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OpenShift vs managed Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) for regulated workloads
For teams in financial services, government or healthcare: which did you choose and what tipped it: compliance evidence, support, cost or skills?
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Evaluating Containers & Kubernetes this quarter? This page brings together what changed, which companies are most active, what practitioners are asking and how to build a shortlist.
Kubernetes distributions, cluster management, networking and security, and the migration paths from virtual machines to containers.
What changed recently
Start with the news. These are the Containers & Kubernetes stories getting the most attention right now, so you know what has shifted before you talk to anyone.
Containers & KubernetesWhy it matters
Bringing enterprise Linux to the robotics frontier: ROS2 adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a tier-1 supported platform
The convergence of enterprise IT and physical computing is accelerating. As artificial intelligence transitions from purely digital environments into autonomous systems, industrial automation, and smart edge devices, the software foundation behind these systems must be as resilient as the physical machines themselves.To power this next generation of intelligent systems, we’re pleased that Red Hat…
Why it matters, from the Techarda editors: Tier-1 support means robotics and edge teams can standardise on the enterprise Linux, patching and support model they already run in the data centre. That’s one less bespoke stack to secure.
Containers & KubernetesHow-to
Best practices guide for customizing Gemini models via Reinforcement Learning (RL)
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a keystone of modern LLM post-training, but it demands large training clusters and access to model internals that external customers can't have with proprietary models like Gemini. So here at Google Cloud, we packaged it into a managed RL fine-tuning service (RLFT service) — you bring prompts and a reward function; we handle the infrastructure and the…
Containers & KubernetesWhy it matters
Breaking the AI productivity paradox: an intelligent migration factory to modernize infrastructure and applications
The rise of generative AI promised a silver bullet, but for most enterprises, especially banks, digital transformation remains a slow, complex, and costly endeavor. Early reports suggested massive developer productivity gains. But when AI is applied to complex enterprise systems, organizations often collide with what we call the AI productivity paradox.According to a Stanford software engineering…
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AI Reliability Engineering for Dependable Humans | Solo.io
Learn AI reliability engineering (AIRE): how AI agents help SRE and platform teams triage incidents faster and stay dependable.
Containers & Kubernetes
Unlock 3x QPS and microsecond latency with Memorystore for Valkey 9.1
At Google Cloud, we are committed to delivering the best managed experience backed by open source software. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Memorystore for Valkey 9.1 , which achieves up to 3x queries per second (QPS) at microsecond latency compared to Memorystore for Redis Cluster. Our support for Valkey dates back to 2024 , when Redis Inc. shifted its licensing away from the…
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Storage Intelligence advisor: Know what changed in your storage estate and act on it
The volume of data being generated today brings both opportunity and massive operational complexity. Most teams that operate at scale don't discover issues until they appear on an invoice — and by the time an unusual access pattern shows up as a line item, it has often been running for weeks. Understanding what happened means exporting inventory, joining it against access logs, and hoping someone…
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What’s new with Google Cloud
Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources . aside_block <ListValue: []> Sept 21 - Sept 25…
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ShinyHunters Renewed Mass Exploitation Campaign Targeting Oracle PeopleSoft
Introduction As an update to the June 2026 post, ShinyHunters Targets Education Sector with Oracle PeopleSoft Exploit , Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have identified renewed mass exploitation of CVE-2026-35273 by UNC6240 (ShinyHunters), along with expanded global targeting across multiple sectors. In June, the threat actor exploited this vulnerability as a zero-day…
Companies to know in Containers & Kubernetes
Those stories keep returning to the same names. These are the companies we track in this category; each profile has its news, solutions and published reviews.
Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Red Hat is an enterprise open source software company best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform and Ansible Automation Platform. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat has operated as an independent subsidiary of IBM since IBM acquired it in 2019.
Google Cloud
Mountain View, California, USA
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, Spanner and the Vertex AI platform with Gemini models, as well as Google Workspace. It serves enterprises, public sector organisations and startups through global cloud regions.
Amazon Web Services
Seattle, Washington, USA
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and platform services including EC2 compute, S3 storage, databases such as Aurora and DynamoDB, EKS containers, IoT, analytics, Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker for AI, and Trainium and Graviton custom chips.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, USA
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications, security products and developer tools such as GitHub. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is one of the largest providers of cloud and AI services to businesses.
SUSE
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
SUSE is an enterprise open source software company founded in 1992 in Nuremberg, Germany. It develops SUSE Linux Enterprise, the Rancher Prime Kubernetes management platform, NeuVector container security, and edge and AI infrastructure offerings for enterprises across cloud, data centre and edge environments. SUSE is owned by private equity firm EQT and sponsors the openSUSE community project.
Broadcom
Palo Alto, California, USA
Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It sells networking, broadband, storage and custom AI accelerator chips, and infrastructure software including VMware Cloud Foundation, Tanzu and CA and Symantec enterprise products. It completed its acquisition of VMware in 2023.
Mirantis
Campbell, California, USA
Mirantis is a cloud-native infrastructure company offering Kubernetes and container platforms, OpenStack and open-source tooling, including Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis Container Runtime, k0rdent for multi-cluster platform engineering, k0s and Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Campbell, California, Mirantis acquired the Docker Enterprise business in 2019 and was acquired by AI cloud provider IREN in August 2026.
Canonical
London, England, United Kingdom
Canonical is a British software company founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth and headquartered in London. It publishes Ubuntu, the open-source Linux distribution, and sells commercial support and security maintenance through Ubuntu Pro, along with open-source infrastructure products including Canonical Kubernetes, MicroK8s, OpenStack, LXD, MAAS and Juju. Canonical is privately held.
Docker
Palo Alto, California, USA
Docker, Inc. is the company behind Docker, the software that popularised Linux containers for packaging and running applications. Founded as dotCloud by Solomon Hykes and launched Docker as open source in 2013, it is based in Palo Alto, California. Its products include Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, Docker Scout, Docker Build Cloud and Testcontainers, sold on subscription to developers and enterprises. Docker is privately held.
Nutanix
San Jose, California, USA
Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage, Kubernetes management and database services. It serves enterprises running applications across data centres, edge sites and public clouds, including through NC2 on AWS and Azure. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix is listed on Nasdaq.
Oracle
Austin, Texas, USA
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It serves enterprises and governments with databases, ERP, HCM and industry applications, and cloud infrastructure for AI training and inference. Founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, Oracle is listed on the NYSE and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
IBM
Armonk, New York, USA
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform, IBM Z mainframes and Power servers, IBM Storage, Db2 databases, and automation and observability software such as Instana and HashiCorp Terraform. Founded in 1911 and headquartered in Armonk, New York, IBM is listed on the NYSE.
Platform9
Platform9 is a cloud infrastructure software company that provides private cloud and Kubernetes management delivered as a SaaS-managed service. Its products include Private Cloud Director, positioned as an alternative to VMware virtualisation, and Platform9 Managed Kubernetes for running clusters across data centres, edge and public clouds. Platform9 was founded in 2013 by former VMware engineers.
Spectro Cloud
San Jose, California, USA
Spectro Cloud is a US Kubernetes management company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its Palette platform manages the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters across public clouds, data centres, bare metal and edge locations using declarative cluster profiles. Palette VerteX targets government and regulated users. Spectro Cloud also initiated Kairos, an open source edge OS project.
Rafay
Rafay is a US software company, formally Rafay Systems, that sells a platform for operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure at scale. Its platform-as-a-service offering provides cluster lifecycle management, governance, self-service environments and GPU and AI workload management for enterprise platform teams and cloud providers, across public clouds, data centres and edge locations.
Portainer
Auckland, New Zealand
Portainer is a container management platform from Portainer.io, a company based in Auckland, New Zealand. Its graphical and API-driven tooling lets teams deploy, operate and secure containerised applications across Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and Podman environments, including edge devices. Portainer offers an open-source Community Edition and a commercially supported Business Edition.
Solo.io
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Solo.io is a cloud-native application networking company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine. It sells Gloo Gateway, an Envoy-based API gateway, and Gloo Mesh, an enterprise Istio service mesh, and created open-source projects including kgateway, agentgateway and kagent for connecting and securing microservices and AI agents on Kubernetes.
Tigera
San Francisco, California, USA
Tigera is a US Kubernetes networking and security company founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco. It is the creator and maintainer of Project Calico, a widely used open source networking and network policy solution for Kubernetes. Tigera's commercial offerings, Calico Enterprise and Calico Cloud, add security, observability and compliance features for containerised workloads.
Sysdig
San Francisco, California, USA
Sysdig is a US cloud and container security company founded in 2013 by Loris Degioanni, co-creator of Wireshark. Its Sysdig Secure platform provides cloud-native application protection (CNAPP), including runtime threat detection, vulnerability management and posture management for Kubernetes and cloud workloads. Sysdig created Falco, the open source runtime security project that graduated within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Aqua Security
Aqua Security is a cloud native security company founded in Israel in 2015. It provides a cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) covering container, Kubernetes and serverless security, image and supply chain scanning, and runtime protection, and maintains open-source projects including Trivy, Tracee and kube-bench. It serves enterprises running containerised workloads.
What practitioners are asking
Vendor news only tells you half of it. This is what people working in Containers & Kubernetes are discussing and asking each other.
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How many Kubernetes clusters do you run, and how do you keep upgrades sane?
Fleet size, managed vs self-managed, and the tooling that keeps version upgrades from becoming a quarterly fire drill.
Build a shortlist
With the news, the companies and the open questions in view, pick three to five companies whose products match your problem, read their recent stories and put your remaining questions to the community before you speak to sales.
More Containers & Kubernetes stories
If you want more background, here is more of the recent coverage.
Containers & Kubernetes
The path to a sovereign autonomous enterprise: Why open source is your clean core advantage
Key Takeaways Building an autonomous SAP environment requires balancing rapid AI innovation with strict data control and compliance. Keeping your SAP core clean relies on hybrid integration, private AI deployment, and open virtualization strategies. Open-source architecture provides true technological sovereignty, preventing lock-in and eliminating rising hypervisor costs. Managing…
Containers & Kubernetes
Managing multiple EKS clusters: why cluster #3 is the wall
Do the arithmetic before you read the rest of this. Count the people on your team who need access to a cluster. Multiply by the number of clusters you run. That result is how many access decisions somebody is maintaining by hand today. Now add one cluster and run it again. The jump between those […] The post Managing multiple EKS clusters: why cluster #3 is the wall appeared first on SUSE…
Containers & Kubernetes
From SAP data to operational insight: Modernizing Day-Two SAP operations with SUSE Trento
Key takeaways: Day-Two Operations are critical for maintaining SAP environment health, security and configuration consistency. SUSE Trento automates discovery, prevents configuration drift and standardizes high-risk administrative workflows. Integrating AI safely through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) exposes hidden or multi-view Trento data through direct, unified querying. Getting an SAP…
Containers & Kubernetes
Securing SAP from the inside out: OS-level security for IT leaders
Key takeaways: The operating system beneath SAP remains a critical attack surface requiring stringent security controls. Mandatory Access Control (MAC) through SELinux provides strict process confinement and limits the blast radius of compromises. Implementing a phased security deployment protects live SAP environments from unexpected downtime while enforcing policies. Traditional SAP security…
Containers & Kubernetes
Architecting SAP for resilience: A business continuity guide for IT leaders
Key takeaways: Achieving SAP resilience requires moving beyond basic hardware failovers to address patching, upgrades and regional outages. IT leaders must balance Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) with operational complexity. A robust architecture covers local High Availability (HA) and regional Disaster Recovery (DR) to ensure core business continuity. When an…
Containers & Kubernetes
AI adoption is a security survival metric
AI is moving from experiment to infrastructure. Sysdig research shows more organizations building their own infrastructure, reducing the AI attack surface.
Containers & Kubernetes
Idle GPUs and runaway token bills: the real economics of production AI - Spectro Cloud
Recap of the TeraSky x Spectro Cloud webinar on GPU utilization, tokenomics and inference tuning, with advice from Scott Rosenberg and Pedro Oliveira.
Containers & Kubernetes
AI ROI and token economics in financial services: NYC panel recap - Spectro Cloud
Recap of the AI ROI + token economics panel at AI for Financial Services NYC, with Tenry Fu (Spectro Cloud), American Express, Silicon Data and Data Maverick.
Containers & Kubernetes
Friday Five — September 25, 2026 | Red Hat
The blueprint for scalable enterprise security in the age of AIThroughout this series, we will unpack how Red Hat can help customers implement a layered security defense, from the operating system (OS) foundation to autonomous AI agents, ensuring enterprise resilience in the age of AI and emerging threats. Learn more Techstrong tv: Red Hat Lightwell targets the AI vulnerability patch crisisRed…
Containers & KubernetesHow-to
How to manage aircraft leases with AI agents
AI quickstarts are a catalog of ready-to-run, industry-specific use cases for your Red Hat AI environment. Each aims to provide a simple and practical way to solve real-world problems using AI on enterprise open source infrastructure. This quickstart takes on a document problem most people outside of aviation never see: the aircraft lease. Aircraft leases are typically dense, complex, and…
Containers & Kubernetes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 STIG automation now matches DISA STIG V1R2
For the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and its contractors, security has to hold up against a published baseline—not a general claim that systems are “secure.” The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) defines that baseline in Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), and STIG compliance is required for information systems that connect to DoD networks.In March 2026, the Defense…
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Manufacturing Trust for AI Agents | Docker’s WeAreDevelopers Keynote
Docker's WeAreDevelopers keynote shows how Sandboxes, Kits, and Cloud Sandboxes give AI agents strong isolation and reproducible authority.
Containers & Kubernetes
Introducing Cloud Sandboxes: Start on Your Laptop, Finish in the Cloud
Run agents on your laptop, in the cloud, and move between them with one command, all safely. Earlier this year we launched Docker Sandboxes: microVM environments where coding agents can work autonomously in a safe way.
Containers & Kubernetes
From Dockerfile to Kit: the Docker Sandboxes Kit Specification
Docker's Sandbox Kit Specification v3 packages an AI agent's network rules, credentials, and volumes as an ordinary, pinnable OCI image.
Containers & Kubernetes
Docker and CNCF partner on an open spec for agent permissions
Docker is bringing the open source Sandbox Kit Spec to the CNCF, so AI agent permissions become a neutral, vendor independent standard built on OCI.
Containers & Kubernetes
Why are SBOMs failing to stop supply chain attacks?
A software bill of materials (SBOM) could prevent most supply chain attacks. Let’s analyze what’s holding back their broader adoption.