A decade of governance: Cloud Custodian at 10 and its role in the agentic AI era
What is Cloud Custodian? It is an open source, stateless policy engine used to manage public cloud environments, Kubernetes and infrastructure as code through a unified DSL. As an incubating project within CNCF, it allows organizations…
Solution Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) SNOW migrated to a multi-region on-premise Kubernetes platform with decoupled External ETCD topology for high availability. The CNCF ecosystem underpins the entire stack: Cilium for CNI, Helm for GitOps-based deployment,…
The challenge Flex CI & CD transformed software delivery at Adobe by making GitOps the foundation of how teams deploy and manage applications. We established Git as the source of truth, adopted declarative infrastructure and application…
How To Measure the ROI of Developer Tools
There’s been a growing emphasis in the cloud native community on investing in tools that improve developer experience. Platform engineering, accompanied with the rise of projects like Backstage, is all about making developers more productive by…
Peer-to-Peer acceleration for AI model distribution with Dragonfly
The problem: AI model distribution is broken at scale Large-scale AI model distribution presents challenges in performance, efficiency, and cost. Consider a typical scenario: an ML platform team manages a Kubernetes cluster with 200 GPU nodes….
Documentary follows the creation and growth of the Backstage project, highlighting its role in accelerating platform engineering initiatives Key Highlights AMSTERDAM—25 March, 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software,…
Solution: Modern problems require modern infrastructure SNCF decided to stop applying incremental fixes to a legacy foundation and instead rebuild a state-of-the-art platform from the ground up. “We soon concluded that applying incremental fixes on unsteady…
New beta capabilities and experimental support aim to simplify service mesh adoption while expanding Istio’s role in next-generation AI infrastructure Key Highlights: KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON EUROPE, AMSTERDAM—25 MARCH, 2025—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds…
Scaling organizational structure with Meshery’s expanding ecosystem
As a high velocity project and one of the fastest-growing projects in the CNCF ecosystem, Meshery’s increasing scale and community contributions necessitates this recognition, which requires a revision to its governance and organizational structure that better…
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…