🪄 Stop even wondering about FridayBuilds 2.0. Typical development teams move with small iterations when going through development cycles. And one could argue there is some sanity, some grace to it. Someone even when through the trouble of creating a specification for versioning. Pfft. We have none of that here*.

🚢 In August we made a post explaining how we brought Kubernetes into our systems. Well as luck would have it, I joined a meetup in December 2025 where I met a member of the Kairos team. While talking about what we do in FridayBuilds, he mentioned he had previously worked on a tool called Epinio**, which is a kubernetes-native alternative to dokku.

😅 So, naturally, having said that on December we would leave beta, we just HAD to enter ANOTHER development cycle to just try a few things and uhm.. just test and see if epinio and uhm... maybe kairos too (?) can work on FridayBuilds.

🎉 The good news is: They do! And while we were at it, we also threw gVisor, hardened images and custom helm charts in play. All these tools raised the bar on security and reliability across our systems so much, that it's hard to imagine how we were working without them in the first place. And it only took 1.5 month so it's probably one of the best MAJOR iterations FridayBuilds has been through so far.

🙌 What now? We will go through another usability test cycle, probably in February, we will finalize the integration with Github (this came up a lot on the first usability testing, so we are trying this follow-what-the-users-want-thing and yada yada), and THEN all these new tools will come to the live platform for everyone to use. Once this 3.0 version is live, we will probably take a couple months still on beta mode, and hopefully leave beta before or during Summer 2026.

*we actually do follow specifications, this was a joke. Our lawyers (👀) didn't like that statement and advised me to make it explicitly clear it was a joke.
**"Epinio" is actually a Greek word (Επείνιο), which means a town/region that has a port and usually is part of a larger city. Have you noticed that not many projects in the web deployment industry choose sea-related names?