Cloud Native Now

1 week ago | cloudnativenow.com | Alan Shimel

Mirantis Inc., a 25-year leader in cloud computing, is on a mission to revolutionize how organizations leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-native technologies. With its innovative new platform, k0rdent, it aims to provide the tools and frameworks businesses need to thrive in the new AI environment. At KubeCon 2025, Mirantis’s CEO and co-founder Alex Friedland and CTO Sean Omar spoke about how Mirantis and k0rdent can help shape the future of open-source AI development.

1 week ago | cloudnativenow.com | Mike Vizard

Docker Inc. this week added an ability to make it possible for application developers using its tools to build cloud-native applications to run large language models (LLMs) on their local machines. Available in beta, Docker Model Runner achieves that by embedding an AI inference engine into Docker Desktop using an open source llama.cpp library to make the LLM available locally using the OpenAI application programming interface (API). As a result, no extra tools or setup is required.

2 weeks ago | cloudnativenow.com | Mike Vizard

A survey of 433 IT professionals published this week by OpenLogic, an arm of Perforce, finds that 95% are using open source software, with 40% using cloud and container technologies. Among those IT professionals, 59% are using Docker, while 39% are using Kubernetes, the survey finds. More than a quarter (26%) report that usage of open source software increased substantially in the last year.

2 weeks ago | cloudnativenow.com | Mike Vizard

Grafana Labs has extended the reach of a Fleet Management platform for centralizing the management of telemetry data collectors to add support for Kubernetes environments. In addition, an update to Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart 2.0 now makes it possible to collect telemetry data using Grafana Alloy, an open-source data collector, and open-source tools such as Node Exporter, OpenCost and Kepler.

2 weeks ago | cloudnativenow.com | Mike Vizard

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 conference, announced that a major upgrade to the open source Argo continuous delivery (CD) platform for Kubernetes environments will become generally available next month.