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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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When AI agents become contributors: How KubeStellar reached 81% PR acceptance
In mid-December, I started building KubeStellar Console from scratch. It’s a multi-cluster management dashboard for Kubernetes, and it sits inside the KubeStellar project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox. The stack is Go on the back...
May 14, 2026 | Andy Anderson, Chief Maintainer of KubeStellar Console
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A decade of governance: Cloud Custodian at 10 and its role in the agentic AI era
What is Cloud Custodian? It is an open source, stateless policy engine used to manage public cloud environments, Kubernetes and infrastructure as code through a unified DSL. As an incubating project within CNCF, it allows organizations...
May 12, 2026 | Kapil Thangavelu, Creator of Cloud Custodian, Co-founder & CTO Stacklet
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Microcks becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Microcks as a CNCF incubating project. About Microcks Modern software teams build applications as collections of interconnected APIs and microservices, and with that architecture comes a...
May 7, 2026 | Katie Gamanji, CNCF TOC
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Announcing Kyverno release 1.18!
We’re excited to announce the release of Kyverno 1.18, our first release since graduating within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. This release builds on Kyverno’s growing role as a Kubernetes-native policy engine, with major investments in...
May 5, 2026 | Cortney Nickerson, Kyverno Contributor
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The AI-driven shift in vulnerability discovery: What maintainers and bug finders need to know
AI models have recently drastically changed the sophistication, speed and scale of software vulnerability discovery. It is now trivial for non-experts to find real vulnerabilities in software with minimal effort and expertise. It is also now...
April 16, 2026 | Greg Castle (Kubernetes, Google)
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ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway migration on CNCF internal services cluster
CNCF hosts a Kubernetes cluster to run some services for internal purposes (namely; codimd, GUAC, kcp). The Kubernetes Project announced the ingress-nginx retirement (not to be confused with NGINX or NGINX Ingress Controller), which also affects the above mentioned Cluster. So...
April 13, 2026 | Koray Oksay, Kubermatic
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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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Announcing Kubescape 4.0 Enterprise Stability Meets the AI Era
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...
March 26, 2026 | Ben Hirschberg, Kubescape Core Maintainer, ARMO CTO
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Announcing the release of KubeVirt v1.8
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...
March 25, 2026 | The KubeVirt Community
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Lima v2.1: macOS guests and enhanced AI agent safety
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)...
March 25, 2026 | Ansuman Sahoo, Lima Project Maintainer
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Tekton Becomes a CNCF Incubating Project
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...
March 24, 2026 | Tekton Project Maintainers
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Fluid Becomes a CNCF Incubating Project
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...
March 24, 2026 | Fluid Project Team
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Welcome llm-d to the CNCF: Evolving Kubernetes into SOTA AI infrastructure
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...
March 24, 2026 | Carlos Costa (IBM Research), Clayton Coleman (Google), and Rob Shaw (Red Hat)
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Beyond Batch: Volcano Evolves into the AI-Native Unified Scheduling Platform
The world of AI workloads is changing fast. A few years ago, “AI on Kubernetes” mostly meant running long training jobs. Today, with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), the focus has shifted to include...
March 23, 2026 | The Volcano Community
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Metal3 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026: Meet the CNCF’s Freshly Incubated Bare Metal Project
Metal3 (pronounced “metal cubed”) entered 2026 as one of the newest incubating projects in the CNCF. As the foundational layer for infrastructure management in self-hosted Kubernetes clouds, Metal3 and its ‘stack’ offer essential solutions for cloud...
March 23, 2026 | Adam Rozman, Metal3 Maintainer
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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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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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Scaling organizational structure with Meshery’s expanding ecosystem
As a high velocity project and one of the fastest-growing projects in the CNCF ecosystem, Meshery’s increasing scale and community contributions necessitates this recognition, which requires a revision to its governance and organizational structure that better...
March 4, 2026 | Lee Calcote and Matthieu Evrin, Meshery
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Kubernetes WG Serving concludes following successful advancement of AI inference support
The Kubernetes Working Group (WG) Serving was created to support development of the AI inference stack on Kubernetes. The goal of this working group was to ensure that Kubernetes is an orchestration platform of choice for...
February 26, 2026 | Yuan Tang, on behalf of Kubernetes WG Serving Co-Chairs
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Exposing Spin apps on SpinKube with GatewayAPI
The Gateway API isn’t just an “Ingress v2”, it’s an entirely revamped approach for exposing services from within Kubernetes and eliminates the need of encoding routing capabilities into vendor-specific, unstructured annotations. In this post, we will...
February 26, 2026 | Thorsten Hans, SpinKube Maintainer and Senior Developer Advocate, Akamai