Techstrong TV: “How the Retirement of Ingress NGINX Signals a Shift to AI-Native Gateways”
Lin Sun, head of open source at Solo.io and a member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, explains why the retirement of the Ingress NGINX controller marks more than the end of a widely deployed project.
February 25, 2026
Staff Post
Announcing H2 2026 KCDs
We’re excited to announce the full list of Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) for 2026! These community-organized events bring together local practitioners, adopters, and contributors to connect and share cloud native knowledge. Insights into the Selection Process...
February 25, 2026 | Helena Spease | Community Program Manager, CNCF
Member Post
Making Harbor production-ready: Essential considerations for deployment
Harbor is an open-source container registry that secures artifacts with policies and role-based access control, ensuring images are scanned for vulnerabilities and signed as trusted. To learn more about Harbor and how to deploy it on...
February 24, 2026 | Dhruv Tyagi and Daniel Jiang, Broadcom
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: Open Source SecurityCon
Open Source SecurityCon (evolved from Cloud Native SecurityCon) returns for its second event, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The conference is dedicated to advancing innovation and collaboration across open source software security and cloud...
February 23, 2026 | Co-chairs Brandt Keller & Constanze Roedig
Ambassador Post
Kubernetes as AI’s operating system: 1.35 release signals
Why v1.35 reads like an AI-infrastructure release Kubernetes has become the place where teams coordinate mixed production workloads: services, batch jobs, data pipelines, and ML training. The Kubernetes v1.35 (“Timbernetes”) release reinforces that trajectory with changes...
February 23, 2026 | Angel Ramirez, CEO of Cuemby and CNCF Ambassador
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: Agentics Day: MCP + Agents
Agentic systems are rapidly moving from experimentation into real production workloads. Cloud native teams are now being asked to connect models to real tools, data, and workflows in reliable, secure ways—without relying on brittle, one-off integrations....
February 20, 2026 | Co-chairs Manik Surtani & Varun Talwar
TFIR: “Kubernetes Ingress NGINX Shutdown: Why 50% of Clusters Must Migrate by March”
Kubernetes Ingress NGINX is shutting down in March 2026, affecting 50% of production clusters. Learn why it’s happening, the security risks, and how to migrate to Gateway API before the deadline.
February 19, 2026
Ambassador Post
State of cloud native 2026: CNCF CTO’s insights and predictions
We’ve just celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the foundation behind Kubernetes and so many other successful open source projects we all rely on. That alone was a good reason to...
February 19, 2026 | Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador
CNCF Releases 2026 Observability Summit North America Schedule as Cloud Native Observability Adoption Expands
Observability Summit North America returns May 21–22 in Minneapolis, convening practitioners, contributors, and engineers to advance open observability standards and practices Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18, 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable...
February 18, 2026
Project Post
Announcing Kyverno 1.17!
Kyverno 1.17 is a landmark release that marks the stabilization of our next-generation Common Expression Language (CEL) policy engine. While 1.16 introduced the “CEL-first” vision in beta, 1.17 promotes these capabilities to v1, offering a high-performance,...
February 18, 2026 | Charles-Edouard Breteche, Nirmata