Staff Post
2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity
By Chris Aniszczyk By consistently tracking open source project velocity, we are able to see the trends and technologies resonating with developers and end users. We have been tracking these trends since 2017; all previous blogs...
January 29, 2025
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Kagent: Bringing Agentic AI to Cloud Native
Solving Cloud Native Operation Challenges with AI Agents Oh no! Your application is unreachable, buried under multiple connection hops—how do you pinpoint the broken link? How do you generate an alert or bug report from Prometheus...
April 15, 2025
Community Post
What LLMs can do for SREs in Cloud Native Infrastructure
Cloud native infrastructure continues to scale, and with it, so does operational overhead. Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern platforms, but as cluster sizes grow past 100 nodes and thousands of workloads, the operational load...
April 14, 2025
Community Post
Five critical shifts for Cloud Native at a Crossroads
As enterprises run ever-more-complex workloads on Kubernetes, they’re facing a new set of challenges: how to ensure security requirements are met, budgets are deployed efficiently and operational complexity is, well, not as complex. Many are finding...
April 14, 2025 | Kim McMahon, Sidero Labs
Staff Post
Welcoming new members to our Technical Advisory Board
We are thrilled to announce the addition of three esteemed industry leaders to our Technical Advisory Board (TAB): Ahmed Bebars from The New York Times, Ben Somogyi from Lockheed Martin, and Kenta Tada from Toyota. Their...
April 10, 2025
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Components vs. Containers: Fight?
WebAssembly components offer a new way to deploy microservices and other applications in cloud native environments. This naturally raises the question: is the upstart component out to replace containers? Or is this one of those situations...
April 9, 2025 | Taylor Thomas, CNCF Ambassador
Community Post
10 questions to help you decide whether to hire an SRE or managed KaaS
Deciding between managing Kubernetes in-house or partnering with a managed service provider can be a difficult choice for organizations seeking to optimize their cloud infrastructure. Over the past several years, I’ve been part of the decision...
April 9, 2025 | Mary Henry
Kubernetes hardening made easy: Running CIS Benchmarks with kube-bench
In today’s world, where security risks and breaches are growing daily, it is crucial to maintain our applications and infrastructure’s compliance with security standards and that is where CIS benchmarks from CIS (Center for Internet Security)...
April 8, 2025
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Managing multi-line logs with Fluent Bit and Python
In this blog you will learn about: Introduction Logs are essential for monitoring and debugging applications, but not all logs are created equal. While most logs follow a simple line-by-line format, others span multiple lines to...
April 8, 2025 | Sharad Regoti, CKA & CKS certified software engineer
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Iliyan Petkov
Get to know Iliyan His fascination with computers and electronics began early, sparked by his father and fueled by various games and sci-fi movies. Over the years, he developed a passion for open-source technologies, system administration,...
April 8, 2025
Staff Post
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Day Three Keynote Recap
The last day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 dawned bright and sunny again, with attendees streaming in to learn the latest about cutting edge topics including LLMs, 5G and 6G, and more. Here’s a snapshot...
April 7, 2025
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Day Two Keynote Recap
Over 12,000 attendees streamed into the ExCel Arena for the second day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, enjoying yet another sunny day in London and primed to hear real world stories of cloud innovation. Here’s...
April 3, 2025
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Day One Keynote Recap
On a bright sunny London day, attendees from all over the world flocked to the ExCel Arena for the first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025. Here’s a quick recap of the keynotes. The crowd was...
April 2, 2025
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The End User TAB’s top talks at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
If you are attending the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 conference in London, check out the CNCF End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) member recommendations for their top talk recommendations! 🙂 Ahmed Bebars: With the...
March 31, 2025
Staff Post
Get to Know KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Co-Chair Faseela K.
Faseela Kundattil is one of those people who just seems to do a lot of things: Cloud Native Developer, project maintainer, CNCF Ambassador, LFX mentor, Technical Oversight Committee member, new mom, and now KubeCon + CloudNativeCon...
March 31, 2025
Staff Post
Announcing Two New Cloud Native Heroes Challenges
Help us defeat a patent troll claiming methods for “manipulation of complex hierarchical data” and “analysis of hierarchical data” were invented in 2005. We’re excited to launch 2 additional Cloud Native Heroes Challenge contests in which...
March 31, 2025
Cedar: A new approach to policy management for Kubernetes
The challenges organizations face when managing access control and authorization in cloud-native environments continue to grow in complexity. Organizations scaling their Kubernetes deployments, for example, work to balance their security requirements, operational flexibility, and policy manageability....
March 28, 2025 | Micah Hausler, Principal Engineer at AWS
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Istio: The Highest-Performance Solution for Network Security
Ambient mode provides more encrypted throughput than any other project in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Encryption in transit is a baseline requirement for almost all Kubernetes environments today, and forms the foundation of a zero-trust security posture....
March 27, 2025 | John Howard, Solo.io
Karmada launches Adopter Group
Karmada is thrilled to announce the launch of the Adopter Group program. This program aims to create a dynamic platform where adopters can connect, collaborate, and share information efficiently. By fostering an environment of shared experiences...
March 26, 2025 | Karmada
Building secure Kubernetes Edge images with Kairos and k0s
Why combining these CNCF projects simplifies Kubernetes deployment at the edge. Edge computing is rapidly changing the landscape of application deployment, demanding solutions that are lightweight, secure, and easily managed, particularly when it comes to Kubernetes...
March 25, 2025 | William Rizzo ( Consulting Architect and CNCF Ambassador) and Mauro Morales (Open Source Staff Engineer and Kairos Maintainer)
Community Post
Reimagining log management tools and software: The impact of AI and GenAI
Today’s distributed, cloud-native systems generate logs at a high rate, making it increasingly difficult to derive actionable insights. AI and Generative AI (GenAI) technologies—particularly large language models (LLMs)— are transforming log management tools by enabling teams...
March 24, 2025