InfoQ Homepage Kubernetes Content on InfoQ
-
CircleCI Makes Machine Runner Orchestrator Generally Available
CircleCI has made its Machine Runner Orchestrator 1.0.0 generally available, providing automated scaling of self-hosted machine runner virtual machines according to CI workload demand.
-
OpenTelemetry Makes Kubernetes Attributes Processor Stable as Observability Schema Matures
OpenTelemetry has promoted its Kubernetes Attributes Processor to v1.0.0, marking a significant step in making Kubernetes telemetry more predictable and stable across observability pipelines.
-
Istio 1.31 Adds Agentgateway Waypoints and Moves Release Artifacts off Google Cloud
Istio 1.31 adds agentgateway waypoints in ambient mode, with a canary configuration fix included in 1.31.1. It also ends the publication of images and Helm charts to Google Cloud, requiring repository migration ahead of the 13 October outage test and signing-key updates for teams verifying images.
-
Kubernetes Teams Get a Safer Way to See Their Own GPU Metrics
Adobe engineers have described an open-source approach for giving teams self-service access to their own Prometheus metrics in multi-tenant Kubernetes environments, without exposing the shared metrics of other teams.
-
Uber Separates Scaling Intent from Execution on Kubernetes Platform
Uber has published a detailed account of its new ServiceScale controller, which allows multiple orchestrators to safely manage the scaling of the same Kubernetes workloads. The blog post, written by senior software engineers Egor Grishechko and Srikar Paruchuru, describes how the company separated scaling intent from execution to support regional failover without carrying reserved idle capacity.
-
GKE Pod Snapshots Cut Model Load Times, and Move the Work to Snapshot Lifecycle Management
Google has published benchmarks for GKE Pod snapshots, reporting up to 89% lower startup latency and a 70B model loading in 37 seconds. The feature checkpoints CPU and GPU memory through gVisor into Cloud Storage. Practitioners have asked whether invalidation is the harder problem, since snapshots match on a spec hash, machine series, and kernel and driver versions.
-
Building a Collaborative Platform Culture in a Bank
A platform is a collaboration system, not infrastructure. Culture follows structure: platform teams can build open support sessions, create super user awards for contributing developers, and establish shared open standards to grow an engineering mindset. Developers and product teams depend on a platform team, which in turn depends on application teams; to go forward, they need shared standards.
-
Beyond Kubernetes at Modal: How to Scale 1 Million Concurrent Sandboxes in Seconds
In a recent article, Colin Weld and Connor Adams, staff engineers at Modal, describe how they rebuilt their sandbox infrastructure from the ground up to support millions of concurrent sandboxes and tens of thousands of sandbox creations per second.
-
Elastic Beanstalk Adds Cluster Mode, Running Applications on Shared EKS Clusters
AWS has added Cluster Mode to Elastic Beanstalk, running applications on EKS clusters the service creates and operates. Clusters are assigned by subnet set and cannot be changed afterward, direct cluster access is service-managed, and AWS recommends separate clusters for untrusted or regulated workloads. The mode adds EKS and Auto Mode fees that EC2 discounts do not reduce.
-
Kubernetes 1.37 Released: Stable Metrics API and Rootless Kubelet in Beta
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the release of Kubernetes 1.37, named "Garhwal", emphasizing its focus on stability, security, and AI/ML workload optimization.
-
Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Project Karmada Reaches CNCF Graduation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced on September 2026 that Karmada, a multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes orchestration project, has graduated. This multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes orchestration project reached CNCF's highest maturity tier.
-
Microsoft Open-Sources TauGrid to Simplify AI Workload Management on Kubernetes
Microsoft has open-sourced TauGrid, a cloud-native platform designed to manage, schedule, and monitor AI workloads on GPU-enabled Kubernetes clusters.
-
Lyft Moves Streaming Fleet to Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator
Lyft has moved hundreds of production Flink jobs from a 2020 in-house Kubernetes operator to the Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator, unlocking last-state upgrades, in-place autoscaling and resource autotuning across the fleet.
-
Netflix Moves toward Open Source Flink Autoscaler for 30,000+ Streaming Jobs
Netflix is moving toward the open-source Apache Flink Autoscaler for more than 30,000 streaming jobs across multiple AWS regions. The operator-level approach addresses limitations of Netflix’s cluster level autoscaler for complex, stateful pipelines. Netflix reports a 58% reduction in annualized Flink compute expenditure for one team, saving approximately $1.1 million annually.
-
Kubernetes Promotes KYAML as a Safer, More Consistent Way to Work with Manifests
Kubernetes is encouraging developers to take a closer look at KYAML, a stricter dialect of YAML designed to make Kubernetes configuration more explicit, predictable, and less prone to common YAML errors.