"Sovereign cloud" is no longer a brochure word.

The EU just put 180 million euros of real procurement behind it. BT opened a private route into a European sovereign cloud.

Systems integrators now have to decide: can they actually deliver it, or just sprinkle the word over the same hyperscaler stack?

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q2-2026-updates/sovereign-cloud-slogan-or-capability.html

#SovereignCloud #OpenSource #Kubernetes #VMware #DigitalSovereignty

Systems Integrators Have to Decide Whether Sovereign Cloud Is a Slogan or a Capability. The Buying Signals Have Already Made the Choice Urgent.

Part three of a three-part In My View series on cloud dependence, written for systems integrators. Sovereignty is moving from a specialist concern into procurement, policy and real supplier-diversification decisions, with the EU awarding sovereign-cloud work to European provider groups and BT opening a private route into STACKIT's sovereign cloud. The piece argues integrators must build genuine capability in at least one credible non-US stack, invest in the platform layer where lock-in becomes sticky, and replace residency-as-sovereignty marketing with honest transition design, or watch their credibility age badly.

Sovereign Cloud Architecture

For a decade, cloud careers rewarded one skill: getting a company INTO AWS or Azure.

That phase is over.

The people who do best now understand portability, identity sprawl, and how to design an exit before it becomes a panic. Stop collecting single-vendor badges. Learn the layer above the cloud.

https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q2-2026-updates/cloud-career-learn-to-leave.html

#DevOps #Kubernetes #CloudComputing #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty

If You Work in IT, Stop Studying Only How to Get Into a Cloud. Learn How to Get Out of One.

Part one of a three-part In My View series on how cloud dependence is reshaping IT careers. Cloud skills still dominate UK IT hiring, but the market signal has shifted from how to migrate into a hyperscaler to how to operate across environments and design an exit. This piece argues that single-provider certification ladders are no longer a career plan, and sets out what job seekers should actually learn: the platform layer above infrastructure (Kubernetes, IAM, observability, policy), portability as a practical discipline, governed AI and security, and at least one credible non-US or open alternative now that Europe is putting real money behind sovereign cloud.

Sovereign Cloud Architecture

CloudNativePG 1.30 introduces the DatabaseRole CRD for declarative, #GitOps-friendly role management and a Lease-based primary election primitive for safer failover.

Updates were backported in CloudNativePG 1.29.2 and 1.28.4 (final release).

The 1.30 release brings significant improvements focused on stability, security,
and supply-chain integrity as well.

Read more and plan your upgrade: https://cloudnative-pg.io/releases/cloudnative-pg-1-30.0-released/ #PostgreSQL #Kubernetes #RBAC

Yet another fediverse #introduction

Hello! I'm from #Chicago and do nerdy stuff. I primarily identify as #genderfluid, #nonbinary, and #trans. Most people use they/them pronouns for me, but I'm also cool with she or he contextually.

My work right now is primarily #DevOps stuff relating to #Kubernetes and various cloudy things. I've been doing this long enough to remember when our servers were named after Greek gods and you used a label maker to show that off.

I practice #polyamory and try to avoid hierarchy or prescribed models in my relationships in general. I'm unapologetically #bisexual with some admittedly #sapphic bias.

In the summer you might find me on my #motorcycle enjoying the precious few months we can actually enjoy it. I love cross-country road trips and #camping.

I also run the Chicago Pink Pistols chapter. We're a charity that helps #lgbtq and #transgender people specifically learn about #firearms safety. You may see me post about #guns on a fairly regular basis.

Jay Beale joined us on @sharedsecurity for one of those episodes that starts with hilarious physical pentest stories and ends in a very real modern security problem: what happens when AI agents, RAG systems, and vector databases are running on Kubernetes infrastructure that attackers can reach?

We talked about DEF CON, Kubernetes training, indirect prompt injection, and why “AI security” still has to include boring-but-critical infrastructure security.

Watch this episode on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/aMHk62dprDA

Listen and subscribe wherever you like to get your podcasts:

https://sharedsecurity.net/subscribe
https://sharedsecurity.net/2026/06/29/jay-beale-on-kubernetes-def-con-and-ai-attack-paths/

#podcast #cybersecurity #kubernetes

See your serverless: introducing the Headlamp plugin for Knative - https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/06/25/headlamp-knative-plugin/ #Kubernetes
See your serverless: introducing the Headlamp plugin for Knative

Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources. Knative brings serverless workloads to Kubernetes, handling traffic routing, autoscaling, and revision management so teams can deploy and iterate without fighting infrastructure. But operating Knative workloads day-to-day can be difficult, there's still a lot of jumping between the kn CLI, kubectl, and the Kubernetes UI to get a full picture of what's running.

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eBPF is to the Linux kernel as JavaScript is to your browser — it allows you to inject new functionality or manipulate existing functionality in the Linux kernel.

Watch the full 🌩️Thunder:
https://youtu.be/slJP_CS5XcE

#eBPF #Linux #Kubernetes #CloudNative

IBM broke the 1nm barrier, OpenAI built its own chip, Postgres survived its own creators, and LastPass is reminding everyone that your vendor's vendor is your problem. DevOps'ish 315 has it all: https://devopsish.com/315 #DevOps #Cloud #Kubernetes #AI #Tech #News #Newsletter

🌍 k8gb-io/k8gb

A cloud native Kubernetes Global Balancer

Balances traffic across geographically dispersed Kubernetes clusters using DNS-based global load balancing strategies

⭐ Stars: 1186
📅 Last Update: Jun 29, 2026

https://github.com/k8gb-io/k8gb

#selfhosted #homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #kubernetes #globalloadbalancing

GitHub - k8gb-io/k8gb: A cloud native Kubernetes Global Balancer

A cloud native Kubernetes Global Balancer. Contribute to k8gb-io/k8gb development by creating an account on GitHub.

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🌘 實現 Kubernetes 零停機:多叢集聯合架構指南
➤ 從容應對叢集毀滅:Linkerd 多叢集架構實戰
https://linkerd.io/2026/06/24/federating-clusters-for-zero-downtime-kubernetes/index.html
本文探討如何透過 Linkerd 的多叢集擴充功能,在分散於不同地區的 Kubernetes 叢集中實現服務聯合(Federation)。作者透過部署三個 GKE 叢集並建立全網狀(Full-Mesh)連結,成功演示了三種不同的多叢集模式:針對核心服務的「聯合模式」、針對特定後端的「平面鏡像模式」,以及針對跨網路限制服務的「閘道模式」。這種架構不僅能自動進行叢集間的故障轉移(Failover),還能確保應用程式在單一區域故障時維持高可用性,而無需更動程式碼。
+ 這篇文章提到的「聯合模式」真的解決了多雲環境下最痛的 DNS 切換問題,特別是 Linkerd 可以在不更動程式碼的情況下自動處理流量,對平臺工程師來說簡
#Kubernetes #Linkerd #雲端原生 #高可用性 #GKE
Linkerd Multicluster: Federation, Mirroring on GKE

Linkerd multicluster supports 3 modes: federated, flat, and gateway. Wire all 3 across 3 GKE clusters, run a chaos test, and see automatic failover in action.

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