Author name: Mikemurango

Zero-Port Exposure: Routing On-Prem Traffic Through a Cloud VM Without Opening a Single Firewall…

Mikemurango / May 15, 2026

Zero-Port Exposure: Routing On-Prem Traffic Through a Cloud VM Without Opening a Single Firewall HoleA practical guide for small startups running Kubernetes on-premises who want public HTTPS endpoints — without exposing cluster IPs, paying for enterpri…

container-security, devops, kubernetes, platform-engineering, supply-chain

Two Pods. Same Tag. Different Code. Here’s How We Caught It.

Mikemurango / May 14, 2026

Your deployment looked fine. kubectl get pods said Running. But one pod was serving a build from three days ago.You roll out a deployment. All pods show Running. Your readiness probes pass. Metrics look normal — mostly. But one service is throwing inte…