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When Kubernetes restarts your pod — And when it doesn’t
A production internals guide verified against Kubernetes 1.35 GACompanion repository: github.com/opscart/k8s-pod-restart-mechanics The terminology problem Engineers say “the pod restarted” when they mean four different things. Getting this wrong leads to flawed runbooks and bad on-call decisions....
March 17, 2026 | Shamsher Khan, Project Maintainer
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Operating OpenTelemetry at scale with OpAMP
As more organizations move to use OpenTelemetry in production at scale, with multiple Collectors across heterogeneous environments, a new challenge arises: how to remotely manage, configure, and update this agent fleet in a consistent and secure...
July 13, 2026 | Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador
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Why sandboxing your agent is not enough
The agentic AI space is moving incredibly fast. Not long ago, I learned about a cool project called agent-sandbox, which provides a sandboxed environment for AI agents by leveraging many of the building blocks we have...
July 7, 2026 | Lin Sun (Solo.io) | CNCF Ambassador
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Understanding dynamic resource allocation in Kubernetes
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) recently reached GA in Kubernetes v1.35, and I believe many of us are eager to give it a try. Adding to the momentum, NVIDIA has moved dra-driver-nvidia-gpu into Kubernetes SIGs, with the...
July 1, 2026 | ChengHao Yang, CNCF Ambassador
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Kepler, re-architected: Improved power accuracy and a community call to action!
Thank you to Laura Llinares, Mary Baldwin Hughes, Vimal Kumar, and Sunil Thaha for their significant contributions to this blog post and the Kepler project. Data centers accounted for 1.5% of global electricity demand in 2024,...
June 30, 2026 | Niki Manoledaki (Grafana Labs), Sunyanan Choochotkaew (IBM) | CNCF Ambassadors
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Building a Cluster-Aware AI Agent with Kubernetes, Argo CD, and GitOps
A practical walkthrough of running a self-hosted, read-only AI agent inside a Kubernetes cluster, with the full CI/CD chain handled by GitHub Actions and Argo CD Image Updater. No data leaves the cluster, no cloud AI...
June 25, 2026 | Maryam Tavakkoli (CNCF Ambassador | Lead Cloud Engineer @ RELEX Solutions)
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Agent Auth: A lawyer’s day in court
I’ve always thought about AI agents as microservices+. They need everything a traditional microservice needs, and: When thinking about agent auth, I found myself reflecting on a traffic lawyer I hired years ago after receiving a...
June 23, 2026 | Lin Sun, CNCF Ambassador
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Kubernetes for platform teams: Leveraging k0s and k0rdent
In our previous blog, we explored a GitOps use case for on-premises infrastructure, managing multiple clusters hosted on the k3s Kubernetes distribution using k0rdent. But the platform engineering ecosystem is vast, and one blog barely scratches...
April 27, 2026 | Prithvi Raj (CNCF Ambassador) & Shivani Rathod (Bacancy Technology)
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K3s on On-Prem Infrastructures the GitOps Way: Writing a Custom k0rdent Template from Scratch
Kubernetes turns 12 this year. In that time, it’s gone from a Google side project to the operating system of modern infrastructure running everywhere from mainframes to GPUs, across multi-cloud, hybrid, on-prem, and edge environments. The...
April 17, 2026 | Shivani Rathod (Improwised Tech) & Prithvi Raj (CNCF Ambassador)
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How To Measure the ROI of Developer Tools
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...
April 15, 2026 | Arsh Sharma | CNCF Ambassador, Senior Dev Rel at MetalBear
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The platform under the model: How cloud native powers AI engineering in production
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 –...
March 26, 2026 | Max Körbächer, CNCF Ambassador
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Crossplane and AI: The case for API-first infrastructure
AI-assisted development has changed the way engineers create and commit code. But writing code is no longer the bottleneck. The bottleneck is everything that happens after git push. From infrastructure provisioning, policy enforcement, day-two operations, drift,...
March 20, 2026 | Ana Margarita Medina, CNCF Ambassador
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Japan’s CNCF DevStats 2025
Have you ever heard of CNCF’s DevStats? It is a tool that tracks and quantifies all contribution activities within CNCF projects by pulling data from GitHub. Using this data, we can analyze ongoing development in CNCF...
March 12, 2026 | Toru Komatsu and Hiroshi Hayakawa, CNCF Ambassadors and Cloud Native Community Japan.
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Sustaining open source in the age of generative AI
Open source has always evolved alongside shifts in technology. From distributed version control and CI/CD, from containers to Kubernetes, each wave of tooling has reshaped how we build, collaborate, and contribute. Generative AI seems to be...
March 10, 2026 | Cortney Nickerson, CNCF Ambassador, Head of Community at Nirmata and Kyverno Maintainer
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How to Get the Most Out of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe is almost here again, and if you’re heading to Amsterdam in March 2026, you’re probably feeling a mix of excitement and mild panic. Thousands of people. Hundreds of sessions. Endless hallway conversations,...
March 3, 2026 | Maryam Tavakkoli, CNCF Ambassador
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Kubernetes as AI’s operating system: 1.35 release signals
Why v1.35 reads like an AI-infrastructure release Kubernetes has become the place where teams coordinate mixed production workloads: services, batch jobs, data pipelines, and ML training. The Kubernetes v1.35 (“Timbernetes”) release reinforces that trajectory with changes...
February 23, 2026 | Angel Ramirez, CEO of Cuemby and CNCF Ambassador
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State of cloud native 2026: CNCF CTO’s insights and predictions
We’ve just celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the foundation behind Kubernetes and so many other successful open source projects we all rely on. That alone was a good reason to...
February 19, 2026 | Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador
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The symbiotic revolution: AI and cloud native technologies transforming the digital landscape
This Ambassador Blog was originally published on the writer’s blog and is republished here with permission. In the ever-evolving world of technology, few pairings have sparked as much innovation as the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI)...
January 13, 2026 | Gerald Venzl, VP of Dev & AI Initiatives at Oracle
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Kyverno at ContribFest: Community, collaboration, and the power of open source in action
A few weeks ago at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta, the Kyverno community had the opportunity to participate in ContribFest, one of the most energizing and community-driven initiatives in the cloud-native ecosystem. While ContribFest...
December 23, 2025 | Cortney Nickerson, CNCF Ambassador and Head of Community at Nirmata
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Building platforms using kro for composition
Recent industry developments, such as Amazon’s announcement of the new EKS capabilities, highlight a trend toward supporting platforms with managed GitOps, cloud resource operators, and composition tooling. In particular, the involvement of Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro)—a...
December 15, 2025 | Abby Bangser, CNCF Ambassador
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Building microservices the easy way with Dapr
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits Microservices have been with us for nearly two decades, but it’s still far from easy to develop at scale, in a polyglot environment. The Dapr project, the...
December 9, 2025 | Dotan Horovits