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How to Keep AI Agents From Going Rogue Using Docker Sandbox

An AI agent is an "autonomous software program that uses artificial intelligence to make a plan, execute tools, and complete an action." Autonomy (...
Posted on 21 October 2026 | 1:00 pm

Hot-Reloading Kubernetes Secrets and ConfigMaps in Go With mamori (No Pod Restarts)

If you run Go services on Kubernetes, you know the ritual. You update a Secret or a ConfigMap, and then you do one of these: kubectl rollout rest...
Posted on 19 October 2026 | 1:00 pm

Node and Capacity Spillover: What Happens When Kubernetes Runs Out of Room

A pod stuck in Pending is one of the most misleading states in Kubernetes. Nothing looks wrong. There's no error banner, no red text screaming at y...
Posted on 15 October 2026 | 7:00 pm

When One Docker Swarm Replica Became Unreachable Over an Overlay Network: A Production Case With Traefik

Context The incident occurred in the production backend infrastructure of a mobile application. External HTTP traffic was handled by Traefik, deplo...
Posted on 13 October 2026 | 4:00 pm

Docker Sandboxes Beyond the Laptop: Running AI Agents in the Cloud

In my previous article, I walked through running coding agents inside Docker Sandboxes on a local machine. We installed the sbx CLI, started with a...
Posted on 2 October 2026 | 12:00 pm

The Silent Container Death: A TCP Dial That Never Times Out

A pod goes into CrashLoopBackOff. You pull the logs expecting a stack trace, a panic, an error string - anything that points you somewhere. Instead...
Posted on 30 September 2026 | 6:00 pm

Building a Practical Cloud-Native Golden Path: A Guide to Kubernetes-Based Service Delivery, Self-Service, and Developer-Friendly Defaults

Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2026 Trend Report, Cloud-Native Foundations: Kubernetes, Platform E...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 3:30 pm

Kubernetes Operations Playbook: The Essentials for Keeping Scale, Complexity, and Drift Under Control

Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2026 Trend Report, Cloud-Native Foundations: Kubernetes, Platform E...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 3:30 pm

Understand the Sidecar Pattern by Deploying n8n to AWS Fargate

A sidecar is a container that runs alongside another container as part of the same deployment unit. Just because two containers are in the same clu...
Posted on 17 September 2026 | 3:00 pm

Kubernetes Says Ready. Your LLM Still Isn’t.

A pod can look healthy in Kubernetes while the model behind it is still not ready to answer a request. That is the gap I wanted to measure.
Posted on 9 September 2026 | 3:00 pm

The Startup Time Trick Hiding Inside Your Docker Build

Every Java developer who runs services on Kubernetes has watched this scene play out. Traffic spikes, the autoscaler adds a pod, and then everyone ...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 6:00 pm

Making Running Optional: Scaling AI Agents on Kubernetes With Agent Substrate

What if you could multiplex roughly 250 stateful agent sessions across eight Kubernetes worker Pods, then reactivate any one without losing its in-...
Posted on 3 September 2026 | 12:00 pm

Member Spotlight: Shamsher Khan

There’s always more to our contributors than what you see in their author profiles. For our latest Member Spotlight, I sat down with Shamsher Khan ...
Posted on 28 August 2026 | 1:30 pm

Containerizing Spark and Lakehouse Development with Docker

Most Docker content targets web developers shipping stateless services. However, data engineers, who represent a huge and growing population of Doc...
Posted on 25 August 2026 | 7:00 pm

How Docker Is Becoming an AI Development Platform

It stopped being just a packaging tool the day our onboarding doc got shorter instead of longer. Three weeks into a new ML platform job, I asked a ...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 5:00 pm

Containerizing LLMs: Best Practices for Docker-Based AI Workloads

The first time I containerized a fine-tuned Llama model for a client's internal search tool, the build finished at 38 gigabytes. I remember staring...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 2:00 pm

How Different Docker Engine Versions Led to Partial Traffic Unavailability in Docker Swarm

If different Docker Engine versions are running simultaneously in a Docker Swarm cluster, this may lead not to an obvious service outage but to a m...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 1:00 pm

Building Internal Developer Platforms on Kubernetes: The Abstraction Problem Nobody Warns You About

Introduction The meeting that changed the platform team's direction was not a technical one. It was a conversation with a product engineer who had ...
Posted on 18 August 2026 | 4:00 pm

From raw manifests to self-service Kubernetes apps: creating enterprise-ready open platforms

Sponsored By: NutanixThe following is sponsored content. It may not reflect the views of our editorial staff. Th...
Posted on 14 August 2026 | 4:27 pm

Zone-Aware Routing in Kubernetes: Reducing Latency, Improving Resilience, and Lowering Cloud Costs

This guide explains zone-aware routing from a Kubernetes-first point of view. It covers:
Posted on 13 August 2026 | 12:00 pm