Airgapped Backups, AI Observability, and Bitnami Image Changes

Welcome to the holiday edition of our newsletter! 🌴

Many of our colleagues are currently on vacation, so this newsletter is a little “slimmed down.” Nevertheless, we still have a blog post, product news, and interesting information from the depths of the internet for you, as always.

Also important is a deprecation notice from Bitnami, but read for yourself…

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Community & Ecosystem

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Bitnami Image Policy Updates - These Things Change

Bitnami has announced that it will archive most of its freely available and widely used container images as of August 28, 2025, and will no longer provide any patches or further maintenance.

Excluded from this are a small number of images that will continue to be freely available as latest tags — access to versioned variants will require a paid subscription going forward.

All information can be found in Bitnami’s official announcement on GitHub.

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Product News

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Airgapped Backups now available

You can now store your data even more securely for longer periods of time with NWS thanks to our air-gapped backup solution.

The data is encrypted, stored offline on tape and kept for either 3, 6, or 12 months (at 0.01€/0.02€/0.003€ per GB).

Sounds interesting? Then feel free to contact our sales team for more information.

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Blog

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Gemini CLI Observability with OpenTelemetry

Do you use Gemini CLI in your local terminal or in CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, or similar?

Then our latest blog post might be just what you need: We show you step by step how to gain more visibility into your use of and interaction with Gemini AI - either locally using Docker, Grafana, and Prometheus, or in the cloud.

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Reading Corner

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Despite, or perhaps because of, numerous vacations, we got a lot of reading done in August and have compiled our highlights for you here, as always:

• Sebastian read up on the basics of LLM embeddings:
  LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide
• Justin took a look at the “new YAML” for Kubernetes:
  Kubernetes is getting a better YAML
• Gabriel got tips on securing S3 buckets from Google:
  Secure your storage: Best practices to prevent dangling bucket takeovers
• Daniel explored best practices for OpenTelemetry:
  What does ‘good’ telemetry look like?
• Achim found a debugging report from Pinterest’s Kubernetes infrastructure:
  Debugging the One-in-a-Million Failure: Migrating Pinterest’s Search Infrastructure to Kubernetes

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CLI Quick Win

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The last section of this newsletter doesn’t quite live up to its name: this time, I’m presenting a website rather than a CLI tool.

At images.latio.com, you can compare different versions of popular base images for containerized applications (e.g. Python, Golang, Java, NodeJS).

This gives you a quick overview of CVEs, included software packages, and their versions, enabling you to make better decisions regarding your build processes.

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