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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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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Join the cloud native community at OpenTofu Day
Most of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon assumes the cluster already exists. OpenTofu Day covers everything that has to be provisioned before and around it: cloud accounts, networking, managed services, and the clusters themselves. On November 9, OpenTofu...
October 2, 2026 | Sebastian Stadil, OpenTofu
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ArgoCon North America 2026: What to expect as the Argo community looks toward CD 4.0
Work across the Argo Project is accelerating, with growing adoption, new use cases, and more maintainers contributing across the community. The community is also beginning the visioning process for Argo CD 4.0, making ArgoCon an opportunity...
September 30, 2026 | Dan Garfield, Christian Hernandez, and Katie Lamkin - ArgoCon Co-Chairs
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Security Slam 2026 – Fall edition
Security Slam 2026 – Fall Edition is a 30-day virtual event from October 5 through November 6, 2026. What Is the Security Slam? The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is partnering with the Cloud Native Computing...
September 25, 2026 | Eddie Knight and Stacey Potter, Security Slam
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Observability Day: Where the community comes together at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
Observability Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America on November 9, 2026, in Salt Lake City, Utah, bringing together maintainers, operators, and end users from across the CNCF observability community. Observability has reached an important...
September 24, 2026 | Austin Parker, Iris Dyrmishi, Eduardo Silva Pereira, and Juraci Paixão Kröhling
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Which hat am I wearing right now?
Neutrality is quietly the hardest part of open source. It gets tricky the moment someone pays your salary — and staying honest about it takes more effort than anyone admits. Here’s something we don’t say out...
September 23, 2026 | Mario Fahlandt, CNCF Ambassador
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Join OSPOlogy + OSPO Summit China 2026 in Shanghai
There’s still time to join OSPOlogy + OSPO Summit China 2026, taking place on September 7, 2026, in Shanghai, China as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China. This event will...
September 3, 2026 | OSPOlogy + OSPO Summit China 2026
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Governance guidance for CNCF projects: Choosing the right structure for your project’s size and stage
Clear patterns have emerged from governance reviews across 72 CNCF projects, distinguishing between what the CNCF requires at each maturity level versus what the data recommends for long-term project health. This post captures those patterns as...
August 26, 2026 | CNCF Technical Oversight Committee
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Good apps aren’t born, they’re guided: Building observable policy as code
As parents in tech, we’ve learned that neither children nor applications thrive without clear boundaries. There are no “good” or “bad” kids, just as there are no inherently “good” or “bad” applications, only behaviors shaped by...
August 12, 2026 | Diana Todea (Head of Developer Relations Engineering, VictoriaMetrics) & Cortney Nickerson (Community at Kyverno)
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Launch of the AI Infra SIG under the CNCF Japan chapter: First meetup and call for speakers
Japanese article follows English one. As we all know, AI is advancing from generative AI to agents, driving growing demand for scalable, efficient infrastructure. Kubernetes and the broader Cloud Native ecosystem are becoming increasingly critical foundations...
July 23, 2026 | Shingo Omura (Principal Architect of AI Infrastructure at LY Corporation) and Sunyanan Choochotkaew (CNCF Ambassador and Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research, Tokyo)
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OTel and mesh-derived metrics: A 2026 reference
If you already run an OpenTelemetry pipeline, you have good visibility into what your applications are doing. This blog post is about what you don’t see yet: the east-west traffic between your services, measured at the...
June 29, 2026 | Mesut Oezdil, DevOps Engineer (written on behalf of Buoyant)
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From awareness to engineered accessibility in open source
The open-source ecosystem thrives on a deceptively simple premise: anyone, anywhere, can show up and contribute. But that promise quietly breaks down at the edges. A contributor who needs written context before a synchronous call, or...
June 24, 2026 | Diana Todea (DevRel Engineer at VictoriaMetrics and Merge-Forward Neurodiversity chapter lead), and Ryan Etten (Senior Architect & Team Lead at Red Hat and Wisconsin CNCF chapter community organizer)
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Telemetry that matters: Designing sustainable, high-impact observability pipelines
As system architectures grow increasingly complex, the cloud-native community faces a subtle but pressing challenge: we are drowning in our own telemetry data. It is easier than ever to instrument an application and collect signals, but...
June 22, 2026 | Diana Todea - DevRel Engineer at VictoriaMetrics and Cloud Native Days Romania community organizer, Laura Luttmer - Principal Product Manager at Bindplane (Dynatrace), Antonio Jimenez Martinez - Tech Lead Software Engineer at Cisco ThousandEyes
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From data residency to digital sovereignty: Architectural patterns for cloud native platforms
Over the past two years, digital sovereignty has evolved from a policy discussion into a practical platform engineering concern. The EU Data Act has been fully applicable since January 11, 2025. NIS-2 and DORA already shape...
June 16, 2026 | Hrittik Roy, CNCF Ambassador
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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 Contributor