Financial services organizations can now run PCI DSS workloads on shared-tenancy Amazon EKS without dedicated hosts - here's how to architect compliant Kubernetes infrastructure while balancing cost, security, and scalability.
Six key takeaways from Amsterdam show cloud-native has moved decisively from experimentation to execution - with AI workloads, data sovereignty, and platform engineering dominating the conversation.
Kubernetes v1.36 arrives late April 2026 with notable deprecations including Ingress NGINX retirement, API removals, and exciting new enhancements across storage, security, and networking.
Kubernetes 1.36 preview shows DRA hardware maintenance support and Linux User Namespaces graduating to GA for April 2026 release.
The Kubernetes Gateway API migration tool hits 1.0, offering a GA path off legacy Ingress for WordPress hosts and modern cluster operators.
SIG Network releases official migration tool with 30 plus annotation support and integration testing.
Argo Rollouts graduates to General Availability, bringing stable APIs and production-ready progressive delivery capabilities for Kubernetes deployments.
Kubernetes v1.30 brings Dynamic Resource Allocation to GA, improved Pod Security Standards, and enhanced memory QoS—key updates for platform engineering teams.
Kubernetes v1.30 introduces the PodLifecycleSleepAction feature, providing configurable sleep windows during pod termination to prevent dropped connections and request failures.
The CNCF introduces ModelPack, an open standard for packaging and managing AI model artifacts in container registries, bridging the gap between ML pipelines and Kubernetes operations.
Kubescape 4.0 delivers enterprise-grade runtime threat detection GA, AI-native security features, and posture scanning for agentic workloads.
Higress joins CNCF Sandbox, offering unified Ingress Controller and AI gateway capabilities built on Envoy and Istio for enterprise workloads.
AWS EKS introduces session policies for Pod Identity, enabling fine-grained IAM permission scoping without creating additional IAM roles.
Production AI workloads increasingly rely on Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies for orchestration, GPU scheduling, and scalable infrastructure management.
From Open Source contributions to Azure Service updates, Microsoft made significant waves at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam.
Learn how to migrate from Ingress-NGINX to Gateway API using the stable 1.0 release of Ingress2Gateway, featuring support for over 30 annotations and comprehensive integration testing.
Microsoft's new Argo CD extension for AKS and Azure Arc-enabled clusters brings enterprise identity management, Azure Linux hardening, and zero-trust authentication to GitOps workflows.
Microsoft and Isovalent bring transparent workload-level mutual TLS to AKS without sidecars, application changes, or service mesh complexity.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has unveiled the CARE Program (Certification Advancement & Recertification Experience), a significant restructuring of its certification renewal policy that addresses long-standing…
Grafana has released the OpenLIT Operator, a Kubernetes-native solution for monitoring AI workloads without requiring code changes. The integration with Grafana Clouds AI Observability suite promises…
