Recapping the Most Popular Kubernetes Content of 2024

As we kick off 2025, let’s revisit the most-read posts from the Komodor blog in 2024. These posts highlight not only the features that were most interesting to people but also key Kubernetes trends that resonated with readers in the past year.

Honorable mention goes to our 7th most popular post: 

7. The Kubernetes for Humans Podcast🎙️

The Kubernetes for Humans podcast gained even more popularity in 2024. With guests like Docker founder Solomon Hykes, Open Source extraordinaire Liz Rice from Isovalent, the man most possibly associated with Kubernetes, Kelsey Hightower, Sébastien Goasguen from Nvidia, and more. We have even bigger plans for the podcast in 2025, subscribe and stay tuned for exciting guests and discussions. 

Without further ado, here are the SIX most read posts from the last year:

6. Kubectl wasn’t intended for Devs. Why should you force them to use it?

​​This controversial idea sparked extensive discussion. The post explored kubectl’s limitations for developers, highlighting common pitfalls and reinforcing Komodor’s mission to empower non-experts in Kubernetes management.

5. Boost Kubernetes Reliability by Managing the Human Factor

We are seeing more and more users in the Kubernetes ecosystem prioritizing system health and making sure that they can proactively monitor and understand risks, before they become a problem. This post covered the role of human errors, how they cause issues in kubernetes clusters, and minimizing these types of errors with different innovative tools. 

4. Rightsizing & Handling Resource Allocation in Kubernetes

With the rise of FinOps, and cloud consumers worrying about their cloud bills, right sizing Kubernetes resources has become a hot topic. In this post, we discussed rightsizing from a resource allocation perspective, and how both performance and cost value can be attained from it. 

3. Handling Networking Errors in Kubernetes

While it isn’t always DNS, networking errors in Kubernetes were very popular in 2024. Beyond DNS resolution errors, other networking errors like service discovery issues, and network congestion errors made the list of common errors that users were interested in. This post provided actionable insights to reduce networking errors, so here’s hoping that 2025 goes without a hitch. 

2. Harnessing the Power of Metrics: Four Essential Use Cases for Pod Metrics

If you are dealing with containerized applications in large scale Kubernetes environments, you definitely care about having effective monitoring and observability in place. This post covered actual use cases for pod metrics, and how they help drive operational efficiency. 

And the most read blog post in 2024 is….

1. Introducing KlaudiaAI: Redefining Kubernetes Troubleshooting with the Power of AI

Our groundbreaking AI-driven SRE assistant, KlaudiaAI made massive waves and stirred up interest as the most read post in 2024. For those not familiar with KlaudiaAI; it’s like having a seasoned senior SRE at your fingertips, ingesting logs and pinpointing root cause analysis in seconds. 2024 was the year when many other products debuted GenAI based features into their products, especially in the Kubernetes observability vertical. Komodor is redefining Kubernetes troubleshooting, with the speed and accuracy of incident analysis and playbooks to solve issues.