TechTarget: “KubeCon EU 2026: AI tightens the dev-prod loop”
AI is reshaping platform engineering. At KubeCon EU 2026, vendors showcased autonomous troubleshooting, observability-driven agents and tools to manage shadow AI.
March 31, 2026
Mentorship Post
Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from dependency management to stewardship
Modern software runs on open source. In fact, “free” and open source software generates more than $500 billion in annual value in the U.S. alone and an estimated $8.8 trillion in total global value. For most...
March 31, 2026 | Bloomberg
Efficiently Connected: “KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Wrap-Up: Sovereignty, Security, and the Shift from AI Experimentation to Production Reality”
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam opened on a note that felt almost too perfect.
March 30, 2026
SiliconANGLE: “KubeVirt gains serious backing as CNCF graduation comes into view”
With Kubernetes becoming the bedrock of modern enterprise infrastructure, Kubernetes virtualization seems to be the next logical step forward.
March 30, 2026
Member Post
LLMs on Kubernetes Part 1: Understanding the threat model
Let’s say you’ve got an LLM running on Kubernetes. Pods are healthy, logs are clean, users are chatting. Everything looks fine. But here’s the thing: Kubernetes is great at scheduling workloads and keeping them isolated. It...
March 30, 2026 | Nigel Douglas, CloudSmith
Forbes: “AI Inference Takes Center Stage At KubeCon Europe 2026”
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam made one thing clear. Kubernetes is no longer just an infrastructure platform. It is becoming the operating system for AI inference.
March 29, 2026
Forbes: “CNCF’s Dapr Agents Tackles The Problem Most AI Frameworks Ignore”
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced the general availability of Dapr Agents v1.0 at KubeCon Europe in Amsterdam this week, releasing a Python framework that prioritizes keeping AI agents alive through crashes and failures over making them smarter. Zeiss Vision...
March 28, 2026
Community Post
The weight of AI models: Why infrastructure always arrives slowly
As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organizations face a critical bottleneck that is often overlooked until it becomes a serious obstacle: reliably managing and distributing large model weight files at scale. A model’s weights serve as...
March 27, 2026 | Wenbo Qi (Dragonfly/ModelPack Maintainer), Chenyu Zhang (Harbor/ModelPack Maintainer) and Feynman Zhou (ORAS Maintainer and CNCF Ambassador)
SiliconANGLE: “AI’s infrastructure crunch: Inside CNCF’s play to bring order to inference chaos”
Unpredictable demand, specialized hardware, production-scale complexity — all of it is making AI inference harder to run at enterprise scale. Now, cloud-native open-source infrastructure is emerging as the answer to inference chaos.
March 26, 2026
Ambassador Post
The platform under the model: How cloud native powers AI engineering in production
AI workloads are increasingly running on Kubernetes in production, but for many teams, the path from a working model to a reliable system remains unclear. The cloud native ecosystem – its projects, patterns, and community –...
March 26, 2026 | Max Körbächer, CNCF Ambassador