Kubernetes, the open-source container management tool Google launched last February, hit version 1.0 today. With this update, Google now considers Kubernetes ready for production. What’s more important, though, Google is also ceding control over Kubernetes and…
From data residency to digital sovereignty: Architectural patterns for cloud native platforms
Over the past two years, digital sovereignty has evolved from a policy discussion into a practical platform engineering concern. The EU Data Act has been fully applicable since January 11, 2025. NIS-2 and DORA already shape…
Renowned practitioners from across the Southwest and the broader U.S. shared real-world insights into cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes adoption, drawing more than 200 engaged attendees.
Securing CI/CD for an open source project: Locking down dependencies
Part two This is the second post in a three-part series on how Cilium hardens its CI/CD pipeline. Part 1 covered access control: who can trigger builds and what code CI is allowed to execute. This…
CNCF On-Demand: Autonomous Agents on K8s – Durable Execution for AI
AI agents are moving out of developer laptops and into production environments, where they need the same operational guarantees as any other cloud-native workload. This session walks through the architectural patterns that are emerging for running…
Breaking the single datacenter assumption Modern AI architectures are built on the assumption of centralized, homogeneous data centers. In reality, infrastructure is messy. For most organizations, compute resources are fragmented across private clouds, research environments, and…
Benchmarking KubeVirt performance with virtbench
Organizations migrating VM estates from traditional hypervisors to KubeVirt often discover that many Kubernetes observability tools were originally designed around container workloads rather than VM-centric operational metrics. While KubeVirt schedules VMs as pods, the performance variables…
Securing CI/CD for an open source project: Controlling who runs what
Part one The last twelve months have been rough on the open source supply chain. Axios was compromised on npm and shipped a remote access trojan inside otherwise normal-looking releases. LiteLLM’s PyPI package was hijacked to…
Inspektor Gadget: Results from the first security audit
Inspektor Gadget, the open source eBPF-based toolkit for Kubernetes observability and Linux host inspection, has completed its first independent security audit. The audit was coordinated by the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), funded by the…
Challenge A transformative business vision demanded an equally future-ready technology foundation. The program required carefully balancing large-scale transformation with operational continuity—supporting the organization’s immediate business priorities while establishing a scalable, cloud-native foundation for the “Next Generation…