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Neutrality is quietly the hardest part of open source. It gets tricky the moment someone pays your salary — and staying honest about it takes more effort than anyone admits. Here’s something we don’t say out...
Neutrality is quietly the hardest part of open source. It gets tricky the moment someone pays your salary — and staying honest about it takes more effort than anyone admits. Here’s something we don’t say out...
There is something surreal about your first KubeCon being one where you walk onto the stage as a speaker. Most people ease into this community by attending a few conferences, lurking in hallway tracks, and working...
Why we did this at all For most of the last decade our metrics pipeline ran on gostatsd, the open-source StatsD implementation we maintain. It primarily did two jobs: as sidecar on every host and the...
Managing infrastructure secrets on Kubernetes needs a backend that is self-healing and free of vendor lock-in, and that is exactly what OpenBao (the Linux Foundation’s open-source fork of HashiCorp Vault) and CloudNativePG give you: an entirely...
On July 18, 2026, we held the third edition of Kubernetes Community Days Lima at UTEC in Barranco. By now, we have already sent the Transparency Report to the CNCF, thanked our sponsors, and processed the...
Cilium 1.20, the second major open source Cilium release of 2026 after Cilium 1.19, is finally here. Three themes stand out in this release: Thank you to every contributor, reviewer and maintainer who made Cilium 1.20...
This November, the cloud native community is heading to Salt Lake City. From November 9–12, 2026, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America will bring together adopters and technologists from across open source and cloud native communities for...
AI workloads are changing what platform teams need from infrastructure. Provisioning GPUs and standing up a cluster no longer makes a platform “AI-ready.” Once training spans more than one node, the bottlenecks show up in places...
Scope This document describes three failure scenarios that separate having backups from being able to recover, and the guidance that follows from each. Every scenario is reproducible on a laptop from the lab repository above, and...