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The Chain Reaction: How a Missing iptables Rule Broke Azure NPM

Background We run a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster on Azure with Azure Linux and Windows nodes. The networking stack uses Azure CNI v1 for pod networking and IP allocation, and Azure Network Policy Manager(NPM) for network policy enforcement (similar role to Calico or Cilium鈥檚 policy engines). graph TB subgraph Node["Kubernetes Node"] kubelet kube-proxy azure-npm azure-cni end kubelet --> ??? kube-proxy --> ??? azure-npm --> ??? Symptoms Apart from azure-npm pods crashlooping on a few nodes, there were some errors in the logs. ...

April 15, 2026 路 7 min 路 Mariia Kotliarevskaia
GitHub Copilot

AI and Copilot CLI #1

While I was at KubeCon, I intentionally didn鈥檛 attend any AI talks. But of course, the topic of automating development processes and improving productivity with AI tools is still on the top of my mind. Let鈥檚 face some facts: you will be using generative AI for coding your colleagues will be using generative AI, it鈥檚 especially important in projects with a lot of unfamiliar codebase I discussed this topic with some of my friends and colleagues, and despite mostly positive feedback, there鈥檚 still a big problem with generating high-quality code that is easy to maintain, test and read. ...

March 28, 2026 路 3 min 路 Mariia Kotliarevskaia

Fosdem 2023

This year has started with the FOSDEM conference in Brussels. I鈥檝e had only one goal - to boost my technical skills with the newest technologies and technics. I spent the 1st day in Golang room and the 2nd in Monitoring & Observability. After 2 very intense days I calmly arrived home and started catching up with other rooms. This is how the post appeared. Enjoy! 馃専 馃憖 - watch ...

February 15, 2022 路 4 min 路 Maria Kot