Building a Scalable, Flexible, Cloud-Native GenAI Platform with Open Source Solutions
AI workloads are complex, and unmanaged complexity kills velocity. Your architecture is the key to mastering it. As generative AI (GenAI) becomes foundational to modern software products, developers face a chaotic new reality, juggling different APIs…
In part three of this series on Policy as Code, we’ll look at the intersection between PaC and AI coding assistants. AI coding tools have fundamentally changed software development. “Vibe coding” or chat-based coding, where you…
Automating EKS CIS Compliance with Kyverno and KubeBench
A practical approach to implementing CIS security controls using CNCF cloud native tools. Introduction: The Challenge of EKS Compliance at Scale Maintaining CIS Benchmarks compliance for Amazon EKS across multiple clusters is a common challenge in…
PaC in the Cloud Native Landscape
This is post 2 out of 3 with an Introduction to Policy as Code preceding this. Kubernetes continues to grow, but it has already become the main component of cloud native architectures. Maintaining your cluster is…
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…
From YAML to Intelligence: The Evolution of Platform Engineering
The next big thing in the platform engineering ecosystem as they say is AI Agents for Platform Engineering. How to build them, how to run them on Kubernetes, best practices, the journey from microservices to microagents,…
Why Policy as Code is a Game Changer for Platform Engineers
Originally posted on Nirmata’s blog. Platform engineers, let’s talk about a fundamental shift that’s revolutionizing how we build and manage internal developer platforms: Policy as Code (PaC). This isn’t just another buzzword; it’s the key to…
GitOps in 2025: From Old-School Updates to the Modern Way
1. Introduction: Why Everyone’s Talking About GitOps in 2025 It’s 2025, and building software is more cloud-driven than ever. Cloud computing offers incredible speed and flexibility, but it also brings complexity. Companies are expected to ship…
Announcing Kyverno Release 1.14!
TL;DR We are excited to announce the release of Kyverno 1.14.0, marking a significant milestone in our journey to make policy management in Kubernetes more modular, streamlined, and powerful. This release introduces two new policy types…
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…