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Featured · Kubernetes

We Moved Our Production to UpCloud. Here Is What Sovereignty Actually Cost.

Ankra's own platform now runs in Helsinki. The timeline, the bill, the benchmark numbers, and the places UpCloud let us down, from the team that did the move.

Mattias ÅsellSeptember 21, 202614 min read

Observability

Parseable on Kubernetes: Your Logs and Metrics, in Your Own Bucket

Run Parseable on your own Kubernetes cluster with one Ankra stack profile. Logs and metrics land as Parquet in an S3 bucket you own, for about €6.50 a terabyte.

November 13, 202611 min read

Comparisons

Moving Off Northflank After the Security Incident: A Simple Guide

Northflank told customers to assume their secrets were exposed. Here is how to rotate your keys and move your apps to Ankra, in five plain steps.

November 4, 20265 min read

Kubernetes

Kubernetes the Hard Way, Part 3: Back Up etcd and Restore a Lost Control Plane

Back up a Kubernetes 1.37 cluster by hand with etcd snapshots, then delete the control plane and restore it. Includes the encryption key trap, all tested.

October 25, 202612 min read

Kubernetes

Kubernetes the Hard Way, Part 5: Certificates, Expiry and Renewal Without Downtime

Read every Kubernetes certificate, watch one expire, and renew them all by hand. Most components reload a renewed certificate with no restart at all. Tested.

October 25, 20269 min read

Featured · AI

A Managed AI Stack for Developers: Private, Under Your Control, Costed to the Token

Public AI chat quietly leaks IP and breaks NDAs. Deploy a private chat and API on a GPU you own: your data stays home and every token has a known price.

August 25, 202610 min read

Kubernetes

Kubernetes the Hard Way, Part 6: GitOps by Hand, a Reconcile Loop With Git and kubectl

Build GitOps from scratch on Kubernetes 1.37. A Git repository, a reconcile loop with kubectl server-side apply and pruning, drift repair, rollback, all tested.

October 25, 20268 min read

Kubernetes

Kubernetes the Hard Way, Part 2: A Highly Available Control Plane

Build a Kubernetes 1.37 control plane that survives losing a server. Three control planes, etcd with TLS, a load balancer, and failure drills, all tested.

October 25, 202613 min read

Kubernetes

Kubernetes the Hard Way, Part 4: Pod Networking by Hand, Without a CNI Plugin

Build Kubernetes pod networking by hand with network namespaces, veth pairs, a bridge, routes and NAT, then call a CNI plugin yourself and trace a Service. Tested.

October 25, 202611 min read

Platform Engineering

What Is an Internal Developer Platform? One Platform From Startup to Enterprise

An internal developer platform gives every team a self-service path to production and the organisation one place to govern it all. Learn what an IDP includes and how one platform serves a two-person startup and an enterprise of many teams.

October 24, 202616 min read

Platform Engineering

Ship to Kubernetes Without Tickets, Not Guardrails

Learn how to ship to Kubernetes without tickets using GitOps, standard templates, scoped access, and deployment workflows that preserve production control.

October 24, 20268 min read

Kubernetes MCP Servers in 2026: Kubeconfig-Based vs Hosted, Compared

Seven Kubernetes MCP servers compared, from kubernetes-mcp-server and mcp-server-kubernetes to the EKS, AKS and GKE servers and Ankra's hosted one.

October 23, 202613 min read

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