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Deep dives, how-tos, and field notes on Kubernetes development and AI-driven software engineering. From the MetalBear team, the company behind mirrord.

Auto-Verifying Your AI-SRE’s Fixes Against Your Real Cluster
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Auto-Verifying Your AI-SRE’s Fixes Against Your Real Cluster

When your AI-SRE proposes a fix, you shouldn't have to deploy to staging to know if it works. Here's how to wire mirrord exec into your AI-SRE loop so every candidate patch is verified against the real cluster automatically, before it reaches a human.

Posted June 10, 2026 by Eyal Bukchin · 9 min read
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A Beginner's Guide to Helm
A Beginner's Guide to Helm

Helm is the second most used CNCF project for a reason: it tames Kubernetes YAML sprawl by packaging manifests into versioned, reusable …

Jun 3, 2026 · 11 min Read more →
Running AI Agent Pools Against Your Live Kubernetes Cluster, with mirrord
Running AI Agent Pools Against Your Live Kubernetes Cluster, with mirrord

AI coding agents are moving from IDE plugins into self-hosted cloud pools. Here's how to give them access to your real Kubernetes cluster …

May 28, 2026 · 8 min Read more →
Four Layers of Validation in Kubernetes with Claude Code
Four Layers of Validation in Kubernetes with Claude Code

Code validation isn't one thing. Skills shape what gets generated. Commands audit what was generated. Integration tests prove it works. And …

May 21, 2026 · 11 min Read more →
Six Claude Code Skills That Close the AI Agent Feedback Loop
Six Claude Code Skills That Close the AI Agent Feedback Loop

We shipped six Agent Skills that teach AI coding agents how and when to use mirrord, packaged as a single install for Claude Code, Cursor, …

May 13, 2026 · 5 min Read more →
How AI Might Be Making Your CI Pipeline Obsolete
How AI Might Be Making Your CI Pipeline Obsolete

AI coding agents push code every few minutes, but most teams are still running the same CI pipelines designed for human-paced development. …

Apr 29, 2026 · 6 min Read more →
New Features We Find Exciting in the Kubernetes 1.36 Release
New Features We Find Exciting in the Kubernetes 1.36 Release

Kubernetes 1.36 'Haru' graduates Mutating Admission Policies and User Namespaces to stable, expands DRA with fallback scheduling and device …

Apr 23, 2026 · 12 min Read more →
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