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blog.heptio.com is the company blog at blog.heptio.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2016, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “The Next Chapter for ksonnet”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

28mentions?
17HN people?
2016–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 15 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Heptio's blog for context on Kubernetes tooling, including the ksonnet and kubecfg configuration tools, and for company announcements and cloud-native definitions.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Next Chapter for ksonnet
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-12-05
  2. Two new open source projects to make Kubernetes easier to use in production
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-03
  3. Securing the Kubernetes Dashboard
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. For those who are as confused as me why Kubecfg exists in the Ksonnet org on Github, when they also have Ksonnet itself, I found this explanation: https://blog.heptio.com/the-next-chapter-for-ksonnet-1dcbbad... . Short summary: They're different but somewhat complementary tools. Kubecfg was made by Bitnami, Ksonnet by Heptio. Kubecfg uses Jsonnet and is less opinioned than Ksonnet, but (as far as I can see) can also…

    Comment linking /the-next-chapter-for-ksonnet-1dcbbad30cb

    on “Stripe open-sources Skycfg, a configuration builder for Kubernetes”
  2. Submitted Ksonnet: Simplify working with Kubernetes configurations as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  3. (I'm the Heptio CTO) Some other pointers that give context here: My blog post on my motivations: https://www.eightypercent.net/post/another-leap-heptio.html The press release: https://blog.heptio.com/founding-members-of-kubernetes-team-... Blog post: "Cloud Native Part 1: Definition" https://blog.heptio.com/cloud-native-part-1-definition-716ed... Guest article (from Craig): "Cloud Native: Service-driven Operations t…

    Comment linking /founding-members-of-kubernetes-team-create-company-heptio-to-bring-kubernetes-and-containers-to-5c185724f412

    on “Kubernetes Founders Launched Startup Heptio to Bring Containers to Enterprise”
  4. Submitted Two new open source projects to make Kubernetes easier to use in production as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Heptio to be acquired by VMware as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Making it easy to use Envoy as a Kubernetes load balancer as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Heptio Introduces 2 OSS Projects for Kubernetes: Sonobuoy and Ark as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Core Kubernetes: Jazz Improv Over Orchestration as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Getting your culture right from the start as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Every time a Kubernetes distribution ships a new patch a fairy dies as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Securing the Kubernetes Dashboard as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Heptio Sonobuoy Scanner: view your Kubernetes cluster's conformance test results as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Thoughts on 'living culture' vs. 'snack culture' at a startup as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted AWS quickstart for Kubernetes as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Founding Members of Kubernetes Team Start Heptio as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Heptio Gimbal: LB control plane for k8s and openstack as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Heptio powered K8s – the “un-distribution” as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The Next Chapter for ksonnet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Announcing Heptio Labs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted How to start creating kubernetes clusters like a pro as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Securing the Kubernetes dashboard as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Announcing Contour 0.3 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted The Next Chapter for ksonnet as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Heptio Contour under the hood as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Integrating Honeycomb into your Kubernetes cluster with ksonnet as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted The peril in counting source lines on an OSS project as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Cloud Native Part 3: DevOps as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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