The mentorship flywheel: How CNCF is growing the next generation of cloud native leaders
A record year for mentorship, 187 graduates contributing to the ecosystem, and one engineer’s journey from “I didn’t know about Docker” to Kyverno maintainer. In 2025, the CNCF mentorship programs hit a milestone: 187 successful mentorship…
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Solution: Turning compliance challenges Into a secure, scalable network As regulatory requirements tightened, UW–Madison needed a network layer that could deliver fine-grained control without sacrificing performance. The team migrated from Calico to Cilium, gaining an eBPF-powered…
Code-level telemetry instrumentation: From “oh hell no” to “worth it”
A platform engineer’s guide to developer buy-in Originally published on the author’s personal blog, whitneylee.com As platform engineers, we want the holistic system insights that instrumented code can give us – yes, please. With code-level insights…
ESnet (Energy Sciences Network)
ESnet, the Energy Sciences Network, serves as the data circulatory system for the U.S. Department of Energy, operating a high-performance research network backbone out of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that interconnects 17 national laboratories and…
Cybozu Boosts Performance with Cilium on Bare Metal Cybozu is a Japanese software company known for its customizable low code/no code workflow platform Kintone, which lets teams manage data, tasks, and communication in one central place….
A blueprint for zero-trust AI on Kubernetes
LLMs and AI are everywhere these days. Everyone wants to build the next big thing, ship it fast, and maybe even cash out and chill for the rest of their lives. The problem? Most open source…
Highlights Finding a Seamless Solution in Cilium Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software, offering a unified platform to run applications and manage data across on-premises data centers, public clouds, and edge. Its managed Kubernetes…
Exploring cloud native projects in sandbox: 13 arrivals from 2024 H2
Originally posted on the Palark blog. This article covers the second half of the new Open Source projects accepted to the CNCF Sandbox last year. They were added as a result of the CNCF TOC (Technical…
KCD Mexico 2025: A Celebration of Innovation and Collaboration
On Saturday, March 29, Guadalajara transformed into the hub of cloud-native technology with the grand celebration of Kubernetes Community Day 2025. This remarkable event gathered over 200 professionals, enthusiasts, and experts in Kubernetes and cloud computing,…
Hello everyone! I’m Andrey Kvapil, CEO of Ænix and developer of Cozystack – an open-source platform and framework for building cloud infrastructure. In this article, I want to share my perspective on how modern cloud patterns…