Five key autoscaling metrics for Kubernetes

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to chat with Courtney Nash at SREcon, and one of the things she reminded me is that “it’s OK to say that you’re…

Sep 22 • drmorr

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Dear Kubernetes: You need to get your priorities straight

Editor’s note: I’ve been informed that the introduction to this post is convoluted and confusing.

Sep 12 • drmorr

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August 2026

Bazel's UX is really, really, really bad

Hi friends!

Aug 28 • drmorr

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Karpenter's consolidation behaviour is counter-intuitive

OK, this story starts off with a colleague messaging me at 9am on a Tuesday morning: “Hey, drmorr, Karpenter is behaving a little bit strangely in this…

Aug 4 • drmorr

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July 2026

The Seven Stages of CI Grief

On the pain scale, a root canal might be an eight.

Jul 10 • Ian O’Gorman

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June 2026

Worth the Wait: Making SimKube Pod Startup More Realistic

If you’re detail-oriented, skeptical, or just enjoy watching Pod transitions in your spare time, you may have noticed a peculiar behavior in SimKube…

Jun 22 • Ian O’Gorman

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Stop accusing people of cheating with LLMs

This is a bonus post for the week, because I’m frustrated and mad.

Jun 16 • drmorr

Two things to know about Kubernetes Mutating Webhooks

This is a quick story about a bug in SimKube where I knew what the bug was from the beginning and it still took me several hours to actually…

Jun 14 • drmorr

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SimArena: A reinforcement learning arena for training autonomous Kubernetes AI agents

Happy June, everybody!

Jun 8 • drmorr

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May 2026

ACRL is turning 3 (and also drmorr is turning an age greater than 3)

It is kind of wild to me that ACRL was founded 3 years ago; in June of 2023 I stepped out on this crazy adventure and I had no idea where it was going…

May 30 • drmorr

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Naked pods are Weird, Man

I’ve been doing some work with SimKube for a client recently and have run into a bunch of issues with SimKube fixed regarding its handling of bare…

May 24 • drmorr

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All the ways to mock your Rust code

Ok, so, suppose you’ve written a Kubernetes controller, you did it in Rust, and then you realized that “Hey, when this thing breaks it’s hard to…

May 1 • drmorr

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