Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.
Survey Surfaces Myriad Kubernetes Networking Challenges
New survey data shows Kubernetes networking complexity rising, with teams struggling across observability, egress, multi-cluster security, and tool sprawl—highlighting the growing need for platform engineering and unified networking approaches ...
Open Source KServe AI Inference Platform Becomes CNCF Project
The CNCF adopts KServe to strengthen cloud-native AI inference on Kubernetes as platforms like Red Hat OpenShift AI expand model-as-a-service capabilities ...
Google Extends Kubernetes Service to Safely Run Agentic AI Workloads
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Google unveiled major GKE upgrades — including an AI sandbox, inference gateway, pod snapshots, and 130,000-node clusters — to optimize and secure agentic AI workloads ...
CNCF Launches Initiative to Update Helm Package Manager
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation unveils Helm 4.0 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025, introducing WebAssembly-based extensibility, improved APIs, Go-based logging, and server-side apply for Kubernetes environments ...
Layer5 Debuts Enterprise Edition of Meshery for Configuring Kubernetes
Layer5 today revealed it has made available Kanvas, an enterprise grade distribution of the open source Meshery framework for declaratively managing Kubernetes environments. Announced at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 ...
Red Hat Adds Bevy of Updates to OpenShift Platform
Red Hat today revealed it has made a series of updates to its OpenShift application development and deployment platform, including adding support for a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to make data ...
CNCF Adds Program to Standardize AI Workloads on Kubernetes Clusters
CNCF introduces the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to standardize AI and ML workload deployment, ensuring interoperability and sovereign cloud compliance ...
CNCF: Total Number of Cloud Native Developers Reaches 15.6M
CNCF’s latest report finds 15.6M developers skilled in cloud-native tech, with Kubernetes and container use dipping even as AI/ML and backend adoption expand ...
Buoyant to Add MCP Support to Linkerd Service Mesh
Buoyant has announced it plans to add support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the open source Linkerd service mesh for Kubernetes clusters. Company CEO William Morgan said that capability will ...
Devtron Adds AI Agents to SRE Platform for Kubernetes Environments
Devtron today revealed it has added artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its open source platform for automating site reliability engineering (SRE) workflows across Kubernetes environments. Announced at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North ...
