Nathan Eddy, Author at Cloud Native Now

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AI Agents Power Cloud-Native Transformation

AI agents are redefining cloud-native development by embedding intelligence into DevOps workflows — optimizing pipelines, automating debugging, and accelerating release cycles. Experts like Promevo CTO John Pettit explain how these autonomous systems ...

Nathan Eddy | October 30, 2025 | AI agents, AI code reviewer, AI in DevOps, AI in software engineering, AI observability, AI-powered debugging, autonomous systems, CI/CD optimization, cloud infrastructure management, cloud-native transformation, DevOps automation, intelligent automation, platform engineering, shift left security, software delivery lifecycle (SDLC)

Kubernetes or Chaos: The Risks of Running AI Workloads Without Orchestration

When AI environments aren’t orchestrated, the result is GPU waste, job starvation, dependency conflicts, and runaway cloud bills. It’s like running a data center without a traffic controller—everything eventually collides. Most organizations ...

Nathan Eddy | October 17, 2025 | AI Workloads, gpu, kubernetes, orchestration

Why Docker Matters for Data Science

Docker containers make data science projects portable and reliable, eliminating version conflicts and missing libraries and making it easy for teams to share and run data science projects in the exact same ...

Nathan Eddy | October 17, 2025 | data science, docker, ML, VMs

runtime, visibility, Chainguard, threat, cloud-native security, Venafi, security, sigstore, KubeCon, cloud-native, security, secure, Rubrik, Kubernetes, Cloud-Native Security Best Practices

CNCF, Docker Partnership Streamlines Container Security, Operations

CNCF and Docker partner to boost open source projects with security, scalability and trusted container delivery through Docker’s DSOS program ...

Nathan Eddy | September 25, 2025 | cloud native security, CNCF Docker partnership, CNCF projects Kubernetes Prometheus Envoy OpenTelemetry, container image provenance, container registry scalability, container security, DevSecOps open source, Docker Hub trusted images, Docker Hub usage insights, Docker Scout vulnerability scanning, Docker Sponsored Open Source, DSOS program, open source maintainers, open source software supply chain security

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Why Dapr is the Productivity Boost Every Cloud-Native Team Needs

A new CNCF survey shows 96% of developers using Dapr report faster development cycles, with many citing 30%+ productivity gains. Adoption of the open-source runtime is accelerating as enterprises expand AI-driven applications, ...

Nathan Eddy | August 29, 2025 | cloud native runtime, CNCF Dapr survey, Dapr adoption 2025, Dapr Agents, Dapr AI workloads, Dapr developer productivity, Dapr large language model API, Dapr multi-cloud strategy, distributed application runtime, microservices development

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CNCF Cloud-Native Frameworks Accelerate AI Readiness

Scaling AI safely means going cloud native — using CNCF tools to keep workloads portable, secure, and under your control ...

Nathan Eddy | August 11, 2025 | cloud native, cncf, containers, kubernetes, LLMs

contact, center, Tellus, cloud, environments, private clouds, TFD, Nuon, SaaS

Gaia-X Tellus Enables Automated Network Access for Cloud Environments

The Gaia-X Project Tellus has completed its implementation phase, delivering a fully automated prototype for interconnecting cloud environments across multiple providers. ...

Nathan Eddy | January 30, 2025 | cloud environments, hybrid, multicloud

TLS, certificates, Docker, vulnerabilities, supply chain, KubeCon, SigStore, Kubernetes TrapX container security

Container Adoption Comes with Risks for Software Supply Chain

Multiple critical vulnerabilities and risks have been found lurking within some of the most commonly downloaded Docker Hub container images. The NetRise study examined 70 randomly selected images from the top 250 ...

Nathan Eddy | December 11, 2024 | containers, docker, software supply chains

Kubernetes Environments Grow in Complexity, Challenging Ops Teams

As Kubernetes becomes increasingly complex, operations (Ops) teams are finding it challenging to manage their clusters effectively ...

Nathan Eddy | November 15, 2023 | cloud-native architecture, edge computing, high availability, kubernetes, Kubernetes at the edge

Overprovisioning of Containerized Applications Adds to Cloud Costs

Organizations are struggling with cloud cost management for Kubernetes, with the inability to scale back once application demand drops as one of the major drivers of wasted cloud spending. This was one ...

Nathan Eddy | December 16, 2022 | cloud cost management, kubernetes, Kubernetes management, provisioning