All posts by Kim McMahon

During last November’s Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta there was an announcement regarding the retirement of ingress-nginx.  As mentioned in the original blog post, existing deployments of Ingress NGINX will continue to function and...

There’s been a growing emphasis in the cloud native community on investing in tools that improve developer experience. Platform engineering, accompanied with the rise of projects like Backstage, is all about making developers more productive by...

CNCF hosts a Kubernetes cluster to run some services for internal purposes (namely; codimd, GUAC, kcp). The Kubernetes Project announced the ingress-nginx retirement, which also affects the above mentioned Cluster. So we started looking into alternatives....

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 is one of the biggest open-source conferences in the world, organized by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (part of the Linux Foundation, which manages major projects like Linux). It brings together...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam highlighted the evolution of cloud native practices, particularly in platform engineering, and the growing focus on inclusion and accessibility within the community. This year’s conference emphasized that technical success...

The cloud native, open infrastructure, and AI communities are coming together this year at one of Asia’s flagship open source events. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit Asia + PyTorch Conference China 2026 will take place from...

The problem: AI model distribution is broken at scale Large-scale AI model distribution presents challenges in performance, efficiency, and cost. Consider a typical scenario: an ML platform team manages a Kubernetes cluster with 200 GPU nodes....

A hands-on guide to deploying Kyverno with Argo CD and enforcing custom policies As Kubernetes environments develop, GitOps with Argo CD has become the standard for declarative, self-healing infrastructure. Yet without guardrails for your deployments, misconfigured,...

Modern software runs on open source. In fact, “free” and open source software generates more than $500 billion in annual value in the U.S. alone and an estimated $8.8 trillion in total global value. For most...

Let’s say you’ve got an LLM running on Kubernetes. Pods are healthy, logs are clean, users are chatting. Everything looks fine. But here’s the thing: Kubernetes is great at scheduling workloads and keeping them isolated. It...

As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organizations face a critical bottleneck that is often overlooked until it becomes a serious obstacle: reliably managing and distributing large model weight files at scale. A model’s weights serve as...

AI workloads are increasingly running on Kubernetes in production, but for many teams, the path from a working model to a reliable system remains unclear. The cloud native ecosystem – its projects, patterns, and community –...

We are happy to announce the release of Kubescape 4.0, a milestone bringing enterprise-grade stability and advanced threat detection to open source Kubernetes security. This version focuses on making security more proactive and scalable. It also...

We are thrilled to announce that Higress has officially passed the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) vote to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project, becoming a proud member of the CNCF ecosystem....

The KubeVirt Community is happy to announce the release of v1.8, which aligns with Kubernetes v1.35. This is the third release since we started our VEP (Virt Enhancement Proposal) process and, after some shaky starts and...

Following our expansion into AI workflows in v2.0, Lima v2.1 introduces highly anticipated experimental support for macOS and FreeBSD guests and further hardens local environments against unpredictable AI agents. What is Lima ? Lima (Linux Machines)...

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Tekton as a CNCF incubating project.  What is Tekton? Tekton is a powerful and flexible open source framework for creating continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) systems...

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Fluid as a CNCF incubating project.  What is Fluid? Kubernetes provides a data access layer through the Container Storage Interface (CSI), enabling workloads to connect to...

We are thrilled to announce that llm-d has officially been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project! As generative AI transitions from research labs to production environments, platform engineering teams are facing a...

OpenTelemetry has become the de facto standard for collecting and exporting telemetry data across cloud native systems. Its success has been driven by strong community collaboration, a clear specification, and a growing ecosystem of language-specific SDKs...