Istio at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025: Community highlights and project progress
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 lit up Atlanta from November 10–13, bringing together one of the largest gatherings of open-source practitioners, platform engineers, and maintainers across the cloud native ecosystem. For the Istio community, the…
Top 5 hard-earned lessons from the experts on managing Kubernetes
Kubernetes has transformed how modern organizations deploy and operate scalable infrastructure, and the hype around automated cloud native orchestration has made its adoption nearly ubiquitous over the past 10+ years. Yet behind the scenes, most teams…
Kgateway is an open source implementation of the Kubernetes Gateway API that unifies ingress, API gateway, service mesh, and AI gateway capabilities in a singular modular control plane. Built for performance and flexibility, it secures and…
KServe becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept KServe as a CNCF incubating project. KServe joins a growing ecosystem of technologies tackling real-world challenges at the edge of cloud native infrastructure. What is KServe?…
Code-level telemetry instrumentation: From “oh hell no” to “worth it”
A platform engineer’s guide to developer buy-in Originally published on the author’s personal blog, whitneylee.com As platform engineers, we want the holistic system insights that instrumented code can give us – yes, please. With code-level insights…
Breaking Down Decades-Old Silos in a Regulated Environment A large, global financial services organization developed a system to calculate NAV (Net Asset Value) by integrating it with their existing internal and external systems. Operating in a…
The tools for overcoming the top 10 DevOps challenges
DevOps is a way of working that reduces waste. It uses smart tools and practices to build, test, and ship software faster. It makes teams quicker, systems stronger and problems smaller when done right. It’s not…
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…