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SDxCentral: "Docker donates containerd to Cloud Native Computing Foundation"

Posted on March 16, 2017

Docker, Inc. plans to donate its containerd open source project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Containerd is the core container runtime functionality – the bare-bones software – needed to create a Docker container. In…


Understanding dynamic resource allocation in Kubernetes

Posted on July 1, 2026 | ChengHao Yang, CNCF Ambassador

Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) recently reached GA in Kubernetes v1.35, and I believe many of us are eager to give it a try. Adding to the momentum, NVIDIA has moved dra-driver-nvidia-gpu into Kubernetes SIGs, with the…


Dragonfly v2.5.0 is released

Posted on June 30, 2026 | Gaius Qi, Dragonfly Maintainer

Dragonfly v2.5.0 is released! Thanks to all of the contributors who made this Dragonfly release happen.  New features and enhancements Direct repository downloads from Hugging Face and ModelScope Dragonfly Client now supports directly downloading model repositories…


Improving Arm64 support in CNCF projects with OCI credits

Posted on June 15, 2026 | Dave Neary, Director of Developer Relations at Ampere Computing

In recent years, Arm64 has been taking the cloud service provider world by storm. Recent reports indicate that, as of the end of 2025, over 50% of new instances on AWS and over 33% on Azure…


What kubectl debug doesn’t tell you: The silent evidence gap

Posted on May 18, 2026 | Shamsher Khan, CNCF Community Member

The session that left no record A kubectl debug session can contain the only direct observation of a failing system state. However, once the session ends, Kubernetes does not retain the termination context of that session…


The AI-driven shift in vulnerability discovery: What maintainers and bug finders need to know

Posted on April 16, 2026 | Greg Castle (Kubernetes, Google)

AI models have recently drastically changed the sophistication, speed and scale of software vulnerability discovery. It is now trivial for non-experts to find real vulnerabilities in software with minimal effort and expertise. It is also now…


The weight of AI models: Why infrastructure always arrives slowly

Posted on March 27, 2026 | Wenbo Qi (Dragonfly/ModelPack Maintainer), Chenyu Zhang (Harbor/ModelPack Maintainer) and Feynman Zhou (ORAS Maintainer and CNCF Ambassador)

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…


Lima v2.1: macOS guests and enhanced AI agent safety

Posted on March 25, 2026 | Ansuman Sahoo, Lima Project Maintainer

Following our expansion into AI workflows in v2.0, Lima v2.1 introduces highly anticipated experimental support for macOS and FreeBSD guests and further hardens local environments against unpredictable AI agents. What is Lima ? Lima (Linux Machines)…


When Kubernetes restarts your pod — And when it doesn’t

Posted on March 17, 2026 | Shamsher Khan, Project Maintainer

A production internals guide verified against Kubernetes 1.35 GACompanion repository: github.com/opscart/k8s-pod-restart-mechanics The terminology problem Engineers say “the pod restarted” when they mean four different things. Getting this wrong leads to flawed runbooks and bad on-call decisions….


Japan’s CNCF DevStats 2025

Posted on March 12, 2026 | Toru Komatsu and Hiroshi Hayakawa, CNCF Ambassadors and Cloud Native Community Japan.

Have you ever heard of CNCF’s DevStats? It is a tool that tracks and quantifies all contribution activities within CNCF projects by pulling data from GitHub. Using this data, we can analyze ongoing development in CNCF…