How Japan’s 250% Training Surge is Shaping Global AI Talent
The first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan took place in Tokyo in June 2025 and kicked off a cloud native skills boom in the region. In the twelve months since the conference, Kubernetes exams taken in Japan…
Kubeflow unveils new cloud native innovations to supercharge AI
The Kubeflow news coming out of Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 highlights several significant advancements and community initiatives. The Kubeflow project is rapidly advancing toward CNCF Graduation, emphasizing its evolution into a mature, production-ready ML ecosystem….
CNCF Announces Schedule for Debut Observability Summit Europe
Summit gathers practitioners, contributors and engineers to advance open observability standards and practices Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2026—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the…
OpenTelemetry has graduated… Now what?
In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status! It now stands proudly alongside amazing open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to name just a few. It’s been a long journey, and we’re very…
My LFX mentorship journey with kgateway
Open source has been a defining part of my career for many years. As an engineer working in the cloud native ecosystem, I have spent the last five years building and contributing to technologies around Kubernetes,…
Launch of the AI Infra SIG under the CNCF Japan chapter: First meetup and call for speakers
Japanese article follows English one. As we all know, AI is advancing from generative AI to agents, driving growing demand for scalable, efficient infrastructure. Kubernetes and the broader Cloud Native ecosystem are becoming increasingly critical foundations…
Sustaining OpenTelemetry: What a 10-week contributor cohort actually looks like
A follow-up to our earlier post: “Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from Dependency Management to Stewardship” *** In April 2026, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the OpenTelemetry (OTel) project, and Bloomberg’s Open Source Program Office came together…
The future of AI is community driven and open
Kubernetes has become the de facto operating system for AI. In CNCF’s 2025 Annual Cloud Native Survey, 82% of container users now run Kubernetes in production, and 66% of organizations hosting generative AI use it to…
Challenge For more than ten years, HDFC Bank’s payments infrastructure reliably supported the organization’s growing digital banking ecosystem. However, the rapid acceleration of digital payment adoption and the emergence of real-time financial services created new requirements…
Confidential Containers becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Confidential Containers as a CNCF incubating project. About Confidential Containers Confidential Containers addresses the need to protect data in use within cloud native environments. While data…