Prithvi Raj

Prithvi Raj

Community Manager & Developer Advocate

Prithvi Raj is a Community Manager & Developer Advocate at Mirantis. He is a CNCF Ambassador who helped scale a CNCF incubating project in LitmusChaos. He is an active member at SIG Contributor Strategy. He is currently leading the community efforts for the OSPO at Mirantis including the k0s project, k0rdent k0smortron, and the other OSS projects Mirantis is contributing to.

He is a co-organizer to KCD Bengaluru, and previously did Chaos Carnival, LitmusChaosCon and KCD Chennai.

He was previously at Harness.

All posts by Prithvi Raj

Kubernetes for platform teams: Leveraging k0s and k0rdent
cncfApril 27, 2026

Kubernetes for platform teams: Leveraging k0s and k0rdent

Explore how combining k0s, k0rdent, and Hosted Control Planes (HCP) can give you a scalable, cost-efficient, and production-ready Kubernetes platform on OpenStack.

K3s on On-Prem Infrastructures the GitOps Way: Writing a Custom k0rdent Template from Scratch
cncfApril 17, 2026

K3s on On-Prem Infrastructures the GitOps Way: Writing a Custom k0rdent Template from Scratch

Walk through how we curated a use case for provisioning and used k0rdent to provision a K3s cluster on an On-premise environment by writing our own Helm charts and using k0rdent’s Bring Your Own Template (BYOT) approach.

Experience k0s + k0rdent at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, and enter to win a skateboard!
AI InfrastructureNovember 06, 2025

Experience k0s + k0rdent at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, and enter to win a skateboard!

Atlanta is gearing up for one of the most anticipated tech gatherings of the year, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025. The conference is stacked with hundreds of exciting talks, brilliant co-located events, new topics and insights, and of course the amazing companies exhibiting in the solutions showcase — all happening next week, November 10 –14, 2025. The Mirantis team is thrilled to be part of this landmark event, bringing a host of exciting sessions, demos, and community engagements centered around k0s and k0rdent.

Announcing k0rdent v1.2.0 | OpenStack Hosted Control Plane, and More Platform Engineering
ARMSeptember 10, 2025

Announcing k0rdent v1.2.0 | OpenStack Hosted Control Plane, and More Platform Engineering

We’re excited to announce the release of k0rdent v1.2.0, a significant milestone in simplifying distributed container management at scale. v1.2.0 brings an OpenStack Hosted CP template, which is an exciting development from the end-user standpoint, and improved support for ARM64 with proper documentation on how the community can implement it.

Announcing k0rdent v1.0.0: Manage Distributed Infrastructure at Massive Scale Leveraging Kubernetes
APIsAugust 07, 2025

Announcing k0rdent v1.0.0: Manage Distributed Infrastructure at Massive Scale Leveraging Kubernetes

We’re excited to announce k0rdent v1.0.0, a milestone release that solidifies our vision for unified observability and cost optimization in multi-cloud environments. Driven by the k0rdent Cluster Manager (KCM) and enhanced k0rdent Observability & FinOps (kOF) capabilities, this release brings production-grade stability, powerful new features, and significant operational improvements to help platform engineering teams reduce complexity, gain visibility, and control infrastructure costs at scale.

The k0s + k0rdent Experience at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025
AIAugust 01, 2025

The k0s + k0rdent Experience at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025

India’s cloud-native community is gearing up for one of the most anticipated tech gatherings of the year, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025. Mirantis is thrilled to be part of this event, bringing a host of exciting sessions, demos, and community engagements centered around k0s and k0rdent.

From YAML to Intelligence: The Evolution of Platform Engineering
AI AgentsJuly 22, 2025

From YAML to Intelligence: The Evolution of Platform Engineering

While AI agents and next-gen tooling generate the loudest buzz in platform engineering circles today, this blog aims to spotlight something more foundational: the discipline of platform engineering itself and why it deserves continued attention from the community.

Introducing k0rdent v0.3.0: Smarter Observability, Smoother Operations
fluxMay 15, 2025

Introducing k0rdent v0.3.0: Smarter Observability, Smoother Operations

We’re thrilled to announce the release of k0rdent v0.3.0, now available across the k0rdent Cluster Manager (kcm) and k0rdent Observability and FinOps (kof) components. This milestone brings significant enhancements focusing on observability, operational ease, and flexibility in infrastructure and service management.