Containers &amp; Kubernetes

Reference architecture cross-cluster routing using API gateways and service mesh | Solo.io

Learn how Gloo Platform, an API gateway and service mesh platform, helps simplify management of multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with Istio, Envoy, and Cilium.

Canonical·29 Sept 2026via Canonical Blog

Creating a private 5G network

As private 5G evolves from experimentation into production readiness, its success hinges on a fundamental architectural shift: replacing heavyweight, legacy virtualization stacks with agile, softwarized infrastructure that reduces operational expenditure (OpEx) and accelerates service delivery.

Solo.io Blog | Bringing Agentic AI to Kubernetes: Contributing Kagent to CNCF | Solo.io

Kagent, the first open-source agentic AI framework for Kubernetes, is joining CNCF to drive AI-powered automation in cloud native environments. Learn how kagent helps DevOps and platform engineers streamline operations with intelligent agents.

Agentic Evaluations: Benchmark AI Agent Quality, Performance & Safety | Solo.io

Learn how agentevals benchmark AI agent workflows for accuracy, latency, and safety. Use traces to detect hallucinations and measure real agent performance.

Why Sandboxing Your Agent Is Not Enough | Solo.io

What’s the difference between agent-sandbox and agent-substrate? Learn how these complementary projects help teams build AI agent platforms that are both secure and scalable on Kubernetes.

Is a Pod the Right Deployment Unit for an AI Agent? | Solo.io

Are AI agents best deployed as Kubernetes Pods? Explore why agent-substrate introduces a new execution model built for scalable, ephemeral AI agents.

Bringing NemoClaw Support to kagent | Solo.io

With support for NemoClaw, kagent expands to help teams run agent harnesses securely and at scale on Kubernetes.

Empowering SMBs to do more with Gemini

Today, we announced the new Gemini agent, your single, universal agent for work. For small and midsize businesses, with lean teams and margins, Gemini will be a critical tool for you to operate efficiently, deliver excellent customer experiences, and grow. Millions of small and midsize businesses, or SMBs, already trust Google AI across multiple services, like Gemini Enterprise, Google Ads, and…

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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.

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Red Hat

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.

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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.

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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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Google Public Sector and SUNY launch AI-enabled platform to accelerate university research

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Welcome to Gemini at Work 2026: Introducing the Gemini agent

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Thomas Kurian’s keynote address at Gemini at Work 2026. It includes a number of announcements: Gemini , a single, universal agent for work that answers your questions, handles your knowledge work, creates your images and media, and writes and runs code. Inline in Workspace , Gemini works directly inside Gmail, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Chat, and…

SUSE·1 Oct 2026via SUSE Blog

Avoiding Vendor Lock-In Through an Open Source Approach: A Developer’s Perspective

Every infrastructure team makes decisions that are difficult to reverse. Most of the time, that works out. Sometimes it does not. Vendor lock-in usually begins as a reasonable choice, made under pressure, that solves a real problem at the time. A managed service ships faster or a deployment model fits better in that moment, but […] The post Avoiding Vendor Lock-In Through an Open Source Approach:…

Using on-premise Red Hat Lightspeed capabilities to monitor vulnerabilities and apply advisor remediations

Managing vulnerabilities across a fleet of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems is a continuous challenge. Between tracking Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), prioritizing by business risk, planning RHEL upgrades, and remediating issues, operations teams juggle multiple tools and workflows daily. Red Hat Lightspeed brings a greater level of situational awareness into your on-premise…

MLOps at the edge: Running AI models at the edge

In Part 1: Preparing AI models for deployment, we saw how our model left the training pipeline as a signed, optimized Open Container Initiative (OCI) artifact ready to travel to the edge. Now, our next question is: what will be the implications of running those AI workloads at the edge? Running AI inference in a data center means using standardized hardware and abundant memory. At the edge, a…

MLOps at the edge: Running AI models at the edge

Actionable disconnected cluster analysis, available now with pen drive powered by Red Hat Lightspeed

Red Hat OpenShift doesn't stop at the cloud boundary. Telecommunications providers, government agencies, and financial institutions run OpenShift in environments that are intentionally air-gapped, and keeping those clusters healthy has always been the hard part. Pen drive is here to fix that. Disconnected or restricted Kubernetes clusters suffer from a common issue: isolation makes them prone to…

Sysdig·8 Oct 2026via Sysdig Blog

Runtime AI Defense in a shared responsibility model

An AI agent once deleted someone's entire inbox despite being told to confirm first. Not because it was malicious, but because the instruction didn't survive context compaction. Shantanu Gattani, Sysdig's SVP of Product, on why that gap is the real risk in agentic AI, and who should be responsible for closing it.

Tigera·8 Oct 2026via Tigera Blog

Gemini Never Left the Sandbox. The Sandbox Had a Door.

In short, in May 2026 a Gemini model under evaluation by the AI security firm Irregular reached the systems of three real companies, and the incident has been reported as a breakout. By Google’s own... The post Gemini Never Left the Sandbox. The Sandbox Had a Door. appeared first on Tigera, Creator of Calico .

Introducing Google Cloud’s U4 compute: Enabling ultra-low latency trading

In capital markets, operational success is built on predictable performance and low latency, where even tiny variations in packet timing alter queue priority and trade execution. At the same time, both exchange venues and their participants face mounting constraints in traditional on-premises data centers, from power and physical rack space limits to lengthy hardware procurement cycles.…

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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…

Red Hat·23 Sept 2026via Red Hat Blog

Zero CVEs at delivery: Why container security belongs in the supply chain

Back in 2010, I wrote a small web tool to generate random galactic sectors for a tabletop role playing game. It started as a Perl application, but these days it’s a single, static Go binary with all of its assets compiled right into the executable. Thousands of game masters have used it, it runs quietly in the public cloud, and for years I rarely touched it.Like thousands of community tools…

Breathing life into corporate innovation with IdeaBot

Enterprise technology leaders know that balancing reliable execution with breakthrough thinking is essential for long-term growth. Core product roadmaps excel at delivering steady, customer-driven enhancements to proven platforms. At the same time, sudden market discontinuities create opportunities that sit outside existing product lines. As a Red Hat leader, my job is to evaluate what ideas our…

3 reasons to attend Red Hat Summit:Connect 2026

Technology is moving faster than ever. From modernizing cloud infrastructure and virtualization strategies to keeping up with emerging enterprise AI capabilities, staying ahead requires more than reading documentation, it requires real-world context, hands-on application, and connection.That is where Red Hat Summit Connect comes in.Red Hat is taking its flagship event on a global tour. These…

Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus bundle available on hyperscaler marketplaces

Note: This post was updated on October 7th with the latest information.Organizations using Red Hat OpenShift cloud services are increasingly seeking ways to extend their platform’s capabilities with enterprise-grade security and data management capabilities. Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus is available for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) on the AWS Marketplace and for Azure Red Hat…