React 19 is coming to Grafana: what plugin developers need to know | Grafana Labs As part of the upcoming Grafana 13 release, we will be updating to React 19. Here’s how this change affects Grafana plugins, and how to prepare your plugin for compatibility ahead of the release.

Me: Create a viral post about Grafana’s long-term reliability.

Grafana: Updates to React 19 without adding new features, but risks breaking existing plugins.

grafana.com/blog/react-1...

Found AWS-Web-Identity-Federation feature. Found it cool. Wrote a little post about it: henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-12...

New post about running GitLab CI jobs without root: henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-10...

#rootless #docker #gitlab

How do you avoid the #DockerHub pull limit?
Just use the ionos pull through registry: `harbor.infra.cluster.ionos.com/docker.io`
No Limits, No Auth, No Guarantees

Expectations on VW software are low, yet they still manage to underdeliver. Either their entire IDP service is down or I just bricked my account.

The combination of kuberc, kubecolor and krew it the sh*t for #kubernetes productivity. Love it!

Two years ago I found a blog-post from ‪@mccune.org.uk‬ about disabling `anonymous-auth` in #kubernetes - it broke my cluster...

Now Kubernetes provides a way to implement his recommendation without scarifying functionality.
You may wanna check out how:
henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-05...

Honestly, it is a nice feeling, providing a small contribution to many newly created Helm-Charts

Release Helm v3.18.0 · helm/helm Helm v3.18.0 is a feature release. Users are encouraged to upgrade for the best experience. The community keeps growing, and we'd love to see you there! Join the discussion in Kubernetes Slack: f...

YAY - Helm 3.18 now ships with a template for HTTPRoutes!

It took a little to get this new Starter-Template merged, but now users will have it a little easier to start using the #Kubernetes #Gateway-API in their #HELM Charts.
github.com/helm/helm/re...

Managed to shrink my golden Debian based #Kubernetes vm image to about 1GB and 0,5 GB compressed. An entire disk image with kernel, coreutils, kubelet and containerd smaller then most OpenShift container images 😙

I know it is called flightmode, not carmode - still no reason to crash and reboot the entire infotainment system in your #vw when switched on.

But we know software is not your profession

Better together?!

I recently worte a small post on how you can reuse your existing #ansible playbooks to provision infra faster and more reliable by creating golden images with #packer.
You can check it out here if you are interested: henrikgerdes.me/blog/2025-04...