Data-driven expansion (ranked by per-page link count + relevance):
- New 📊 Digest menu: Tech & Cloud Digest + Industry & Geo Digest (was a single
pill; now pairs both editions).
- New 🧰 K8s menu: Kubernetes Tools (144 links) · Helm · Managed K8s · OpenShift
· Tutorials — the Kubernetes ecosystem, which the portal is centered on.
- ☁️ Cloud += Serverless · FinOps.
- 🌐 Network += Service Mesh (the category alongside Istio; Istio emoji → ⛵).
- ⚙️ Ops += IaC · Developer Portals.
- ⋯ More += Technical Tags (1355 links) · Demos (102).
38 destinations total across 6 direct pills + 7 Popover menus. Added explicit
anchor pairs for the two new menus. Chip font trimmed to 0.62rem + tighter
gap/padding so all 13 bar chips still fit one row down to ~1280px. Verified in
Chrome 148 via Playwright: all 7 menus open below their button, stay on-screen
(right-edge flip), and close on Esc. Cache-bust ?v=2.9.33. V2-only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Collapses the 25-destination quick-nav from 3 wrapped rows to a single slim row
that stays one row regardless of how many destinations are added.
Structure:
- 7 direct one-click pills for the most-used flagships: Topic Map, Digest,
Kubernetes, Docker, GitOps, Terraform, AI & MCP.
- 5 category menus for the long tail, built with the native HTML Popover API +
CSS Anchor Positioning (Baseline 2026), zero JS:
☁️ Cloud (AWS · Azure · GCP) · 🌐 Network (Networking · Istio · K8s Net)
· 🔐 Security (K8s Security · DevSecOps)
· ⚙️ Ops (CI/CD · Observability · SRE · DevOps)
· ⋯ More (Videos · Ansible · Messaging · MLOps · Methodology · V1 Archive)
Why this design: keeps the hot paths at one click (the project's whole value),
while the rarely-used clusters fold away — so the bar never grows past one row.
Popover API gives free Esc / click-outside dismissal and focus management and
works identically on touch and desktop; menus drop below their button via
position-area with flip fallbacks, animate in via @starting-style, and rotate
their caret using :has(). prefers-reduced-motion honored. All 25 destinations
preserved. Bumps v2_elite.css cache-bust to ?v=2.9.31. V2-only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Grows the quick-nav bar to 25 destinations:
- New networking cluster (after cloud): 🌐 Networking · 🕸️ Istio · 🔗 K8s Net
- DevSecOps joins the security cluster: 🔐 Security · 🛡️ DevSecOps
Short labels as usual (K8s Net for Kubernetes Networking). Template-only change
to docs/overrides/main.html; reuses the existing .nb-quicknav pill styling, no
CSS change, no page regeneration, V2-only. All target pages verified and
mkdocs build -f v2-mkdocs.yml passes with all 25 links rendering.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Expands the quick-nav bar to 21 destinations and restyles it as a modern,
centered chip bar. Adds CI/CD, Terraform-adjacent Ansible, and the three
hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP), and reorders every tab into related category
clusters with short labels (even where the page title is long):
discovery (Topic Map · Digest · Videos) → platform (Kubernetes · Docker)
→ delivery (GitOps · CI/CD) → IaC (Terraform · Ansible)
→ cloud (AWS · Azure · GCP) → security → ops (Observability · SRE · DevOps)
→ data (Messaging) → AI/ML (AI & MCP · MLOps) → Methodology → V1 Archive (muted)
Visual upgrade (CSS, modern Chrome):
- Pill chips instead of plain text links — more scannable.
- Chip background/border/glow derived from the theme accent via color-mix()
(in srgb), so the bar restyles automatically with the palette.
- Centered wrapping rows (justify-content: center) — balanced across 2-3 rows
at 21 items vs a ragged last row when left-aligned; the repeated ☁️ visually
groups the three cloud providers.
- Hover lift (translateY) + accent glow; :focus-visible outline for a11y;
prefers-reduced-motion honored.
- Logical properties (margin-inline / padding-inline); mobile collapses to a
single horizontal-scroll row with the scrollbar hidden.
Bumps v2_elite.css cache-bust to ?v=2.9.29. V2-only; no page regeneration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the principal topic flagships to the slim quick-nav bar so the most
relevant destinations across all of Nubenetes are reachable in one click from
any page:
- Cloud-native pillars: Kubernetes, Docker, GitOps, Terraform,
K8s Security, Observability
- Ops disciplines: SRE, DevOps
- Data/messaging: Message Queue
- AI/ML: MLOps (next to the existing AI & MCP hub)
Layout groups discovery/meta hubs (Topic Map, Intelligence Digest, Video Hub),
then the pillar + ops + messaging topics, then the AI hubs (AI & MCP, MLOps) and
Methodology, with V1 Archive muted at the far right — 16 curated destinations
total, still under the 18-tab overflow line the bar was designed to avoid.
Reuses the existing .nb-quicknav__link styling (flex-wrap handles density on
narrow viewports); template-only, no CSS change, no page regeneration, V2-only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a thin horizontal bar below the header (on every page) with 6 curated
one-click destinations: Topic Map, Intelligence Digest, Video Hub, AI & MCP,
Methodology, V1 Archive. Implemented by overriding Material's [3g
H H H H H H H H H H
block
(empty since navigation.tabs is disabled) + .nb-quicknav CSS — so it gives the
persistent cross-page shortcuts that previously only existed as badge cards on
the home, WITHOUT the 18-tab overflow and WITHOUT collapsing the full left
navigation tree. Template/CSS only (no page regeneration); V2-only (V1 uses the
stock theme). Cache-bust v2_elite.css?v=2.9.27.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a second JSON-LD block per page (a schema.org CollectionPage tied to the
existing WebSite/Organization @graph) carrying the page name, description, URL,
and datePublished / dateModified fed by the git-revision-date plugin's raw ISO
dates. Enables richer search results (article/collection rich snippets) with
real freshness dates. Template-only change (docs/overrides/main.html), applied
at build time; the homepage is skipped (it is already the WebSite entity).
Verified: every content page emits a valid CollectionPage with both dates
(e.g. Kubernetes datePublished=2026-05-18 dateModified=2026-06-20); the home
carries only the WebSite+Organization graph.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
C — git-revision-date-localized plugin: adds a 'Last update' date to every V2
page (freshness signal for SEO and reader trust). Added the dependency to
requirements.txt, enabled it in v2-mkdocs.yml (type: date,
fallback_to_build_date so the build never fails), and set fetch-depth: 0 on the
06 deploy checkout so the plugin sees full git history (otherwise every page
would show the build date).
D — JSON-LD schema.org structured data: WebSite (with a sitelinks SearchAction)
+ publishing Organization, injected via an extrahead block in docs/overrides/
main.html (shared V1/V2). Enables richer search results / knowledge-panel
eligibility. Validated: build exits 0, JSON-LD parses, 'Last update' renders.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Declutter the V2 landing page into a curated entry point and move the
full category directory and reference legends to dedicated pages.
Home (index):
- Move "Trending Now / Digest" above the signature YouTube mosaic (fix
inverted altitude: fresh, dynamic content first).
- Replace the ~130-link "Strategic Dimensions" dump with a "Topic Map"
badge card + a slim reference footer (Topic Map · Methodology · Videos).
- Frame the mosaic with a "The Cloud Native Universe We Track" heading.
New generated pages:
- topic-map.md — full category directory by dimension in a responsive
multi-column CSS grid, with per-category resource counts.
- methodology.md — Maturity Taxonomy + Technical Impact legend tables
(moved out of the home).
Mosaic (kept as brand signature, reinforced):
- Surface the per-group category labels that were hidden in title=.
- loading="lazy" on the ~150 channel logos (LCP/perf win).
about.md videos:
- youtube-nocookie.com + loading="lazy" + responsive aspect-ratio wrapper.
Config & cleanup:
- Disable navigation.expand (169-entry nav stayed fully open); the Topic
Map page now serves as the full directory.
- Branded 404 page with clear ways back (Home / Topic Map / V1 Archive).
- Hoist repeated inline styles (hero badge row) into CSS classes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
