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Lachie Evenson and Rita Zhang talk about Kubernetes AI Conformance. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts or questions in the comments! Related LinksAI Conformance Working Group: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/wg-ai-conformancehttps://github.com/cncf/ai-conformance #kubernetes #community #ai #microsoft

Lachie Evenson and Morgan Brown talk about how recent graduates and people new to tech can land their Big Tech opportunities. Morgan talks about her own journey after college. They also talk discuss an initiative that Morgan spearheads along with the CNCF foundation- trying to give back to the college students community. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts or questions in the...

Lachie Evenson and Qasim Sarfraz discuss how AI is transforming observability with Inspektor Gadget and MCP servers for Kubernetes observability. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts or questions in the comments! Related Links CNCF: https://www.cncf.io/ Inspektor Gadget GitHub repository : https://github.com/inspektor-gadget/inspektor-gadget Inspektor Gadget Headlamp plugin: ht...

Lachie Evenson and Keith Mattix talk about Istio and Service Meshes in the cloud native world. Discover how Istio's ambient mode simplifies onboarding, reduces costs, and enables organizations to scale securely and efficiently. Learn about the latest innovations in application-layer networking, including AI-driven routing, Gateway API advancements, and token-based rate limiting for LLM workloa...

Lachie Evenson and Ernest Wong discuss Kaito. KAITO is an operator that automates the AI/ML model inference or tuning workload in a Kubernetes cluster. The target models are popular open-sourced large models such as phi-4 and llama. Related LinksCNCF: https://www.cncf.io/KAITO: https://github.com/kaito-project/kaitoGet involved with KAITO: https://github.com/kaito-project/kaito?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Lachie Evenson and Jeremy discuss Dalec. Dalec is a cloud-native solution that ensures a secure software supply chain by enabling users to define declarative specifications for building system packages and container images. It combines declarative configuration, secure defaults, and automation to deliver a scalable and auditable build system for modern infrastructure. Related LinksCNCF: https://ww...

Lachie Evenson and Joe Zhou discuss Wassette, a security-oriented runtime that runs WebAssembly Components via MCP.   Related Links: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Open Container Initiative (OCI) Introduction blog post: https://aka.ms/hello-wassette GitHub repo at https://github.com/microsoft/wassette Demo video at https://aka.ms/hello-wassette-youtube #wassette channel on the Microsoft Open Source...

Lachie Evenson and Sertaç Özercan discuss how Gatekeeper, an Open Policy Agent subproject which is an admission controller for Kubernetes, helps ensure end-to-end security by default. Relevant Links:CNCF: ⁠https://cncf.io⁠Gatekeeper: https://open-policy-agent.github.io/gatekeeper/website/SBOMs: https://www.cisa.gov/sbomSLSA Framework: https://slsa.dev/Github Artifact Attestations: https://docs.git...

Lachie Evenson and Mo Khan discuss innovations in Kubernetes Auth, led by Azure team members. Topics include images, authorization and authentication, encryption and key management, and more. Relevant Links: CNCF: https://cncf.io Kubernetes SIGs: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md ContribCard: https://contribcard.cncf.io/ KubeCon: https://www.cncf.io/kubecon-cloudnativ...

Lachie Evenson and Jack Francis discuss today's approach to AI-aware Kubernetes infrastructure. Topics includeDynamic Resource Allocation, Cluster Autoscaling (Cluster Autoscaler and Karpenter), and how Kubernetes is powering the AI future. Jack Francis is a Principal Software Engineering Lead focusing on Cloud Native Ecosystem within Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) team. Reference Link...