Joab Jackson has been covering the IT and computing space since the birth of the Internet. He has first-handedly reported on the dotcom boom-and-bust, XML, Web services, cloud computing, REST and JSON, big data, containerization and cloud native computing. Now, he is interested in what AI can, and can not, actually do. He has written for IDG News Service (Computerworld, PC World, Infoworld) and has held editing roles for Government Computer News, The New Stack, and The National Technology Center.
Kubernetes v1.37 Enhances Dynamic Resource Allocation
Like many of its fellow projects in the open source community, Kubernetes has seen an increase in pull requests, many of which are no doubt generated by AI. This week’s release of ...
Red Hat Readies an MCP Server to Help LLMs Manage Kubernetes
Red Hat is building an open source MCP server extension to help developers and administrators manage Kubernetes and Red Hat’s own OpenShift Kubernetes distribution. The extension can help AI assistants like Visual ...
Docker Desktop Gets a Hypervisor of its Own
Docker is bringing full backend parity across all of its Docker Desktop editions, ensuring that macOS, Windows, and (eventually) Linux users get the same performance and polish. The company unveiled a new ...
Kubernetes Key Management Streamlined by HashiCorp Vault Plug-In
IBM HashiCorp has released a plug-in that allows Kubernetes clusters to use HashiCorp’s Vault Enterprise as an external key management service (KMS), eliminating the need to store unencrypted passwords or bog Kubernetes ...
Rust Rewrite Readies Kata Containers for Agent Sandboxing
The OpenInfra Foundation has released version 4 of Kata Containers, which arrives with a new Rust-based default runtime that brings new memory safety and performance gains. With the Rust rewrite, the Foundation ...
AWS Stretches Elastic Kubernetes Service to Full Private Networking
While setting up AWS’s managed Kubernetes service, many security administrators probably realized that true Zero Trust security wouldn’t be possible if outbound K8s traffic still must flow over the AWS backbone to ...
Google OpenRL Tames AI Model Tuning, Kubernetes-Style
Google has created OpenRL to manage the fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) in much the same way its Kubernetes container orchestrator streamlines the management of containers. An open source project from ...
Kubernetes Builds a Sandbox CRD for AI Agents
The Kubernetes community has launched a new project to make a home for AI agents. The Agent Sandbox project, under development by SIG Apps, is a lightweight, single-container VM environment built on ...
Netflix Found a Faster Way to Load Containers
The initial appeal with containers was hardware-agnosticism. What runs on your machine runs on production, as long as both ran on x86 CPUs. This interoperability is a big factor in scalability of ...
Cost Control for Kubernetes: Monitor, Right-Size, Govern
As Kubernetes moves from testbeds to production, managers are getting sticker shock from the bills a K8s deployment can incur. Whether hosted in-house or on a cloud provider, who knew cloud nativity ...
