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2025 (9)

November (1)

devops+ai: 🔥Teaching Agentic Strands Agents to assume Cross-Account IAM Roles and Read AWS Resources🔥

Let's do DevOps

2025-11-12

The article explains how to teach Agentic Strands agents to assume cross-account AWS IAM roles so they can read resources (for example, to answer operational questions like which VMs are running high CPU or low on disk). It covers the motivation, high-level workflow (AssumeRole via STS), and practical/security considerations for enabling safe cross-account access by autonomous agents.

October (5)

k8s: 7 Common Kubernetes Pitfalls (and How I Learned to Avoid Them)

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-10-20

The article outlines seven common Kubernetes pitfalls the author encountered—missing resource requests/limits, inadequate liveness/readiness probes, overreliance on kubectl logs, treating dev and prod identically, leaving stale resources, jumping into advanced networking too early, and weak security/RBAC—and gives pragmatic, experience-based advice to avoid each one.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Observed capacity metric in Azure Firewall

Azure Updates

2025-10-16

Azure Firewall now includes the observed capacity metric (Generally Available). The metric reports the number of capacity units actively utilized over time to help administrators understand how their firewalls are scaling in practice.

devops+ai: 🔥Solving AWS Bedrock's Enterprise Logging Problem: Adding Bot Context to Model Invocation Logs🔥

Let's do DevOps

2025-10-14

The article addresses a common enterprise problem with AWS Bedrock: unknown consumption of AI tokens. It proposes adding explicit bot/user context to model invocation logs so teams can attribute usage, monitor costs, enforce policies, and investigate behavior. The approach uses structured metadata injected at the application or gateway layer and captured in Bedrock invocation logs and downstream observability systems.

k8s: Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-10-06

The Headlamp Karpenter Plugin integrates Karpenter autoscaling visibility into the Headlamp Kubernetes UI, providing real‑time maps, metrics, scaling decisions, pending‑pod diagnostics, and an editable, validated config editor to help users understand, debug, and tune node provisioning and autoscaling behavior.

dotnet: Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview): Making AI Agents Simple for Every Developer

.NET

2025-10-01

Microsoft announced the Microsoft Agent Framework (Preview), a unified solution for creating, orchestrating, hosting, and observing AI agents in the .NET ecosystem to help developers ship production AI agents faster.

September (3)

k8s: Kubernetes v1.34: Recovery From Volume Expansion Failure (GA)

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-19

Kubernetes v1.34 graduates automated recovery from failed persistent volume expansions to GA. Users can correct an over-sized PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) by reducing the requested size (as long as the new request is still larger than the PV's original capacity) without cluster-admin intervention; consumed quota from a failed expansion is returned automatically. The release also introduces improved observability and error reporting for expansion operations, retries with reduced request rates, and several resizing workflow bug fixes.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Managed Service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards within the Azure portal

Azure Updates

2025-09-19

Azure announces a public preview where Azure Managed Service for Prometheus now includes native Grafana dashboards accessible within the Azure portal at no additional cost, aiming to simplify observability and reduce administrative overhead.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Distributed tracing for Durable Functions

Azure Updates

2025-09-18

Azure announced General Availability of Distributed Tracing V2 for Durable Functions, a robust tracing model that lets developers correlate operations across orchestrations, activities, and durable entities to improve debugging and observability.