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Welcome to the May 2026 edition of the Calico newsletter! Here’s what we have in store for you this month…

Accountable AI Agents: A Strategic Guide

Your AI agents are making decisions, calling tools, and talking to each other autonomously. But when something goes wrong, can you prove who authorized it? Our paper lays out a strategic framework for securing and governing autonomous agents at scale.

Read the whitepaper

eBook: VM networking for Kubernetes

A practitioner’s guide to migrating, securing, and operating VM networking on Kubernetes told through one VM’s journey.

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Securing Autonomous AI Agents in Production

June 17 | 10 a.m.–11 a.m. BST: In this session, we will move past the AI hype to discuss the architectural constraints and security patterns required to run agentic systems in highly regulated, enterprise environments.

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Step-by-Step VM Migration

Join us for a workshop that will show you how to configure the environment, run the migration, and read the system state at each step to understand what is actually happening under the hood.

Register for June 18 | 10 a.m.–11 a.m. BST

Register for June 25 | 10 a.m.–11 a.m PDT

Open Source

API Server Removal & v3.32

Calico v3.32 is out! Read our release blog to get the full details. Read the blog.

Key Feature: Tech Preview of API server removal.
KubeVirt Support: Official support for KubeVirt VM migration is out, extending Layer 2 capabilities to help migrate virtual machines into Kubernetes. Learn more.

On the Horizon: The "Hypercube" Consolidation (v3.33)

Major architectural cleanup for v3.33.

Image Reduction: By consolidating Go-based components that share dependencies, we are reducing our footprint from 13 images down to just 3.
Simplified UX: This change will drastically simplify the experience for users operating in private registries or restricted environments.

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Recent Releases: Calico Enterprise & Calico Cloud

May 19, 2026 - Calico Cloud 22.4.0

Calico Cloud now records audit events for user activity, including user sign-ins and group assignments. To view them in the web console, go to Activity > Audit logs.

May 20, 2026 - Calico Enterprise 3.22.5

Added "https" port to calico-manager Service and a tigera-ca-public Secret (for OpenShift IDP) to support "reencrypt" Routes via Ingress-to-Route conversion.

Upgrade today to benefit from the latest improvements and keep your environment running smoothly.

IN THE NEWS

Check out this recent Tigera-related coverage.

Tigera + VMware Cloud Foundation: Securing Kubernetes and AI at Scale from VMware Cloud Foundation
Tigera Unveils Software Load Balancer and VM Migration Support for Calico, Helping Enterprises Consolidate and Modernize Cloud-Native Infrastructure from Tigera
Calico, Zero Trust and the Future of Kubernetes Networking from Techstrong TV

➔ To see all coverage and to read Tigera’s press releases, visit our Newsroom.

Blog

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Guides

AI Agent Security – Discover what it takes to secure agents that learn, adapt, and act without direct human oversight. Read the guide.

KubeVirt Live Migration – Learn how KubeVirt live migration actually works under the hood, how to configure and trigger migrations in practice, and best practices for running live migration at scale. Read the guide.

AI Agent Governance – A practical playbook for managing agents responsibly at scale: what governance actually means for autonomous agents, how to apply governance across every stage of the agent lifecycle, and the challenges that surface along the way. Read the guide.

White papers

Securing AI Workloads in Kubernetes – Learn the security patterns required to protect AI training and inference workloads in Kubernetes. Download the data sheet.

Business Value of a Single Unified Platform – Explore how a unified approach to networking and security reduces risk and simplifies operations. Read the whitepaper.

Egress Security Checklist – A guide to securing outbound traffic and preventing data exfiltration in enterprise environments. Get the Checklist.

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Help Center

Our Help Center is an important technical resource for users and customers of Calico Cloud and Calico Enterprise. The Help Center contains technical articles to help you install, configure and manage your Calico solution. Access the Help Center here.

Certifications

Certified Calico Operator: Azure Expert

Gain experience using the Calico–Azure integration through hands-on labs. By the end of this course, you will know more about Azure cloud, as well as managed, self-managed, and hybrid cluster deployment using Calico in Azure. Enroll here.

Certified Calico Operator: Level 1 – Understand how Kubernetes networking works, how to configure and manage a Calico network, and how to secure your cluster following today’s best practices. Enroll here.

Certified Calico Operator: AWS Expert – Understand several options for deploying Kubernetes in AWS, examine how the default AWS networking works, and learn how to configure and manage Calico in AWS, and how to secure your AWS Kubernetes cluster. Enroll here.

Certified Calico Operator: eBPF course – By the end of this course, you’ll be able to run and modify simple eBPF programs, understand the deployment options and methods available with Calico’s eBPF data plane, and confidently deploy eBPF across multiple environment types. Enroll here.

➔ Explore all certification courses

PARTNERS

Tigera sponsored and attended Cloud Native Days Italy on May 18th & 19th in Bologna. Our partners Reevo were also sponsors, which made it possible for us to network with their customers.
Tigera is hosting a CNCF meet up in conjunction with our partners Origoss on June 10th in Budapest, Hungary. 70 members of the CNCF community will meet to hear talks from Dillon Barry (Tigera), Gergely Szabo (Origoss) and the local CNCF ambassador Mark Sagi-Kazar.
Video: Enterprise Kubernetes teams need stronger networking, observability, and microsegmentation as AI workloads scale. In this KubeCon 2026 conversation, Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni joins Peter Flecha and Jad El-Zein to discuss securing AI infrastructure, autonomous workloads, and hybrid Kubernetes environments with Tigera and VMware Cloud Foundation. Watch here.

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We hope you found valuable resources and information in this month’s newsletter, and we welcome your feedback. Please let us know how we can make our monthly newsletter a useful source of information that you look forward to each month. Send us your feedback and suggestions.

– The Tigera Team

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Calico Newsletter – May 2026