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The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Tekton as a CNCF incubating project.  What is Tekton? Tekton is a powerful and flexible open source framework for creating continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) systems...

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Fluid as a CNCF incubating project.  What is Fluid? Kubernetes provides a data access layer through the Container Storage Interface (CSI), enabling workloads to connect to...

We are thrilled to announce that llm-d has officially been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project! As generative AI transitions from research labs to production environments, platform engineering teams are facing a...

OpenTelemetry has become the de facto standard for collecting and exporting telemetry data across cloud native systems. Its success has been driven by strong community collaboration, a clear specification, and a growing ecosystem of language-specific SDKs...

An application, composed of one or more containers as dictated by system architecture, that operates either independently or as part of a distributed collaboration—interacting with at least one other entity (container) or achieving quorum-based consensus. It...

Open source has become the foundation of modern software — but the scale and speed of today’s software supply chains are creating new security challenges. Applications depend on hundreds or thousands of components across complex environments,...

The world of AI workloads is changing fast. A few years ago, “AI on Kubernetes” mostly meant running long training jobs. Today, with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), the focus has shifted to include...

Metal3 (pronounced “metal cubed”) entered 2026 as one of the newest incubating projects in the CNCF. As the foundational layer for infrastructure management in self-hosted Kubernetes clouds, Metal3 and its ‘stack’ offer essential solutions for cloud...

The cloud native ecosystem moves fast and the professionals building it move even faster. Over the past decade, Kubernetes has grown from an underdog orchestration system into the backbone of modern infrastructure. As organizations adopt cloud...

The Agones project, the open source platform for scaling and orchestrating dedicated game servers on Kubernetes, celebrates its official transition to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Originally founded as a deep co-development between Google and...

AI-assisted development has changed the way engineers create and commit code. But writing code is no longer the bottleneck. The bottleneck is everything that happens after git push. From infrastructure provisioning, policy enforcement, day-two operations, drift,...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 is coming to Amsterdam, and Merge Forward is one of several groups bringing community, conversation, and a full lineup of sessions and events. Whether you’re a first-time attendee or a KubeCon...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam will bring the cloud native community together with projects, vendors and end users in what is one of the largest open source events. In this post, we highlight sessions...

Platform Engineering Day launched at KubeCon in Paris in spring 2024 to create space for deeper discussion on platform engineering principles, practices, and real-world experiences. Now in its fifth edition in Amsterdam, the event reflects growing...

Overview Kubernetes has fundamentally transformed how enterprises deploy and manage business workloads. As organizations build production applications at scale on Kubernetes, cluster size and complexity continue to grow—creating unprecedented challenges in ensuring cluster security, compliance, and...

Three years later, CiliumCon is back where it started—at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam. This will be our seventh time hosting the event, and it comes on the heels of the tenth anniversary of Cilium’s...

Kubernetes metrics show cluster activity. You need them to manage Kubernetes clusters, nodes, and applications. Without them, it also makes it harder to find problems and improve performance. This post will explain what Kubernetes metrics are,...

As Kubernetes adoption continues to accelerate across enterprise platforms and AI-driven workloads, organizations increasingly need automated guardrails for security, governance, and compliance. KyvernoCon launched in 2025 as the first event dedicated to the Kyverno community and...

A production internals guide verified against Kubernetes 1.35 GACompanion repository: github.com/opscart/k8s-pod-restart-mechanics The terminology problem Engineers say “the pod restarted” when they mean four different things. Getting this wrong leads to flawed runbooks and bad on-call decisions....

Open Sovereign Cloud Day arrives at a moment when digital sovereignty has moved from an abstract policy conversation to an urgent, practical engineering priority—especially across Europe. As cloud native continues to underpin modern infrastructure, the community...