Last week we published an open source MCP Gateway called Obot. It's software that runs on Kubernetes, and is basically a control plane for the growing number of MCPs we are dealing with: catalog, access control (Google, GitHub Okta, Entra), audit logs, proxy, and the runtime to host the MCPs for users. IT folks get the admin tools they need, and everyone else gets a simple way to find and use what’s approved.

Still early days, but it’s open-source and would love feedback. http://obot.ai

Fleet has been top of mind for Darren for a while. We were hit pretty quickly after creating k3s with users asking about fleet management.

But getting the design right mean talking to people with loads of different use cases, such as vehicles, medical devices, industrial automation equipment, set top boxes, telco equipment, ATM machines, cash registers and even security cameras.

Lots of work to do, and would love to get some community support during the development of this. This is definitely a project we could see moving into the CNCF in the future.

Mentioned this elsewhere, but if you create an issue, Darren mentioned on the CNCF webinar that they would be looking into ChromeOS soon.

There's also a feature request in ChromeOS bugtracker about adding the missing bits for minikube, part of which seem to be similar to what k3s is using: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=878034

Darren mentioned on the CNCF webinar that he has plans to test it on chromeOS, which is similar to android, but that it hasn’t been done yet.

Rancher Employee here: One of the use cases we have been seeing is for stores, factories, oil wells, base stations, wind farms, etc. the apps people are trying to deploy to these now look much more like data center/micro services apps. Kafka, Redis, logstash, etc. K8s is really good for running these in a reliable and consistent way on potentially divergent hardware.

For clustering and management, you might try running RancerOS with Rancher the company's orchestration tool.