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SRE & DevOpsHow-To April 27, 2026 3 min read

How to Write a Helm Chart from Scratch

A complete walkthrough building a Helm chart for a simple application — templates, values, and the conventions that make a chart genuinely reusable rather than a one-off wrapper around raw YAML.

#howto#helm#kubernetes
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SRE & DevOpsFix April 25, 2026 3 min read

Fixing a Failed or Stuck Helm Release

A helm upgrade fails partway, or a release gets stuck in 'pending-upgrade' state, blocking every subsequent operation on it. Here's how to actually recover instead of getting stuck retrying the same failing command.

#fix#helm#kubernetes
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SRE & DevOpsFix April 24, 2026 3 min read

Fixing ImagePullBackOff in Kubernetes

A pod can't start because Kubernetes can't pull its container image — the fix depends entirely on which of a handful of specific causes is actually responsible, from a typo to a private registry auth problem.

#fix#kubernetes#containers
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SRE & DevOpsFix April 23, 2026 3 min read

Fixing Pods Stuck in Pending State in Kubernetes

A pod stuck Pending means the scheduler couldn't place it anywhere — here's how to read the actual reason from pod events instead of guessing at resource, taint, or affinity problems.

#fix#kubernetes#scheduling
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SRE & DevOpsNews April 22, 2026 2 min read

Prometheus Joins the CNCF as Its Second Hosted Project

Accepted on May 9, 2016, Prometheus became the CNCF's second project after Kubernetes itself — an early, deliberate signal that observability, not just orchestration, belonged at the center of the cloud-native stack.

#news#prometheus#cncf
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