Cloud Native Archives

Kubernetes Gave AI Agents a Place to Run, But Not a Way to Recover

Kubernetes can restart AI agents, but restoring a sandbox isn't enough. Discover why durable execution is essential for preventing duplicate actions and preserving agent state ...

Mark Fussell | November 9, 2026 | Agent Reliability, Agent Sandbox, Agent Substrate, Agentic AI, AI Governance, AI infrastructure, Cloud Native, cncf, Dapr, Durable Execution, GKE, KubeCon 2026, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, Stateful Workloads, Workflow Orchestration

Running Kubernetes at Its Extremes

Kubernetes supports up to 5,000 nodes per cluster, and SIG Scalability’s performance targets only apply inside that limit. I look at what breaks in etcd, the API server and node traffic past ...

Justin Garrison | November 9, 2026 | Cloud Native, CloudNativeCon, cluster management, control plane, DevOps, edge computing, etcd, Kubeadm, KubeCon 2026, Kubernetes, Kubernetes API Server, Kubernetes clusters, Kubernetes Performance, Kubernetes Scalability, SIG Scalability

Encoding Video on Kubernetes: What Running Media Pipelines on K8s Actually Takes

Learn how to run reliable FFmpeg and GStreamer live encoding on Kubernetes using smarter scheduling, media-aware scaling and deadline-based monitoring ...

Tural Hagverdiyev | November 9, 2026 | Cloud Native, containerization, DevOps, FFmpeg, GPU scheduling, GStreamer, KEDA, Kubernetes, Kubernetes Autoscaling, Live Video Encoding, Media Pipelines, observability, Platform Engineering, Video Streaming, Video Transcoding

Kubernetes For AI: CIQ Packages The Moving Parts Into One Binary

CIQ is taking aim at Kubernetes complexity with Stratum Kubernetes Engine (SKE), a free, open source, single-binary platform designed to simplify cluster deployment, upgrades and AI-driven operations without vendor lock-in ...

Adrian Bridgwater | November 2, 2026 | Agentic AI, AI infrastructure, Cloud Native, cluster management, DevOps, Kubernetes, Kubernetes automation, Kubernetes security, MCP, Platform Engineering

Scaling GitOps With Release Promotion

GitOps pipelines that work well across a handful of Kubernetes clusters can become risky at fleet scale. For organizations managing hundreds of clusters, faster synchronization doesn't solve the challenge of validating releases ...

Jesse Suen | October 20, 2026 | Argo CD, CI/CD, Cloud Native, DevOps, GitOps, Kubernetes, Kubernetes clusters, Kubernetes deployments, Platform Engineering

Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code in the Age of Agentic Development

Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) goes far beyond provisioning cloud resources. As Kubernetes environments evolve and AI agents take on more operational responsibilities, IaC provides a controlled, reviewable approach to managing infrastructure changes. From Kubernetes ...