As cloud native architectures span more clusters, services, and trust domains, identity and access management have become foundational infrastructure rather than an application-level concern. At the same time, emerging patterns such as multi-cluster platforms, agent-based systems,…

When Kubernetes launched a decade ago, its promise was clear: make deploying microservices as simple as running a container. Fast forward to 2026, and Kubernetes is no longer “just” for stateless web services. In the CNCF…

Peer mentoring and group discussions on cloud strategy management  Cloud native management has matured quickly. Platform engineering is now a cross-organization product, supply chain security expectations continue to rise, and regulation has moved from a future…

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe is almost here again, and if you’re heading to Amsterdam in March 2026, you’re probably feeling a mix of excitement and mild panic. Thousands of people. Hundreds of sessions. Endless hallway conversations,…

The Challenge: Scaling Past Conntrack Limits Zynga’s 12-person Kubernetes platform engineering team, spanning North America, Spain, and India, provides game developers with infrastructure to build games quickly and maintain high availability. The team has been running…

BackstageCon began in 2022 as the first dedicated conference for the Backstage ecosystem, bringing together adopters and contributors around the open source developer portal platform originally created at Spotify. As cloud native adoption continues to scale,…

We’re pleased to share that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has once again been selected as a mentoring organization for the 2026 edition of Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Our first selection was back in…

Highlights Solution: eBPF-Powered Networking for Multi-Tenant Kubernetes In its first-generation MKS architecture, OVHcloud used Canal (Calico + Flannel) as the CNI. This stack worked well, Calico provided network policy enforcement while Flannel handled VXLAN-based networking, but…

Harbor is an open-source container registry that secures artifacts with policies and role-based access control, ensuring images are scanned for vulnerabilities and signed as trusted. To learn more about Harbor and how to deploy it on…

Why v1.35 reads like an AI-infrastructure release Kubernetes has become the place where teams coordinate mixed production workloads: services, batch jobs, data pipelines, and ML training. The Kubernetes v1.35 (“Timbernetes”) release reinforces that trajectory with changes…