OpenTelemetry and Prometheus are getting easier to use together. Teams are seeing gains, but mismatched data models still complicate observability.

Security Slam 2026 – Fall Edition is a 30-day virtual event from October 5 through November 6, 2026. What Is the Security Slam? The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is partnering with the Cloud Native Computing...

In this interview on TFiR, Dipesh Rawat, Kubernetes v1.37 Release Lead at CNCF, walks through every major enhancement in the 1.37 release, covering HPA scale to zero, Resilient Watch Cache, Pod-level Checkpoint and Restore, key deprecations, and the broader...

Observability Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America on November 9, 2026, in Salt Lake City, Utah, bringing together maintainers, operators, and end users from across the CNCF observability community. Observability has reached an important...

Neutrality is quietly the hardest part of open source. It gets tricky the moment someone pays your salary — and staying honest about it takes more effort than anyone admits. Here’s something we don’t say out...

There is something surreal about your first KubeCon being one where you walk onto the stage as a speaker. Most people ease into this community by attending a few conferences, lurking in hallway tracks, and working...

One bank cut token-processing costs 60% with a Kubernetes stack. But a warning about its resource model raises questions about AI inference economics.

Why we did this at all For most of the last decade our metrics pipeline ran on gostatsd, the open-source StatsD implementation we maintain. It primarily did two jobs: as sidecar on every host and the...

Managing infrastructure secrets on Kubernetes needs a backend that is self-healing and free of vendor lock-in, and that is exactly what OpenBao (the Linux Foundation’s open-source fork of HashiCorp Vault) and CloudNativePG give you: an entirely...

On July 18, 2026, we held the third edition of Kubernetes Community Days Lima at UTEC in Barranco. By now, we have already sent the Transparency Report to the CNCF, thanked our sponsors, and processed the...