DevOps Digest: “Kyverno 1.18 Released”
DevOps Digest: “Kyverno 1.18 Released”
CNCF announced the release of Kyverno 1.18, the first release since graduating within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
May 11, 2026

How to get engineering time back from Kubernetes upgrades
Member Post How to get engineering time back from Kubernetes upgrades
Kubernetes powers your products, but with that power and flexibility comes organizational challenges around managing complexity and maintenance. It can be tough for an organization to keep up with the speed of open source, especially at...
May 11, 2026 | Munib Ali, Director of Engineering, SRE Fairwinds

The New Stack: “Why Prometheus couldn’t see Cilium metrics at 2 a.m.”
The New Stack: “Why Prometheus couldn’t see Cilium metrics at 2 a.m.”
Tame the Kubernetes “integration tax.” Learn how to wire CNCF projects like Prometheus and Cilium for production-grade reliability.
May 10, 2026

The New Stack: “How NetEase Games cut LLM cold starts from 42 minutes to 30 seconds”
The New Stack: “How NetEase Games cut LLM cold starts from 42 minutes to 30 seconds”
NetEase Games cut LLM cold-start times from 42 mins to 30 sec with the CNCF Fluid project, enabling serverless GPU inference on Kubernetes.
May 8, 2026

Benchmarking AI agent retrieval strategies on Kubernetes bug fixes
Community Post Benchmarking AI agent retrieval strategies on Kubernetes bug fixes
I’ve been using AI coding agents as part of my daily engineering workflow and wanted to understand how well they actually perform on real-world bugs. To test this, I ran a series of structured experiments using...
May 8, 2026 | Brandon Foley

Microcks becomes a CNCF incubating project
Project Post Microcks becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Microcks as a CNCF incubating project. About Microcks Modern software teams build applications as collections of interconnected APIs and microservices, and with that architecture comes a...
May 7, 2026 | Katie Gamanji, CNCF TOC

The tools are ready. So why are most cloud native teams still running three observability stacks?
The tools are ready. So why are most cloud native teams still running three observability stacks?
I’ve spent enough time in and around cloud native infrastructure to know that we’re reasonably good at standardizing the theory. OpenTelemetry for instrumentation, Prometheus for metrics, Jaeger and Tempo for distributed tracing, Fluentd or Loki for...
May 6, 2026 | Ila Bandhiya, Middleware

Announcing Kyverno release 1.18!
Project Post Announcing Kyverno release 1.18!
We’re excited to announce the release of Kyverno 1.18, our first release since graduating within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. This release builds on Kyverno’s growing role as a Kubernetes-native policy engine, with major investments in...
May 5, 2026 | Cortney Nickerson, Kyverno Contributor

Securing GitHub Actions CI dependencies: Recipe card
TAG Post Securing GitHub Actions CI dependencies: Recipe card
Recipe GitHub Actions CI dependencies Target audience (the chef) Project maintainers and developers who need practical, concrete steps to efficiently secure CI dependencies within their GitHub Actions workflows Scope (ingredients) Dependencies within the GitHub Actions, Github...
May 4, 2026 | Marina Moore, Evan Anderson, and Sherine Khoury, CNCF Technical Advisory Group

The New Stack: “Fresh data has us asking, does AI demand Kubernetes?”
The New Stack: “Fresh data has us asking, does AI demand Kubernetes?”
A new report reveals Kubernetes’ central role in AI adoption, while highlighting how engineering best practices, platform maturity, and guardrails are critical to managing complexity, security, and scale.
May 1, 2026