Among the more directly cloud-native developments tabled by AWS at re:Invent 2025 in Las Vegas this month was news of updates to capabilities in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This is an “extensible set” of Kubernetes-native solutions that streamline workload orchestration, AWS cloud resource management and Kubernetes resource composition The post Amazon EKS Capabilities Drive ‘Opinionated’ Workload Orchestration and Resource Management appeared first on Cloud Native Now.

Akamai Technologies this week acquired Fermyon to add a serverless computing framework for building and deploying Web Assembly (Wasm) applications to its portfolio. Akamai and Fermyon formed an alliance earlier this year that led to the integration of the Fermyon Wasm Functions engine into Akamai cloud, networking and storage services, The post Akamai Acquires Fermyon to Further Advance Wasm Adoption appeared first on Cloud Native Now.

Alan reflects on a turbulent but triumphant year in cloud native, celebrating the CNCF and Linux Foundation’s stewardship, Kubernetes’ continued maturity, OpenTelemetry’s breakout moment, open-source collaboration, and the rise of platform engineering—while acknowledging the challenges of complexity, vendor noise, and maintainer burnout the community must confront. The post What I’m Thankful for in Cloud Native This Year: A Community That Keeps Building the Future appeared first on Cloud Native Now.

vCluster Labs has made available a reference architecture for incorporating graphical processor units (GPUs) running artificial intelligence (AI) workloads into virtual Kubernetes clusters. Company CEO Lukas Gentele said the Infrastructure Tenancy Platform for AI reference architecture will make it simpler for IT teams to deploy AI inference workloads on platforms The post vCluster Adds Virtual Kubernetes Reference Architecture for GPUs appeared first on Cloud Native Now.

New survey data shows Kubernetes networking complexity rising, with teams struggling across observability, egress, multi-cluster security, and tool sprawl—highlighting the growing need for platform engineering and unified networking approaches. The post Survey Surfaces Myriad Kubernetes Networking Challenges appeared first on Cloud Native Now.

NVIDIA is pushing deeper into the world of high-performance AI infrastructure, unveiling a Kubernetes-native abstraction called ComputeDomains that promises to simplify a major difficulty in today’s AI development: enabling secure, high-bandwidth GPU communication across multiple server nodes. ComputeDomains handles a challenge at the center of NVIDIA’s broader strategy for supporting systems such The post NVIDIA’s ComputeDomains Aims to Simplify Multi-Node NVLink for Kubernetes appeared first on Cloud Native Now.

The CNCF adopts KServe to strengthen cloud-native AI inference on Kubernetes as platforms like Red Hat OpenShift AI expand model-as-a-service capabilities. The post Open Source KServe AI Inference Platform Becomes CNCF Project appeared first on Cloud Native Now.

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, Google unveiled major GKE upgrades — including an AI sandbox, inference gateway, pod snapshots, and 130,000-node clusters — to optimize and secure agentic AI workloads. The post Google Extends Kubernetes Service to Safely Run Agentic AI Workloads appeared first on Cloud Native Now.

To the casual observer walking the polished halls of the Georgia World Congress Center this week, KubeCon North America 2025 looked every bit the unstoppable juggernaut it has always been. The sponsor boards stretched wall-to-wall. The show floor buzzed with vendors, and the queue for re-entry snaked around the building The post Cracks in KubeCon’s Invincibility Shield appeared first on Cloud Native Now.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation unveils Helm 4.0 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025, introducing WebAssembly-based extensibility, improved APIs, Go-based logging, and server-side apply for Kubernetes environments. The post CNCF Launches Initiative to Update Helm Package Manager appeared first on Cloud Native Now.