Expanding CARE: Passing CKS can now extend your CKA certification
A few months ago, CNCF introduced the CARE Program — Certification Advancement & Recertification Experience — to make it easier for certified professionals to keep their credentials current as they continue growing their cloud native skills….
Partnership combines Udemy training with CKA, CKAD, CKS, and CNPE exams into a unified purchasing process to simplify training for developers Key Highlights KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON INDIA, MUMBAI — June 18, 2026 — The Cloud Native…
CNCF Welcomes New Silver Members as Global Demand for Cloud Native Infrastructure Grows
New organizations join CNCF as enterprises expand Kubernetes adoption for platform engineering and AI workloads MUMBAI – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India —June 18, 2026— The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud…
Securing CI/CD for an open source project: Locking down dependencies
Part two This is the second post in a three-part series on how Cilium hardens its CI/CD pipeline. Part 1 covered access control: who can trigger builds and what code CI is allowed to execute. This…
Introducing Verifiable Execution in Dapr 1.18
Bringing attestation, provenance, and tamper-evident execution history to workflows and AI agents For years, the cloud native ecosystem has focused on making distributed systems resilient. Applications recover from failures. Services retry requests. Workflows survive crashes and…
Solving secret sprawl in multi-account Kubernetes with External Secrets Operator
Infrastructure provisioning in Kubernetes has become increasingly automated, but secret management often remains a challenge as environments grow. Organizations commonly separate development, staging, and production workloads across clusters, namespaces, or cloud accounts to improve security and…
Identity and Access Management Whitepaper
As cloud native architectures become more distributed, dynamic, and automated, identity increasingly becomes the new security perimeter. Traditional approaches to authentication and authorization struggle to keep pace with short-lived workloads, service-to-service communication, and zero-trust requirements. The…
Securing CI/CD for an open source project: Controlling who runs what
Part one The last twelve months have been rough on the open source supply chain. Axios was compromised on npm and shipped a remote access trojan inside otherwise normal-looking releases. LiteLLM’s PyPI package was hijacked to…
Challenge A transformative business vision demanded an equally future-ready technology foundation. The program required carefully balancing large-scale transformation with operational continuity—supporting the organization’s immediate business priorities while establishing a scalable, cloud-native foundation for the “Next Generation…
Mumbai Maha Mahotsav – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India edition
Welcome to Mumbai – the City of Dreams, where ambition is the only dress code – and the host city for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026. As a co-chair of this year’s program, I’ve spent months…