Eleven minutes, zero humans: Building a self-healing Kubernetes upgrade pipeline on Kairos
Once upon a time, upgrading a Kubernetes control plane meant staying awake for it. SSH into every node. Run the upgrade by hand. Watch etcd health the whole time, hoping quorum holds through every reboot. This…
Flagship event returns November 9–12 with sessions on production AI, platform engineering and cloud native security Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud…
Shadow AI in CI/CD: Threat-modeling the path from developer laptop to Kubernetes
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of daily software delivery, often before it becomes part of the security architecture. That gap has a name: Shadow AI. It is any AI tool, model, agent, extension, or integration used…
New architecture reduced AI container image pull times by 60x while automating workflows for next-generation driver assistance systems Key Highlights YOKOHAMA – KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON JAPAN — July 29, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation®…
Challenge Developing AI models for next-generation EyeSight depends on fast, reproducible iterations of training and inference. Engineers continuously process large volumes of image data, train models, generate artifacts, and execute inference workloads to improve AI model…
How a vector database platform eliminated manual operations and cut costs by 40% The organization operated their infrastructure with manual processes on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As the platform scaled to support enterprise AI/ML workloads, the…
Why your agent needs access to your documentation
What 1,192 agent conversations taught us about knowledge base search A few months ago we shipped an agent inside our own product. It lives in our web app and lets users ask questions about their deployment,…
(re)introducing kpt: Your toolchain for infrastructure automation
What is kpt? The opening tagline of the kpt documentation describes it as “… a package-centric toolchain that enables a WYSIWYG configuration authoring, automation, and delivery experience, which simplifies managing Kubernetes platforms and KRM-driven infrastructure at…
In March, I gave a talk at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam. After the session, the same questions kept coming up on the CNCF Slack and in person: why build agentic AI on cloud…
From data residency to digital sovereignty: Architectural patterns for cloud native platforms
Over the past two years, digital sovereignty has evolved from a policy discussion into a practical platform engineering concern. The EU Data Act has been fully applicable since January 11, 2025. NIS-2 and DORA already shape…