Cloud native is now AI-native: Engineering production-ready AI
… What is the cloud native community doing to refactor Kubernetes for AI? …
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What is the cloud native community doing to refactor Kubernetes for AI?
Engineers across the ecosystem are collaborating on key initiatives to evolve Kubernetes for high-performance compute without creating inflexible architectures. These efforts include: Pod Groups (Workload API): This initiative treats sets of pods as single failure domains, ensuring the proximity and reliability necessary for large-scale AI matrix initialization. Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA): DRA integrates specialized chips and GPUs into the Kubernetes scheduler to manage hardware nuances and enable efficient AI training and serving. Inference Gateways: These utilize Gateway API standar
Cloud native is now AI-native: Engineering production-ready AIFrom public static void main to Golden Kubestronaut: The Art of unlearning
… And show up in the community. The CNCF community is one of the most genuinely open technical ecosystems I’ve encountered. …
Telemetry that matters: Designing sustainable, high-impact observability pipelines
Posted on June 22, 2026 by Diana Todea - DevRel Engineer at VictoriaMetrics and Cloud Native Days Romania community organizer, Laura Luttmer - Principal Product Manager at Bindplane Dynatrace , Antonio Jimenez Martinez - Tech Lead Software Engineer at Cisco ThousandEyes As system architectures grow… …
A decade of governance: Cloud Custodian at 10 and its role in the agentic AI era
… Next steps for the community To celebrate this milestone and explore how Cloud Custodian is adapting to the latest industry shifts, we encourage the community to engage with the following resources: Read the full announcement : An Open Source Project Turns 10 and Finds Itself Tailor-Made for the Ag… …
Kubernetes for platform teams: Leveraging k0s and k0rdent
… Both projects are open source, actively maintained, and genuinely community-driven. …
How Jaeger is evolving to trace AI agents with OpenTelemetry
… The OpenTelemetry community is currently drafting specifications to standardize telemetry for these highly dynamic workflows. …
Microcks becomes a CNCF incubating project
… The next chapter, including intelligent mocking for AI agents, MCP protocol support, and making contract testing a first-class citizen in every CI/CD pipeline, is one we’re excited to write alongside the community.” — Yacine Kheddache , Maintainer and Community Lead, Microcks Support from the TOC T… …
The tools are ready. So why are most cloud native teams still running three observability stacks?
… What this means for the cloud native observability community Taken together, the data points to a few areas where community investment may have the clearest downstream impact on the practitioners who actually depend on these projects. …
Breaking free of a single datacenter: Practical geo-distributed AI operations with the k0smos platforms
… As geographic sites enter and exit favorable energy windows, the active resource fabric constantly shifts. …
Why Kubernetes policy enforcement happens too late—and what to do about it
… The CNCF community has already demonstrated that cloud-native governance is a solvable problem at scale. What AI agents bring to the table is not a new enforcement paradigm, but a smarter, more developer-friendly interface to the policies and knowledge the community has already built.