Kubernetes Shake-ups, Platform Reality, and AI-Native SRE

In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into 3 big themes for anyone running Kubernetes or building internal platforms.

First, Kubernetes is officially retiring Ingress NGINX and moving it into best-effort maintenance until March 2026. We talk about what that actually means if you’re still using it and how to think about choosing and rolling out a replacement ingress.

Second, we look at how CNCF is defining platform engineering and what “platform as a product” looks like in practice, plus some hard-earned lessons from running Kubernetes in production.

Third, we talk about AI as a first-class workload on Kubernetes. CNCF’s new Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program aims to standardize how AI runs on K8s, and recent writing on SRE in the age of AI looks at what reliability means when systems learn and d ...