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…
How a vector database platform eliminated manual operations and cut costs by 40% The organization operated their infrastructure with manual processes on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As the platform scaled to support enterprise AI/ML workloads, the…
Platform engineering for the agentic enterprise: Managing applications, resources, and AI agents
Platform engineering is evolving Platform engineering has become one of the defining disciplines of the cloud native era. As organizations embraced Kubernetes, microservices, GitOps, and distributed architectures, the complexity of building and operating software grew beyond…
Why your agent needs access to your documentation
What 1,192 agent conversations taught us about knowledge base search A few months ago we shipped an agent inside our own product. It lives in our web app and lets users ask questions about their deployment,…
ArgoCon Japan 2026: Meeting the Maintainers, enterprise insights, and the road to Argo CD 3.5
A special half-day ArgoCon Japan (1:30pm – 6:30pm) will be held July 28, 2026 in Yokohama, Japan as a colocated event with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. This is a chance to hear from and meet both end…