Kubernetes, or: The inevitable paradigm shift

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I have worked in this industry long enough to recognise how the end of an epoch feels.

It does not begin with a bang. It begins with a sensation. An inkling that what you have done for years is not wrong — but no longer enough. That the tools which carried you through the hardest nights have reached a boundary you cannot cross through diligence alone.

I am speaking about infrastructure. About servers. About the way we operate software. And about Kubernetes — the tool that has changed not only a technology but a mindset.

Ansible, or: The End of Hand-Crafted IT

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is a moment every administrator knows, after enough years in the job.

Friday evening. A server has to be rebuilt — yesterday. You remember most of the settings. The most important paths. The configuration that lives somewhere in a wiki nobody maintains anymore. And that one option you set eight months ago so the thing would finally run.

You start. Type. Check. Correct. And at some point you realise: this server resembles none of the others. It grew — it was never built.

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Kubernetes, or: The inevitable paradigm shift

Ansible, or: The End of Hand-Crafted IT