Open source contributor, spiritualist, SRE at Zapier, x Redhat-er
Nabadwip, India
Joined February 2009
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suparship v0.1.0 is out. Open source. A PaaS experience on your own Kubernetes, built on Argo CD + Kargo.
Preview per PR, one-click promote, and if you delete it tomorrow every pod keeps running.
If you can run k8s, you can run a great platform.
rtnpro.com/post/2026-09-08-i…
Every PaaS gives you a preview URL per PR. Almost none will promote that exact image to prod.
Most previews are a parallel universe — different manifests, dummy secrets, a prayer. The version worth building: a clone of staging on the same rails.
rtnpro.com/post/2026-08-26-p…
Encrypted secrets in Git feel responsible. Wrong default: Git never forgets, and nobody rotates what's annoying to rotate.
Better: references in Git, values in an external store, ESO merging them in-cluster — precedence is just the order of a YAML list.
rtnpro.com/post/2026-08-07-g…
Your company already has a platform.
Nobody designed it.
A Makefile, a Helm chart copied three times, a CI workflow nobody edits without asking one person.
The question isn't whether you have one. It's whether yours was designed or accumulated.
rtnpro.com/post/2026-07-24-p…
$20/mo. Then $286. Then, for teams that keep growing, a $23,000 month.
Same PaaS. Same pricing model. Nobody changed plans.
A hosted PaaS is the right answer early and the wrong answer later — here's where the curve bends:
rtnpro.com/post/2026-07-16-p…
#PlatformEngineering #CloudCosts
Gartner: 80% of large software orgs will have platform engineering teams by 2026.The projection doesn't say how big those teams are.Giants: 10–20 engineers. Mid-market: 2–3.Same job description. A fifth of the people.
Between "build an IDP you can't sustain" and "rent a PaaS you can't control" is where most of us actually work.The missing middle isn't missing technology. ArgoCD, Kargo, ESO, Gateway API all exist.It's missing a product.rtnpro.com/post/2026-07-09-t… #Kubernetes #GitOps
A hosted PaaS is the right answer early and the wrong answer later.Nothing in the product tells you when you crossed over.You find out from a finance meeting.
Road one — build it.Backstage. ArgoCD. Helm. A scaffolding script. Previews. A promotion flow.Every decision locally correct. 18 months later the only documentation is in one engineer's head, and he's interviewing. You can build a platform. You can't staff one.
Call for Papers for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024 is open on Sessionize and I've just submitted a session! sessionize.com/kubecon-cloud…
I am speaking on Kubechecks by #zapier at #KCDHyderabad 2024 on June 22, 16:45 Hrs in Track 2
kubechecks.readthedocs.io/en…
Talk on Cloud Native Technical Leadership by @TheNikhita @_nancychauhan and others at #KubeConEU 2024
