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Introducing CNCF User Groups: Long-lived homes for End User collaboration | CNCF

The CNCF End User Community is launching its User Group Program at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. These are long-lived…
Posted on November 11, 2026 by CNCF Staff & Technical Advisory Board (TAB) The CNCF End User Community is launching…
These are long-lived groups, each built around an industry vertical or problem domain…

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Platform engineering needs to become more human…and less | CNCF

Even my family thinks I’m a little robotic. Logical, linear, sequential, methodical. But hey, I’m an engineer…
Posted on November 11, 2026 by Alejandro Chirinos, Control Plane Even my family thinks I’m a little robotic.
Logical, linear, sequential, methodical.

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CloudNativePG becomes a CNCF Incubating Project | CNCF

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept CloudNativePG as a CNCF incubating project. CloudNativePG is an open source…
Posted on November 10, 2026 by CloudNativePG Maintainers The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept CloudNativePG…
CloudNativePG is an open source Kubernetes operator that manages the full lifecycle of highly available PostgreSQL clusters.

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Donating KubeRay to CNCF | CNCF

The PARK stack (PyTorch, AI models, Ray, and Kubernetes) is emerging as the de facto open source standard for production…
Posted on November 10, 2026 by Andrew Sy Kim, Edward Oakes, Kai-Hsun Chen, Jui-An Huang, Richard Liaw, Robert Nishihara…
Within that stack, KubeRay has become the bridge connecting scalable AI applications built on Ray with the compute orchestration…

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Istio Enables Global Availability for All Workloads — Traditional, Agentic and Beyond | CNCF

AI agent deployment alongside traditional cloud native applications is rising…
Posted on November 10, 2026 by Mitch Connors…
Platform operators need consistent security, visibility and control without introducing additional operational overhead.

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Jaeger Previews AI-Assisted Troubleshooting and GenAI Observability for OpenTelemetry Traces at KubeCon | CNCF

New experimental capabilities bring natural-language troubleshooting, native MCP tools and GenAI-aware trace visualization to Jaeger As AI applications move…
New experimental capabilities bring natural-language troubleshooting, native MCP tools and GenAI-aware trace visualization to Jaeger As AI applications move into…
Traditional applications already generate traces containing hundreds or thousands of spans…

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Open Cluster Management (OCM) becomes a CNCF Incubating Project | CNCF

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Open Cluster Management as a CNCF incubating project. Open Cluster Management…
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Open Cluster Management as a CNCF incubating project .
Open Cluster Management is an open source project that simplifies the management of Kubernetes clusters across cloud, on-premises…

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Welcoming OpenShell to the CNCF: Open Governance to Secure Agentic AI | CNCF

Today at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) welcomes OpenShell as a Sandbox project.
Posted on November 10, 2026 by Jonathan Bryce (CNCF), Ali Golshan (NVIDIA) Today at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America…
NVIDIA has contributed OpenShell, an open source runtime for securing and governing autonomous AI agents, to the foundation’s community-led home.

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One flag, many guardrails: Making a platform safe enough to delegate | CNCF

This post draws on a talk co-presented with Julien Semaan of Kubex at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026…
Posted on November 10, 2026 by Corey McGalliard…
The answer has nothing to do with agents.

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New research: Virtual machines remain central to cloud native infrastructure as AI workloads evolve | CNCF

A Linux Foundation Research study, sponsored by CNCF and Broadcom, explores how organizations are using virtual machines alongside containers…
Posted on November 9, 2026 by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Broadcom A Linux Foundation Research study…
Cloud native infrastructure continues to evolve as organizations support an increasingly diverse mix of applications and workloads.

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Run Linux applications in hypervisor-isolated micro-VMs with Hyperlight | CNCF

More and more cloud native systems run code nobody on the team wrote…
Posted on November 9, 2026 by Danilo Chiarlone…
Each of them needs a boundary between that code and everything else on the host.

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Lima v2.3: Native on Windows, VMnet on Linux, and menu TUI | CNCF

Back in July with v2.2, we added support for Windows guests. On November 6…
Back in July with v2.2 , we added support for Windows guests.
On November 6, we shipped v2.3 of Lima and now it runs without extra dependencies on Windows…

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We organized Sustainability Month. Here’s what we learned. 🌱 | CNCF

What do Kubernetes resource allocation, eBPF, carbon observability, and GPUs have in common? Quite a lot…
Posted on November 7, 2026 by Elif Samedin - CNCF Ambassador | Diana Todea - CNCF Ambassador, Kepler maintainer…
Especially when you start looking at them through the lens of environmental sustainability.

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Faster LLM inference startup: What you need to know | CNCF

Adding an inference replica creates capacity only after the new instance can serve requests. Between starting a process and generating…
Between starting a process and generating a response, an LLM server may need to load weights, initialize GPU resources…
Restarts, model switches, and scale-out can repeat this work.

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kpt v1.0.0 is released | CNCF

After many years and much development, the kpt community has released v1.0.0 of the kpt toolchain. This is a big…
This is a big step in maturing the kpt project after having it in pre-release status for several years.
In the last twelve months the community has focused on stabilising the APIs…

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OpenShell on Kubernetes: A guide for platform engineers | CNCF

AI agents do more than call APIs. They run shells, install packages, read files…
Posted on November 4, 2026 by Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata AI agents do more than call APIs.
They run shells, install packages, read files, and open network connections.

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OpenKruise Agents v0.6.0: Leaping ahead in agent Sandbox security and automation | CNCF

OpenKruise Agents is a sub-project of OpenKruise, the CNCF open-source application automation and workload orchestration project. It provides full lifecycle…
Posted on November 3, 2026 by Zhen Zhang, OpenKruise Maintainer OpenKruise Agents is a sub-project of OpenKruise…
It provides full lifecycle management for Agent Sandboxes running at scale on Kubernetes…

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The Linkerd Story: The People Behind The Service Mesh — A new documentary premieres at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 | CNCF

Join CNCF and Buoyant on November 9 in Salt Lake City for the premiere of a new documentary celebrating…
Join CNCF and Buoyant on November 9 in Salt Lake City for the premiere of a new documentary celebrating…
Behind the code are people with ideas, challenges to overcome, decisions to make…

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026: End User TAB recommendations and tips | CNCF

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026 in Salt Lake City will bring the cloud native community together with projects…
Posted on October 29, 2026 by Ricardo Rocha…
In this post, we highlight content specifically targeted at end users and session recommendations from members of the CNCF End…

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The boundary problem in agentic AI is a platform problem | CNCF

An autonomous agent will do exactly what its tools let it do…
Posted on October 29, 2026 by William Rizzo (Field CTO, Kairos Maintainer…
In practice it is the whole risk, because the set of things an agent’s tools let it do is almost…

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Volcano v1.16 Released: NamespaceQueue, fairshare, and a broader HyperNode ecosystem | CNCF

Volcano v1.16.0 is available . v1.16.0 introduces NamespaceQueue and the fairshare plugin. Tenants can use hierarchical queues within their own…
v1.16.0 introduces NamespaceQueue and the fairshare plugin.
Tenants can use hierarchical queues within their own namespaces to organize quotas and queue hierarchies within administrator-authorized resource pools.

cncf.io17d ago

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Over 500 Golden Kubestronauts: The evolving standard for cloud native mastery | CNCF

Since launching the Kubestronaut program at KubeCon Paris in 2024, the community has grown faster than expected. Today…
Today, more than 570 professionals have reached an even higher bar: Golden Kubestronaut status.
Becoming a standard Kubestronaut is already a solid achievement, requiring all five core Kubernetes certifications (KCNA, KCSA, CKA, CKAD…

cncf.io18d ago

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