Ten years after CNCF's founding, the ecosystem has grown to over 200 projects. From OpenTelemetry's declarative configuration milestone to Cilium's dominance in Kubernetes networking, here's what's shaping cloud native in 2026.
The latest Cilium release addresses critical L7 policy handling bugs, memory leaks, and KVStore initialization issues. Here's what platform teams need to know.
Microsoft and Isovalent bring transparent workload-level mutual TLS to AKS without sidecars, application changes, or service mesh complexity.
Cilium celebrates 10 years at KubeCon Europe with CiliumCon 2026, featuring Cilium v1.19, Tetragon security advances, and sessions on multi-cluster networking at scale.
Cilium 1.18.7 adds pragmatic improvements—safer default label handling and better Hubble Relay logging options—plus bugfixes that matter in real clusters. Here’s what to pay attention to and how to roll it out without surprises.
Gateway API keeps moving from “promising” to “practical.” Here’s how to evaluate popular implementations in 2026, focusing on operational fit, multi-tenancy, and day-2 upgrades.
ingress-nginx is heading into retirement in 2026. Here’s a practical, low-drama playbook to inventory your current usage, choose a target (Ingress controller vs Gateway API), and migrate with controlled risk.
