Dapr Agents v1.0 reaches stable release, bringing production-grade resiliency and security to AI agent frameworks Key Highlights KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON EUROPE, AMSTERDAM, March 23, 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable open source ecosystems...

The world of AI workloads is changing fast. A few years ago, “AI on Kubernetes” mostly meant running long training jobs. Today, with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), the focus has shifted to include...

Metal3 (pronounced “metal cubed”) entered 2026 as one of the newest incubating projects in the CNCF. As the foundational layer for infrastructure management in self-hosted Kubernetes clouds, Metal3 and its ‘stack’ offer essential solutions for cloud...

The cloud native ecosystem moves fast and the professionals building it move even faster. Over the past decade, Kubernetes has grown from an underdog orchestration system into the backbone of modern infrastructure. As organizations adopt cloud...

The Agones project, the open source platform for scaling and orchestrating dedicated game servers on Kubernetes, celebrates its official transition to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Originally founded as a deep co-development between Google and...

AI-assisted development has changed the way engineers create and commit code. But writing code is no longer the bottleneck. The bottleneck is everything that happens after git push. From infrastructure provisioning, policy enforcement, day-two operations, drift,...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 is coming to Amsterdam, and Merge Forward is one of several groups bringing community, conversation, and a full lineup of sessions and events. Whether you’re a first-time attendee or a KubeCon...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam will bring the cloud native community together with projects, vendors and end users in what is one of the largest open source events. In this post, we highlight sessions...

Platform Engineering Day launched at KubeCon in Paris in spring 2024 to create space for deeper discussion on platform engineering principles, practices, and real-world experiences. Now in its fifth edition in Amsterdam, the event reflects growing...

Overview Kubernetes has fundamentally transformed how enterprises deploy and manage business workloads. As organizations build production applications at scale on Kubernetes, cluster size and complexity continue to grow—creating unprecedented challenges in ensuring cluster security, compliance, and...