Cloud native is now AI-native: Engineering production-ready AI
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam from March 23-26, CNCF brought together a roundtable with experts in the cloud native ecosystem, including Ellis Tarn of AWS, Allan Naim of Google Cloud, Jorge Palma of Microsoft,…
The Kubernetes integration tax: Prometheus, Cilium and production reality
I still remember the first time we lost sleep over something that wasn’t a bug. It was a Tuesday. Grafana dashboards showed blank panels for Cilium network metrics. Hubble was working fine — DNS visibility, TCP…
Three TAG leads walk into the TOC
The 2026 CNCF TOC cohort has an unusual pattern: three of the incoming members; Brandt, former TAG Security, lead; Mario, former TAG Operational Resilience lead, and Mauricio Salatino, former TAG Developer Experience co-chair, came straight out of…
Why Kubernetes policy enforcement happens too late—and what to do about it
Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern cloud-native infrastructure. Its flexibility lets teams move fast, compose complex systems from modular components, and deploy across environments with relative ease. But that flexibility comes with a well-known cost:…
Zero-Downtime migration from ingress NGINX to Envoy Gateway
Teams running Ingress NGINX in production are increasingly evaluating migration paths as Kubernetes networking evolves toward Gateway API. For many organizations, the challenge is not just selecting a Gateway API implementation, but designing a migration strategy…
Designing end-to-end ingress request tracing for multi-tenant SaaS platforms
Modern SaaS platforms built on cloud‑native architectures frequently consist of dozens of independently deployed microservices. A single customer request entering the platform at the ingress layer may traverse authentication services, orchestration engines, data services, and downstream…
The milestone for OpenTelemetry reflects widespread production adoption and a stable, vendor-neutral observability standard Key Highlights: MINNEAPOLIS – OBSERVABILITY SUMMIT – May 21, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for…
Introducing Prempti: Policy and visibility for AI coding agents
AI coding agents have become a real part of the developer workflow. Tools like Claude Code sit in your terminal, read your files, run shell commands, make network requests, and write code, all on your behalf….
Automating Confidential Containers (CoCo) infrastructure with Kyverno
Confidential Containers (CoCo) adds a critical security layer for containerized workloads, especially in environments where parts of the platform are not inherently trusted. However, deploying CoCo-enabled workloads often requires application teams to manage infrastructure-heavy details that…
CNCF Debuts KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule
Second annual Japanese event to spotlight AI, observability, platform engineering and more Key Highlights: YOKOHAMA, Japan, May 13, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced…