ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway migration on CNCF internal services cluster
CNCF hosts a Kubernetes cluster to run some services for internal purposes (namely; codimd, GUAC, kcp). The Kubernetes Project announced the ingress-nginx retirement (not to be confused with NGINX or NGINX Ingress Controller), which also affects the above mentioned Cluster. So…
What I Learned at My First KubeCon + CloudNativeCon as a High School Speaker
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 is one of the biggest open-source conferences in the world, organized by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (part of the Linux Foundation, which manages major projects like Linux). It brings together…
TFIR: “AI Agents Fail in Production Without Workflow State Recovery | Mark Fussell, Dapr”
Dapr Agents 1.0 uses durable workflow engines to solve AI production failures. Mark Fussell explains state recovery, crash resilience, and Kubernetes deployment.
Efficiently Connected: “Dapr Agents Signals CNCF Push to Operationalize AI in Cloud Native”
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the general availability of Dapr Agents v1.0, a Python framework designed to bring production-grade reliability, security, and state management to AI agent development on Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms.
The Challenge: Fragmented tooling and compliance risk at scale The client’s platform engineering team managed a sprawling cloud-native estate with over 1,000 GitLab projects, hundreds of Kubernetes workloads, Kafka streams, Databricks and Spark jobs, and Aurora…
Challenges The organization faced vendor lock‑in and rising costs from multi‑tool sprawl and uncontrolled telemetry ingestion/retention. Hybrid visibility was limited: legacy platforms and Kubernetes estates were observed separately, dashboards proliferated, and alerting was largely reactive, generating…
Peer-to-Peer acceleration for AI model distribution with Dragonfly
The problem: AI model distribution is broken at scale Large-scale AI model distribution presents challenges in performance, efficiency, and cost. Consider a typical scenario: an ML platform team manages a Kubernetes cluster with 200 GPU nodes….
Ingress NGINX retirement: Experience from end users
During last November’s Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta there was an announcement regarding the retirement of ingress-nginx. As mentioned in the original blog post, existing deployments of Ingress NGINX will continue to function and…
TechTarget: “KubeCon EU 2026: Infrastructure catches up to AI”
AI is reshaping infrastructure demands. At KubeCon EU 2026, vendors focused on Kubernetes abstraction, GPU management and automation to move AI from pilot to production.
Forrester: “KubeCon Europe 2026: The Not-So-Unseen Engine Behind AI Innovation?”
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 made one thing clear: Kubernetes is not just adapting to support AI. It is being rebuilt to become the control plane where enterprise AI is deployed, operated, governed, and scaled.