The Cloud Native Technology Community, part of the CNBPA Cloud Native Technology Practice Alliance, focuses on evangelizing cutting‑edge cloud‑native technologies and practical implementations. It shares in‑depth content, case studies, and event/meetup information on containers, Kubernetes, DevOps, Service Mesh, and other cloud‑native tech, along with updates from the CNBPA alliance.
Kubernetes 1.28 adds two alpha features—Pod Replacement Policy and per‑index backoff limits—that let batch jobs replace terminating pods more intelligently and cap retries for each indexed pod, reducing resource waste and improving reliability for machine‑learning workloads.
This article explains how to construct an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) on Kubernetes by outlining its essential components, adding default add‑on tools, establishing governance and policies, and implementing continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines to provide developers with a safe, efficient, and cost‑effective experience.
Kubernetes v1.28, codenamed Planternetes, introduces 45 enhancements—including expanded version skew support, non‑graceful node shutdown recovery, improved CRD validation, beta ValidatingAdmissionPolicies, hybrid version proxy, and many features promoted to stable—while also deprecating and removing several older components, and provides download and community resources for adoption.
Aeraki Mesh 1.4.0 (codename Heshun) released on August 13, 2023 adds Istio 1.18.x compatibility, removes Envoy Dubbo/Thrift filters, introduces extensive changelog updates, lists contributors from major tech firms, and provides reference links to the official site and GitHub repository.
This article explains why container security is critical, outlines common threats such as image vulnerabilities, runtime escapes, network isolation, compliance, and orphaned containers, and shows how DevSecOps practices and automation tools can protect the entire container lifecycle.
The 2022‑2023 CNBPA survey of 399 central and state‑owned enterprises reveals that despite tightened IT budgets, cloud‑native technologies—especially integrated full‑stack platforms, dual‑stack IT architectures, and platform engineering—remain top investment priorities driving digital transformation across multiple industry sectors.
This whitepaper explains how the shift to cloud‑native development reshapes security, analyzes the challenges of moving from perimeter‑based models to label‑driven protection, and offers practical recommendations for embedding security across development, distribution, deployment, and runtime stages.
Kubeflow is an open‑source, CNCF‑incubated project that provides a Kubernetes‑native MLOps platform integrating notebooks, training operators, AutoML (Katib), pipelines, and model serving (KServe) to streamline the development, deployment, and scaling of machine learning models across diverse frameworks.
This article explains how to achieve zero‑trust security in Kubernetes by using a service mesh such as Linkerd, covering workload identity, mTLS, certificate management, policy definition with CRDs, and the practical limitations of mesh‑based protection.
The 2023 Fairwinds Kubernetes benchmark, analyzing over 150,000 workloads, reveals that many organizations still miss critical best‑practice configurations such as memory limits, liveness probes, proper image pull policies, replica counts, and CPU limits or requests, leading to increased security risks, uncontrolled cloud costs, and reduced reliability.
