The Fragmentation Challenge Growing operational complexity made an underlying challenge increasingly apparent. Tracking a container’s journey from pickup to port terminal required reconciling data such as vehicle identifiers, waypoints, GPS location feeds, and IoT telemetry signals…
Security Slam Returns for 2026 — Now Open to All Open Source Projects
The CNCF Technical Advisory Group for Security & Compliance is excited to announce the upcoming 2026 Security Slam at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, in partnership with Sonatype and OpenSSF. The event will run from Friday, February…
Platform engineering maintenance pitfalls and smart strategies to stay ahead
Platform engineering is a discipline that aims to increase the productivity of software engineering teams by designing, building, and maintaining internal platforms that abstract underlying infrastructure complexity and provide self-service capabilities. Kubernetes-based platforms are often complex…
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 solution: A unified GitOps framework The turning point came when we decided to stop managing clusters and start engineering a platform. We chose Argo CD as the centerpiece of our strategy, moving toward a declarative,…
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…
CNCF and SlashData Report Finds Leading AI Tools Gaining Adoption in Cloud Native Ecosystems
New report provides maturity and recommendation scores for tools and projects across AI inference, ML orchestration, and agentic AI platforms Key Highlights: ATLANTA, KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON NORTH AMERICA. – November 11, 2025 – The Cloud Native…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Graduation of Crossplane
Graduation marks Crossplane’s readiness for widespread use and its evolution from a control plane framework to groundwork for intelligent, secure, and scalable cloud operations and platform engineering Key Highlights: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – November 6, 2025…
How an Enterprise AI Learning Platform Scaled Without Outages or Budget Surprises Cloudchipr’s client – an enterprise AI-powered learning platform – operated its stack on a Platform as a Service (PaaS) managed hosting provider, when growth…
RBC’s open source voyage: Bridging cloud innovation and community through CNCF and FINOS
At Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), our cloud journey is intrinsically linked with our commitment to open source. Joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) extends and compliments our membership with the Fintech Open Source Foundation…