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Gateway API Shifts Cluster Networking: An Ownership Model for the Edge
Ingress is frozen and Ingress NGINX is retired. Gateway API replaces one shared object with resources owned by platform and application teams, joined by explicit handshakes. Here is what that means for platform design, RBAC, topology and CRD ownership.
MCP for DevOps: Give Agents Pipeline Context Without the Keys
How platform teams can use the Model Context Protocol safely: start with read-only servers and scoped identities behind a gateway, trace every tool call, and add write tools only behind human approval. Includes RBAC, tool and task examples.
AWS Resilience Hub: Keep Workload Scope and Recovery Targets Aligned
A practical guide to the September 2026 Resilience Hub features: scope EKS services with labels, use dependency discovery and insights to find hidden coupling, classify hard and soft dependencies, and share one resilience policy across AWS accounts.
