A report published this week by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) estimates there are now nearly 20 million cloud native application developers, representing 39% of the worldwide developer community. Revealed at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference, the estimate of the total size of the cloud-native application developer community
Kubernetes 1.36 launches April 22, 2026, marking a major shift in networking as Ingress-Nginx retires in favor of the more scalable Gateway API. Key updates include bolstered Linux User Namespaces for better isolation and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) enhancements for hardware maintenance. Additionally, manifest-based admission control and OCI artifact mounting aim to boost cluster security.
RapidFort and Nutanix have partnered to integrate automated supply chain security into the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). This collaboration enables enterprises to deploy hardened, near-zero CVE container images at scale, accelerating compliance and reducing the attack surface for demanding AI, generative AI, and cloud-native workloads across hybrid environments.
Sidecarless service mesh architectures like Istio Ambient Mode are reducing complexity and reigniting enterprise adoption in 2026.
There was a time when compliance meant a quarterly ritual. Someone from security would walk over with a spreadsheet, ask a few questions, tick a few boxes and disappear until the next audit cycle. The infrastructure team would scramble to prove that yes, encryption was enabled, and no, that S3 bucket was not public anymore. Everyone felt relieved, […] [...]
The supply chain attack that compromised Aqua Security’s Trivy open source security vulnerability scanner and its associated GitHub Actions earlier this month continues to expand, with software development tools from Checkmarx and LiteLLM being the latest victims of the sophisticated campaign. The threat group behind it, TeamPCP, is using the attacks to create persistence and […] [...]
Akuity this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference revealed it has added an ability to customize the steps used to promote applications into a production environment using a Kargo orchestration engine it developed to manage software using a GitOps workflow. Company CEO Hong Wang said the Custom Steps capability added to Kargo will […] [...]
