The 4-body problem of SRE: Why autonomous operations depend on context
What a room full of senior SREs confirmed about the trust gap, and where the actual work begins I spent a day last week at an event in Bengaluru asking a room full of senior SREs,…
How data sovereignty is changing cloud native infrastructure design
The core issue isn’t where your server sits. It’s who can be compelled to hand over what’s on it. For years, cloud providers treated sovereignty as a geography problem. Pick a region. Choose a country. Keep…
Challenge: Scaling Infrastructure Without Linear Team Growth Operating Kubernetes at large scale required more than deploying clusters. Manual provisioning and ad-hoc operations would not scale, and planned maintenance could not be disruptive. As internal adoption increased,…
About China Merchants Bank China Merchants Bank is one of China’s leading commercial banks, investing heavily in cloud-native, AI, and digital infrastructure. As AI has become central to more financial use cases, the bank needs to…
(re)introducing kpt: Your toolchain for infrastructure automation
What is kpt? The opening tagline of the kpt documentation describes it as “… a package-centric toolchain that enables a WYSIWYG configuration authoring, automation, and delivery experience, which simplifies managing Kubernetes platforms and KRM-driven infrastructure at…
Slam26 Spring Transparency Report
Setting the stage for the Spring 2026 Security Slam The CNCF Security Slam has continuously evolved to meet the community’s need for robust software supply chain security. In 2022 and 2023, the event functioned as highly…
Kepler, re-architected: Improved power accuracy and a community call to action!
Thank you to Laura Llinares, Mary Baldwin Hughes, Vimal Kumar, and Sunil Thaha for their significant contributions to this blog post and the Kepler project. Data centers accounted for 1.5% of global electricity demand in 2024,…
Dragonfly v2.5.0 is released! Thanks to all of the contributors who made this Dragonfly release happen. New features and enhancements Direct repository downloads from Hugging Face and ModelScope Dragonfly Client now supports directly downloading model repositories…
OTel and mesh-derived metrics: A 2026 reference
If you already run an OpenTelemetry pipeline, you have good visibility into what your applications are doing. This blog post is about what you don’t see yet: the east-west traffic between your services, measured at the…
etcd-operator joins Cozystack with a new v1alpha2 API
The etcd-operator project, which develops an operator for deploying and maintaining etcd clusters on Kubernetes, has been donated to the Cozystack project. Alongside the donation, a from-scratch implementation of the operator has been published under a…