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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 Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: BackstageCon
BackstageCon began in 2022 as the first dedicated conference for the Backstage ecosystem, bringing together adopters and contributors around the open source developer portal platform originally created at Spotify. As cloud native adoption continues to scale,...
February 27, 2026 | Co-chairs: André Wanlin, Balaji Sivasubramanian, & Bryan Landes
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What CNCF Project Velocity in 2025 Reveals About Cloud Native’s Future
Ten years into CNCF’s journey, one thing hasn’t changed: we still rely on real signals—open source contributions, real-world deployments, and community energy—to understand where we’re headed. Cloud native is now invisible infrastructure, quietly powering our everyday...
February 9, 2026 | Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: BackstageCon
BackstageCon has been in existence since 2022, where it made its debut at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Detroit. We want attendees at BackstageCon to leave with a deeper understanding of the latest trends and...
September 29, 2025 | Co-chairs, Blair Fraser, Bryan Landes, Balaji Sivasubramanian
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A mid-year 2025 look at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and the top 30 open source projects
Building upon our previous analyses, we continue to monitor trends and technologies that resonate with developers and end users. Take a look at our past timeframes from our blogs. Here are the main takeaways I see...
July 18, 2025 | Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Gerardo López
Get to know Gerardo Gerardo is a passionate Cloud Native Advocate, Kubernetes expert, and Docker Captain with a strong focus on DevOps, software development, and security. Based in Costa Rica, he has earned several certifications, including...
March 6, 2025
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Emerging trends in the cloud native ecosystem
Member post by Jatinder Singh Purba, Principal, Infosys; Krishnakumar V, Principal, Infosys; Prabhat Kumar, Senior Industry Principal, Infosys; and Shreshta Shyamsundar, Distinguished Technologist, Infosys Emerging Trends in the Cloud-native Ecosystem In the last quarter of 2024,...
November 19, 2024 | Jatinder Singh Purba, Krishnakumar V, Prabhat Kumar, and Shreshta Shyamsundar
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Internal Developer Platforms at scale with the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) certification
Announcing a New CNCF Certification for Backstage Backstage is an open-source framework for building developer portals, created by Spotify, designed to streamline the process of building software and digital products. Backstage restores order to microservices and...
November 15, 2024
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Reducing MTTD and increasing observability with Linkerd at loveholidays
End user post by Dan Williams, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at loveholidays In this blog post, we’ll share how loveholidays was able to utilise Linkerd to provide uniform metrics across all services, leading to a decrease in...
October 2, 2024
Artifact Hub becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Artifact Hub as a CNCF incubating project. Artifact Hub is a web-based application that enables finding, installing, and publishing cloud native packages and configurations. Discovering useful...
September 17, 2024
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Coming soon: the Certified Backstage Associate certification for developers and platform engineers
As platform engineering and service catalogs have moved to the forefront of the conversation around cloud native developer experience, IT professionals need to understand the open source tools underpinning these trends. That’s why Cloud Native Computing...
August 15, 2024
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Platform engineering at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 – a recap
Community post originally published on TAG App Delivery’s blog by Atulpriya Sharma Exactly a month ago, Kubernetes users and experts gathered in the City of Lights, Paris, for KubeCon’s Europe edition. With over 12,000 in-person attendees, this...
May 17, 2024 | Atulpriya Sharma
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Elevating system resilience: leveraging LitmusChaos and Backstage integration
Project post by Namkyu Park, Maintainer of LitmusChaos (LinkedIn | GitHub) This blog post provides step-by-step instructions for injecting chaos using LitmusChaos and managing it with Backstage. Table of Contents Chaos Engineering, LitmusChaos, and Backstage As cloud-native technologies,...
April 1, 2024 | Namkyu Park
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 day one: co-located events and announcements recap
If you couldn’t get to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 this year, we’ve got you covered. Here are highlights from the first day, which included a number of exciting co-located events. Cloud Native AI Day Europe...
March 19, 2024
How to fail at platform engineering
Member post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Atulpriya Sharma A team of DevOps professionals working at DevOpsX had high expectations from the platform their organization just launched. The platform had promised to revolutionize workflows...
March 8, 2024
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KubeCon + CNC Europe co-located event deep dive: BackstageCon Europe
Happening on 19 March 2024 in Paris Co-chairs: Helen Greul, Balaji Sivasumbramanian, Waldir Montoya BackstageCon is the event that showcases platform engineering, a white hot space today. We will also look at the equally important topic...
February 23, 2024
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Creating infra using Backstage templates, Terraform and GitHub actions.
Community post originally published on Medium by Sagar Parmar Introduction Backstage is an open-source platform for constructing Internal Developer Portals (IDPs). Internal Developer Portals serve as a one-stop shop, that provides a unified view of all...
January 29, 2024 | Sagar Parmar
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Platform engineering maturity at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Mathieu Benoit Platform Engineering was a huge theme at KubeCon NA 2023 in Chicago. More than ever before. More and more companies have initiatives to streamline platform engineering best...
January 3, 2024 | Mathieu Benoit
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Empowering platform engineers: a comprehensive guide to advanced DevOps practices
Member post by Abhilash A, Product Marketing at Ozone Today, Platform engineers find themselves at the forefront of transformative changes, steering the ship toward cloud-first and Kubernetes-centric architectures. The shift brings both opportunities and challenges, particularly...
December 29, 2023 | Abhilash A
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Internal developer platform vs internal developer portal vs PaaS
Member post originally published on Humanitec’s blog by Luca Galante Confused about IDPs? We set the record straight on Internal Developer Platforms vs portals vs PaaS, and what it means to ship one. You’re given a...
December 8, 2023 | Luca Galante
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Starting the Platform Engineering journey with Backstage
Member post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Vaibhav Gupta In the continuously growing landscape of platform engineering, which emerged from the DevOps practices to provide self-service capabilities for software development teams, internal developer portals or IDPs are...
December 7, 2023 | Vaibhav Gupta