Goutham K~ $ echo $GREETING && whoami
Hello World!
I’m Goutham. Opinionated Kubernetes platforms and cloud native, professionally and compulsively — the job and the hobby stopped being different things a while ago. This is where I write about it.
~ $ cat community.md
Outside the day job I organize Cloud Native Austin, give talks at meetups and conferences, and go to conferences to hear everyone else’s.
- latest talk Grafana for Kubernetes-based platforms: every cluster, every region, one dashboard
- latest conf WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America 2026
more: talks/ conferences/ community/
~ $ ls -t blog/* til/* | head
- TIL: Library Helm charts share templates, not workloads
- TIL: Argo CD AppProjects have a namespace resource whitelist
- TIL: GOTOOLCHAIN=local stops Go from auto-upgrading toolchains
- TIL: a Helm release's namespace is part of its identity
- TIL: a Terminating namespace is a stuck finalizer
- TIL: informers just subscribe to the API server's event stream
- TIL: a DNS zone delegation is just NS records (plus glue when you need them)
- TIL: deleting a CRD deletes every instance of that kind across the cluster
- TIL: argo cd helm release name defaults to the Application name
- TIL: flux dependsOn can order HelmReleases and Kustomizations across namespaces