Can you make Kubernetes invisible? Here’s why AWS is on a mission to do it.
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AWS principal product manager Jesse Butler discusses his mission to simplify Kubernetes at KubeCon CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. He draws parallels with Linux becoming invisible infrastructure and outlines three CNCF projects central to this goal: Karpenter (real-time node auto-scaling based on workload pressure), Kro (Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator for composing and orchestrating cluster resources without custom controllers), and Cedar (an open source policy language for fine-grained authorization donated to CNCF). Butler also reflects on the importance of open source maintainers and the role of CNCF in standardizing cloud-native technology.
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