The CNCF Data Storage in Cloud Native AI White Paper
Deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads at scale has become a primary objective for modern enterprises. However, moving these data-heavy, stateful workloads into cloud native infrastructure introduces massive data bottlenecks. To help organizations…
Network boundary for AI agents using NGINX and OpenTelemetry
I recently had an interesting conversation at a KCD about OpenClaw with one of the attendees, and they remarked that they wouldn’t put an agent in their network, because “we don’t know what that thing really…
Two months of Open Community Groups
Two months ago, the CNCF launched Open Community Groups (OCG, ocgroups.dev), an online meetup platform that’s open source. This wasn’t a weekend project that happened to ship, it was almost two years in the making before…
Why sandboxing your agent is not enough
The agentic AI space is moving incredibly fast. Not long ago, I learned about a cool project called agent-sandbox, which provides a sandboxed environment for AI agents by leveraging many of the building blocks we have…
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…