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Google Announces GKE Agent Sandbox and Hypercluster at Next '26, Positioning Kubernetes as AI Agent

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:06:00 GMT

Google announced GKE Agent Sandbox and hypercluster at Cloud Next '26. Agent Sandbox uses gVisor kernel isolation for secure agent code execution at 300 sandboxes per second, built as an open-source Kubernetes SIG Apps subproject. It is currently the only native agent sandbox among the three major hyperscalers. Hypercluster manages a million chips from a single control plane.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Cloudflare Introduces Flagship: an Edge-Native Feature Flag Service Built on OpenFeature

Renato Losio — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:24:00 GMT

Cloudflare recently announced the closed beta of Flagship, a new feature flag service built directly into its global edge platform. The service lets teams control feature rollouts and experiment with changes without redeploying code, while evaluating flags locally in Cloudflare Workers rather than calling external flag services.

By Renato Losio

Broadcom Donates Velero to CNCF, Shifting Kubernetes Backup to Community Governance

Matt Saunders — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Broadcom has announced the contribution of Velero, its Kubernetes-native backup, restore and migration project, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project. Velero It operates at the Kubernetes API layer, capturing cluster state through Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) rather than through hypervisor or storage-layer snapshots.

By Matt Saunders

OpenChoreo 1.0 Brings AI Agents and GitOps to Kubernetes Developer Platforms

Matt Saunders — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT

OpenChoreo, the open-source internal developer platform built on Kubernetes, has shipped its 1.0 release and been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox. The project is designed to give engineering teams a complete foundation for running workloads on Kubernetes without requiring them to build it themselves.

By Matt Saunders