Platform Engineering Monthly — June 2025
Welcome to the nineteenth edition of Platform Engineering Monthly! Suggestions or ideas for the next edition? Let me know!
📰 News
What Would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look Like — Some great ideas in here (kill etcd being one of the less original ones), but still—native package management and HCL are great suggestions (anything for less YAML…).
🔗 https://matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/Kaniko has finally officially been archived | r/kubernetes — More a PSA, but Google’s Kaniko has officially been archived. Just a reminder that just because a project has big name backers doesn’t mean it’s got longevity. (Though Kaniko hasn’t appeared on killbygoogle yet…)
🔗 https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1l2dto9/kaniko_has_finally_officially_been_archived/Is Datadog Becoming a Platform Engineering Company? | The New Stack — Datadog moving into the platform engineering space. Our cloud bills are trembling….
🔗 https://thenewstack.io/is-datadog-becoming-a-platform-engineering-company/Goodbye AWS: How We Kept ISO 27001, Slashed Costs by 90% | Datapult — I know, another article saving $$$ by moving off AWS. Any cost-savings that involve multiple months of engineering work is often dubious, but it’s an interesting thing to ponder when you look at last month’s AWS bill.
🔗 https://medium.com/@accounts_73078/goodbye-aws-how-we-kept-iso-27001-slashed-costs-by-90-914ccb4b89fcA Day in the Life of Server #47B-2: An AWS Data Center Memoir | Last Week in AWS — OK this is just a kinda fun idea—the life and times of an AWS server. The stories they could tell!
🔗 https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-server-47b-2-an-aws-data-center-memoir/Google Cloud Service Health — This GCP outage was a serious one and again, the best way to find out where everything’s hosted (if Cloudflare isn’t cloud-agnostic, what chance do the rest of us have?).
🔗 https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW
🦮 Tutorials / How-tos
Smart Uses of imagePullSecrets in Kubernetes Cluster with ServiceAccounts | CNCF — Attach imagePullSecrets to service accounts and reduce your YAML. Always a win.
🔗 https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/06/20/smart-uses-of-imagepullsecrets-in-kubernetes-cluster-with-serviceaccounts/Easy Steps to Deploy Super Mario Game on AWS EKS Using Terraform | DEV Community — I can appreciate someone trying to make learning K8s fun. Definitely one to try out.
🔗 https://dev.to/aws-builders/easy-steps-to-deploy-super-mario-game-on-aws-eks-using-terraform-4oi
📁 Interesting Projects
czhu12/canine — Power of Kubernetes, simplicity of Heroku. Quite a neat idea, particularly if you can get self-hosted apps up and running quickly. Could streamline my homelab quite a bit!
🔗 https://github.com/czhu12/canineNickTikhonov/snap-ql — AI-powered Postgres client. I mean, I’d probably give this thing read-only access only—but even then it might generate a
SELECTstatement that kills your server.
🔗 https://github.com/NickTikhonov/snap-qlapple/container — A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It’s written in Swift and optimised for Apple silicon. Feels rare to share Apple projects here, but this looks like a nice tool to manage and run Linux containers on your Mac.
🔗 https://github.com/apple/container
📅 Events
PlatformCon Day – London
📅 June 25, 2025
In-person Live Day for platform engineers in London.
🔗 https://kube.events/conferencesPlatformCon Day – New York
📅 June 26, 2025
New York in-person Live Day following PlatformCon.
🔗 https://kube.events/conferencesDevOpsCon Berlin (Hybrid)
📅 June 16–20, 2025
Four days of CI/CD, Kubernetes, DevSecOps talks and workshops.
🔗 https://devopscon.io/berlinKubeCon + CloudNativeCon China
📅 June 10–11, 2025
Flagship Kubernetes conference in Asia.
🔗 https://www.cncf.io/kubecon-cloudnativecon-eventsKubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan
📅 June 16–17, 2025
Asia‑Pacific edition of the cloud-native flagship conference.
🔗 https://www.cncf.io/kubecon-cloudnativecon-eventsCloud Native Days Italy
📅 June 24, 2025 | Bologna
Regional event focusing on cloud-native tech.
🔗 https://kube.events/conferencesBuilding the Future: Platform Engineering & IaC with Kief Morris
📅 July 10, 2025 | Chicago
Talk and book signing from the author of Infrastructure as Code.
🔗 https://www.finos.org/featured-eventsCloud Native Summit Munich
📅 July 22, 2025
Community‑driven European event on cloud-native tools and best practices.
🔗 https://kube.events/conferencesDevOpsCon 2025 (New York)
📅 September 29 – October 2, 2025
Cloud platforms, microservices, Kubernetes, automation, and continuous delivery.
🔗 https://devopscon.io
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