Deployment mode, object storage, label cardinality, multi-tenancy and auth, cross-cluster shipping, and the failures that are silent rather than loud. Written after moving a Loki install twice and debugging an object store that corrupted everything it was given.
A breakdown of why DaemonSets using hostPort can get stuck in Pending during rolling updates, and why the default maxSurge/maxUnavailable settings aren't always right for them.
A breakdown of the Model Context Protocol - the problem it solves, its architecture, and how a tool call actually works under the hood.
What a PodDisruptionBudget actually does, the difference between voluntary and involuntary disruptions, how the eviction API respects it, and the mistakes that quietly break node drains and cluster upgrades.
A breakdown of how kube-apiserver audit events actually work - request stages, audit levels, writing policies, and how SREs tune them differently for prod vs dev clusters.
Deploying CISO Assistant via Helm, creating your first superuser, adding users, and how evidence storage actually works.
How to backup and restore Redis on Kubernetes using RDB snapshots - and why just copying dump.rdb is not enough.
Why your pod is stuck in Pending, why it lands on the wrong node, and how WaitForFirstConsumer fixes local storage scheduling for good.
Two Grafana dashboards, same node, same timestamp - one shows 62 GB used, other shows 10 GB. Both are correct. Here's the full story of how Linux memory actually works and which number you should actually be watching.
