Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Organisations are re-evaluating their VM infrastructure. The economics have shifted, the tooling has matured, and the case for running two separate platforms, one for containers, one for VMs, is getting harder to justify. Platform teams that spent years managing hypervisor infrastructure are being asked to consolidate, and most are landing on the same answer: Kubernetes. KubeVirt makes running VMs on Kubernetes possible.

One of the challenges teams face as their platforms grow is how to standardize what gets deployed without slowing teams down. The GitOps Catalog from Konstruct is designed to solve this by providing a consistent way to distribute reusable infrastructure modules, application components, and full environment stacks across clusters. At a glance, it looks like a templating system.

Use Qovery from Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, and 20+ AI Coding agents.

Public sector organizations have long relied on global cloud providers to modernize infrastructure and scale digital services. However, priorities are shifting. Today, decisions are shaped not just by cost or performance, but by where data is stored, who controls it, and how it is governed. Increasing regulatory pressure, geopolitical uncertainty, and rising expectations around data privacy are all driving this change.

Trust in a cloud provider used to come down to two metrics: uptime and cost. If services stayed online and pricing looked competitive, that was often enough. That is no longer the case. Modern development teams expect far more from their infrastructure. Speed, usability, transparency, and flexibility now shape how developers evaluate cloud platforms. A provider may meet uptime guarantees and still frustrate teams with slow provisioning, unclear billing, or rigid tooling.

Optimizing Kubernetes on AWS is less about raw compute and more about surviving Day-2 operations. A standard failure mode occurs when teams scale the control plane while ignoring Amazon VPC IP exhaustion. When the cluster autoscaler triggers, nodes provision but pods fail to schedule due to IP depletion. Effective scaling requires network foresight before compute allocation.

Platform Engineering leaders are caught between two competing imperatives. You’re under pressure to flatten cloud spend but your team is still provisioning defensively because nobody wants to be the person who causes a production incident. You try to optimize, but six months later, when someone pulls a report, nothing has changed.

For developers building AI applications, training models, or running inference pipelines, the GPU cloud market in 2026 has never offered more choice - or more complexity. Picking the wrong platform means overpaying, dealing with availability problems, or battling infrastructure that slows you down rather than accelerating your work.

Why accountability, not capability, is the real bottleneck for enterprise agentic AI, and what security leaders need to do about it before regulators force the issue. Every enterprise is building AI agents. Marketing has one summarizing campaign performance. Engineering has one triaging incidents. Customer support has one resolving tickets. Finance has one processing invoices.