Cloud-Native Platforms Archives

Azure Linux 4.0 Signals Microsoft’s Commitment to Open Source AI Infrastructure

Microsoft is widening its Linux strategy as AI infrastructure drives Azure’s growth, announcing Azure Linux 4.0 alongside the general availability of Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit North America 2026. For ...

James Maguire | May 19, 2026 | AI infrastructure, Azure Linux 4.0, linux, microsoft, open source

Kubernetes Was the Easy Part

Kubernetes was hard. Nobody who lived through the early container years should pretend otherwise. The industry had to learn a new operating model, a new control plane, a new vocabulary and a ...

Alan Shimel | May 18, 2026 | AI, cloud native, kubernetes, Linux Foundation, MCPCon

Red Hat Delivers On-Premises Cost Telemetry to Meet Data Sovereignty Demands

Data sovereignty has become a big deal, and Red Hat is striving to show that an American company can provide trustworthy data management to its non-US customers. ATLANTA — At the Red ...

Steven Vaughan-Nichols | May 15, 2026 | Cost Telemetry, Data Sovereignty, On-prem, red hat

Red Hat Expands OpenShift Application Development Environment

Red Hat this week added a bevy of additional capabilities to its OpenShift platform, including adding support for live migration of virtual machines and making generally available a set of hardened container ...

Mike Vizard | May 14, 2026 | application development, CI/CD, kubernetes, Openshift, red hat, Red Hat Summit

Pedal to Bare-Metal Kubernetes, Nutanix Forges NKP Metal

Nutanix extends its Cloud Platform to bare-metal infrastructure with NKP Metal. Learn how dual-native architecture simplifies Kubernetes for AI and edge workloads without sacrificing the Nutanix operating model ...

Adrian Bridgwater | April 8, 2026 | AI infrastructure, B-MK8S, bare-metal Kubernetes, Cloud Native AOS, container storage interface, Dual-Native Architecture, edge computing, GPU workloads, HCI, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes lifecycle management, Nutanix AHV, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, Nutanix NKP Metal

Red Hat and Google Cloud Align on Unified Platform Strategy

Red Hat has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud, introducing tighter integration of its OpenShift platform and new virtualization capabilities aimed at easing enterprise cloud migration. Red Hat’s move caters to the growing ...

James Maguire | March 30, 2026 | cloud, Google Cloud, Openshift, red hat

Edera Adds Rust Library to Run Container Images on Hardened Runtime Faster

Edera this week revealed at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference that it has developed a Rust library, dubbed ocirender, that assembles container images based on the Open Container Image (OCI) format ...

Mike Vizard | March 27, 2026 | containers, Edera, oci, Rust

Istio Weaves ‘Future-Ready’ Service Mesh for AI

At KubeCon + CNC 2026, Istio unveils Ambient Multicluster and the Gateway API Inference Extension to simplify AI infrastructure. Learn how sidecar-less mesh and agentgateway secure agentic workloads and boost deployment velocity ...

KubeCon, cloud native, ai, cloud-native,

Pod Requests Are the Input to Every Kubernetes Cost Control Loop

Pod CPU and memory requests drive Kubernetes scheduling, autoscaling and cost allocation. Learn why rightsizing them improves cost control ...

Rafael Brito | March 17, 2026 | cloud native, Cost Optimization, FinOps, kubernetes, platform engineering

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What to Expect From Kubernetes 1.36

Kubernetes 1.36 launches April 22, 2026, marking a major shift in networking as Ingress-Nginx retires in favor of the more scalable Gateway API. Key updates include bolstered Linux User Namespaces for better ...