A practical way for platform teams to use AI for faster Kubernetes triage without giving agents unsafe control of the cluster. The first time an AI tool gets real cluster context, the excitement comes with a little unease. On one hand, Kubernetes troubleshooting is a perfect candidate for help. A

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Enterprise AI is settling onto the cloud native stack, and the strongest evidence is not a vendor roadmap. It is what the ecosystem has already standardized.

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KYAML gives Kubernetes developers a stricter, more predictable YAML dialect designed to reduce configuration errors, ambiguity, indentation problems and unexpected type coercion.

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RapidFort this week revealed it has integrated its container vulnerability remediation platform with the cloud security platform provided by CrowdStrike. Announced at the Fal.Con 2026 event hosted by CrowdStrike, the integration enables RapidFort to ingest vulnerability and software bill of materials (SBOM) data from Falcon Cloud Security that can then

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The container is not disappearing. But as autonomous agents generate code, install packages and invoke tools, cloud-native infrastructure is placing a VM-grade security boundary around it.

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DataAgent emerged from stealth today with $10 million in pre-seed funding and an agentic AI platform designed to fix production problems inside Kubernetes environments without waiting for a site reliability engineer to intervene. The company describes its software as a remediation-first platform that acts as an autonomous SRE for Kubernetes

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Like many of its fellow projects in the open source community, Kubernetes has seen an increase in pull requests, many of which are no doubt generated by AI.  This week’s release of Kubernetes, version 1.37, nicknamed Garhwal, received the most API reviews in the project’s history, a total of 118

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The standard process of building governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs has been straightforward: define a control, document a control, test the control on a regular basis, and generate a report for the auditor 1-2 times a year. This worked in the context where the IT infrastructure was changing slowly,

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Echo today revealed it has acquired technology assets from Minimus, a provider of hardened open source container images, that earlier this week revealed it is shutting down. Those assets will later be incorporated into a rival offering from Echo, which also provides hardened virtual machines, open source libraries, serverless functions,

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Secure AKS north-south traffic with Application Gateway, WAF and AGIC, combining Layer 7 protection, end-to-end TLS, private back ends and strong ingress visibility.

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