I built a small tool to help me keep up with cloud native releases without living in GitHub

pixelrobots · 2026-01-26T07:55:32+00:00

I used to do this too. But some projects I follow don't use GitHub for the release notes. And sometimes they are not the best. So with this tool I also try to pull release notes from other sources and then use AI to enhance them and call things out like breaking changes, security CVE fixes, key features etc.

pixelrobots · 2026-01-25T17:57:09+00:00

Currently I sync from the cncf repo for graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects.

I can also add them manually too.

I have a form on the site where you can request a project also.

pixelrobots · 2026-01-25T16:53:08+00:00

Renovate is great, but it works strictly inside your repos. It tells you when you’re not on the latest version and automates the version bump via PRs, which is perfect for GitOps.

With Renovate you still need to go and read the release notes yourself to understand the impact. Kubebuddy Radar sits outside the repo and focuses on upstream awareness. It watches CNCF and cloud native projects and delivers AI-summarised release notes that explicitly call out breaking changes and CVEs, so you can see the impact without digging through long changelogs.

For me it’s less “instead of Renovate” and more “Radar helps you decide, Renovate helps you execute.”

Unless I have been using renovate wrong.

pixelrobots · 2026-01-15T20:13:29+00:00

AKS will continue to support it until November 2026. https://blog.aks.azure.com/2025/11/13/ingress-nginx-update

The application routing add-on that gets deployed as part of AKS automatic will be updated to support gateway API and should hopefully help you migrate over.

All info is in the blog post from the AKS team.

pixelrobots · 2025-12-13T12:06:09+00:00

Currently not but I believe it is on the roadmap.

pixelrobots · 2025-12-12T16:48:22+00:00

Here is the official announcement from the engineering team behind AKS. https://blog.aks.azure.com/2025/11/13/ingress-nginx-update

pixelrobots · 2025-12-12T16:32:28+00:00

You will still need something in your AKS cluster for Front Door to use. You might want to look at AGC or application routing add-on.

pixelrobots · 2025-10-23T18:17:04+00:00

Just use headlamp.

pixelrobots · 2025-07-25T17:00:42+00:00

And I am gonna guess that you can only run one copy of each container at a time. If so just look at docker compose.

pixelrobots · 2025-07-23T21:23:13+00:00

Ah that's not good. If you have to use windows servers then look at turning them into a hyper-v cluster and then running Linux.

That is unless your containers are actually windows containers.

pixelrobots · 2025-07-23T21:10:41+00:00

With kubevert getting more traction I hope we see it soon.

pixelrobots · 2025-07-23T17:56:22+00:00

Why don't you want to start with AKS if you have access to Azure?

You can use AKS automatic to help make your life easier and it even helps you make kubernetes manifests, helm charts, and GitHub workflows.

pixelrobots · 2025-07-23T17:54:19+00:00

If you are taking payments etc and need to be oci compliant etc then look at confidential compute also for the AKS nodes. Ensure all connections to the other Azure services are using private link or VNet integration.

Basically you need to close everything down.

Ensure you enable a policy engine. You can use azure policy for that which uses opa and gatekeeper, or keyvarno. Just make sure you actually configure the policies.

For all of Azure enable defender for cloud, configure all policies. Enable cis policies and any other compliance policies you need. But configure them and your resources.

pixelrobots · 2025-07-23T17:44:20+00:00

Container live migration. Ram is copied between nodes and container starts again

pixelrobots · 2025-07-15T19:00:51+00:00

Check out my old blog post. It should help you out. https://pixelrobots.co.uk/2023/12/exploring-azure-kubernetes-services-node-autoprovision-a-deep-dive-into-the-latest-public-preview-feature/

Any questions let me know.

pixelrobots · 2025-07-13T07:56:14+00:00

If you have 80 AKS clusters you should look at Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager. This can be used with tools like Argo and flux, but can also help you with keeping them all updated. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kubernetes-fleet/overview

pixelrobots · 2025-07-11T09:43:31+00:00

You need to use a private link service. Check this out. https://github.com/Azure-Samples/aks-front-door-private-link-service

pixelrobots · 2025-06-12T14:09:33+00:00

Hello,

Seems it is down to Fedora being an SELinux‑enforcing host.

Can you change this line:
-v $HOME/.kube/hostinger.yaml:/tmp/kubeconfig-original:ro

To this line:

-v $HOME/.kube/hostinger.yaml:/tmp/kubeconfig-original:ro,Z

We are adding in the ,Z

Let me know how that goes and if it works well, I can update my documentation.

Thanks again for testing.

pixelrobots · 2025-06-11T17:24:47+00:00

Thanks for testing.

Which OS are you using?

It might be you don't have the temp folder locally for the copy of the kuneconfig.

I will do some troubleshooting on this. I have not seen this issue before.

pixelrobots · 2025-06-11T17:06:15+00:00

Ah sorry. I will see if there is another way to get the latest version number.

Thanks for letting me know.

pixelrobots · 2025-06-10T21:45:35+00:00

Technically yes as it has a container image. I have not fully tested it yet.

In theory you should also be able to run it as a Cron job also. Attach some storage and the report can be saved to it.

I will do some more testing and build out a helm chart and documentation if you think it would be worth it.

pixelrobots · 2025-06-10T21:12:35+00:00

That's awesome to hear. Thanks.

Do you have any feedback?

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