The Challenge: Scaling Past Conntrack Limits Zynga’s 12-person Kubernetes platform engineering team, spanning North America, Spain, and India, provides game developers with infrastructure to build games quickly and maintain high availability. The team has been running…
Highlights Solution: eBPF-Powered Networking for Multi-Tenant Kubernetes In its first-generation MKS architecture, OVHcloud used Canal (Calico + Flannel) as the CNI. This stack worked well, Calico provided network policy enforcement while Flannel handled VXLAN-based networking, but…
How an enterprise-grade AI copilot company saved 45% on cloud costs, achieved 95% cost attribution, and prevented over 90 anomalies “We needed a FinOps automation platform that could track and act on routine engineering tasks, allowing…
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…
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Solution: Turning compliance challenges Into a secure, scalable network As regulatory requirements tightened, UW–Madison needed a network layer that could deliver fine-grained control without sacrificing performance. The team migrated from Calico to Cilium, gaining an eBPF-powered…
Code-level telemetry instrumentation: From “oh hell no” to “worth it”
A platform engineer’s guide to developer buy-in Originally published on the author’s personal blog, whitneylee.com As platform engineers, we want the holistic system insights that instrumented code can give us – yes, please. With code-level insights…
ESnet (Energy Sciences Network)
ESnet, the Energy Sciences Network, serves as the data circulatory system for the U.S. Department of Energy, operating a high-performance research network backbone out of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that interconnects 17 national laboratories and…
Cybozu Boosts Performance with Cilium on Bare Metal Cybozu is a Japanese software company known for its customizable low code/no code workflow platform Kintone, which lets teams manage data, tasks, and communication in one central place….