Ketan Jani is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on Kubernetes infrastructure at scale. He served on the CNCF KubeCon Europe 2026 and KubeCon India 2026 Program Committees and is an IEEE Senior Member. He writes in his individual capacity, sharing his personal views and not affiliated with or representing his employer.
Why Kubernetes Admission Control Is Really a Security UX Problem
Most Kubernetes admission webhooks treat security as binary: accept the configuration, or reject it. That binary thinking has matured an entire category of policy engines (OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno, ValidatingAdmissionPolicy with CEL) that ...
Pod Disruption Budgets: A Field Guide to What Actually Works
In Kubernetes, PodDisruptionBudgets are simple to write, easy to misuse, and cause more “why won’t this node drain?” confusions than any other Kubernetes primitive. After tracing too many node lifecycle automation problems ...
Ten Years of the Operator Pattern: What We Got Right, What We’d Change
CoreOS introduced the operator pattern in November 2016, and nearly a decade later operators are everywhere. Almost every CNCF graduated project ships one, every database vendor offers one, and every platform team ...
