KubeCon + 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...
View ArticleObservability Day: Where the community comes together at KubeCon +...
Observability Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America on November 9, 2026, in Salt Lake City, Utah, bringing together maintainers, operators, and end users from across the CNCF...
View ArticleWhich hat am I wearing right now?
Neutrality is quietly the hardest part of open source. It gets tricky the moment someone pays your salary — and staying honest about it takes more effort than anyone admits. Here’s something we don’t...
View ArticleFrom attendee badge to speaker badge: My first KubeCon at KubeCon +...
There is something surreal about your first KubeCon being one where you walk onto the stage as a speaker. Most people ease into this community by attending a few conferences, lurking in hallway...
View ArticleKubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Your Week in Salt Lake City
This November, the cloud native community is heading to Salt Lake City. From November 9–12, 2026, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America will bring together adopters and technologists from across open...
View ArticleOpenTelemetry everywhere: Migrating a metrics platform at scale
Why we did this at all For most of the last decade our metrics pipeline ran on gostatsd, the open-source StatsD implementation we maintain. It primarily did two jobs: as sidecar on every host and the...
View ArticleRunning OpenBao on Kubernetes with a CloudNativePG PostgreSQL backend
Managing infrastructure secrets on Kubernetes needs a backend that is self-healing and free of vendor lock-in, and that is exactly what OpenBao (the Linux Foundation’s open-source fork of HashiCorp...
View ArticleWhat I learned organizing KCD Lima 2026
On July 18, 2026, we held the third edition of Kubernetes Community Days Lima at UTEC in Barranco. By now, we have already sent the Transparency Report to the CNCF, thanked our sponsors, and processed...
View ArticleCilium 1.20: Gateway API ExternalAuth, TCPRoute/UDPRoute, ENI IPAM for IPv6,...
Cilium 1.20, the second major open source Cilium release of 2026 after Cilium 1.19, is finally here. Three themes stand out in this release: Gateway API becomes a much broader traffic management...
View ArticleBuilding a reliable cloud native foundation for distributed AI training
AI workloads are changing what platform teams need from infrastructure. Provisioning GPUs and standing up a cluster no longer makes a platform “AI-ready.” Once training spans more than one node, the...
View ArticleKubernetes disaster recovery: Guidance from three reproducible failure scenarios
Scope This document describes three failure scenarios that separate having backups from being able to recover, and the guidance that follows from each. Every scenario is reproducible on a laptop from...
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