Cloud-Native Platforms
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 ...
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 ...
Adrian Bridgwater | | agentgateway, AI infrastructure, AI Workloads, Ambient Multi-cluster, cloud native, cncf, data plane, Gateway API Inference Extension, generative AI, Istio, KubeCon 2026, kubernetes, microservices, Node Proxy, observability, platform engineering, service mesh, Sidecar-less Mesh, traffic management, Waypoint Proxy
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 ...
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 ...
Adrian Bridgwater | | admission control config, CloudNativeCon, cluster security, container isolation, Deployment Stability, DRA, Dynamic Resource Allocation, EKS, fat image anti-pattern, gateway API, ingress-nginx retirement, Karpenter, KubeCon Europe, Kubernetes 1.36, Linux user namespaces, LLM weights, manifest-based admission control, OCI artifacts, platform engineering, security patches, specialized hardware, taints and tolerations, upgrade risk, VolumeSource, WatchCache
Why IDPs are the Only Way to Scale Kubernetes Beyond Experts
Kubernetes is the default control plane for infrastructure but poses challenges for developers managing its complexities. Internal developer platforms (IDPs) are emerging to create abstraction layers, reducing operational burdens through standardized APIs ...
Nathan Eddy | | application teams, control plane, DORA metrics, feature development, golden paths, infrastructure operations, infrastructure orchestration, internal developer platforms, kubernetes, operational complexity, platform engineering, productivity, scalability, self-service, service catalogs
Promotion Across Kubernetes and Hybrid Environments
In 2026, multi- and hybrid environments are increasingly the norm. For platform engineering, DevOps and application developers, this adds complexity to the software delivery lifecycle. For cloud-native teams, Kubernetes may anchor application ...
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 ...
Red Hat Makes Available Supported Version of Podman Desktop Tool for Containers
Red Hat this week made available an enterprise-supported version of the open source Podman tool it created for developing, managing and running containers. James Labocki, senior director of product management for Red ...
Kubernetes and IPv6: Together at Last?
As administrators migrate their clusters from Ingress NGINX, which is being retired from the Kubernetes line-up next month, they might want to consider adding another task to their job: migrating their network ...
SUSE Allies with evroc for European Cloud Service Based on Kubernetes
SUSE today revealed it has allied with evroc to provide a sovereign cloud based on its Kubernetes platform that in the first quarter of 2026 will be hosted in Europe by a ...

