How Japan’s 250% Training Surge is Shaping Global AI Talent
The first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan took place in Tokyo in June 2025 and kicked off a cloud native skills boom in the region. In the twelve months since the conference, Kubernetes exams taken in Japan…
My LFX mentorship journey with kgateway
Open source has been a defining part of my career for many years. As an engineer working in the cloud native ecosystem, I have spent the last five years building and contributing to technologies around Kubernetes,…
Operating OpenTelemetry at scale with OpAMP
As more organizations move to use OpenTelemetry in production at scale, with multiple Collectors across heterogeneous environments, a new challenge arises: how to remotely manage, configure, and update this agent fleet in a consistent and secure…
Security Profiles Operator v1: Stable APIs, Security Hardened, and Shaping Upstream Kubernetes
Linux provides powerful kernel-level security mechanisms, seccomp, SELinux, and AppArmor, that restrict what containerized workloads can do. Each uses profiles that define permitted behavior, but writing, distributing, and maintaining those profiles by hand is tedious and…
Breaking the single datacenter assumption Modern AI architectures are built on the assumption of centralized, homogeneous data centers. In reality, infrastructure is messy. For most organizations, compute resources are fragmented across private clouds, research environments, and…
The Kubernetes integration tax: Prometheus, Cilium and production reality
I still remember the first time we lost sleep over something that wasn’t a bug. It was a Tuesday. Grafana dashboards showed blank panels for Cilium network metrics. Hubble was working fine — DNS visibility, TCP…
GPU autoscaling on Kubernetes with KEDA: Building an external scaler
If you run GPU workloads on Kubernetes — vLLM, Triton, training jobs, or the newer agentic inference stacks — you’ve probably hit a familiar problem: the default autoscaling path still reasons about CPU and memory, while…
Why Kubernetes policy enforcement happens too late—and what to do about it
Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern cloud-native infrastructure. Its flexibility lets teams move fast, compose complex systems from modular components, and deploy across environments with relative ease. But that flexibility comes with a well-known cost:…
The milestone for OpenTelemetry reflects widespread production adoption and a stable, vendor-neutral observability standard Key Highlights: MINNEAPOLIS – OBSERVABILITY SUMMIT – May 21, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for…
Extending AI gateways with Rust: Custom transformations in kgateway
Every gateway ships with a set of built-in policies. Authentication. Rate limiting. Request routing. Prompt guards. These cover most use cases. But what about the ones they don’t cover? What if you need to add a…