Cilium 1.20: Gateway API ExternalAuth, TCPRoute/UDPRoute, ENI IPAM for IPv6, and more
Cilium 1.20, the second major open source Cilium release of 2026 after Cilium 1.19, is finally here. Three themes stand out in this release: Thank you to every contributor, reviewer and maintainer who made Cilium 1.20…
Whose GPUs are these, anyway? Secure, self-service metrics for multi-tenant Kubernetes
The question that stopped the meeting It was a routine cost review. The slide showed the month’s GPU spend, the biggest line on the whole infrastructure bill, and someone asked a five-word question: “Are we using…
How cloud native goes AI native
“A sales guy writing code” used to be the lead-up to a joke. But now no one’s laughing. Designers used to sit meekly waiting for the high priests of code to make their designs real. Now…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Karmada Graduation
Multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes orchestration project reaches production maturity as global enterprises scale AI training and inference across hybrid infrastructure Key Highlights SHANGHAI, China – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 –…
CNCF Welcomes New Silver Members as Enterprises Scale AI From Training to Inference
New members including SoftBank Corp. and Crusoe join the cloud native community to help build cost-efficient, sovereign infrastructure SHANGHAI, China – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 – September 8, 2026…
New cloud native platform lifted average accelerator compute utilization from 35% to more than 60% and cut inference cost per 1 million tokens by more than 60% Key Highlights SHANGHAI, China – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon +…
CNCF and SlashData Report Highlights China’s Cloud Native Momentum as AI Moves to Inference
New research finds China’s IIoT developers (48%) outpace the global average (42%) in cloud native adoption as AI infrastructure matures Key Highlights: SHANGHAI – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China —Sept. 8,…
Platform engineering maturity: From toolchain to self-service
Most platform engineering conversations tend to split into two rooms pretty quickly. The first room is full of teams who don’t have a platform yet. Scattered scripts, tribal knowledge, and every team is doing the same…
OpenTelemetry has graduated… now what?
In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status! It now stands proudly alongside amazing open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to name just a few. It’s been a long…
Observability in Kubernetes: From metrics to meaning
Kubernetes made infrastructure more programmable, scalable, and resilient. It also made production systems harder to reason about. Workloads move, replicas churn, dependencies multiply, and a single user request can cross ingress, services, queues, storage, and background…