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vCluster Embraces Karpenter for Dynamic Scaling of Virtual Kubernetes Nodes
vCluster Labs today added an ability to automatically scale nodes running on a virtual Kubernetes cluster. Company CEO Lukas Gentele said the Auto Nodes capability added to the vCluster platform are enabled ...

Shimmy’s Early Look: Can’t-Miss Sessions at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
CNCF turns 10 as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 heads to Atlanta this November. With 300+ sessions on Kubernetes, AI, platform engineering, security, and observability, the event showcases the next decade ...
Alan Shimel | | AI workloads on Kubernetes, cloud native AI, cloud native events, CloudNativeCon 2025, CNCF community, DevOps conferences 2025, KubeCon 2025, KubeCon keynotes, Kubernetes conference Atlanta, Kubernetes security, multi-cluster orchestration, observability Kubernetes, platform engineering, supply chain security

Fitting Square Kubernetes Into the Round AI-Native Apps
Kubernetes tamed cloud-native workloads, but AI-native apps push its limits. Can it evolve for GPU-first, data-intensive AI — or is it time for new control planes? ...
Alan Shimel | | AI control plane, AI infrastructure, AI pipelines Kubernetes, AI-native applications, cloud-native vs AI-native, container orchestration AI, distributed training orchestration, GPU scheduling, inference at scale, internal developer platforms, Kubeflow, KubeRay, kubernetes, Kubernetes AI workloads, Kubernetes future, Kubernetes limitations, Kubernetes vs AI, platform engineering, Ray on Kubernetes, Volcano scheduler

From Observability to Actionability: Why Metrics Alone Aren’t Enough
Observability has plateaued. The next step is actionable observability—using AI, automation, and SLOs to turn telemetry into reliable outcomes ...
Alan Shimel | | actionable observability, AIOps, anomaly detection, auto-remediation, cloud native, continuous verification, devops, ELK stack, golden paths, internal developer platforms, metrics logs traces, observability, OpenTelemetry, platform engineering, SLO-driven operations, SRE, telemetry automation

Apple Buys Styra Brains, OPA Remains Open
In what may be the most Apple-esque move in recent memory—quiet, strategic, and totally on-brand—the tech giant has apparently executed an “acquihire without the acquisition” by scooping up the co-founders and core ...

The GitOps Plateau – Have We Stopped Innovating?
GitOps adoption is steady but innovation has slowed. AI-native GitOps could be the breakthrough that makes Kubernetes delivery smarter, safer, and scalable ...
Alan Shimel | | AI-native GitOps, ArgoCD GitOps, event-driven GitOps, Flux GitOps, GitOps and AI, GitOps automation, GitOps for multi-cloud, GitOps future, GitOps innovation, GitOps plateau, GitOps platform engineering, GitOps reconciliation, Kubernetes delivery, Kubernetes YAML automation, policy-as-code GitOps

CNCF Elevates Platform for Managing Bare Metal Servers Running Kubernetes
CNCF elevates Metal3.io to incubation, advancing open-source automation for managing Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal infrastructure ...
Mike Vizard | | AI workloads bare metal, Baremetal Operator BMO, cloud-native infrastructure automation, Cluster API Provider Metal3 CAPM3, CNCF incubation project, CNCF open source projects, Ericsson Metal3, Ironic framework, Kubernetes automation, Kubernetes bare metal, Kubernetes infrastructure management, Kubernetes on bare metal, Kubernetes operators, Metal3.io, Red Hat Metal3

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, ...

Arrival of Kubernetes 1.34 Simplifies Raft of Management Challenges
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for Kubernetes today released an update to the platform that adds and revises application programming interfaces (APIs) to resolve a range of performance, management and cybersecurity challenges ...

GitOps Under Fire: Resilience Lessons from GitProtect’s Mid-Year 2025 Incident Report
GitOps may power cloud-native delivery, but rising outages and breaches across GitHub, GitLab, Jira, and Azure DevOps expose just how fragile today’s pipelines really are ...
Alan Shimel | | Azure DevOps pipelines, Bitbucket reliability, CI/CD disruption, cloud-native delivery, DevOps platform outages, GitHub incidents, GitLab breach, GitOps dependencies, GitOps resilience, GitOps security, GitProtect report 2025, internal developer platforms, Jira downtime, Kubernetes GitOps, platform engineering, resilience engineering, self-healing infrastructure, SRE practices, supply chain stability, zero-trust DevOps