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SRE & DevOpsHow-To July 11, 2026 3 min read

How to Write a Helm Chart from Scratch

A complete walkthrough building a Helm chart for a simple application — templates, values, and the conventions that make a chart genuinely reusable rather than a one-off wrapper around raw YAML.

#howto#helm#kubernetes
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SRE & DevOpsNews July 11, 2026 2 min read

Docker Donates containerd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Accepted as an incubating CNCF project on March 29, 2017, containerd split out the core container-runtime functionality from Docker itself — becoming the shared runtime foundation much of the ecosystem, including Kubernetes, later standardized on.

#news#containerd#cncf
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SRE & DevOpsNews July 11, 2026 2 min read

Kubernetes Removes Dockershim in Version 1.24

Deprecated in December 2020 and fully removed in the April 2022 release of Kubernetes 1.24, dockershim's removal ended direct Docker Engine support in kubelet — a roughly 16-month migration window the project deliberately built in.

#news#kubernetes#dockershim
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SRE & DevOpsNews July 11, 2026 2 min read

Prometheus Joins the CNCF as Its Second Hosted Project

Accepted on May 9, 2016, Prometheus became the CNCF's second project after Kubernetes itself — an early, deliberate signal that observability, not just orchestration, belonged at the center of the cloud-native stack.

#news#prometheus#cncf
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FreeDOSFix July 11, 2026 3 min read

Fixing USB Drive Detection Issues on FreeDOS

A USB flash drive doesn't show up as a drive letter under FreeDOS. Since there's no native USB support, this comes down to getting USBASPI's driver chain correctly configured, or falling back to BIOS-level access.

#fix#usb#hardware
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FreeDOSHow-To July 11, 2026 2 min read

How to Set Up a Development Environment on FreeDOS

A complete walkthrough installing a C compiler and assembler on FreeDOS and building your first program — for anyone wanting to write software for DOS rather than just run it.

#howto#development#open-watcom
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