Platform and Infra Briefing

A briefing on platform and infrastructure engineering — Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, infrastructure as code, and the cloud native ecosystem.

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GPU virtualization is a decade behind CPU

K8s v1.36 Post-Stable: Pod-Level NUMA Resource Managers Alpha Pod-Level Resource Managers alpha (KEP-5818) landed in v1.36 with a Kubernetes blog post on May 1(https://kubernetes.io/blog/

May 6, 2026

Patch Argo CD now or expose every secret

Argo CD v3.3.9 and etcd v3.6.11: Two Critical Control Plane CVEs GHSA-3v3m-wc6v-x4x3 (critical): Argo CD's ServerSideDiff endpoint returns unmasked PredictedLive and NormalizedLive sta

May 6, 2026

K8s resize without restart, $5K/cluster hidden fees

EKS Cluster Governance: 7 IAM Condition Keys for Proactive Policy Enforcement Amazon EKS added 7 new IAM condition keys(https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-eks-iam-condi

May 6, 2026

A PR comment just pwned your K8s tokens

Terraform v1.15.0 Stable: Module Source Variables, deprecated Block, convert() GA Terraform v1.15.0 shipped April 29 — the stable release previewed at rc1 in Issue #7. The headline chan

May 6, 2026

AI agents are now running your Kubernetes cluster

SUSECON 2026: K3s in NVIDIA Agent Runtimes, MCP Across SUSE Portfolio, Coriolis for VMware Exit NVIDIA's new NemoClaw and OpenShell agent runtimes run on K3s as their Kubernetes execution l

May 6, 2026

GPU util hit 97% with one scheduler change

ACRE, LLM-d, and Kueue: GPU Infrastructure Developments from KubeCon NVIDIA ACRE (AI Cluster Runtime) open-sourced — a CLI + self-hosted REST API producing version-locked, validated GPU clu

May 6, 2026

Bitwarden hit, K8s 1.36 ships, GKE scales to 1M chips

GKE at Cloud Next '26: Hypercluster, Agent Sandbox GA, Inference Improvements GKE Hypercluster entered private GA — a single Kubernetes-conformant control plane managing up to 1 million chi

Apr 26, 2026

K8s 1.36 ships tomorrow — check IPVS now

Kubernetes v1.36 Ships April 22 — IPVS Removed, OCI Volumes Stable, New Alphas v1.36.0-rc.1 tagged April 15 alongside patch releases v1.35.4

Apr 22, 2026

82% run K8s in prod. GPU scheduling breaks them.

AWS Interconnect GA: Layer 3 Private Multi-Cloud Connectivity AWS Interconnect reached GA with two capabilities: Interconnect – multicloud(https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-interconnec

Apr 16, 2026

APT41 hits cloud creds, K8s 1.36 drops gitRepo

Now I have everything I need. Let me write the newsletter. CiliumCon 2026: BigTCP for UDP Tunnels, Tetragon Memory Fixes, Hubble 1.19 Aggregation BigTCP is being extended to UDP tunnels —

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