
BackstageCon, the dedicated conference for the Backstage developer portal, returns as a co‑located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The program emphasizes AI‑enabled platform engineering, showcasing sessions on managing AI software catalogs, integrating Kubeflow, and extending Backstage with runtime plugins. Attendees—platform engineers, IDP teams, and AI practitioners—will gain practical governance, observability, and scaling patterns for production‑grade Backstage deployments. The event also highlights community growth, plugin ecosystem health, and hands‑on case studies.

The Kubernetes Working Group (WG) Serving has been disbanded after successfully establishing the platform as a preferred orchestrator for AI inference workloads. The group’s workstreams gathered requirements from model servers, hardware vendors, and inference providers, leading to the adoption of...

Kubernetes 1.35, nicknamed “Timbernetes,” rolls out key features aimed at AI/ML workloads. It introduces workload‑aware scheduling (alpha) with gang‑scheduling primitives, graduates in‑place pod resizing to stable, and makes KYAML the default kubectl output format. Dynamic Resource Allocation remains enabled, improving...

Agentics Day at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 spotlights the Model Connectivity Protocol (MCP) and AI agents, moving them from experimentation to production. The half‑day, community‑driven event features over ten talks on real‑world deployments, governance, and security. It targets platform, SRE, infrastructure...

The CNCF’s 2025 Project Velocity report shows that cloud‑native projects are still measured by real signals such as commit frequency, contributor growth, and deployment patterns. Kubernetes retains its dominant position, while Backstage’s contributions have more than doubled and OpenTelemetry sees...