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…
ChatLoopBackOff Episode 79: Capsule with Thomas and Oliver
In this episode, CNCF Ambassador Thomas Schuetz explores Capsule for the first time, with CNCF Maintainer Oliver Baehler live on stream to navigate obstacles and elaborate on its design.Capsule is a sandbox project providing multi-tenancy and…
OpenTelemetry has graduated… Now what?
In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status! It now stands proudly alongside amazing open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to name just a few. It’s been a long journey, and we’re very…
My LFX mentorship journey with kgateway
Open source has been a defining part of my career for many years. As an engineer working in the cloud native ecosystem, I have spent the last five years building and contributing to technologies around Kubernetes,…
Launch of the AI Infra SIG under the CNCF Japan chapter: First meetup and call for speakers
Japanese article follows English one. As we all know, AI is advancing from generative AI to agents, driving growing demand for scalable, efficient infrastructure. Kubernetes and the broader Cloud Native ecosystem are becoming increasingly critical foundations…
Sustaining OpenTelemetry: What a 10-week contributor cohort actually looks like
A follow-up to our earlier post: “Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from Dependency Management to Stewardship” *** In April 2026, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the OpenTelemetry (OTel) project, and Bloomberg’s Open Source Program Office came together…
The future of AI is community driven and open
Kubernetes has become the de facto operating system for AI. In CNCF’s 2025 Annual Cloud Native Survey, 82% of container users now run Kubernetes in production, and 66% of organizations hosting generative AI use it to…
Challenge For more than ten years, HDFC Bank’s payments infrastructure reliably supported the organization’s growing digital banking ecosystem. However, the rapid acceleration of digital payment adoption and the emergence of real-time financial services created new requirements…
Confidential Containers becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Confidential Containers as a CNCF incubating project. About Confidential Containers Confidential Containers addresses the need to protect data in use within cloud native environments. While data…
I made a policy engine think it was in production
Kyverno is a Kubernetes-native policy engine that validates, mutates, and generates resources before workloads reach your cluster, enforcing security and compliance rules as code, without requiring a separate policy language. Enterprise teams running Kyverno policies in…