The Luca Berton Blog
1922+ expert articles on AI, Kubernetes, Ansible, Platform Engineering, and cloud infrastructure — practical, hands-on guides and industry insights from Luca Berton, AI & Cloud Advisor. Explore tutorials, deep dives, and the latest from every topic.
TalosCon 2026 Day 1: Talos 1.14, Hypervisor and Director
From Hotel Okura: Talos 1.14 with 44 features and no more reboots, Talos Containers, the Hypervisor alpha, Talos Director, and the Yardi acquisition on stage.
Nordic APIs 2026 Day 2: A Valid JWT Is Not Trust
Shared Signals and CAEP for revoking JWTs in flight, Arazzo workflows for agents, and my own talk: my notes from day 2 of Nordic APIs Summit in Stockholm.
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Nordic APIs 2026 Day 1: Your Next Customer Is an Agent
UnConference sticky wall, Curity, Axway and Nordic APIs keynotes, agent identity, MCP and fuzzing: my notes from day 1 of Nordic APIs Summit in Stockholm.
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40 AI Web Design Tools, UI Libraries, and Inspiration Websites for 2026
Explore 40 AI web design tools, prompt libraries, UI components, animation resources and inspiration sites for building standout websites in 2026.
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Agent-Friendly Docs: llms.txt and Markdown with Hugo
How to make documentation readable by AI agents: the llms.txt format, Markdown versions of pages, and a working Hugo setup, inspired by Docsy's keynote.
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Agent Harness Fundamentals: Building Reliable AI Agents with Claude Code
Join Luca Berton and Youssef Hosni for a free Claude Code webinar on agent harnesses, hooks, subagents, automated tests, guardrails, and human review.
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Flatcar Container Linux: Immutable Kubernetes Nodes Guide
Why the host OS still matters in Kubernetes, and how Flatcar Container Linux delivers immutable, auto-updating nodes with Ignition, A/B updates and sysexts.
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Greg Kroah-Hartman on AI Bug Finders, the CRA and Linux at 35
My Udienza interview with Greg Kroah-Hartman in Prague: AI tools finding kernel bugs, kernel size per device, RISC-V, the CRA as an ingredients list, careers.
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Konstantin Ryabitsev on Email, b4 and the AI Patch Flood
My Udienza interview with Konstantin Ryabitsev in Prague: why Linux still runs on email, b4 and patch attestation, and the AI-generated patch flood.
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Linux Kernel CVEs in 2026: Why You Should Run Stable Kernels
The kernel is now the world's largest CVE issuer, with 5,681 CVEs in 2025. What that means for production teams, LTS end-of-life dates, and what to do.
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Migrating from HashiCorp Vault to OpenBao in 2026
A practical guide to moving from HashiCorp Vault to OpenBao: the in-place path for Vault CE, the export path for Enterprise, and what breaks on cutover.
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OpenBao 2.7: Post-Quantum TLS, HSM Keys and Postgres Scale
What's new in OpenBao 2.7, from the OpenBao team in Prague: external keys for HSMs, post-quantum TLS, read scaling on PostgreSQL, and secrets for AI agents.
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Prague Hallway Track: Framework, Ethereum and a Linux Phone
Three booth conversations from Open Source Summit Europe 2026: Framework's repairable laptops, the Ethereum Foundation, and a phone running mainline Linux.
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Percona's Alastair Turner: Relational Databases Aren't Going Away
My Udienza interview with Percona's Alastair Turner in Prague: 20 years of Percona, Valkey and licence-change forks, and why vectors belong in Postgres.
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Who Owns the Stack? The Sovereignty Panel at OSS Europe 2026
Thierry Carrez, Paula Grzegorzewska, Jonathan Bryce and CRob on digital sovereignty in Prague: choice, the CRA, Europe's missing link, and why not to isolate.
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WPE WebKit's New WPEPlatform API: A Migration Guide
WPE WebKit 2.54 makes WPEPlatform the default and deprecates libwpe. What changes for embedded Linux products, the new API, and how to plan the migration.
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People I Met at Open Source Summit Europe 2026
The maintainers, foundation leaders and builders I met at Open Source Summit Europe 2026 in Prague, from the kernel hallway to the Žofín Palace reception.
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AI Agents at Scale on Kubernetes: Agent Substrate and HAMi
Why AI agents strain Kubernetes, and the CNCF projects closing the gap: Agent Substrate for density, gVisor for isolation, HAMi and DRA for GPU sharing.
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Your API Guardrails Shouldn't Depend on Your Gateway
Define API security and governance independently of the gateway, then enforce and verify consistent guardrails across Kong, Apigee, Tyk and Curity.
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Google C2PA SDK for Android: What 'Issued by Google LLC' Means
Seeing Google C2PA SDK for Android and Issued by Google LLC? Learn what the signature proves, what it doesn't, and how to check AI edits.
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Open Source Summit Europe 2026: Complete Prague Guide
Every article from my Open Source Summit Europe 2026 coverage in Prague, by theme: sovereignty, AI security, agents, kernel, foundations, embedded and people.
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94% of European Organisations Use or Pilot AI Coding Tools: Lessons from Prague
Open Source Summit Prague highlighted 94% AI coding adoption in Europe. Here is what the Linux Foundation figure means for engineering teams and maintainers.
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Prague 2026: Digital Sovereignty Is an Open Source Governance Problem
At Open Source Summit Europe in Prague, Linux Foundation research showed why sovereignty depends on governance, upstream contributions, and fewer private forks.
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FINOS OSERA at Prague 2026: Patch Once, Verify Everywhere
At Open Source Summit Prague, FINOS OSERA presented open remediation standards for verifiable patches, provenance, compatibility, and enterprise security.
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