K8gb becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Kubernetes Global Balancer (K8gb) as a CNCF incubating project. About K8gb K8gb is an open source, cloud native Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) solution designed specifically…
Federating clusters for zero-downtime Kubernetes
Every multi-region setup eventually meets the same awkward moment: a whole cluster goes away, and the identical copy of your service running two regions over might as well not exist, because nothing is wired to treat…
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…
Multi-Cluster databases on Kubernetes: Architecture and deployment
Introduction Running a database on Kubernetes is well understood. Running one that survives a complete regional failure, a corrupted control plane, or a severed network requires a fault-resistant architecture. This post walks through how to build…
Impact Since completing the migration, Michelin has experienced no CNI-related failures or incidents across its fleet. For a platform team that previously spent significant time firefighting networking problems that they couldn’t even observe clearly, this has…
KeycloakCon Japan 2026: Navigating cloud native identity and the AI frontier
The countdown is officially on. In just a few weeks, the cloud-native ecosystem meets in Yokohama for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026. Taking place on Tuesday, July 28 from 09:00 – 12:30, KeycloakCon Japan brings together…
Telemetry that matters: Designing sustainable, high-impact observability pipelines
As system architectures grow increasingly complex, the cloud-native community faces a subtle but pressing challenge: we are drowning in our own telemetry data. It is easier than ever to instrument an application and collect signals, but…
Introduction Flipkart, one of India’s leading digital commerce companies, operates hundreds of interconnected services across Kubernetes and virtual machine environments. During marquee events such as Big Billion Days, Independence Day Sale, and Diwali Sale, even minor…
In March, I gave a talk at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam. After the session, the same questions kept coming up on the CNCF Slack and in person: why build agentic AI on cloud…