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

The Missing Control Plane in Cloud-Native Supply Chains

Explore how an artifact access plane can improve Kubernetes platform performance, scalability, and security by standardizing how artifacts are governed and delivered, aligning with CNCF ecosystem initiatives ...

Adrian Herrera | March 4, 2026 | artifact access plane, artifact decentralization, artifact firewall, artifact flow optimization, artifact governance, cloud infrastructure, cloud-native platforms, CNCF ecosystem, developer velocity, devops, GitOps, kubernetes, OCI artifacts, platform resilience., software supply chain, Virtual Registry

SRE, autoscaling, Tailscale, Kubernetes, argo cd, Kubernetes v1.33, AI, Nelm, Kubernetes, architecture, , architecture, Rackspace, GPUs, Kubernetes, Solo.io Kubernetes cloud foundry keptn cloud-native automation

The Efficiency Era: How Kubernetes v1.35 Finally Solves the “Restart” Headache

Kubernetes v1.35 introduces in-place resource resizing, revolutionizing how stateful workloads are managed. Discover the benefits of dynamic resource allocation, traffic distribution, and the improvements that enhance operational efficiency for platform engineers ...

Pavan Madduri | March 3, 2026 | AI/ML workloads, cloud costs, Dynamic Resource Allocation, efficiency era, FinOps, immutability, Kubernetes architecture, Kubernetes enhancements, Kubernetes v1.35, Openshift, operational efficiency, resource resizing, self-healing infrastructure, Stateful Workloads, system performance, traffic distribution, vertical scaling

From PagerDuty to ‘Agentic Ops’: The Rise of Self-Healing Kubernetes

Explore how the role of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) is transforming with Agentic Ops, integrating technologies like eBPF, LLMs, and Kubernetes Operators to shift problem-solving from humans to intelligent systems ...

Pavan Madduri | February 27, 2026 | 3 A.M. PagerDuty, Agentic Ops, AI in DevOps, Automated Ops, cloud cost optimization, devops, eBPF, incident management, Kubernetes operators, LLMs, observability, policy as code, predictive scaling, root cause analysis, Site Reliability Engineer, SRE, System Automation, Technology Evolution

Hybrid Cloud at Enterprise Scale: Private Kubernetes for Portability and Control

Private Kubernetes is the missing abstraction layer for enterprise hybrid cloud. Learn how a private Kubernetes platform enables portability, security, governance, and freedom from vendor lock-in across on-prem, private cloud, and public ...

Scaling a Financial Reconciliation Pipeline With Serverless

An event-driven reconciliation pipeline on AWS ran into Lambda timeouts and DynamoDB hot partition keys when batch sizes grew. Learn how a hybrid Step Functions pattern (Lambda for small files, ECS Fargate ...

metrics, agents, ai, cloud-native, cloud native, project, istio, ambient, architecture, modules, cloud native, CCoE Kubernetes Virtana CrowdStrike cloud native

The Rise of Context-Aware Platforms in Cloud-Native Engineering

Context-aware platforms are reshaping cloud-native engineering by unifying metadata, governance and delivery signals to boost developer flow and operational intelligence ...

Arul Watson | February 20, 2026 | cloud-native architecture, context-aware platforms, delivery automation, kubernetes, platform engineering

Building an Enterprise-Ready AKS Cluster: Architecture, Networking and Security Baselines

Running Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in enterprise environments requires more than just creating a cluster. This guide details the essential architecture, networking, security measures, and observability practices necessary for deploying robust AKS ...

Olaitan Falolu | February 12, 2026 | AKS, AKS networking, AKS security, Azure Kubernetes Service, cloud infrastructure, enterprise AKS deployment, governance, hybrid cloud security, Kubernetes architecture, observability

Kubernetes Architecture Made Simple: A School Analogy

This beginner-friendly guide uses a school analogy to simplify Kubernetes architecture, explaining the roles of the Control Plane (administration) and Worker Nodes (classrooms) in orchestrating containerized applications. By likening components to familiar ...

Karthi Palanisamy | February 10, 2026 | API server, beginner guide, cloud-native applications, container orchestration, container runtime, control plane, Controller Manager, Kube-Proxy, Kubelet, Kubernetes architecture, pods, Scheduler, school analogy, Worker Nodes

CNCF, cloud native, NVIDIA, AI, Peritus microservices

Build and Orchestrate Agents Using Docker cagent

Docker's cagent is a new open-source framework that simplifies the deployment of AI agents, allowing users to create everything from basic Hello World agents to complex multi-agent workflows using a declarative YAML ...

Siri Varma Vegiraju | February 10, 2026 | agent capabilities, AI agents, AI applications, automated workflows, composable workflows, deployment, Docker cagent, GraphQL, lightweight agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), multi-agent processing, open-source framework, rapid development, technical integration, vendor-agnostic stack, YAML configuration

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Web Bot Authentication: Securing AI Agents in Cloud-Native Environments

The rise of AI agents in cloud-native environments poses significant security challenges, creating difficulty in distinguishing legitimate automation from malicious bots. Web Bot Authentication (WBA) offers a cryptographic solution, using asymmetric cryptography ...