ago · 29 min readPlatform Engineering in 2026: IDPs, Golden Paths, and When Your Team Actually Needs OneTL;DR / Quick answer Platform engineering is the practice of building an internal platform — usually called an internal developer platform (IDP) — that gives developers self-service access to the infrdevopsenginer.hashnode.dev
GGeekcoding101dotcom12h ago · 25 min readKubernetes Tutorial Part 1: Multi-Node Cluster on a MacOriginally published at GeekCoding101. Introduction Hey there! Welcome to this Kubernetes tutorial! Ever dreamed of running a real multi-node Kubernetes (K8s) cluster on your laptop instead of settlingeekcoding101.hashnode.dev
SsoftverseAdmin12h ago · 24 min readKubernetes Deployment Strategies in 2026: Rolling, Blue-Green, Canary, Recreate, A/B and ShadowLast updated: October 30, 2026 Your deployment strategy decides what happens in the worst five minutes of a release: how many users see the new version, whether old and new code must run together, howdevopsenginer.hashnode.dev
SsoftverseAdmin12h ago · 21 min readSelf-Healing Infrastructure in Kubernetes (2026): Probes, Autoscaling, GitOps & Auto-Remediation ExplainedLast updated: October 30, 2026 Modern applications fail in small ways all the time: a container crashes, a node becomes unavailable, a deployment ships a bad configuration, or traffic spikes faster thdevopsenginer.hashnode.dev
