Cloud-Native AI Platform Engineering: How Kubernetes Powers Production AI and What Network Engineers Must Know
Kubernetes is no longer just a container orchestrator — it is the production operating system for AI. According to the CNCF Annual Cloud Native Survey (January 2026), 82% of container users now run Kubernetes in production, and 66% of organizations hosting generative AI models use Kubernetes to manage some or all of their inference workloads. For network engineers, this convergence of cloud-native infrastructure and AI workloads represents the most significant architectural shift since the move from hardware-defined to software-defined networking. ...