The Stack Observer: “From Shadow AI to K8gb: How the CNCF Ecosystem Is Rebuilding for the Agent Era”
The cloud-native ecosystem is undergoing a quiet but significant shift. Over the past two weeks, CNCF project announcements, security releases, and emerging architectural debates have converged on a single theme: the infrastructure layer is being rebuilt to accommodate...
August 7, 2026
Project Maintainer Post
Does Kubernetes DRA Replace HAMi?
Projects that want to share a GPU on Kubernetes have to work around an API instead of with it. The device plugin interface could count devices, and that was the whole vocabulary: nvidia.com/gpu: 1. It meant one...
August 7, 2026 | Mesut Oezdil
Member Post
Shadow AI in CI/CD: Threat-modeling the path from developer laptop to Kubernetes
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of daily software delivery, often before it becomes part of the security architecture. That gap has a name: Shadow AI. It is any AI tool, model, agent, extension, or integration used...
August 7, 2026 | Matteo Bisi, ReeVo SpA
LitmusChaos Q1-Q2 2026 update: community, contributions, and project progress
About LitmusChaos LitmusChaos is an open source chaos engineering platform that helps teams identify weaknesses and potential outages in their infrastructure by running controlled chaos experiments. Built on cloud native principles, LitmusChaos enables teams to validate...
August 6, 2026 | Pritesh Kiri
Staff Post
K8gb becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Kubernetes Global Balancer (K8gb) as a CNCF incubating project. About K8gb K8gb is an open source, cloud native Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) solution designed specifically...
August 5, 2026
Project Post
OpenCost 1.121.0: First-of-a-kind Kubernetes inference cost tracking
Your GPU bill is rising. Your models are serving billions of tokens. Yet one question remains unanswered: what does each token actually cost? This is not a hypothetical problem. Platform teams today operate in a fog...
August 5, 2026 | Sima Nadler Senior Program Manager, IBM Research and Alex Meijer OpenCost Maintainer
Member Post
You can’t debug what you can’t see — Observability for AI Agents
This article reflects practical experience building and operating production AI agent systems. Traditional APM can’t tell you why your agent spent far more than usual asking the same question three times. We’ve been running AI agents...
August 4, 2026 | Sabith K Soopy, Principal Engineer at StackGen
Public Key: “CNCF announces survey results showing approximately 1 million developers in the cloud-native community in Japan.”
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which promotes cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes, and SlashData, an IT-focused research company, have released a report titled “State of Cloud Native Development in Japan 2026,” which surveys the current state of...
August 3, 2026
Project Post
Kubeflow SDK evolution- One million downloads and counting
The unified kubeflow-sdk has officially crossed 1 million downloads on PyPI! This milestone reflects the rapid adoption of this streamlined interface. In this post, we celebrate this community milestone and highlight the core concepts driving the...
August 3, 2026 | Kubeflow Contributors
Project Post
Cortex completes OSTIF security audit
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Cortex. Cortex functions as a long-term, multi-tenant scalable open source storage for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. Thanks to Quarkslab and...
August 3, 2026 | Daniel Blando | Cortex Maintainer