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…
Securing CI/CD for an open source project: Controlling who runs what
Part one The last twelve months have been rough on the open source supply chain. Axios was compromised on npm and shipped a remote access trojan inside otherwise normal-looking releases. LiteLLM’s PyPI package was hijacked to…
Mumbai Maha Mahotsav – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India edition
Welcome to Mumbai – the City of Dreams, where ambition is the only dress code – and the host city for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026. As a co-chair of this year’s program, I’ve spent months…
Ingress NGINX retirement: Experience from end users
During last November’s Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta there was an announcement regarding the retirement of ingress-nginx. As mentioned in the original blog post, existing deployments of Ingress NGINX will continue to function and…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026: End User TAB recommendations and tips
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…
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…
How to Get the Most Out of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe is almost here again, and if you’re heading to Amsterdam in March 2026, you’re probably feeling a mix of excitement and mild panic. Thousands of people. Hundreds of sessions. Endless hallway conversations,…
CNCF celebrates successful mentees from LFX Mentorship 2025 Term 3
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is thrilled to congratulate the 2025 Term 3 (September – November) CNCF LFX Mentorship Program mentees who have successfully completed the program! This term saw a fantastic cohort of mentees working…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA: Top sessions from the CNCF End User TAB
2025 brought significant developments in the cloud native landscape, with a strong focus on AI but new projects and end user reports in many other areas. As always, KubeCon is one of the key places we…
The mentorship flywheel: How CNCF is growing the next generation of cloud native leaders
A record year for mentorship, 187 graduates contributing to the ecosystem, and one engineer’s journey from “I didn’t know about Docker” to Kyverno maintainer. In 2025, the CNCF mentorship programs hit a milestone: 187 successful mentorship…