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Every open source project eventually hits a moment where someone has to make a call nobody agreed on in advance — and governance is the system that determines who has the authority to make it. This post walks through every major governance model in plain language, from BDFLs and do-ocracies to lazy consensus and multi-stakeholder consortia, including how mature projects like Kubernetes layer several models at once. MkDocs is included as a real-world example of what happens when governance gets skipped entirely.

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Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, and Chris Short discuss the state of Kubernetes following the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 conference. The gang then examines how suitable Kubernetes is for running artificial intelligence (AI) workloads before taking a look at the latest Kubernetes advancements from Google involving AI agents. ...

Kubernetes and Cloud Native Computing Foundation News Sources - How do you keep up with Kubernetes? Kubernetes Blog The official Kubernetes blog Kubernetes Contributors This site is the home of contributor documentation, and serves as a starting point for your journey as a Kubernetes contributor. It is intended to be the hub for all things related to the Kubernetes Contributor experience. Last Week in Kubernetes Development LWKD is a Kubernetes community maintained weekly newsletter summarizing code activity in the Kubernetes project: KEPS, PRs, deprecations, version updates, and release schedules. ...

Phippy and friends By: Matt Butcher, Karen Chu & Bailey Beougher The characters Phippy, Captain Kube, Goldie, and Zee and the two books are owned by The Linux Foundation, on behalf of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which means that you can remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. If you use the characters, please include the text “https://phippy.io” to provide attribution (and online, please include a link to https://phippy.io). ...