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 81: OpenEverest with Henrik and Sergey
In this episode of ChatLoopBackOff, CNCF Ambassador Henrik Rexed explores OpenEverest for the first time, with CNCF Maintainer Sergey Pronin live on stream to navigate obstacles and elaborate on features as they are encountered.OpenEverest is a…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: From user to contributor to maintainer
You do not need “maintainer” in your job title to start following the maintainer journey at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026. You might be an SRE who has spent years operating a CNCF project in…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your infrastructure engineer journey
Infrastructure engineers sit at one of the busiest intersections in cloud native. Kubernetes clusters need to scale. Networks need to connect them. Storage needs to follow workloads. Platforms need to make infrastructure usable. Security needs to…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your application developer journey
Cloud native development increasingly means thinking beyond the application itself. How will it be built? How will it be deployed? How much infrastructure should developers need to understand? Where should platforms remove complexity? And what changes…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your SRE journey
If your day starts with questions about reliability, performance, observability, incidents, scaling, or what is going to break next, there is no shortage of places to spend your time at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026….
Guardrails, not gates: rethinking policy in platform teams
The most popular OPA-based policy tool for Kubernetes is literally called Gatekeeper. Admission controllers block. Policies deny. Kyverno’s enforcement setting is validationFailureAction: Enforce, which at least sounds neutral, but the failure mode it describes is still…
ArgoCon North America 2026: What to expect as the Argo community looks toward CD 4.0
Work across the Argo Project is accelerating, with growing adoption, new use cases, and more maintainers contributing across the community. The community is also beginning the visioning process for Argo CD 4.0, making ArgoCon an opportunity…
The case for a cloud native agent harness
Coding agents became useful when they stopped being a chat box. Four things changed the shape of the problem: capable tools, a shared repository and filesystem, subagents, and skills that capture what the system learned from…