Thoughts on DevOps, cloud-native technologies, and platform engineering.
I use Kubernetes in my day job, and as a freelance DevOps/cloud/SRE engineer it’s close to a requirement these days — it’s become the de facto standard for running container workloads. So when I built out my home-infra, running a Kubernetes cluster was part of the plan from day one.
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Event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
Location: Amsterdam RAI, Netherlands
Amsterdam was buzzing this week as the cloud native community gathered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The energy was vibrant, but the technical content revealed a community in transition. Platform engineering is no longer an emerging trend—it’s now table stakes, with countless talks showcasing its maturity. The real conversation starter this year? Sovereignty: the push for open, portable, and vendor-neutral cloud native solutions.
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Static websites have always been simple to deploy - until you try to do it “the Kubernetes way.” Traditional approaches involve init containers copying files, persistent volumes, or baking content into web server images. Each has drawbacks: complexity, storage dependencies, or rebuilding entire server images for content changes.
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This first appeared on autops.eu
When updating the Kubernetes version of a Talos cluster from version 1.32.x -> 1.33.0 I ran into the following situation where the install would stop.
$ talosctl --nodes <<talos node>> upgrade-k8s --to 1.33.0
automatically detected the lowest Kubernetes version 1.32.0
discovered controlplane nodes ["10.0.0.3"]
discovered worker nodes ["10.0.0.4" "10.0.0.2"]
checking for removed Kubernetes component flags
checking for removed Kubernetes API resource versions
NODE COMPONENT REMOVED FLAG
10.0.0.3 kube-apiserver cloud-provider
10.0.0.3 kube-controller-manager cloud-provider
Kubernetes v1.33 removes the --cloud-provider flag from core components
(kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager). If you’re using an external
cloud controller manager (CCM), you need to remove this flag from your
configuration before upgrading. Your CCM will continue to work - it doesn’t
depend on these flags anymore.
As I’m using Scaleway more and more for my Cloud hosting needs I wanted to move my personal blog which I hosted on AWS (S3/Cloudfront) to Scaleway. Since there is no CDN alternative on Scaleway (yet) I needed an other alternative and choose Cloudflare as they have a generous free tier and are being used by some bigger companies which means they have mature infrastructure and services
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