OpenTelemetry is now the number two CNCF project by contribution velocity. CNCF CTO Chris Aniszczyk explains OTel vendor optionality and AI workload extensions.

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...

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...

Inspektor Gadget, the open source eBPF-based toolkit for Kubernetes observability and Linux host inspection, has completed its first independent security audit. The audit was coordinated by the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), funded by the...

Virtualized compute platforms have been a boon in allowing enterprises to more easily shift workloads between different cloud environments, but that shifting ease could also grant organizations greater flexibility as they face increasingly stringent data sovereignty...

OpenTelemetry has introduced a new “Blueprints” initiative aimed at reducing the growing complexity of deploying and operating observability systems at scale. 

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...

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,...

OpenTelemetry graduates at CNCF. Chris Aniszczyk explains what it means for AI agents, GPU-native clouds, and vendor-neutral observability.

Modern Swift services increasingly run alongside the same cloud native infrastructure stacks that power much of today’s Kubernetes ecosystem — including ConfigMaps, containerized workloads, declarative deployments, and service lifecycle management. Projects such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry...