CNCF Debuts KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule
Second annual Japanese event to spotlight AI, observability, platform engineering and more Key Highlights: YOKOHAMA, Japan, May 13, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced...
May 13, 2026
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Building a cloud native platform from the ground up with Kairos, k0rdent, and bindy
As we shared in our earlier post on FluxCD, RBC Capital Markets has been on a deliberate journey to modernize our Kubernetes platform. GitOps with FluxCD gave us a solid deployment foundation. But as our platform grew,...
May 13, 2026 | Erick Bourgeois, Director & Head of Kubernetes Platform Engineering, RBC Capital Markets
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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
DevOps Digest: “Kyverno 1.18 Released”
CNCF announced the release of Kyverno 1.18, the first release since graduating within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
May 11, 2026
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How to get engineering time back from Kubernetes upgrades
Kubernetes powers your products, but with that power and flexibility comes organizational challenges around managing complexity and maintenance. It can be tough for an organization to keep up with the speed of open source, especially at...
May 11, 2026 | Munib Ali, Director of Engineering, SRE Fairwinds
The New Stack: “Why Prometheus couldn’t see Cilium metrics at 2 a.m.”
Tame the Kubernetes “integration tax.” Learn how to wire CNCF projects like Prometheus and Cilium for production-grade reliability.
May 10, 2026
The New Stack: “How NetEase Games cut LLM cold starts from 42 minutes to 30 seconds”
NetEase Games cut LLM cold-start times from 42 mins to 30 sec with the CNCF Fluid project, enabling serverless GPU inference on Kubernetes.
May 8, 2026
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Benchmarking AI agent retrieval strategies on Kubernetes bug fixes
I’ve been using AI coding agents as part of my daily engineering workflow and wanted to understand how well they actually perform on real-world bugs. To test this, I ran a series of structured experiments using...
May 8, 2026 | Brandon Foley
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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
The tools are ready. So why are most cloud native teams still running three observability stacks?
I’ve spent enough time in and around cloud native infrastructure to know that we’re reasonably good at standardizing the theory. OpenTelemetry for instrumentation, Prometheus for metrics, Jaeger and Tempo for distributed tracing, Fluentd or Loki for...
May 6, 2026 | Ila Bandhiya, Middleware