Fluid Becomes a CNCF Incubating Project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Fluid as a CNCF incubating project. What is Fluid? Kubernetes provides a data access layer through the Container Storage Interface (CSI), enabling workloads to connect to…
CNCF and SlashData Report Finds Cloud Native Community Reaches Nearly 20 Million Developers
New research highlights the rapid growth of cloud native development and evolving platform engineering and AI adoption trends Key Highlights: AMSTERDAM, KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON EUROPE– March 24, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds…
Cloud native agentic standards
An application, composed of one or more containers as dictated by system architecture, that operates either independently or as part of a distributed collaboration—interacting with at least one other entity (container) or achieving quorum-based consensus. It…
CNCF Introduces a New Recertification Program as Kubestronaut Community Surpasses 3,500
The cloud native ecosystem moves fast and the professionals building it move even faster. Over the past decade, Kubernetes has grown from an underdog orchestration system into the backbone of modern infrastructure. As organizations adopt cloud…
General Availability of Dapr Agents Delivers Production Reliability for Enterprise AI
Dapr Agents v1.0 reaches stable release, bringing production-grade resiliency and security to AI agent frameworks Key Highlights KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON EUROPE, AMSTERDAM, March 23, 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable open source ecosystems…
Beyond Batch: Volcano Evolves into the AI-Native Unified Scheduling Platform
The world of AI workloads is changing fast. A few years ago, “AI on Kubernetes” mostly meant running long training jobs. Today, with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), the focus has shifted to include…
Metal3 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026: Meet the CNCF’s Freshly Incubated Bare Metal Project
Metal3 (pronounced “metal cubed”) entered 2026 as one of the newest incubating projects in the CNCF. As the foundational layer for infrastructure management in self-hosted Kubernetes clouds, Metal3 and its ‘stack’ offer essential solutions for cloud…
Agones Moves to the CNCF: A New Era for Open Source Multiplayer Game Infrastructure
The Agones project, the open source platform for scaling and orchestrating dedicated game servers on Kubernetes, celebrates its official transition to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Originally founded as a deep co-development between Google and…
Crossplane and AI: The case for API-first infrastructure
AI-assisted development has changed the way engineers create and commit code. But writing code is no longer the bottleneck. The bottleneck is everything that happens after git push. From infrastructure provisioning, policy enforcement, day-two operations, drift,…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026: End User TAB recommendations and tips
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam will bring the cloud native community together with projects, vendors and end users in what is one of the largest open source events. In this post, we highlight sessions…