InfoWorld: “Building a state-of-the-art development platform with Backstage”
Why a developer portal isn’t a development platform, and how to design the all-important layer beneath it.
June 25, 2026
Ambassador Post
Building a Cluster-Aware AI Agent with Kubernetes, Argo CD, and GitOps
A practical walkthrough of running a self-hosted, read-only AI agent inside a Kubernetes cluster, with the full CI/CD chain handled by GitHub Actions and Argo CD Image Updater. No data leaves the cluster, no cloud AI...
June 25, 2026 | Maryam Tavakkoli (CNCF Ambassador | Lead Cloud Engineer @ RELEX Solutions)
Community Post
From awareness to engineered accessibility in open source
The open-source ecosystem thrives on a deceptively simple premise: anyone, anywhere, can show up and contribute. But that promise quietly breaks down at the edges. A contributor who needs written context before a synchronous call, or...
June 24, 2026 | Diana Todea (DevRel Engineer at VictoriaMetrics and Merge-Forward Neurodiversity chapter lead), and Ryan Etten (Senior Architect & Team Lead at Red Hat and Wisconsin CNCF chapter community organizer)
Ambassador Post
Agent Auth: A lawyer’s day in court
I’ve always thought about AI agents as microservices+. They need everything a traditional microservice needs, and: When thinking about agent auth, I found myself reflecting on a traffic lawyer I hired years ago after receiving a...
June 23, 2026 | Lin Sun, CNCF Ambassador
Project Maintainer Post
Building Jaeger’s ClickHouse backend: 8.6× compression on 10 million spans
As someone who’s been maintaining Jaeger, I’ve watched users request ClickHouse support consistently over the past few years. With Jaeger v2.18.0, we’ve finally delivered it. What excites me most isn’t just that ClickHouse is available—it’s that its architecture is...
June 23, 2026 | Mahad Zaryab, CNCF Jaeger Project Maintainer and Software Engineer at Meta
Community Post
Telemetry that matters: Designing sustainable, high-impact observability pipelines
As system architectures grow increasingly complex, the cloud-native community faces a subtle but pressing challenge: we are drowning in our own telemetry data. It is easier than ever to instrument an application and collect signals, but...
June 22, 2026 | Diana Todea - DevRel Engineer at VictoriaMetrics and Cloud Native Days Romania community organizer, Laura Luttmer - Principal Product Manager at Bindplane (Dynatrace), Antonio Jimenez Martinez - Tech Lead Software Engineer at Cisco ThousandEyes
O’Reilly Media: “Kubernetes in the Age of AI”
When Kubernetes first came onto the scene, it was a major turning point, a revision of the infrastructure and operations space that transformed the way developers and ops personnel build, deploy, and maintain applications in the...
June 18, 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, OpenInfra Summit and PyTorch Conference Unite in China to Scale AI
Schedule highlights global communities bridging cloud native infrastructure with AI stacks Key Highlights SHANGHAI — JUNE 18, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, the OpenInfra Foundation,...
June 18, 2026
Flipkart Wins CNCF End User Case Study Contest for Kubernetes and Chaos Engineering Scale
Integration of LitmusChaos with Kubernetes-native architecture drives production-grade reliability for India’s largest e-commerce platform Key Highlights KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON INDIA, MUMBAI, India — June 18, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable...
June 17, 2026
Staff Post
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....
June 17, 2026 | Christophe Sauthier, Cloud Native Training and Certification Lead