Join Platform Engineering Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI and cloud native technologies, platform teams are being asked to solve a growing set of challenges. How can developers access new capabilities such as...
View ArticleMaking the Golden Kubestronaut a little more golden
When I became a Golden Kubestronaut, I wanted to celebrate the achievement in a way that felt lasting. Like most technical achievements, certifications usually live digitally. You receive the badge,...
View ArticleWho owns NIS2 and DORA on a Kubernetes platform team
There is a meeting that repeats across a lot of European engineering organizations right now. Someone from legal or risk brings a NIS2 control, a DORA article, or a “can we evidence this” request into...
View ArticleDon’t give AI agents root. Make them propose the next system state.
The uncomfortable question In the past few months, I’ve been hearing different versions of the same question: under what conditions can we safely allow an autonomous system to operate a machine? It...
View ArticleCiliumCon is back at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
Mark your calendars. On Monday, November 9, CilliumCon kicks off at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Salt Lake City. It’s the eighth time the event has run, and this year’s agenda goes...
View ArticleBackstageCon comes to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt...
BackstageCon takes place all day on Monday, November 9, 2026, the day before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America opens in Salt Lake City. We’re excited to bring together Backstage adopters,...
View ArticleKubernetes on Edge Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
Kubernetes on Edge Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 on November 9 in Salt Lake City, Utah, bringing together developers and adopters from across the cloud native ecosystem to...
View ArticleMeshery becomes a CNCF Incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Meshery as a CNCF incubating project. Meshery is used by organizations spanning aerospace, telecommunications, networking, and enterprise...
View ArticleThe 2026-2028 CNCF ambassador cohort
This year we accepted 58 new ambassadors and said goodbye to 48. All ambassadors have given their spare time to the ecosystem in one way or another, whether they are contributing to a CNCF project,...
View ArticleKubelet watches inodes. Just not until it’s an emergency.
A worker node pages with NodeFilesystemFilesFillingUp. It’s on course to run out of inodes. You check the disk first, because that’s what everyone checks first, and it reads 83% used: 103G used, 22G...
View ArticleKubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Join the cloud native community...
Most of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon assumes the cluster already exists. OpenTofu Day covers everything that has to be provisioned before and around it: cloud accounts, networking, managed services, and...
View ArticleKubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: From user to contributor to...
You do not need “maintainer” in your job title to start following the maintainer journey at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026. You might be an SRE who has spent years operating a CNCF...
View ArticleKubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your infrastructure...
Infrastructure engineers sit at one of the busiest intersections in cloud native. Kubernetes clusters need to scale. Networks need to connect them. Storage needs to follow workloads. Platforms need to...
View ArticleKubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your application developer...
Cloud native development increasingly means thinking beyond the application itself. How will it be built? How will it be deployed? How much infrastructure should developers need to understand? Where...
View ArticleKubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your SRE journey
If your day starts with questions about reliability, performance, observability, incidents, scaling, or what is going to break next, there is no shortage of places to spend your time at KubeCon +...
View ArticleGuardrails, not gates: rethinking policy in platform teams
The most popular OPA-based policy tool for Kubernetes is literally called Gatekeeper. Admission controllers block. Policies deny. Kyverno’s enforcement setting is validationFailureAction: Enforce,...
View ArticleArgoCon North America 2026: What to expect as the Argo community looks toward...
Work across the Argo Project is accelerating, with growing adoption, new use cases, and more maintainers contributing across the community. The community is also beginning the visioning process for...
View ArticleFrom 40 seconds to under 10: rebuilding incident detection on OpenTelemetry,...
Every SaaS company has the same uncomfortable question after a major incident: who noticed first, the monitoring or the customers? For a long time our honest answer was “it depends”. This post...
View ArticleThe case for a cloud native agent harness
Coding agents became useful when they stopped being a chat box. Four things changed the shape of the problem: capable tools, a shared repository and filesystem, subagents, and skills that capture what...
View ArticleSecurity Slam 2026 – Fall edition
Security Slam 2026 – Fall Edition is a 30-day virtual event from October 5 through November 6, 2026. What Is the Security Slam? The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is partnering with the...
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