Topic: kubecon
Will Kubernetes Become the Standard for AI Workloads?
The answer, of course, is that it depends. But the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced some major steps forward toward this goal at the KubeCom Europe conference last week in Amsterdam. This was the biggest KubeCon ever with about 13,500 attendees, representing an 8% growth over last year, reflecting CNCF’s extraordinary success in establishing … continue reading
Why Gateway API Is the Front Door for AI Workloads
The AI boom is reshaping application architectures. Large Language Model (LLM) inference has fundamentally altered the requirements of the Kubernetes networking stack. Kubernetes is now the default environment for scheduling GPU-accelerated workloads, but the last mile of delivery — connecting a user request to the optimal model instance — is increasingly a bottleneck. Traditional ingress … continue reading
KubeCon 2025: CNCF to Standardize AI Workloads
Ten years after standardizing Kubernetes, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced at KubeCon 2025 NA in Atlanta that they are working to standardize AI workloads on Kubernetes, with the goal of achieving broad industry adoption of the standard. Announced on November 11 the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program creates open, community-defined standards for running … continue reading
KubeCon Roundup: Day 2
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America continues on in Atlanta, and during the second day of the event, a number of new announcements were made. Here are some of the highlights: NVIDIA Grove improves inference scaling on Kubernetes NVIDIA announced the release of NVIDIA Grove, an open-source API for running modern ML inference workloads on Kubernetes … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe Day 2: k0s and k0smotron join CNCF Sandbox, New Relic announces eAPM, and Valkey 8.1 released
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, taking place in London, continues on through its second day, bringing with it a number of new announcements from companies in the cloud-native space. Here are a couple of highlights from day 2 of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. k0s and k0smotron join CNCF Sandbox Mirantis announced that its open source projects … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe Day 1: Argo CD v3 pre-release, Golden Kubestronaut program, Red Hat Developer Hub 1.5, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe kicked off today in London, bringing together professionals in the Kubernetes space for a week of informative talks and networking opportunities. A number of companies in the Kubernetes space have announced updates at the event, along with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) itself, the organization that maintains Kubernetes and hosts … continue reading
What’s new from KubeCon + Cloud Native Con North America 2024
KubeCon + Cloud Native Con is happening this week in Salt Lake City, UT, bringing together the Kubernetes community in one location, and providing the opportunity for companies in the space to launch new offerings and update their products. We’ve collected the news announcements from those companies all in one place so you can stay … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kong Gateway Operator
Earlier this week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024, Kong announced it would be open sourcing the Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) with the latest release, 1.2. With this release, all the previously released features of KGO are now open source, and new features were also added, such as managed gateways, HPA-based gateway autoscaling, and AI … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024: Istio 1.22, profiling support in OpenTelemetry, wasmCloud 1.0, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 is taking place from today until Friday in Paris, France. The event is an annual gathering of Kubernetes operators that is put on by the CNCF and Linux Foundation. The CNCF has announced updates to some of its projects, and a number of vendors also released new things at the … continue reading
8 reasons why Crossplane is the ideal engine for internal developer platforms
Crossplane is a Kubernetes-native framework that allows organizations to manage anything using a consistent API and runtime, making it an ideal foundation for Internal Development Platforms (IDPs). Organizations typically run a complex mix of cloud and on-premise resources like databases, virtual machines and network policies. IT teams must support multiple platforms to provision and manage … continue reading
KubeCon Day 2: NGINX Gateway Fabric Version 1.0, Chronosphere Lens, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America began yesterday in Chicago, IL. Like always, the event results in a number of different Kubernetes vendors making announcements about updates to their offerings. Yesterday resulted in a number of announcements, which you can read about here, and here are a few highlights of what was announced today: NGINX Gateway … continue reading
KubeCon: GKE Enterprise gets release date, Mezmo adds data profiling feature, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America just kicked off this morning in Chicago, IL. Like always, the event results in a number of different Kubernetes vendors making announcements about updates to their offerings. Here are a few highlights: GKE Enterprise will be available November 15 GKE Enterprise is the premium version of Google Cloud’s Kubernetes service. … continue reading
