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KubeCon: Kubernetes, AI, and Open Source Unpacked

"Knative fills several gaps in the cloud native ecosystem as an easy on-ramp to Kubernetes, with Knative’s eventing acting as the missing skeleton for connecting events to reactions."

— Evan Anderson, cofounder of Knative, "Knative Has Finally Graduated From the CNCF"

Jupyter AI v3: Could It Generate an ‘Ecosystem of AI Personas?’

In this On the Road episode of The New Stack Makers, Qiu and Piyush Jain, principal engineer at AWS and Jupyter distinguished contributor, sat down with TNS Editor in Chief Heather Joslyn at JupyterCon in San Diego to discuss the just-released Jupyter AI v3 and what’s ahead on the roadmap.

Kubernetes Resource Management for Platform Owners

If you’re running Kubernetes at scale, you’ve likely encountered this paradox:
clusters drowning in unused capacity while developers request even more resources. Meanwhile, application owners push back on any suggestion to right-size their workloads, you’re caught in the middle.
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At KubeCon, with Open Source, Kubernetes, AI and Georgia on Our Minds

The New Stackers are just back from a whirlwind week in Atlanta, where we sent our biggest-ever crew to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. We met a lot of y’all at our booth, recorded a slew of video podcasts we’ll be rolling out over the rest of this year and even revived our signature pancake breakfast to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. In all, a very festive and productive time.

As of this writing, we’re still unpacking from our trip, figuratively and literally. A lot of the news revolved around the rapidly maturing agentic AI space and making AI and Kubernetes play nicely with each other.

Senior Editor Joab Jackson has been first out of the gate with reports on how Google has updated Google Kubernetes Engine to better support large-scale AI workloads. It has introduced the GKE Agent Sandbox, “which can house large language model-generated code and tools in a restricted environment,” Joab wrote. It also released into general availability its GKE Inference Gateway, “a set of optimizations (based on the Kubernetes inference extension) for running AI workloads more quickly.”

On the open source front, Helm 4 was released, the first new version in six years. KServe was accepted as an incubating project by the CNCF. Solio.io made open source news, introducing  the public version of agentregistry, which gives organizations a way to keep track of the AI agents they’re using. And Platform Engineering Labs’ open source Formae is being positioned as an alternative to Infrastructure as Code stalwarts like Terraform.

Keep your eyes on TNS in the coming days as we keep unpacking the things we’ve carried home from Atlanta.

— Heather Joslyn, editor-in-chief, TNS

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Beyond Basic RAG: AI Agents for Context-Aware Responses
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Apache Arrow’s Final Frontier: Replacing Outdated Database Drivers
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Build Your First HTTP Server in Python
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