Tim Grassin

Founder @Kubegrade | Optimizing Kubernetes workflows for seamless DevOps. Helping teams upgrade, troubleshoot, and scale K8s without the headaches.

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

Watch how @kubegrade fixes an ImagePullBackOff in minutes.

Scenario:
Your pod won’t start because Kubernetes can’t pull the container image. Wrong tag. Missing version. Registry issue.
Spot the unhealthy pod stuck in ImagePullBackOff.
Open Kubegrade’s cluster & namespace visualization.
Ask the AI agent to diagnose.
The agent confirms the image pull failure and pinpoints the invalid image version.
It proposes remediation options.
Generates a Git pull request with the correct image tag.
Review, merge, Argo CD applies.
Pod returns to healthy.

No manual image guessing.
No registry trial-and-error.
No YAML spelunking.

Works for ImagePullBackOff, ErrImagePull, invalid tags, registry misconfig, and Git/cluster drift.

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

Watch how @kubegrade solves 502 Bad Gateway errors in less than 5 minutes.

Scenario: Your application is throwing 502 Bad Gateway due to a misconfigured container port.

1. Navigate Kubegrade's cluster & namespace visualization.
2. Ask our AI agent to diagnose the issue.
3. The agent correlates Git repo config with live cluster state. Bam, identifies the incorrect container/target port!
4. The agent generates a Git pull request with the fix.
5. Review, merge, and apply via Argo CD. Application recovers successfully!

No manual YAML digging.
No tribal knowledge.
No copy-paste debugging.

Kubegrade detects, explains, fixes via GitOps. Works for port misconfigs, deployment issues, drift too!

Try it free: https://t.co/HTylnlxtUO

#kubernetes #gitops #platform #k8s #troubleshooting

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@twtayaan @kubegrade Awesome. Happy to give you a tour if you need or you can test it out for yourself.

https://t.co/Ju4r9YP70M

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

Watch how @kubegrade solves CrashLoopBackOff in less than 5 minutes.
Scenario: Your pod is stuck in CrashLoopBackOff from a bad container command, restarting endlessly.
1. Spot the issue via Argo CD, confirm restarts in terminal.
2. Jump into Kubegrade's cluster & namespace viz, feed context to our AI agent.
3. The agent auto-diagnoses the root cause. Bam, spots the faulty command!
4. The agent whips up a Git PR with the fix.
5. Review, merge, Argo CD deploys. Pods back to running state!
Skip kubectl hunts, guesswork, YAML tweaks. Kubegrade detects, explains, fixes via GitOps. Works for startup fails, invalid entrypoints, misconfigs, drift too! Try it free: https://t.co/HTylnlxtUO

#GitOps #Kubernetes

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@twtayaan @kubegrade thanks @twtayaan. Most of our users still use kubectl in one for or another but they definitely cut down manual work a lot.
So Kubegrade is really focused on da-2 ops rather than deployments like Harness and Codefresh

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

Devops is not
❌ Automating everything with a single click
❌ Deploying code seamlessly in seconds
❌ Spinning up servers in milliseconds with infinite scalability
❌ Achieving 99.999% uptime without breaking a sweat
❌ Living the dream of "Infrastructure as Code" with zero issues
❌ Sipping coffee while watching flawless CI/CD pipelines

What it actually is:
👉 Debugging why the deployment failed… again
👉 Arguing with developers about why root access isn't a good idea
👉 Staring at Terraform errors that make no sense
👉 Explaining (for the 100th time) that "99.999% uptime" isn't free
👉 Waking up at 3 AM because the monitoring system finally decided to alert you
👉 Wondering why the same script works in staging but breaks in production
👉 Figuring out which "small config change" took the whole system down

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@Tobby_scraper https://t.co/xqPJoPhgMR
Simple Kubernetes management

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@brankopetric00 I have a solution for you.

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@devops_nk I want to troubleshoot all of these with Kubegrade to test our agents 😅

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@manojdotdev The guy who gets paid $100k to change a lightbulb on a very tall antenna once a year.

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@VadimStrizheus 3. Positioning

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@karthikponna19 Money is not the problem. Not having it is..

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@vibestrategy Why did the strategy buy a citizen worth 0.9 eth when there are some available for 0.87 on the strat holdings. This defeats the flywheel

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@brankopetric00 These engineers could use a tool like Kubegrade and save tons of time

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@Kh5065 Looking to make devops friends 😅

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@Kh5065 Hi!

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

@govardhana_mk Would love to talk sponsoring your newslettet

[A DevOps Girl @adevopsgirl_]

Honestly, start with single #Kubernetes cluster & keep life simple. Most teams jump to multi-cluster too early. It only starts making sense when you need real isolation, regional failover, tighter blast-radius control. Until then, multiple clusters just mean more things to break.

[Tim Grassin @timgrassin]

Before I touch any Kubernetes cluster, I ask these 3 questions:

01) What assumptions does this cluster silently make?

Does it assume every node runs a GPU?
Does it assume Helm charts override imagePullPolicy?
Does it assume 1 AZ will never fail?

Clusters don’t fail because YAML is wrong.
They fail because assumptions are invisible.

02) What’s the last thing no one monitored?

Are retry loops alerting on saturation?
Are init containers timing out silently?
Is there a PVC that’s 99% full with no alert?

I don’t start with logs.
I start with what everyone ignored.

03) Who owns the part that will go wrong next?

You’d be surprised how many teams:

don’t know who owns DNS fallback
don’t know what happens on partial pod evictions
don’t know who owns the metrics pipeline

Clusters break at the org chart edges.

If you’re still starting with describe or logs, you’re already late to the root cause.

Because great engineers don’t debug faster.
They ask better questions before they touch a command.

What’s the one thing you always check before touching a broken cluster?