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…
CNCF On-Demand: k0rdent — Celebrating One Year of Orchestrating Multi- Cluster Kubernetes Platforms
Managing Kubernetes across many clusters and environments introduces challenges around consistency, lifecycle automation, observability, and cost visibility. This session explores architectural patterns and open source tooling used to manage Kubernetes fleets at scale. We’ll look at…
New global members join CNCF reflecting the rise of enterprise demand for scalable, cost-efficient cloud native technologies KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON EUROPE, AMSTERDAM—25 MARCH, 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native…
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…
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…
The autonomous enterprise and the four pillars of platform control: 2026 forecast
The promise of DevOps and Platform Engineering is to balance developer velocity with enterprise governance. In 2026, AI Agents move from being simple assistance tools to the core mechanisms that automate this balance. Recent publications, such…
Bringing sustainability back into the conversation: CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Month Tokyo
It’s undeniable that AI is a breakthrough technology that no one wants to be left behind on. However, as AI accelerates innovation in the cloud-native world, environmental sustainability often gets sidelined, perceived as something that could…
Building microservices the easy way with Dapr
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits Microservices have been with us for nearly two decades, but it’s still far from easy to develop at scale, in a polyglot environment. The Dapr project, the…
CNCF Ambassador’s reflections on 10 years of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits “Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a new open standardization initiative recently formed under the Linux Foundation with the mission of providing standard reference architecture for cloud native applications…
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…