What I learned organizing KCD Lima 2026
On July 18, 2026, we held the third edition of Kubernetes Community Days Lima at UTEC in Barranco. By now, we have already sent the Transparency Report to the CNCF, thanked our sponsors, and processed the…
Cilium 1.20: Gateway API ExternalAuth, TCPRoute/UDPRoute, ENI IPAM for IPv6, and more
Cilium 1.20, the second major open source Cilium release of 2026 after Cilium 1.19, is finally here. Three themes stand out in this release: Thank you to every contributor, reviewer and maintainer who made Cilium 1.20…
How cloud native goes AI native
“A sales guy writing code” used to be the lead-up to a joke. But now no one’s laughing. Designers used to sit meekly waiting for the high priests of code to make their designs real. Now…
Building an AI factory on Kubernetes
An AI factory is not just a model or a cluster. It is a pool of GPUs that many teams draw from at once: one team fine-tuning, another serving inference, a third running evaluations, all on…
Cloud Native platform sovereignty through multi-plane architecture
When people talk about cloud sovereignty, the conversation often starts with regions: where a workload runs and where its data is stored. But choosing a region is only part of the story. The architecture of the…
LLMOps and platform engineering: Who should own the AI pipeline?
A few years ago, getting a model into production meant a data scientist, a DevOps engineer, and a narrow set of tools: train it, test it, ship it, watch the dashboards. Large language models broke that…
Good apps aren’t born, they’re guided: Building observable policy as code
As parents in tech, we’ve learned that neither children nor applications thrive without clear boundaries. There are no “good” or “bad” kids, just as there are no inherently “good” or “bad” applications, only behaviors shaped by…
CNCF Announces Graduation of Cloud Native Buildpacks, Advancing the Standard for Container Builds
Project reaches broad production adoption for transforming application source code into OCI-compliant container images across cloud environments Key Highlights: SAN FRANCISCO — Aug. 11, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems…
Shadow AI in CI/CD: Threat-modeling the path from developer laptop to Kubernetes
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of daily software delivery, often before it becomes part of the security architecture. That gap has a name: Shadow AI. It is any AI tool, model, agent, extension, or integration used…