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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,...

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...

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...

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...

Overview Kubernetes has fundamentally transformed how enterprises deploy and manage business workloads. As organizations build production applications at scale on Kubernetes, cluster size and complexity continue to grow—creating unprecedented challenges in ensuring cluster security, compliance, and...

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...

Kubernetes metrics show cluster activity. You need them to manage Kubernetes clusters, nodes, and applications. Without them, it also makes it harder to find problems and improve performance. This post will explain what Kubernetes metrics are,...

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...

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....

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...

Part II: A Platform Integration Example In Part I, we explored the architecture of the CRI-O credential provider and walked through a manual setup. In this part, we’ll see how platforms like OpenShift and its upstream...

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...

Diagnosing and Recovering etcd: Practical tools for Kubernetes Operators When Kubernetes clusters experience serious issues, the symptoms are often vague but the impact is immediate. Control plane requests slow down. API calls begin to time out....

Have you ever heard of CNCF’s DevStats? It is a tool that tracks and quantifies all contribution activities within CNCF projects by pulling data from GitHub. Using this data, we can analyze ongoing development in CNCF...

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...

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...

Part I: Architecture and Implementation In production Kubernetes clusters, pulling container images from private registries happens thousands of times per day. Kubernetes distributions from major cloud vendors provide credential providers for their respective registries like AWS...

As cloud native architectures span more clusters, services, and trust domains, identity and access management have become foundational infrastructure rather than an application-level concern. At the same time, emerging patterns such as multi-cluster platforms, agent-based systems,...

When Kubernetes launched a decade ago, its promise was clear: make deploying microservices as simple as running a container. Fast forward to 2026, and Kubernetes is no longer “just” for stateless web services. In the CNCF...

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...