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- 2026-02-19Nirmata Blog
Ready for the ODAS World: Building the Platform for Agent-Driven Infrastructure
What Is Outcome-Driven Agentic Software (ODAS)? The Nirmata AI Governance Platform for Agentic Infrastructure 1) Outcome-Driven Agents (Not Generic AI Assistants) 2) A Control Center for Visibility and Oversight 3) Unified Policy Enforcement Across the Delivery Lifecycle What Are Agent Guardrails? Unified Agent Guardrails: Trusted Change Management for AI Agents What it means in practice What Trusted Autonomy Looks Like in Practice A big shift is underway in enterprise software. In our recent post, we argued that the seat-based, ticket-driven SaaS era is giving way to Outcome-Driven Agentic Software (ODAS) – systems built around agents that deliver outcomes, not dashboards that collect clicks.
#nirmata #kubernetes - 2026-02-19VMware Cloud Foundation Blog
Case Study: Navigating VKS Upgrades – Balancing Infrastructure Constraints and Application Reality
Option 1: Sequential In-Place Upgrade Typical Flow Why Teams Like It The Operational Reality Application Considerations (Often the Deciding Factor) Option 2: Parallel / Blue-Green Upgrade High-Level Approach Why Teams Choose This Prerequisites for Success: The “Must-Haves” Decision Checklist Platform and Scale Application Readiness Operations and Governance Infrastructure Constraints How VMware Professional Services Accelerates the Upgrade 1. Assessment and Dependency Mapping 2.
#vmware #cloud-foundation #kubernetes - 2026-02-19VMware Cloud Foundation Blog
Platform Engineering Needs a Cloud Engine
Message from the Sponsor Discover more from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog Related Articles Model Gallery: How to Use JupyterLab Notebooks to Simplify Model Deployment and Management Mastering Application Migration to VKS: Patterns and Best Practices Automic Automation: Application-Aware Automation for the Private Cloud Sponsored By: Broadcom Guest IDC Blogger: Jim Mercer Date: 02.04.26 Platform engineers are increasingly expected to deliver cloud-like experiences across all environments, including on-premises infrastructure. Public cloud platforms have set a high bar for self-service, automation, and speed, but on-premises environments continue to offer critical advantages, such as predictable performance, data sovereignty, cost control, and deep integration with existing systems, making them indispensable for many organizations.
#vmware #cloud-foundation #kubernetes - 2026-02-19CNCF
State of cloud native 2026: CNCF CTO’s insights and predictions
Kubernetes: from orchestrator to de facto OS Observability, security, and AI: A convergence FinOps for AI and the rise of niche clouds A controversial prediction: AI as a top open source contributor Posted on February 19, 2026 by Dotan Horovits, CNCF Ambassador We’ve just celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the foundation behind Kubernetes and so many other successful open source projects we all rely on. That alone was a good reason to sit down with Chris Aniszczyk, the CTO and co-founder of CNCF, at the start of 2026, to discuss the state of cloud native, and find out what’s coming next.
#cncf - 2026-02-19Digital Ocean
DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI GPU Droplets Optimized for Inference: Increasing Throughput at Lower the Cost
DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI GPU Droplets Optimized for Inference: Increasing Throughput at Lower the Cost Prefill, Decode, and Why Optimization is Multiplicative The Optimization Stack Speculative Decoding FP8 Quantization Flash Attention-3 and Paged Attention Concurrent Optimization Prompt Caching Benchmark Methodology Test Results Throughput: 143% Improvement over Baseline Time-to-First-Token: 40.7% Reduction Compared to Baseline Cost Efficiency: 75% Reduction Compared to Baseline Throughput vs. Concurrency Cost per Million Tokens vs.
#kubernetes - 2026-02-19Digital Ocean
Expanding our Agentic Inference Cloud: Introducing GPU Droplets Powered by AMD Instinct™ MI350X GPUs
Expanding our Agentic Inference Cloud: Introducing GPU Droplets Powered by AMD Instinct™ MI350X GPUs Optimizing production inference with AMD Instinct™ MI350X Proven results for AI innovators Enterprise performance with predictable cost-efficiency and simple operations at the forefront What’s Next? About the author Connect with our sales team Related Articles Supabase Template is Now Available on DigitalOcean App Platform DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Now Integrates with LlamaIndex Now Available: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 on DigitalOcean’s Agentic Inference Cloud By Waverly Swinton Published: February 19, 2026 2 min read As our Agentic Inference Cloud continues to grow, we’re excited to announce the availability of new, high-performance GPU Droplets powered by AMD Instinct™ MI350X GPUs. By integrating these cutting-edge GPUs with our platform, we’re continuing to deliver the power and scale that leading AI-native companies and builders need to run their most complex inference workloads.
#kubernetes - 2026-02-19OpenShift Blog
Innovation is a team sport: Top 10 stories from across the Red Hat ecosystem
Innovation is a team sport: Top 10 stories from across the Red Hat ecosystem Accelerating success with the Red Hat Partner Program Manage clusters and applications at scale with Argo CD Agent on Red Hat OpenShift GitOps AI quickstarts: An easy and practical way to get started with Red Hat AI Smarter troubleshooting with the new MCP server for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (now in developer preview) Red Hat names Kevin Kennedy as global leader for the Red Hat partner ecosystem New observability features in Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.15 Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console: Your questions answered Navigating secure AI deployment: Architecture for enhancing AI system security and safety Zero trust workload identity manager generally available on Red Hat OpenShift Empowering federated learning with multicluster management The bottom line Red Hat Learning Subscription | Product Trial About the author Isabel Lee More like this AI in telco – the catalyst for scaling digital business The nervous system gets a soul: why sovereign cloud is telco’s real second act Technically Speaking | Build a production-ready AI toolbox Technically Speaking | Platform engineering for AI agents Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share No breakthrough in the open hybrid cloud happens in isolation. Whether it’s a developer in a community project, a partner building a specialized solution, or an architect scaling a global fleet, the most impactful stories are those where expertise and collaboration meet.
#openshift - 2026-02-18Digital Ocean
DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Now Integrates with LlamaIndex
DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Now Integrates with LlamaIndex Why This Matters What’s New Get Started in Minutes What You Can Build What’s Next About the author Try DigitalOcean for free Related Articles Supabase Template is Now Available on DigitalOcean App Platform Expanding our Agentic Inference Cloud: Introducing GPU Droplets Powered by AMD Instinct™ MI350X GPUs Now Available: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 on DigitalOcean’s Agentic Inference Cloud By Narasimha Badrinath Updated: February 18, 2026 2 min read We’re excited to announce that DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform now integrates natively with LlamaIndex - one of the most popular frameworks for building RAG applications. This means you can now connect your Gradient AI Platform Knowledge Base and LLMs directly to LlamaIndex workflows, using the abstractions you already know.
#kubernetes - 2026-02-18CNCF
CNCF Releases 2026 Observability Summit North America Schedule as Cloud Native Observability Adoption Expands
Observability Summit North America returns May 21–22 in Minneapolis, convening practitioners, contributors, and engineers to advance open observability standards and practices Key Highlights CNCF announced the schedule for Observability Summit North America 2026, May 21–22 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The program highlights practical approaches to metrics, logs and traces as organizations scale cloud native systems and adopt open observability standards.
#cncf - 2026-02-18Nirmata Blog
Preventive Cloud Governance with Nirmata Terraform Controller
What Is the Nirmata Terraform Controller? Why Cloud Governance Often Happens Too Late How the Nirmata Terraform Controller Works High-level flow Preventive Governance, Not Just Cloud Visibility One Policy Language Across Kubernetes and Terraform Unified governance model Developer Friendly Feedback in Terraform Cloud Audit First, Enforce When Ready Inline Enforcement & Continuous Scanning Enterprise-Ready by Design Secure and auditable What Makes Nirmata Terraform Controller Different Platform engineers are under constant pressure to move fast and keep cloud environments safe, compliant, and cost-effective. Terraform has become the de facto standard for infrastructure as code (IaC), but governance often still happens after changes are applied.
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