Kubernetes, the container management solution originally open sourced by Google GOOGL +1.04%, is deemed ready for mainstream use as it reaches version 1 today. Alongside this software versioning milestone, Google is joining a host of familiar…

Kubernetes, the open-source container management tool Google launched last February, hit version 1.0 today. With this update, Google now considers Kubernetes ready for production. What’s more important, though, Google is also ceding control over Kubernetes and…

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…

In this episode of ChatLoopBackOff, CNCF Ambassador Henrik Rexed explores Koordinator, a CNCF project focused on improving workload scheduling and resource efficiency in Kubernetes environments.Koordinator extends Kubernetes scheduling with more fine-grained control over resource usage, helping…

The Challenge: Resource fragmentation As Xiaohongshu’s business grew rapidly, its infrastructure demands quickly outpaced the capacity of individual Kubernetes clusters. Both self-built data centers and managed Kubernetes services (TKE/ACK) from cloud vendors have cluster size limits…

Observability Day has become a cornerstone gathering for the cloud native observability community. The event evolved from FluentCon at KubeCon Europe 2022 in Valencia and Open Observability Day at KubeCon North America 2022, bringing together maintainers…

When the Kubernetes community announced the retirement of ingress-nginx, confusion rippled across deployments worldwide. Many practitioners didn’t realize there was still an actively maintained, NGINX-based option available, and some even thought NGINX itself was going away….

Have you ever heard of CNCF’s DevStats? It is a tool that tracks and quantifies all contribution activities within CNCF projects by pulling data from GitHub. Using this data, we can analyze ongoing development in CNCF…

Third annual India event to spotlight AI, observability, platform engineering and more MUMBAI, India, 11 March, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the conference…

As platform engineering teams look to operationalize AI, the challenge isn’t replacing Kubernetes control planes; it’s extending them safely. In this Cloud Native Live session, we’ll show how Crossplane 2.0 provides a strong foundation for AI-assisted…