Local Roots, Global Reach: CNCJ Reflects on KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025
Konnichiwa from Tokyo! 🇯🇵 In June 2025, something remarkable happened: the global cloud native community gathered in Tokyo for the first-ever KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) under the Linux…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: CiliumCon
CiliumCon began at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam, and this will be our sixth time hosting it. Like Cilium itself, the event has grown significantly since its inception, expanding from its original focus to…
Exploring cloud native projects in sandbox: 13 arrivals from 2024 H2
Originally posted on the Palark blog. This article covers the second half of the new Open Source projects accepted to the CNCF Sandbox last year. They were added as a result of the CNCF TOC (Technical…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026: Returning to Amsterdam, 23–26 March
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 is heading back to Amsterdam from 23–26 March, 2026! As the flagship event for the cloud native community, it’s an unmissable opportunity to connect with project maintainers, end users, and technologists…
CNCF Unveils Schedule for 10th Anniversary Edition of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America returns Nov. 10–13 in Atlanta, bringing the global community together to celebrate CNCF’s 10th anniversary and explore what’s next for cloud native infrastructure SAN FRANCISCO, July 31, 2025 – The Cloud…
Kgateway – The Next-Gen Gateway for Kubernetes, AI, and Agents
Kgateway may be new to the CNCF, but it’s not new to the market: it was born as “Gloo” in 2018, a project to provide modern API management within Kubernetes. Gloo built a large user base…
“Managing connections across different cloud storage providers was cumbersome. We needed a solution that could simplify this complexity and will scale with our business and not the volume of our storage transactions.” – George Zubrienko, Ecco’s…
Announcing Linkerd 2.18: Battlescars, lessons learned, and preliminary Windows support
We’re happy to announce the release of Linkerd 2.18. The theme of this release is battlescars: we’ve added features and updated functionality to reduce operational pain in response to real life, hard-won lessons we’ve learned with…
10 Years in Cloud Native: TOC Restructures Technical Groups
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) is the technical governing body responsible for maintaining the technical vision of the CNCF. At the time the CNCF was founded in 2015 and as of 2016, there were four…
Understanding Kubernetes Gateway API: A Modern Approach to Traffic Management
Traffic management in Kubernetes can be complex, especially with modern applications composed of multiple services like frontends, APIs, and backends spread across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As these environments grow, ensuring secure, efficient, and reliable communication…