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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)...

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...

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...

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...

History and evolution of platform engineering Platform engineering is a discipline focused on building and maintaining software development platforms that provide self-service for developer teams, offering the necessary infrastructure for provisioning an application, for example. The...

Kgateway is an open source implementation of the Kubernetes Gateway API that unifies ingress, API gateway, service mesh, and AI gateway capabilities in a singular modular control plane. Built for performance and flexibility, it secures and...

A platform engineer’s guide to developer buy-in Originally published on the author’s personal blog, whitneylee.com As platform engineers, we want the holistic system insights that instrumented code can give us –  yes, please. With code-level insights...

Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits “Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a new open standardization initiative recently formed under the Linux Foundation with the mission of providing standard reference architecture for cloud native applications...

When people talk about cloud-native observability, the conversation usually revolves around applications, containers, and microservices. However, under those layers lies an equally critical foundation: The physical data center. Servers, storage systems, and networks ultimately host every...

A CNCF-first of its kind Open source projects thrive or die based in large part on their community of contributors. It behooves maintainers to make opportunities for recognition and support of their contributors abundant. As a...

Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits It’s about time open observability had its own industry-wide, vendor-neutral event. This year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) finally made it happen with the inaugural Open Observability Summit, bringing...

The CNCF Cartografos Working Group is excited to announce the beta release of the Cloud Native Maturity Model 4.0. This version expands the framework to include AI, FinOps, and evolving cultural practices. We invite the community...

Introduction Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is one of the most important security features in any cloud native platform. It determines who can do what inside the Kubernetes Cluster, helping teams give the right access to the...

The ORAS community is thrilled to announce the release of ORAS CLI v1.3.0, a version packed with stability improvements and pioneering capabilities. In addition to strengthening existing functionality, this release introduces three major new features designed...

If you’ve been working with ArgoCD or exploring GitOps, you’ve probably come across the Certified Argo Project Associate (CAPA) exam. I recently passed it, and in this post, I want to share: This isn’t a sales pitch. It’s...

In recent years, the software industry has seen a strong shift toward enabling and supporting Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads. While a variety of high level tools like Large Language Models (LLMs) already exist to support generic...

TL;DR: GenAI can help you write conference abstracts, but if you use it without injecting your own curiosity and humanness, reviewers can tell. This post walks through my personal process for co-writing abstracts with GenAI in...

The cloud native landscape is constantly evolving, and staying ahead of the curve means more than just reading documentation—it means connecting with the people who are shaping the future. That’s exactly what the inaugural Kubernetes Community...

In part three of this series on Policy as Code, we’ll look at the intersection between PaC and AI coding assistants. AI coding tools have fundamentally changed software development. “Vibe coding” or chat-based coding, where you...

Originally posted on the Palark blog. This article covers the second half of the new Open Source projects accepted to the CNCF Sandbox last year. They were added as a result of the CNCF TOC (Technical...