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25 posts tagged platform-engineering.

Oct 20, 2026

How to Deploy an ML Model on Kubernetes with KServe 0.21 (2026)

Step-by-step KServe v0.21.0 guide: install in Standard mode with Helm, cert-manager and Gateway API, deploy scikit-learn and Hugging Face/vLLM InferenceServices, add HPA or KEDA autoscaling, canary rollouts, GPUs, and fix InferenceService not ready.

14 min
Oct 20, 2026

Crossplane vs Terraform vs Pulumi in 2026: Control Plane or Plan/Apply?

Crossplane vs Terraform, OpenTofu and Pulumi as of October 2026: Crossplane v2 namespaced resources and function pipelines, CNCF graduation, Pulumi running HCL, Terraform 1.16 and OpenTofu 1.13, how each handles drift, what it costs, and which team fits which tool.

12 min
Oct 20, 2026

How to Do Canary Deployments with Argo Rollouts 1.10 (2026)

Step-by-step Argo Rollouts canary guide for 2026: install v1.10.1 with Helm and the Gateway API plugin v0.17.0, write a Rollout with weighted steps, add a Prometheus AnalysisTemplate, watch automated rollback, and fix the common errors.

14 min
Oct 20, 2026

How to Set Up Backstage as an Internal Developer Portal (2026)

Step-by-step Backstage 1.55 setup for 2026: create-app on Node 22 or 24, PostgreSQL, GitHub sign-in, catalog-info.yaml, software templates, TechDocs, a Kubernetes deploy with the official Helm chart, alternatives, and fixes for common errors.

14 min
Oct 20, 2026

How to Set Up Argo CD for GitOps: Step-by-Step Guide (2026)

Install Argo CD 3.5.5 with Helm chart 10.10.5, structure a GitOps repo, bootstrap with app-of-apps and ApplicationSet, configure sync policies, waves and hooks, add SSO and RBAC, deploy Helm and Kustomize apps, and fix OutOfSync, Degraded and ComparisonError.

14 min
Oct 20, 2026

AI Agent Frameworks Compared (2026): LangGraph, CrewAI, ADK and 7 More

AI agent frameworks compared for October 2026: LangGraph 1.2, CrewAI 1.15, OpenAI Agents SDK 0.24, Claude Agent SDK, Google ADK 2.12, Microsoft Agent Framework 1.22, Pydantic AI 2.57, Mastra and LlamaIndex, with stars, licences, versions and a picking guide.

12 min
Oct 5, 2026

Kubernetes as the Agent Control Plane in 2026: Agent Sandbox Hit v1.0, 300 Claims a Second, and DRA in Every Supported Release

What shipped for running AI agents on Kubernetes by October 2026: the kubernetes-sigs Agent Sandbox project from a KubeCon preview in November 2025 to v1.0.0 in August, its four CRDs and gVisor, Kata and Firecracker runtime classes, Google's 300 claims per second and 16x growth figures, a density benchmark of 61 Kata agents versus 88, 133 and 274 per node, DRA going GA in 1.34 and locked on through 1.37, kagent, Dapr Agents 1.0, agentgateway, the Inference Extension's move into llm-d, the CNCF survey's 66 percent, and the Gartner 80 percent platform-team prediction nobody has measured.

13 min
Oct 5, 2026

MCP in 2026: 475M SDK Downloads a Month, 39,492 Servers in a Registry Still in Preview, and 12 Gateways Selling the Same 3 Features

The MCP ecosystem ten months after the Linux Foundation took it over, measured from primary sources: 475 million SDK downloads a month across npm and PyPI, three spec revisions ending in the stateless 2026-07-28 rewrite, an official registry I paged to 39,492 servers (24,242 remote) that is still labelled preview while Glama lists 96,340, every major client with different controls, twelve gateways from $0 to $0.005 per thousand calls, the tool-overload numbers (55k tokens before the first prompt, 85 percent recoverable), and a stateless Python server on mcp 2.3.0 that I ran and tested.

14 min
Oct 5, 2026

Infrastructure as Code in 2026: Two Forks at 1.16 and 1.13, a $6.4B Owner, 912 Public State Files, and One Agent That Ran terraform destroy

Infrastructure as code three years after the BSL relicence: Terraform 1.16.5 under IBM versus OpenTofu 1.13.1 under the Linux Foundation and who shipped what first, HCP Terraform at $0.10 to $0.99 per resource with the legacy free plan gone, CDKTF and System Initiative archived, Pulumi 3.267 and Crossplane 2.4, a Terraform MCP server that grew from registry lookups to workspace administration in 15 months, 44 percent running AI for infrastructure but 34 percent trusting it, 912 exposed state files with 41 live AWS keys, and the agent that ran terraform destroy on 2.5 years of production.

13 min
Oct 5, 2026

DevOps Still Matters in 2026: AI Cut Delivery Stability 7.2%, Then Doubled Merged PRs and Added 91% to Review Time

Why DevOps is the big thing of the agent era: DORA 2024 found a 25% rise in AI adoption cost 1.5% throughput and 7.2% stability, DORA 2025 saw throughput turn positive while instability stayed up across nearly 5,000 respondents, and DORA's 2026 ROI model budgets a 15% three-month dip and a change failure rate rising from 5% to 6%; GitHub merged 518.7M PRs (+29%) and over 1M agent PRs in five months, Faros telemetry on 10,000 developers shows 98% more PRs and 91% longer reviews, METR found experienced developers 19% slower, and the Replit postmortem's fixes are 2015 DevOps controls.

13 min