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Fluent Bit, Vector and the OpenTelemetry Collector: revisit your log pipeline before you ship more logs
A logistics company in Pune runs about 600 pods across three Kubernetes clusters. A Fluentd DaemonSet, set up in 2019 with a dozen Ruby plugins, ships about 25 crore log lines a day to Loki.
Read moreService mesh in 2026: revisit Istio ambient, Linkerd and Cilium before you add sidecars
A logistics company in Bengaluru runs a production Kubernetes cluster with 14 nodes and about 420 pods. Three requests landed in one sprint.
Read moreKeycloak and its alternatives: revisit your identity provider before you standardise SSO
A SaaS company in Hyderabad runs Keycloak 24 on two virtual machines. It was set up in 2024 for about 60 internal tools and has worked quietly since.
Read moreArgo CD and Flux: revisit your GitOps controller before you scale or migrate
A platform team in Pune looks after 14 Kubernetes clusters. Most of them are managed by one central Argo CD instance that the team set up in 2021.
Read moreVault and OpenBao: revisit your secrets manager before you renew or migrate
A platform team runs a three-node Vault Community cluster for about sixty services. In one week, a product group asks for its own isolated tenant, which in Vault means namespaces, an Enterprise feature, and finance asks whether the Enterprise quote is really needed.
Read moreIngress NGINX retirement: revisit your Kubernetes ingress before you migrate
A platform team plans its Kubernetes 1.37 upgrade for the next sprint. The cluster checklist is green, except one line nobody owns: the ingress-nginx Helm chart, pinned at 4.
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