#263 December 16, 2025

Kubernetes AI Conformance, with Janet Kuo

Hosts: Kaslin Fields

Janet Kuo, Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program.

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Intro

• KubeCon North America 2025
• Kubernetes AI Conformance program

News of the week

• Kubernetes 1.35 Release Sneak Peek
• Helm4
• Google Cloud Achieves Massive Kubernetes Scale with 130,000-Node GKE Cluster
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) AI Conformance
• AKS Ingress Nginx Update
• AKS Automatic managed system node pools
• Amazon EKS Introduces New Managed Kubernetes Capabilities for Workload Orchestration
• KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud
• CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program
• Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Established to Standardize Agent Collaboration
• KServe Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project
• OpenFGA accepted as CNCF Incubating Project
• Lima accepted as CNCF Incubation Project
• Lima v2.0 Released with Secure AI Workflows
• KubeCon Cloud Native Con Europe 2026

Links from the interview

• Kubernetes Software Conformance program
• kubectl
• Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) API
• Kubernetes WG AI Conformance
• Kubernetes SIG Architecture
• Kubernetes SIG Testing