By Co-Chairs for CNCF Code of Conduct Working Group The CNCF Code of Conduct Working Group has launched! Thus, Step 2 of Upcoming Code of Conduct Updates at CNCF is now underway. The intended output of the Working Group... ⌘ Read more
By Co-Chairs for CNCF Code of Conduct Working Group The CNCF Code of Conduct Working Group has launched! Thus, Step 2 of Upcoming Code of Conduct Updates at CNCF is now underway. The intended output of the Working Group... ⌘ Read more
Less than six months ago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the Fluent Bit community announced that Fluent Bit had been downloaded and deployed over one billion times. Fluent Bit has now tripled that achievement, surpassing the three... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Deepfactor Given the scalability and flexibility of containers, developers are being encouraged to develop net-new applications—and refactor existing workloads—for Kubernetes. However, the focus on rapid development and deployment presents many security challenges for organizations to... ⌘ Read more
It’s all these and more, as the world’s biggest events in open-cloud and container-based development descend on Detroit – a city known by many names and renowned for its pioneering spirit. The event packs in five days of... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by the team at Harness The adoption and need for Chaos Engineering is growing in the cloud native ecosystem. Chaos Engineering will have a larger presence in Detroit, Michigan with an exciting KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Nethopper blog by Chris Munford Like many people, I managed my first cluster using the kubernetes cli (aka kubectl). I deployed a handful of ‘objects’ such as deployments, secrets, configmaps, and services... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the ContainIQ blog by Matt Lenhard, co-founder & CTO In this blog post, we recap the process and methodology we used to build our eBPF-based profiler. We include techniques and examples for both... ⌘ Read more
Project post originally published on the Flux blog by Daniel Holbach As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities which are... ⌘ Read more
Project post originally posted on Nabeel.dev by Nabeel Sulieman If you are running Kubernetes, or really any kind of microservice architecture, you will eventually run into challenges with communication and synchronization between your instances. To solve this, I... ⌘ Read more
Communuty post by Matthew Cascio, KCD DC Organizer What do K8s and Clara Barton have in common? Kubernetes Community Days, Washington DC held its 2nd annual KCD on Sept 14th, our first in-person event due to the COVID-19... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Zhao Ran (Huawei Cloud), Wang Zilong (DaoCloud) With the maturity of technologies such as 5G, AI, and distributed cloud, concepts such as Internet of Everything (IoE), digital twin, and ubiquitous compute are extending, bringing innovations... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Tigera blog by Giri Radhakrishnan There has been a huge uptick in microservices adoption in the data analytics domain, primarily aided by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. Some of... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the InfluxData blog by Charles Mahler In an ideal world, developers would be able to release new products and features from development environments into production extremely fast while also not having to stress... ⌘ Read more
After an exciting Spring term, 36 interns have graduated from the latest LFX mentorship program funded by CNCF! 15 of CNCF’s Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects joined this round with projects including Chaos Mesh, Kubernetes, KubeEdge and Pixie. ... ⌘ Read more
Project post originally published on the Flux Blog by Priyanka Ravi and Daniel Holbach This is the first blog post in a series where we want to shine a light on projects in the Flux Ecosystem. This time it’s... ⌘ Read more
Guest post initially published on the SUSE blog by Sadequl Hussain Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration system that enables applications to run on a cluster of hosts. It’s a critical part of cloud native architecture because it... ⌘ Read more
Project post originally published on the LitmusChaos blog by Akash Shrivastava This article is a getting-started guide for HTTP Chaos in LitmusChaos. We will be talking about 1. Introduction to LitmusChaos 2. How does HTTP Chaos work —... ⌘ Read more
By Audra Montenegro This year, eight regions around the globe have hosted a Kubernetes Community Day (KCD), and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is excited to have welcomed new regions to the roster. These community run events are... ⌘ Read more
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Istio as a CNCF incubating project. Istio is an open source service mesh that transparently provides a uniform and efficient way to secure, connect, and monitor services in... ⌘ Read more
Project post originally published on the Falco blog by Luca Guerra, Lorenzo Susini, Vicente J. Jiménez Miras In version 0.32.1, Falco first introduced support for gVisor. So, what is it and how can we use it? gVisor, quoting the official documentation, is... ⌘ Read more
Community post by W. Watson from CNCF’s cloud native network function working group When designing a stateful cloud native applications, and especially a stateful cloud native network application, you must determine which data model matches the functional requirements... ⌘ Read more
Guest post from Huawei by David Eads (@deads2k), Kevin Wang (kevin-wangzefeng) Current users will know that KubeFed was an early answer to the issue of centralized management of multiple Kubernetes clusters– but as community engagement has slowed with... ⌘ Read more
The Cloud Native Glossary is a project led by the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee. Its goal is to explain cloud native concepts in clear and simple language without requiring any previous technical knowledge. We are in the process... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published by Jenn Gile of NGINX To best protect cloud-native apps, you need to deploy flexible, Kubernetes‑friendly WAF and DoS protections at the right places in your infrastructure. For any team deploying applications, web application... ⌘ Read more
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Guest post originally published on the Cloudsmith blog by Ciara Carey Ciara lists 10 ways to make your software pipelines more transparent and observable to gain insights, identify unusual behavior and possibly prevent a software supply chain attack.... ⌘ Read more
Projects are used by leading cloud native companies including Bloomberg, ByteDance, Pinterest, and Twilio, among others San Francisco, CA – September 20, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software,... ⌘ Read more
Guest post from Richard Collins, Jetstack In recent months the cert-manager user community has been surveyed to understand how this CNCF Sandbox project is being used in production environments. As a highly popular developer-centric tool used primarily to... ⌘ Read more
As promised, we are back with another edition of monthly updates from the LitmusChaos community. With the growth of the Chaos Engineering community as well as the LitmusChaos community, we appreciate this massive participation and immense engagement and... ⌘ Read more
Project post originally published on the Flux blog The Flux team has released a new version of Flux v0.32 that includes fantastic features. One of them is OCI Repositories feature that allows us to store and distribute a wide variety of sources... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Robert Brennan, VP of product development, Fairwinds Polaris is an open source policy engine that runs dozens of checks to ensure that your Kubernetes pods and controllers are configured using best practices in cluster security,... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Rookout blog by Gedalyah Reback, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Rookout Kubernetes is both revolutionary and “diffusionary.” It is a complete restructuring demanding a whole new slew of companion and support tools... ⌘ Read more
Project post originally published on the Flux blog by Daniel Holbach As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities which are... ⌘ Read more
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Cloud Custodian as a CNCF incubating project. Cloud Custodian is a governance as a code tool that allows organizations to use code to manage and automate enforcement of... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Nirmata blog by Jim Bugwadia of Nirmata and Shripad Nadgowda a Cloud Architect at Intel Rise of software supply chain attacks In the last few years there has been a sharp rise... ⌘ Read more
More than 65 organizations across the world join CNCF’s 800+ members to drive cloud native innovation across industries San Francisco, CA – September 13, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Scout APM blog by Dave Anderson, CTO, Scout APM You’ve likely heard the term Observability lately. There’s a fundamental change taking place in the Monitoring space, and Observability is behind it. Observability itself is... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the InfluxData blog by Charles Mahler Cloud native and microservice architectures bring many advantages in terms of performance, scalability, and reliability, but one thing they can also bring is complexity. Having requests move between... ⌘ Read more
Community post by W. Watson and Denver Wiliams from the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Test Suite 1. You need more than ACID An RDBMS’s atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability are not what they seem to be. Specifically,... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Amar Chand With businesses adopting cloud native technology, Kubernetes has emerged as a primary tool of choice for container orchestration. Deploying and managing applications has never been easier. However, securing... ⌘ Read more
Pre-professional certification will confirm foundational knowledge on how to use modern observability techniques with Prometheus to improve application performance, troubleshoot system implementations, and feed that data into other systems San Francisco, CA – September 8, 2022 – The... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Weaveworks blog by Jeff Krupinski, Weaveworks Senior Director of Sales Have you ever thought about how retailers or restaurant chains have adopted cloud-native technology with edge presence at their brick and mortar stores? You... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Helios blog by Ran Nozik OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open source selection of tools, SDKs and APIs, that allows developers to collect and export traces, metrics and logs. It’s the second-most active project... ⌘ Read more
Guest post from Huawei by Xu Yuanchang, Karmada Member, Tech Head of Container Platform, Hurricane Engines Ltd Background AIML INSTITUTE is a tech company that helps enterprises build integrated cloud native solutions for digital transformation. Their featured product... ⌘ Read more
Project post originally published on DZone by Jim Bugwadia Learn how to audit your clusters for compliance with the latest Kubernetes Pod Security Standards without installing anything in the cluster. In this post, I will show you how... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the ARMO blog by Amir Kaushansky Kubernetes’ new version – version 1.25 – will be released on Tuesday 23rd August 2022, and it comes with 40 new enhancements in various areas and numerous... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Edgeless Systems blog by Fabian Kammel, Senior Security Engineer This is a summary of the talk I gave at the Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Berlin 2022. Both, the slides and a recording are available.... ⌘ Read more
Flux project post by Scott Rigby Hey everyone! 👋If you couldn’t join Flux maintainers Stefan Prodan & Philip Laine’s session at GitOps Days 2022, you can now watch the full talk online! This blog post outlines the main... ⌘ Read more
Project post originally posted on the Backstage blog by Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify TL;DR: Backstage’s security posture continues to mature! Today, we’re releasing a report from an independent security audit and the first version of the Backstage Threat Model.... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Sparkfabrik blog Orchestration vs Choreography: Many factors need to be evaluated in order to figure out which approach is the most appropriate. Orchestration, Choreography or a Hybrid Approach: Let’s delve into how... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Miraxia blog As the default Kubernetes scheduler is highly configurable, in many cases we don’t have to write any code to customize thescheduling behavior. However, people who want to learn how the... ⌘ Read more
We’ve absolutely loved being able to connect with much of our community again in-person over the past year at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Los Angeles and Valencia. We’re looking forward to hopefully seeing even more of you at... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Shahar Azulay, groundcover’s CEO and Co-Founder It’s a place all Kubernetes admins have likely been: They have a container that fails to start, and they simply can’t figure out why that is. They may have... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Michael Guarino, CTO, and Co-Founder at Plural Open-source is at a crossroads at the moment. 97% of data stacks contain open-source code. However, deploying and managing open source applications is tedious and time-consuming. Take an... ⌘ Read more
By Chris Aniszczyk Consistently looking into CNCF and Linux Foundation project’s velocity and the 30 top open source projects give us a very good indication of trends that are resonating with developers and end users. As a result,... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Mia-Platform blog The need for a Developer Experience Strategy stems from the increasingly important role of software in the company’s business. To meet the fast‑changing market and ever‑more demanding customers, companies should rely... ⌘ Read more
Community post from the Spanish Cloud Native Glossary team: Anyul Rivas, Rael Garcia Arnes, Nicolas Quiceno, Rodolfo Martínez, Victor Morales, Carol Valencia The Cloud Native Glossary is a project led by the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee. Its goal... ⌘ Read more
The humanitarian crisis unfolding since the invasion of Ukraine has shocked the world. The global cloud native community is rallying to support Ukraine and our friends, family, and colleagues whose lives have been forever changed. CNCF senior developer... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the InfluxData blog by Charles Mahler Developers are always trying to improve the reliability and performance of their software, while at the same time reducing their own costs when possible. One way to... ⌘ Read more
At CNCF we’re driven by our community – #TeamCloudNative – and all the amazing ideas you share with us. Something many of you lovely folx have asked for is more regional events that connect cloud native experts and... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Nikhil Purva As more and more organizations making the shift to cloud native technologies, Kubernetes has become the de facto choice to orchestrate container based applications. As applications grow... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the ARMO blog by Leonid Sandler Despite being a large open-source and complex project, Kubernetes keeps on evolving at an impressive pace. Being at the center of various platforms and solutions, the biggest challenge for... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by: Vishal Anand – Chief Technologist, Cloud Migrations and OpenShift PaaS – IBM Consulting Utpal Mangla – Industry EDGE Cloud – IBM Cloud Platform Atul Gupta – Lead Data Architect – IBM Luca Marchi – Industry... ⌘ Read more
Community post from the Security Technical Advisory Group (TAG) In 2020, the Security Technical Advisory Group (TAG) within the CNCF published the initial version of a whitepaper outlining the lifecycle and landscape for cloud native security. The first... ⌘ Read more
Mentorship blog post by Aman Dwivedi, Litmus Chaos mentee What is LitmusChaos? LitmusChaos is an open-source Chaos Engineering platform that enables teams to identify weaknesses & potential outages in infrastructures by inducing chaos tests in a controlled way.... ⌘ Read more
Project post by LitmusChaos maintainers As promised, we are back with another edition of monthly updates from the LitmusChaos community. With the growth of Chaos Engineering community as well as the LitmusChaos community,we appreciate this massive participation and... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Weaveworks blog Many teams are hesitant to introduce changes to their CI pipeline to not disrupt the often complex continuous deployment (CD) patterns. GitOps however is more than CD, it provides automation,... ⌘ Read more
Project post originally published on the Flux blog by Daniel Holbach As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities which are... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Appaegis blog by Prakash Nagpal What I learned at RSA There was a lot of talk about change, transformation, shifting left, disruption and more at RSA. There was also a recognition that... ⌘ Read more
When Policy meets Execution Community post by Amir Montazery, Managing Director, Open Source Technology Improvement Fund In this blog post, we present an overview of independent audits conducted at the end of 2021 and first half of 2022.... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Snapt blog by Dave Blakey Kubernetes has been a revelation for companies working with containers. It makes container orchestration consistent, which can streamline development and make CI/CD processes more reliable. However, your... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Humanitec blog by Kaspar von Grünberg A Platform Orchestrator sits at the core of a dynamic Internal Developer Platform. It enables dynamic configuration management and developer self-service, allowing for low cognitive load... ⌘ Read more
As part of our commitment to transparency within the cloud native community, we are providing an inside look into the work that goes on behind the scenes to bring the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon schedule to life. Note that... ⌘ Read more
Taking place in Detroit, Michigan and virtually, CNCF’s flagship North American event will highlight cloud native innovation across the globe SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – August 3, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems... ⌘ Read more
Telecoms are rolling up their sleeves to build network and customer-facing applications and services on a cloud native architecture. Three-quarters of respondents told the CNCF’s Telco Microsurvey that they are converting services running either as Physical Network F ... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Matt Lenhard, co-founder and CTO of ContainIQ You probably already know that Kubernetes is the leading container orchestration system. And according to the most recent CNCF study, you’re likely already using it for production workloads... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Timescale’s blog by James Blackwood-Sewell Welcome to the third and final post of our series about metrics. First, we deep-dived into the four types of Prometheus metrics; then, we examined how metrics work in OpenTelemetry; and... ⌘ Read more
Community post by Daniel Holbach The team around GitOps Days mission is to educate the world about the leaps that GitOps has made as a methodology and tool chain. A secondary objective of the group is to create... ⌘ Read more
A leading, innovative Chinese software and IT services provider has invested in cloud native technology to enable rapid digital transformation for its customers SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 28, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which... ⌘ Read more
Project post by KubeEdge maintainers The security of cloud native edge computing has been of concern to many users. It was difficult for users to perform effective security hardening on their edge systems due to no security threat... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Coredge blog Introduction According to IDC (IDC: Expect 175 zettabytes of data worldwide by 2025 ), it is projected that by 2025 our global data volume will reach 175 zetabytes. As the data... ⌘ Read more
Community post by Somtochi Onyekwere During GitOps Days 2022 Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, presented Applying GitOps to Everything with Crossplane and Flux. In this session Viktor shows you how to leverage the extensibility of Crossplane and... ⌘ Read more
The Cloud Native Glossary is a project led by the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee. Its goal is to explain cloud native concepts in clear and simple language without requiring any previous technical knowledge. We are in the process... ⌘ Read more
Community post by Lin Sun, Director of Open Source at Solo.io and CNCF Ambassador Lin is the Director of Open-Source at Solo.io and a CNCF ambassador. She has worked on Istio service mesh since 2017 and serves on... ⌘ Read more
Community post by Stacey Potter At GitOps Days 2022, Jason Morgan, Technical Evangelist at Buoyant and co-chair of the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee, demonstrated how to make Flux, Flagger, and Linkerd work together. He also showed an example... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Grafana Labs blog by Adam Quan Spring Boot is a very popular microservice framework that significantly simplifies web application development by providing Java developers with a platform to get started with an... ⌘ Read more
Community post originally published on the Ada Logics blog In the last few months, the team at Ada Logics has worked on integrating continuous fuzzing into the Kubernetes Cluster API project. This was an effort focused on improving... ⌘ Read more
The Cilium project is excited to announce the general availability of Cilium 1.12. Cilium is well known as the de-facto standard for cloud native networking and security, adopted by companies like Adobe, Bell Canada, and IKEA as well... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Fairwinds blog by Patrick Loring FinOps has become another buzzword in the cloud native ecosystem of late. FinOps, as defined by the FinOps Foundation, is the: FinOps is an evolving cloud financial management... ⌘ Read more
Project post cross-posted from the Argo Blog by Michael Crenshaw In early 2022, the Argo team and CNCF began work with Ada Logics to perform a security audit on the four Argo projects. Ada Logics discovered a number... ⌘ Read more
Community post originally published on OSTIF’s blog Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is happy to report the results of yet another security audit, this time of the Argo project. The Argo project is a collection of tools for getting work done... ⌘ Read more
In 2021, the CNCF Annual Survey revealed that 96% of organizations are using or evaluating Kubernetes (the highest level to date). What will 2022 bring for cloud native adoption and trends? Join #TeamCloudNative by taking the survey and... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Gemini Open Cloud blog by Patrick Fu, CEO of Gemini Open Cloud The GPU computation is asynchronous to the POD itself. Typically, the process running on the POD copies data to the... ⌘ Read more
Community post by Eduardo Guevara, Cristhian Cruz, and Fausto Serrano – undergraduate students of foreign languages at the University of El Salvador, San Miguel “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” Jim... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Akash Warkhade Setting Up infrastructure manually can be a time-consuming and hectic process. That is when we can make use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to automate the infrastructure.... ⌘ Read more
Community post by Stacey Potter What is GitOps Days? Last month GitOps Days took place on June 8th and 9th. It was jam-packed with informative and educational sessions from speakers on varying levels of the cloud native spectrum.... ⌘ Read more
June was a busy event month, as CNCF participated in Open Source Summit North America shortly after RSA. OSS Summit took place in Austin, Texas, and virtually from anywhere in the world. At the event, Taylor Dolezal, Head... ⌘ Read more
Project cross-post from the Flux blog by Daniel Holbach As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities which are available for... ⌘ Read more
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Keptn as a CNCF incubating project. Keptn is an event-driven orchestration engine that connects observability with operations in cloud native applications. The project uses a declarative approach to... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Clockwork blog TL;DR: Contrary to expectation, colocated VMs do not enjoy lower-latency connectivity to each other On network links between colocated VMs, packet drops are just as likely as on non-colocated links... ⌘ Read more