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When Kubernetes restarts your pod — And when it doesn’t
A production internals guide verified against Kubernetes 1.35 GACompanion repository: github.com/opscart/k8s-pod-restart-mechanics The terminology problem Engineers say “the pod restarted” when they mean four different things. Getting this wrong leads to flawed runbooks and bad on-call decisions....
March 17, 2026 | Shamsher Khan, Project Maintainer
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Deploying, maintaining, and migrating production n8n on EKS
n8n is easy to try and harder to run under production traffic. A single container with SQLite works great for a quick demo. Production is a different story entirely. You need workers, webhook processors, PostgreSQL, Redis,...
October 16, 2026 | Husne Ozmen, Fairwinds
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Putting Nepal on the CNCF Golden Kubestronaut map
In this blog, I will share my Golden Kubestronaut journey, how I became the first and youngest Golden Kubestronaut from Nepal, what motivated me to pursue this path, and what it actually takes to earn the...
October 16, 2026 | Anish Bista (First CNCF Golden Kubestronaut from Nepal)
Carbon as a first-class signal: Bringing software carbon intensity to OpenTelemetry
At Observability Summit Europe 2026 in Prague, I presented a keynote titled Carbon as a First-Class Signal: Designing a Standard for OpenTelemetry. The talk explored how Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) could become part of cloud-native observability...
October 15, 2026 | Diana Todea - CNCF Ambassador, Kepler maintainer, OpenTelemetry Documentation approver and Romanian Localization maintainer
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Extending Kubernetes policy enforcement to runtime security for AI workloads
Nirmata created Kyverno and donated it to the CNCF in 2020. Kyverno is now a graduated CNCF project and is widely used for enforcing and automating configuration security and best practices. However, admission control answers one...
October 15, 2026 | Nirmata
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From zero to agent builder: Running kagent on your laptop
If you have seen a demo of a no-code agent builder, you know the moment. Someone types one sentence, waits a minute, and there it is: a new agent, running, with tools. It is impressive. For...
October 12, 2026 | Antonio Berben(Solo.io) and Felipe Vicens(Telefónica)
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Join Platform Engineering Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI and cloud native technologies, platform teams are being asked to solve a growing set of challenges. How can developers access new capabilities such as AI safely and efficiently? How...
October 9, 2026 | Paula Kennedy, Stacey Potter, and Ramiro Berrelleza, Platform Engineering Day
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Making the Golden Kubestronaut a little more golden
When I became a Golden Kubestronaut, I wanted to celebrate the achievement in a way that felt lasting. Like most technical achievements, certifications usually live digitally. You receive the badge, update your profile, and eventually move...
October 9, 2026 | Eman Omar | Golden Kubestronaut
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Who owns NIS2 and DORA on a Kubernetes platform team
There is a meeting that repeats across a lot of European engineering organizations right now. Someone from legal or risk brings a NIS2 control, a DORA article, or a “can we evidence this” request into the...
October 9, 2026 | Matteo Bisi, Reevo
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Don’t give AI agents root. Make them propose the next system state.
The uncomfortable question In the past few months, I’ve been hearing different versions of the same question: under what conditions can we safely allow an autonomous system to operate a machine? It comes up when my...
October 8, 2026 | Mauro Morales | CNCF Ambassador
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CiliumCon is back at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
Mark your calendars. On Monday, November 9, CilliumCon kicks off at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Salt Lake City. It’s the eighth time the event has run, and this year’s agenda goes straight at the...
October 7, 2026 | Joe Stringer, Isovalent at Cisco & Jordan Rife, Google
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BackstageCon comes to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City
BackstageCon takes place all day on Monday, November 9, 2026, the day before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America opens in Salt Lake City. We’re excited to bring together Backstage adopters, contributors, and maintainers to share how...
October 7, 2026 | BackstageCon
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Kubernetes on Edge Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
Kubernetes on Edge Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 on November 9 in Salt Lake City, Utah, bringing together developers and adopters from across the cloud native ecosystem to share experiences and insights...
October 7, 2026 | Mars Toktonaliev and Katerina Arzhayev, Kubernetes on Edge Day
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Meshery becomes a CNCF Incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Meshery as a CNCF incubating project. Meshery is used by organizations spanning aerospace, telecommunications, networking, and enterprise software as a single cloud native management plane that gives...
October 7, 2026 | CNCF Staff
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The 2026-2028 CNCF ambassador cohort
This year we accepted 58 new ambassadors and said goodbye to 48. All ambassadors have given their spare time to the ecosystem in one way or another, whether they are contributing to a CNCF project, preparing...
October 6, 2026 | Audra Montenegro, Community & Outreach | CNCF
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Kubelet watches inodes. Just not until it’s an emergency.
A worker node pages with NodeFilesystemFilesFillingUp. It’s on course to run out of inodes. You check the disk first, because that’s what everyone checks first, and it reads 83% used: 103G used, 22G available. Then you...
October 5, 2026 | Onkar Raghunath Shelke. SRE. CNCF/LFX mentor across four KubeStellar mentorship projects (2025 Terms 2 and 3). GSoC 2026 contributor with Red Hat, on JBoss Web Server tooling. CKA, RHCSA, AWS SAA. Pune, India.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Join the cloud native community at OpenTofu Day
Most of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon assumes the cluster already exists. OpenTofu Day covers everything that has to be provisioned before and around it: cloud accounts, networking, managed services, and the clusters themselves. On November 9, OpenTofu...
October 2, 2026 | Sebastian Stadil, OpenTofu
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: From user to contributor to maintainer
You do not need “maintainer” in your job title to start following the maintainer journey at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026. You might be an SRE who has spent years operating a CNCF project in...
October 1, 2026 | epower
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your infrastructure engineer journey
Infrastructure engineers sit at one of the busiest intersections in cloud native. Kubernetes clusters need to scale. Networks need to connect them. Storage needs to follow workloads. Platforms need to make infrastructure usable. Security needs to...
October 1, 2026 | CNCF Marketing Team
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your application developer journey
Cloud native development increasingly means thinking beyond the application itself. How will it be built? How will it be deployed? How much infrastructure should developers need to understand? Where should platforms remove complexity? And what changes...
October 1, 2026 | CNCF Marketing Team
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Build your SRE journey
If your day starts with questions about reliability, performance, observability, incidents, scaling, or what is going to break next, there is no shortage of places to spend your time at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026....
October 1, 2026 | epower