Getting Helm to be Enterprise-ready
Package managers are hard. Helm learned a lot of lessons from others’ mistakes, but also repeated some. For example, having a single index file per repository is not scalable. It’s the same mistake that NPM made…
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,…
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…
Dragonfly v2.4.0 is released! Thanks to all of the contributors who made this Dragonfly release happen. New features and enhancements load-aware scheduling algorithm A two-stage scheduling algorithm combining central scheduling with node-level secondary scheduling to optimize…
From global stages to a local landmark: Organizing KCD Sri Lanka 2025
Learning from the global cloud native community Before KCD Sri Lanka 2025, our organizing team received an incredible opportunity to attend and speak at KubeCon events for the very first time. Our organizers Chamod Perera, Kemila…
k0s in 2025: A year of community growth, governance, and Kubernetes innovation
As we begin 2026, it’s worth reflecting on the remarkable progress we made with k0s as a project and as a community during 2025. Last year brought exciting advancements, adoption, and stronger community engagement. k0s is…
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…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Dragonfly’s Graduation
Dragonfly graduates after demonstrating production readiness, powering container and AI workloads at scale Key Highlights: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – January 14, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native…
OpenCost: Reflecting on 2025 and looking ahead to 2026
The OpenCost project has had a fruitful year in terms of releases, our wonderful mentees and contributors, and fun gatherings at KubeCons. If you’re new to OpenCost, it is an open-source cost and resources management tool…
HolmesGPT: Agentic troubleshooting built for the cloud native era
If you’ve ever debugged a production incident, you know that the hardest part often isn’t the fix, it’s finding where to begin. Most on-call engineers end up spending hours piecing together clues, fighting time pressure, and…