Where is cloud native heading in 2026?
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Where is cloud native heading in 2026?
Take 15 minutes to share your production stack, tooling choices, and daily technical challenges in our annual survey.
For Dania Ahmed, attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is about bringing real-world insights back home.
Connect with the global community at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America to level up your team.
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The cloud native community is gathering soon to define the next era of AI infrastructure. You should be in the room.
Join the builders shaping our ecosystem at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: https://bit.ly/4hTugux
From scaling multi-cluster deployments to refining progressive delivery, ArgoCon North America 2026 focuses on practical patterns as the project moves toward CD 4.0.
Join us at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026!
Help shape the future of cloud native by sharing how your team deploys containers, Kubernetes, and open source tools in production.
Take the 2026 Cloud Native Annual Survey today to help guide ecosystem decisions.
The KCD Budapest agenda is up: two tracks, 20 speakers, October 30 at Óbuda University.
Workload identity over API keys, Karpenter, serving LLMs on Kubernetes, a 3,000-node AI platform, OTel Collectors in production, Kamaji and CAPI, and more.
From operating thousands of production Kubernetes clusters on Cilium to contributing upstream to Harbor, OVHcloud is expanding its community work.
Today, we welcome OVHcloud as a CNCF Platinum Member to shape open AI and cloud native standards.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4y8Epsf
GPUs are too expensive to leave sitting idle.
Scaling AI models isn't just a hardware challenge, it's a workload orchestration challenge. Projects like Kueue and Volcano are tackling GPU scaling head on.
Register for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA today: https://bit.ly/4hTugux
With a 350% increase in code commits in the past year and over 7,000 contributors, Meshery has officially advanced to CNCF incubation.
@mesheryio.bsky.social provides a unified cloud native management plane for Kubernetes infrastructure and lifecycle control.
What brings engineers together year after year? Kubestronaut Mahendran Selvakumar shares how knowledge sharing between contributors, organizers, and maintainers shapes the ecosystem at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America.
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Handling $180B+ in annual payments while staying compliant with strict regulations isn't easy.
Join us next Wednesday, Oct 14 for a #CloudNative Live fireside chat with Razorpay and Nirmata on using #Kyverno for continuous, automated security policies in production. 🛠️️
https://bit.ly/3VAdjwC
Internal Developer Platforms are evolving fast.
If you're tasked with integrating AI into your platform workflows, Platform Engineering Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is for you.
Join the community in Salt Lake City to share what works: https://bit.ly/4hTugux
1.5 million students check into school every morning.
By using automated capacity management on Kubernetes, Minga reduced cloud compute costs by 30 to 40 percent while handling massive traffic spikes.
Read the case study: https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/minga/
How do you connect with the global cloud native community?
CNCF Ambassador Wendy Ha shares what KubeCon + CloudNativeCon means to her, from production use cases to global connections.
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Mocking APIs early keeps production deployments predictable. Great to see the Microcks community making #opensource contract testing and #API workflows easier for #cloudnative builders 🛠️
If you could give a first-time attendee one piece of advice before they attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026, what would it be?
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58 new CNCF Ambassadors are joining the 2026–2028 cohort, 123 were reaccepted, and 131 are continuing their terms! 📊
These folks run KCDs, build #opensource tools, and translate the Cloud Native Glossary.
Read more about the process and other metrics: https://bit.ly/3Ts584V
By building an internal developer platform on Backstage, InfosysIT reduced provisioning lead time by 80 to 90% across 1,000+ cloud accounts.
Developers now access approved cloud and AI services in minutes with governance built in by default.
How are teams scaling telemetry pipelines for AI?
Observability Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 on Nov 9.
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Nothing replaces face-to-face learning when solving production challenges. Haleema Khan shares how connecting directly with community experts at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon accelerates real-world technical growth.
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