A critical CVE-2025-7342 hauntsKubernetes Image Builder v0.1.44and earlier. It shipsNutanix/OVAimages with defaultWindows Administratorcreds intact. That slip-up invites root access on Windows nodes. Linux builds and other providers dodge this bullet. Mixed clusters run hot until images rebuild or p..

Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s mid-year report drops.Kubernetescommands 3,500+ authors.OpenTelemetryrockets to 1,884 contributors, snagging second in PR velocity.Backstageclimbs to 649.Argo(860) andFlux(156) lock GitOps in place.Kubeflowbreaks into the top 30 with 302. Trend to watch:Internal ..

Benchmarks crack open the myth: VM-based Kubernetes rivals bare metal. It secures 99% throughput. It matches latency in netperf and MLPerf. Major clouds spin containers on VMs. They enforce hard resource caps, isolation, and central policy management. Bare metal shrinks to ultra-low-latency niches. ..

Amazon ECS tasks fire logs through a FireLens sidecar. Fluent Bit ships them into a shared Amazon OpenSearch Serverless domain. Cross-account IAM roles lock down access. The pipeline centralizes logs, unlocks full-text search, SQL and PPL queries, and slashes storage costs with on-demand indexing. ..

EKS Hybrid Nodes corrals on-prem and edge servers as remote Kubernetes nodes over Direct Connect or VPN. It rides onCiliumorCalico, with BGP or static routes. For local load balancing, it spins upMetalLBat Layer 2/3. For NLB/ALB sync, it taps theAWS Load Balancer Controller. Workflows stay unified...

Amazon EKS now powers IPv6 dual-stack VPC clusters. It doles out /80 prefixes via the VPC CNI flagsENABLE_V6_EGRESSandENABLE_V4_EGRESS.  AWS ships an Istio multi-cluster playbook—single-VPC to multi-VPC. It rigs remote reader secrets and east-west gateways, fusing IPv4 and IPv6 for service discovery..

Fluent Operator tapsCRDsto tameFluent Bitin Kubernetes. It channels inputs, filters, parsers, outputs into auto-generated configs. Then spins up the DaemonSet. TheFluent Bit Watcherwrapper hot-swaps configs on CRD tweaks. No pods restart...

ESG spots Tintri VMstore’sCSI driverpackingAuto-QoS,real-time I/O analyticsandpredictive tuningfor sub-ms container and VM workloads. That driver fires upinstant cloneandsnapshottest environments. It enforces policy-drivenRPO/RTOprotection. It unifies VM, container and database control. Infra shift..

ControlPlane Enterprise for Flux CD drops thed1 reference architectureandDesign 1 Reference Architecture Guide. It packs production-grade playbooks for sprawling multi-tenant, multi-cluster setups. The repo flexes real code:GitHub fine-grained Personal Access Tokens,Kubernetes RBAC, and auto-promoti..

ContainerHijack hijacksDocker Image Manifest V2 Schema 2. It taints images inDocker Hub,Amazon ECR,GCR. Scanners shrug. Signature checks buckle. Defenders deploypolicy-as-code admission controllers. They lock down Terraform ECR push policies.Falco rulesflag strange layers, ghost pushes, rogue proces..