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Brian Grant

Application configuration and feature flags

I’ve been writing about the configuration of cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes resources. But what about configuration consumed by server…

6 min readApr 16, 2024

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On using the Kubernetes Resource Model for Declarative Configuration

Kubernetes is far from perfect (we had to build it really fast!), but one of the ancillary design decisions in Kubernetes that worked out…

4 min readApr 13, 2024

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Is the Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem too big, complex, and fragmented?

For the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes, I was asked by a Kubernetes Steering Committee member what I thought the project’s most significant…

2 min readApr 12, 2024

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Is the Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem too big, complex, and fragmented?

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Brian Grant

Advantages of storing configuration in container registries rather than git

Storing configuration files and packages in git is pretty common. Sometimes they are committed alongside source code, sometimes they are…

3 min readApr 12, 2024

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Brian Grant

Why are email notifications for approval requests so inefficient?

Many software products have mechanisms for requesting approval for certain actions or changes. I have been an approver for many things over…

3 min readApr 8, 2024

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Monorepos vs. many repos: is there a good answer?

For teams working on shared source repositories, a question often emerges at some point regarding when and how to split repositories. The…

5 min readApr 6, 2024

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The tension between flexibility and simplicity in Infrastructure as Code

I touched on this in my Reflections on declarative configuration post, and have written about it on the kpt site and the Kubernetes “DAM…

4 min readApr 6, 2024

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Automation using Control planes vs. Command-line tools

In my post about GitOps, I mentioned evolving the client-side “kubectl rolling-update” to the server-side Kubernetes Deployment…

4 min readApr 6, 2024

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What is it with template catalogs?

I have studied more than a hundred platforms of various flavors: application platforms, hosting platforms, workload execution platforms…

3 min readApr 4, 2024

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What are state-based policy constraints good for?

Conventional permissions models, like Kubernetes RBAC or Google Cloud IAM, essentially amount to sets of allow and/or deny rules of the…

2 min readApr 4, 2024

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Brian Grant

Brian Grant

Original lead architect of Kubernetes. Emeritus Kubernetes Steering Committee and CNCF TOC. Former Chief Architect of PeakStream (HPC on GPUs).

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