CloudNative.Now

The February 2026 edition of CloudNative.Now covers key happenings in the cloud-native ecosystem. Highlights include the OpenTelemetry batch processor deprecation in favor of exporter-level batching, the shutdown of Kubernetes Ingress NGINX in March 2026 with Gateway API migration guidance, Red Hat's enterprise Podman Desktop competing with Docker Desktop, and the official end of Heroku. Tool releases include Kyverno 1.17 with a stabilized CEL policy engine and Flux 2.8 GA with Helm v4 support. The newsletter also covers a new Cilium book from Isovalent, a Node Readiness Controller for complex Kubernetes bootstrapping, multiple ingress-nginx CVEs, and upcoming events including KubeCon Amsterdam and Cloud Native Rejekts.