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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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Mumbai Maha Mahotsav – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India edition
Welcome to Mumbai – the City of Dreams, where ambition is the only dress code – and the host city for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026. As a co-chair of this year’s program, I’ve spent months...
June 2, 2026 | Sonali Srivastava, CNCF Co-chair for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026
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GPU autoscaling on Kubernetes with KEDA: Building an external scaler
If you run GPU workloads on Kubernetes — vLLM, Triton, training jobs, or the newer agentic inference stacks — you’ve probably hit a familiar problem: the default autoscaling path still reasons about CPU and memory, while...
May 27, 2026 | Pavan Madduri (Senior Cloud Platform Engineer @ Grainger | CNCF Golden Kubestronaut)
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Why Kubernetes policy enforcement happens too late—and what to do about it
Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern cloud-native infrastructure. Its flexibility lets teams move fast, compose complex systems from modular components, and deploy across environments with relative ease. But that flexibility comes with a well-known cost:...
May 25, 2026 | Sajal Nigam, CNCF Community Member
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Designing end-to-end ingress request tracing for multi-tenant SaaS platforms
Modern SaaS platforms built on cloud‑native architectures frequently consist of dozens of independently deployed microservices. A single customer request entering the platform at the ingress layer may traverse authentication services, orchestration engines, data services, and downstream...
May 22, 2026 | Mridula Chilakamarri, CNCF Technical Advisory Group
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Aamchi Mumbai: A KubeCon + CloudNativeCon field guide
Welcome to Mumbai KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India lands in Mumbai on 18-19 June 2026, at the Jio World Convention Centre in BKC. Thousands of cloud native engineers are flying in, many of you for the first...
May 21, 2026 | Yash Pimple & Rohit Ghumare, CNCF Ambassadors
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What kubectl debug doesn’t tell you: The silent evidence gap
The session that left no record A kubectl debug session can contain the only direct observation of a failing system state. However, once the session ends, Kubernetes does not retain the termination context of that session...
May 18, 2026 | Shamsher Khan, CNCF Community Member
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Extending AI gateways with Rust: Custom transformations in kgateway
Every gateway ships with a set of built-in policies. Authentication. Rate limiting. Request routing. Prompt guards. These cover most use cases. But what about the ones they don’t cover? What if you need to add a...
May 15, 2026 | Michael Uzukwu, kgateway and agentgateway Contributor
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Benchmarking AI agent retrieval strategies on Kubernetes bug fixes
I’ve been using AI coding agents as part of my daily engineering workflow and wanted to understand how well they actually perform on real-world bugs. To test this, I ran a series of structured experiments using...
May 8, 2026 | Brandon Foley
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What I Learned at My First KubeCon + CloudNativeCon as a High School Speaker
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...
April 11, 2026 | Avery Yang, Student at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
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Rethinking platform engineering through diverse perspectives at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU Amsterdam
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...
April 10, 2026 | Diana Todea, DevRel Engineer at VictoriaMetrics and CNCF Community Organizer in Romania
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The weight of AI models: Why infrastructure always arrives slowly
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...
March 27, 2026 | Wenbo Qi (Dragonfly/ModelPack Maintainer), Chenyu Zhang (Harbor/ModelPack Maintainer) and Feynman Zhou (ORAS Maintainer and CNCF Ambassador)
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Cloud native agentic standards
An application, composed of one or more containers as dictated by system architecture, that operates either independently or as part of a distributed collaboration—interacting with at least one other entity (container) or achieving quorum-based consensus. It...
March 23, 2026 | CNCF AI TCG
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Your Merge Forward guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Amsterdam
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 is coming to Amsterdam, and Merge Forward is one of several groups bringing community, conversation, and a full lineup of sessions and events. Whether you’re a first-time attendee or a KubeCon...
March 20, 2026 | Beatriz Datangel Rodgers, Merge Forward
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026: End User TAB recommendations and tips
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam will bring the cloud native community together with projects, vendors and end users in what is one of the largest open source events. In this post, we highlight sessions...
March 20, 2026 | End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB)
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: Platform Engineering Day
Platform Engineering Day launched at KubeCon in Paris in spring 2024 to create space for deeper discussion on platform engineering principles, practices, and real-world experiences. Now in its fifth edition in Amsterdam, the event reflects growing...
March 19, 2026 | Co-Chairs: Paula Kennedy, Stacey Potter and Stéphane Di Cesare
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: CiliumCon
Three years later, CiliumCon is back where it started—at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam. This will be our seventh time hosting the event, and it comes on the heels of the tenth anniversary of Cilium’s...
March 18, 2026 | Co-Chairs: Hemanth Malla & Mahé Tardy, and Katie Meinders (Isovalent)
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: KyvernoCon
As Kubernetes adoption continues to accelerate across enterprise platforms and AI-driven workloads, organizations increasingly need automated guardrails for security, governance, and compliance. KyvernoCon launched in 2025 as the first event dedicated to the Kyverno community and...
March 17, 2026 | Co-chairs: Cortney Nickerson & Shuting Zhao
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: Open Sovereign Cloud Day
Open Sovereign Cloud Day arrives at a moment when digital sovereignty has moved from an abstract policy conversation to an urgent, practical engineering priority—especially across Europe. As cloud native continues to underpin modern infrastructure, the community...
March 16, 2026 | Co-chairs: Kurt Garloff, Peter Giese, Sachiko Muto, Margaret Dawson, Chris Aniszczyk, Gabriele Columbro, Mirko Boehm, Susan Remmert, Paula Grzegorzewska
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: Observability Day
Observability Day has become a cornerstone gathering for the cloud native observability community. The event evolved from FluentCon at KubeCon Europe 2022 in Valencia and Open Observability Day at KubeCon North America 2022, bringing together maintainers...
March 13, 2026 | Co-chairs: Austin Parker, Eduardo Silva, Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Iris Dyrmishi
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: OpenTofu Day
OpenTofu Day debuted at KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris and has been held at every KubeCon since. As the infrastructure-as-code ecosystem reaches a clear inflection point with recent licensing shifts, industry consolidation, and changes to commercial...
March 9, 2026 | Program chair, Sebastian Stadil