Kamal vs Flux CD: Simplicity or Resilience — Pick One
Kamal gives you dead-simple deploys over SSH. Flux CD gives you self-healing GitOps on Kubernetes. Both are great tools — but only one of them notices when your container crashes at 3 AM. Here's when to use which.
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Stop Demolishing the House to Change the Furniture: Why GitOps Beats Push-Based Deployment
Push-based deployment with Terraform and Helm reprocesses your entire infrastructure to update one container tag. Locked state buckets, stuck Helm releases, and developer bottlenecks are the real cost. GitOps with Flux CD separates what changes often from what changes rarely.
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Your MCP Server Works Locally. Then Kubernetes Kills the Session.
How we debugged intermittent 'Session not found' errors in a Spring AI MCP server on GKE — and why switching to stateless transport is the right answer for Kubernetes deployments.
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Replacing Flux Bootstrap with the Flux Operator: GitOps on Autopilot Mode
How we migrated from the traditional Flux bootstrap approach to the Flux Operator on GKE Autopilot, managed entirely with Terraform — and why a single FluxInstance CRD replaces 660KB of generated YAML.
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Why OpenTelemetry Beats Vendor-Locked APM Agents
Vendor-locked APM agents create costly dependencies. Learn why OpenTelemetry is the better path — and how to auto-instrument your Kubernetes workloads with the OTel Operator's Instrumentation CRD.
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