Understanding Kubernetes Gateway API: A Modern Approach to Traffic Management
Traffic management in Kubernetes can be complex, especially with modern applications composed of multiple services like frontends, APIs, and backends spread across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As these environments grow, ensuring secure, efficient, and reliable communication…
Enforcing Artifact Security with Trivy and OPA
In cloud-native development, ensuring the integrity and security of software artifacts (such as Docker images, Python wheels, and Helm charts) is a fundamental challenge. With the growing adoption of continuous integration and delivery pipelines, there’s a…
Kubestronaut in Orbit: Jana Vonšák
Get to know Jana We’re thrilled to recognize Jana Vonšák from Slovakia as our first-ever female Golden Kubestronaut. A dedicated DevOps Security Engineer with a background in software development, Jana brings a rare blend of development…
Cloud Native Live: Internal Kubernetes platform using vCluster
In this session, we will explore Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and specifically dive into Internal Kubernetes Platforms (IKPs). We will discuss why organizations need an IKP, highlighting key benefits such as improved developer productivity, streamlined operations,…
Fluent Bit v4.0: Celebrating new features and 10th anniversary
The Fluent Bit maintainers have exciting news to share! Fluent Bit version 4 is out and just in time to celebrate the project’s 10-year anniversary. The journey: From embedded logging to multi-Signal observability With over 15…
On March 15th, Kubernetes Community Days Beijing was successfully held in the Beijing HQ of Ant Group. The KCD Beijing 2025 event brought together AI and cloud-native technologies in an exciting fusion that is transforming industries…
These Kubernetes mistakes will make you an easy target for hackers
Kubernetes is exceedingly powerful for orchestrating containerized applications at scale. But without proper monitoring and observability—especially in self-managed infrastructure—it can quickly become a security disaster waiting to happen. This is not due to inherent flaws in…
Deep Dive into the Gateway API Inference Extension
Running AI inference workloads on Kubernetes has some unique characteristics and challenges, and the Gateway API Inference Extension project aims to solve some of those challenges. I recently wrote about these new capabilities in the kgateway…
Kagent: Bringing Agentic AI to Cloud Native
Solving Cloud Native Operation Challenges with AI Agents Oh no! Your application is unreachable, buried under multiple connection hops—how do you pinpoint the broken link? How do you generate an alert or bug report from Prometheus…
Components vs. Containers: Fight?
WebAssembly components offer a new way to deploy microservices and other applications in cloud native environments. This naturally raises the question: is the upstart component out to replace containers? Or is this one of those situations…