Introduction: The Critical Role of etcd in Cloud-Native Infrastructure Imagine a cloud-native world without Kubernetes. It's hard, right? But have you ever considered the unsung hero that makes Kubernetes tick? Enter etcd, the distributed key-value store that serves as the central nervous system for Kubernetes. Etcd's ability to consistently...

For the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes, I wanted to look at the ecosystem we created together. I recently wrote about the pervasiveness and magnitude of the Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystem. This was the result of a deliberate flywheel. This is a diagram I used several years ago: Because Kubernetes runs on public clouds, private...

SPADE: Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection under Distribution Mismatch What is SPADE? Recently, we have open-sourced SPADE (Semi-supervised Pseudo-labeler Anomaly Detection with Ensembling), a semi-supervised framework for anomaly detection that overcomes some of the drawbacks of alternative anomaly detection methods. What...

Kubernetes 1.30 is now available in the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Rapid Channel less than 20 days after the OSS release! For more information about the content of Kubernetes 1.30, read the Kubernetes 1.30 Release Notes and the specific GKE 1.30 Release Notes. Control Plane Improvements We're excited to announce that ValidatingAdmissionPolicy...

AMD, Arm, AWS, Google, NVIDIA, Intel, Tesla, SambaNova, and more come together to crack the code for colossal AI workloads As AI models grow increasingly complex and compute-intensive, the need for efficient, scalable, and hardware-agnostic infrastructure has never been greater. OpenXLA is a deep learning compiler framework that makes...

We are celebrating our 20th anniversary of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and we are thrilled to announce the new 1,220 Contributors that will be writing code for 195 open source mentoring organizations starting May 27. Over the last few weeks, our mentoring organizations have read through applications, had discussions with applicants,...