What is AWS Lambda MicroVMs and how can it be used?

AWS Lambda MicroVMs is a new serverless compute primitive that lets you run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control. Developers have already used it creatively, such as building a personal serverless VPN where traffic exits through AWS infrastructure. It offers stronger isolation than traditional Lambda functions, making it suitable for security-sensitive or custom networking workloads.

What are the latest updates to Amazon EKS covered this week?

Amazon EKS received two notable updates: EKS Auto Mode now offers faster node provisioning and smarter cluster scaling for production workloads, and EKS now supports control plane egress routing through your own VPC. Together these improvements give teams better performance, cost control, and network security for Kubernetes workloads running on AWS.

How is AI being integrated with Kubernetes and GitOps workflows?

Several articles this week explore AI and Kubernetes integration. The CNCF blog details building a cluster-aware AI agent using Argo CD and GitOps. AWS Bedrock is being used to query runbooks in plain English and to power real-time event-driven AI agents with Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3. Grab also built a Kubernetes-native secure platform called Palana for agentic AI workloads.

What Kubernetes security topics were highlighted this week?

Security was a major theme. The CNCF Security Profiles Operator reached v1.0 with stable APIs, a third-party audit, and support for seccomp, SELinux, and AppArmor. Argo CD 3.5 added internal mTLS and source integrity for supply chain security. Additional coverage included SealedSecrets for safely storing encrypted secrets in Git and keyless authentication to eliminate static AWS credentials.

What is Headlamp and what new plugins were announced for it?

Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes UI project under the CNCF SIG. This week the Kubernetes blog announced three new plugins: a Cluster API plugin for managing cluster lifecycle, a Volcano plugin for inspecting batch and AI/ML workloads, and a Knative plugin for visualizing serverless services. These plugins make it easier to manage complex Kubernetes environments from a single UI.

How does Terraform compare to CloudFormation for infrastructure as code?

This week's digest includes a comparison of Terraform and CloudFormation for managing AWS infrastructure. Terraform offers a multi-cloud, declarative HCL-based approach with a large provider ecosystem, while CloudFormation is AWS-native and tightly integrated with AWS services. The choice typically depends on whether your infrastructure spans multiple cloud providers or remains exclusively within AWS.

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Written By Devoriales AI
Published 2026-06-28
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Cloud & DevOps & AI Digest: The Week of Jun 28, 2026

Happy Week! ☕ Here is your curated briefing on Cloud, AI, and Kubernetes for the week of Jun 28, 2026.

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I Built a Serverless VPN on Lambda MicroVMs — 12 Builds, 5 Dead Ends, 1 Working Architecture
TL;DR I built a personal VPN using AWS Lambda MicroVMs. Your traffic exits from AWS. When......
Creating a Kubernetes scoped kubeconfig by hand is 15 steps of pain. It shouldn't be.
Handing someone least-privilege access to a Kubernetes cluster means assembling a scoped kubeconfig......
I Built a Full-Stack B2B Marketplace in 3 Days With V0, Next.js 16, and Vercel's AWS Integration — Here's What Actually Happened
The honest account: what worked, what broke, and what I'd do differently. Three days. One B2B......
Terraform vs CloudFormation: The Infrastructure Awakens
The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I tried to spin up a small......
Query AWS Runbooks in Plain English with Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Originally published on kuryzhev.cloud The Night Our On-Call Engineer Couldn't Find the......
40 Kubernetes Interview Questions and Answers (2026)
Kubernetes shows up on nearly every backend, DevOps, and platform engineering job posting in 2026.......
Kubernetes Observability: What to Monitor and Why
The Kubernetes Monitoring Maze Kubernetes gives you a thousand metrics out of the box.......
Building an AI Agent That Responds to Real-Time Events with AWS Bedrock, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3
Most recommendation systems are batch jobs. They crunch last night's data, write a recommendations......
Keyless by Default: Securing FarmOps Desk without a Single Static Secret
Part of the H0: Hack the Zero Stack submission. See the project on Devpost. Every hackathon......
Kubernetes Explained: The Airport Control Tower Mental Model
The Problem with Learning Kubernetes Kubernetes documentation is thorough. It's also......
Kubernetes LLM Inference: Deploy and Scale Open-Source LLMs in 2026
Running your own LLMs on Kubernetes isn't just a cost play — it's about latency, data sovereignty,......
Humanizing Artificial Intelligence for Log Analysis: Turning Raw Server Logs Into Clear DevOps Answers
It's 2:14 a.m. and my phone is buzzing because a customer's instance won't get a floating IP. The......
🚀 Introducing CloudOps Blog – Practical AWS, Kubernetes & DevOps Guides
Hi everyone! 👋 Over the past few years, I've spent a lot of time working with AWS, Kubernetes,......
I Audited My AWS Account and Here's What I Found
I finally sat down and did a proper audit of my AWS account. I knew I had projects running and......
SealedSecrets: Storing Secrets in Git Without the Risk
How SealedSecrets lets you commit encrypted secrets to Git safely, why the real risk is losing the controller's private key, and how to back it up....
How I Built a Production-Style GitOps Platform on AWS EKS — Solo, From Scratch
Most DevOps portfolio projects follow the same pattern: deploy a "hello world" app to Kubernetes,......
How I Built a Production-Style GitOps Platform on AWS EKS — Solo, From Scratch
Most DevOps portfolio projects follow the same pattern: deploy a "hello world" app to Kubernetes,......
How I Built a Free Skill Exchange Platform with AWS DynamoDB and Vercel in 6 Days
While thinking about how people learn new skills, I noticed something interesting. There are......
How llm-d Prefix-Cache Routing Made Qwen 7B on EKS 2.3x Faster
Introduction I wanted to benchmark how much the routing layer matters for LLM inference......
Resolving 502 Errors on API Gateway: Optimizing Resource Allocation and Graceful Shutdown During ETL Processes
Introduction In the labyrinthine world of microservices and Kubernetes clusters,......
Security Profiles Operator hits v1 with stable APIs and a hardening pass
The CNCF's Security Profiles Operator graduated to v1.0.0 on June 26, freezing eight CRD APIs and clearing a third-party audit. The kubelet-side follow-up, KEP ...

📂 From InfoQ (DevOps)

AWS Previews FinOps Agent for Cost Analysis and Optimization
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/06/aws-finops-agent/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1781884717104.jpg"/>Amazon has released AWS Fin...
AWS Introduces Workload Credentials Provider for Automated Certificate and Secret Management
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/06/aws-credentials-provider/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1781712757418.jpg"/>AWS has recently an...
Argo CD 3.5 Tightens Supply Chain Security with Internal mTLS and Source Integrity
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/06/argocd-supply-chain-security/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1782400527464.jpg"/>The Argo CD pro...
Building a European Cloud Orchestration Platform within an Enterprise
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/06/europe-cloud-enterprise/en/headerimage/europe-cloud-enterprise-header-1782131709734.jpg"/>Modern clo...
Grab Builds Secure Agentic AI Workload Platform
<img src="https://www.infoq.com/styles/static/images/logo/logo_bigger.jpg"/>Grab's security team built Palana, a Kubernetes-native secure executi...

📂 From CNCF Blog

Security Profiles Operator v1: Stable APIs, Security Hardened, and Shaping Upstream Kubernetes
Linux provides powerful kernel-level security mechanisms, seccomp, SELinux, and AppArmor, that restrict what containerized workloads can do. Each uses profiles ...
Building a Cluster-Aware AI Agent with Kubernetes, Argo CD, and GitOps
A practical walkthrough of running a self-hosted, read-only AI agent inside a Kubernetes cluster, with the full CI/CD chain handled by GitHub Actions and Argo C...

📂 From Kubernetes Blog

Introducing the Cluster API plugin for Headlamp
<a href="https://headlamp.dev/">Headlamp</a> is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug ...
Inspect Volcano workloads faster with Headlamp
<a href="https://volcano.sh/">Volcano</a> is a cloud native batch scheduler for Kubernetes, built for high-performance computing, AI/ML, and other b...
See your serverless: introducing the Headlamp plugin for Knative
<a href="https://headlamp.dev/">Headlamp</a> is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug ...
Spotlight on WG Device Management
The rising popularity of AI, Edge, and Telecommunications workloads on Kubernetes has led to new requirements for hardware management. We now need hardwar...

📂 From Docker Blog

How to Generate an SBOM for Container Workflows
According to Omdia’s 2026 software supply chain security report, 86% of organizations find SBOM generation challenging. A major driver is tool sprawl: tea...

📂 From AWS Containers Blog

Faster nodes, smarter scaling: What’s new inside Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode
When you’re running production Kubernetes workloads, every second matters. The time a node takes to become ready, how quickly your cluster scales in re...
Amazon EKS now supports control plane egress through your VPC
Today, we’re announcing <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/control-plane-egress.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">custo...

📂 From AWS Blog

Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs
Today, we are announcing AWS Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive within <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/">AWS Lambda</a...
AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026)
Last week <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/new-york/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&sc_channel=el">AWS Summit New...

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