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…
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 Welcomes 12 New Silver Members Emphasizing a Growing Need for Observability and Automation
New global members join CNCF to strengthen community contributions in observability, cloud infrastructure, and cloud native AI SAN FRANCISCO, CA – December 17, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for…
Building platforms using kro for composition
Recent industry developments, such as Amazon’s announcement of the new EKS capabilities, highlight a trend toward supporting platforms with managed GitOps, cloud resource operators, and composition tooling. In particular, the involvement of Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro)—a…
Exploring AI, observability and community at OSS Summit Korea 2025
Attending OpenSearchCon, OpenSSF Day, and the Open Source Summit in Seoul was a truly memorable experience, especially because this was the first-ever Open Source Summit hosted in South Korea. I have previously attended two KubeCons in…
My first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon: A journey through community, inclusivity, and neurodiversity
Stepping into my first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, held this year in November in Atlanta, Georgia, felt like entering a world I had been following from afar for years; a world full of brilliant minds, bold ideas,…