Guest post by Shi Jicheng, CTO, DatenLord Introduction of consensus Consensus protocol is a protocol to keep the information consistent and durable in multiple servers, and the property is kept even if some servers fail. When we talk... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Shi Jicheng, CTO, DatenLord Introduction of consensus Consensus protocol is a protocol to keep the information consistent and durable in multiple servers, and the property is kept even if some servers fail. When we talk... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Humanitec’s blog by Luca Galante 2022 was an explosive year for platform engineering. PlatformCon 2022, the first-ever conference by and for platform engineers, garnered over 78 community-submitted talks and 6000 attendees. Platform engineering went viral... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on groundcover’s blog by Udi Rot Get to know Caretta – a lightweight, standalone tool that instantly creates a visual network map of the services running in your cluster. Caretta leverages eBPF to efficiently... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan It’s been a good year for Linkerd. Although much of the software industry has struggled through an economic downturn, Linkerd adoption has only been growing. In fact, log... ⌘ Read more
Community post by Robert Glenn, CNCF Cartografos Working Group Founding Member at Accenture The maturity model is an emerging concept and requires some explanation to ensure clarity of our usage in the Cloud Native Maturity Model (CNMM). To... ⌘ Read more
CNCF is excited to unveil the updated version of the organization’s immensely popular Cloud Native Ambassadors program. As dedicated community leaders promoting cloud native technologies, CNCF Ambassadors play a critical role in fostering an open and welcoming community... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Aserto’s blog by Omri Gazitt Overview In a microservices world, each service needs to verify that a subject (user or machine) has permission to perform an operation on a resource that the service... ⌘ Read more
By Patrice Chalin Why some top-velocity projects use Hugo and Docsy to publish technical documentation Some of CNCF’s top-velocity projects — such as Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry and gRPC — use Hugo as their static website generator. Why? Because Hugo... ⌘ Read more
What motivates developers to contribute to open source? What discourages them? Does it help their careers? The CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy asked these and other questions in a new annual micro-survey. In this blog post, we share... ⌘ Read more
If the past couple of years taught us anything, it’s the importance of security in cloud native and open source environments. The fallout of vulnerabilities like Log4j even reached the U.S. Federal Government with the Executive Order on... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Coredge’s blog The term “sovereign cloud” describes a cloud architecture to provide security and data access while adhering to local laws and regulations around data privacy and security. Depending on where the cloud... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Miao Zhang, Baidu As CMB’s adoption of cloud native technologies, the Kubernetes container platform is now supporting 100k+ applications in CMB. With such huge number of applications, CMB encountered multiple issues with some popular solutions:... ⌘ 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
By Priyanka Sharma Our mission at CNCF is to make cloud native ubiquitous, and we are well on the way to achieving this. Security is one of the most important and fast-growing areas in the ecosystem but is... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on CloudWeGo’s blog by CoderPoet and Guangming Luo This blog mainly introduces the realization of traffic routing based on Kitex Proxyless and the bookinfo demo rewrote with Kitex and Hertz. The purpose is to... ⌘ Read more
In line with our goal of providing velocity updates every six months or so, below are the charts showing open source project velocity over 2022. Thanks to the insights we can glean from these charts, we are able... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Fairwinds’s blog by Liz Coolman Organizations have moved increasingly to the cloud, adopting containers and Kubernetes to change their infrastructure and take advantage of these cloud native technologies. Kubernetes itself is complex, requiring... ⌘ Read more
Community post by Yelin Liu, Technical Marketing at DaoCloud On November 18, the “Kubernetes Community Days Chengdu 2022,” initiated by CNCF, DaoCloud, Huawei Cloud, Sichuan Tianfu Bank, and OPPO was successfully held, gathering end users, contributors and technical... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Sudhanshu Prajapati Feature flags (often called feature toggles) have existed for a long time in the software development process. We have been using feature flags in some way or another without... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Mia-Platform’s blog In an increasingly sustainability‑conscious world, cloud software, services, and infrastructure are no longer evaluated only in terms of performance, resilience, scalability, and reliability, but also according to their environmental impact. So,... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Ozone’s blog Preface Everyone talks of DevOps and how their organizations are going about transforming their development and operational processes. Investments are high and measuring the real-world outcomes of these DevOps transformations is... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on ARMO’s blog by Ben Hirschberg All the main K8s vulnerabilities from 2022 consolidated into one article. Put together by Ben Hirschberg, CTO & co-founder of ARMO. During 2022, Kubernetes continued to cement itself as a... ⌘ Read more
CloudNativeSecurityCon has consistently been one of our most popular KubeCon + CloudNativeCon colocated events, and we’ve heard from our community that they want even more content on the topic. So we’ve decided to make CloudNativeSecurityCon North America a... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Medium’s blog by Dotan Horovits TL;DR Key updates: We Just celebrated 10 year birthday to Prometheus last month. Prometheus was the second project to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after Kubernetes in 2016, and has quickly become... ⌘ Read more
It’s a watershed moment in the evolution of cloud native: Argo and Flux, which let teams declaratively deploy and run applications and workflows on Kubernetes using GitOps, have left CNCF’s incubation phase. In graduating, the pair demonstrated advanced... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on DevOps.com by Chris Munford In the world of DevOps, only two things really matter: The measures used to achieve these twin goals should work together seamlessly–otherwise, you’re inefficient. But software development and IT... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Alex Olivier, Product Lead at Cerbos When it comes to designing core components of a software architecture one of the early decisions that need to be made is where to store the state of the... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Dave McAllister, Sr OSS Technical Evangelist at NGINX Observability is key when running cloud‑native apps. In cloud native, app functionality emerges from the interaction between numerous microservices running in multiple locations. The loosely coupled nature... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Atulpriya Sharma We’ve all heard the phrase – Change is the only constant. That holds true for everything around us. Traditionally applications were released in a waterfall-based model where... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Solo.io’s blog by Lin Sun and Daniel Hawton While there was not much new in Istio 1.15, Istio 1.16, led by our own release manager Daniel Hawton, has a lot of improvements. Interestingly, with... ⌘ Read more
As we move forward into 2023, we at the CNCF remain committed to detailed explanations for the more impactful policy decisions we make, especially with regard to our events. In particular, many of you had questions about our... ⌘ Read more
We’ve received a lot of great feedback from the community regarding the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-located event strategy, including feedback on the overall length of the conference week/number of co-located event days, the registration policies/process, and the need... ⌘ Read more
First-time standalone conference will highlight cloud native security projects and best practices for handling the security challenges organizations are facing today SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – December 14, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable... ⌘ Read more
Foundation continues significant growth as the cloud native ecosystem matures San Francisco, CA – December 13, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced today that it continues considerable... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Sumo Logic’s blog by Melissa Sussmann When teams collect data without full observability of what others on the team can see, it becomes clear that no one’s picture is truly accurate. In this... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Score’s blog by Susa Tünker of Humanitec Score envisions a developer and workload-centric approach to improve developer productivity and experience. In this article, we take a deeper look at the “why” and see... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on ARMO’s blog by Jonathan Kaftzan, VP Marketing & Business Development at ARMO A first of its kind survey looks at the relationship between open-source and K8s security. Today DevOps and security teams who... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Mia-Platform’s blog Data is one of the most critical components of any business, as it allows us to personalize and customize our products for potential consumers. As important as data is, studies have shown that... ⌘ Read more
We are excited to announce that 24 CNCF interns have successfully completed this term’s LFX Program! 24 of CNCF’s Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects joined this round with projects including Meshery, WasmEdge, Kyverno, and Vitess. Additional details on... ⌘ 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
One of the most active CNCF projects, Argo, is trusted by industry leaders such as Adobe, BlackRock, Capital One, Google, Intuit, Peloton, Tesla, and Ticketmaster San Francisco, CA – December 6, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation®... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Matt Ray, Senior Technical Success Manager at Kubecost As a growing number of teams scale their Kubernetes deployments, it’s becoming increasingly important for them to better understand and manage related infrastructure spend. OpenCost, now a... ⌘ Read more
The CNCF has recently unveiled new and updated guidelines for volunteers at CNCF events. These guidelines are designed to create and sustain a collaborative, professional, courteous and kind environment leading up to, at, and following CNCF events. We’re... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Jim Barton, Field Engineer at Solo.io The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) recently voted to accept Istio as a CNCF incubating project. Istio solves the challenges of managing microservices by allowing you to easily observe,... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on InfluxData’s blog by Thinus Swart Fluentd is an open source data collector capable of retrieving and receiving event data from several sources and then filtering, buffering, and routing data to different compatible destinations. It... ⌘ Read more
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has three main bodies: a Governing Board (GB) that is responsible for marketing, budget and other business oversight decisions for the CNCF, a Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) that is responsible for defining... ⌘ Read more
Pioneering GitOps project has seen 400% growth in the last 12 months The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced that the Flux project has graduated. Flux is a set of... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Edgeless Systems Constellation is the first fully confidential Kubernetes, released as open source in September. It leverages confidential computing technology to shield entire clusters and all workloads from cloud infrastructure. From the inside, it’s a... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Kevin Wang Test Report on Karmada TL;DR Cloud native implementations, growing in scale and complexity, are challenging organizations on how to efficiently, reliably manage large-scale resource pools to meet growing demands. Players in the cloud... ⌘ Read more
When we started offering the maintainer track over four years ago at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle in 2018, it was a very exciting but small part of our events. Since then, our maintainer track (and the total number... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Fairwinds’s blog by Andy Suderman, lead R&D engineer at Fairwinds If you are looking for help on how to set Kubernetes resource limits and requests, you’ve come to the right place. Goldilocks is... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Nočnica Fee of ScoutAPM The question we’re discussing daily with potential users of TelemetryHub is, ‘can I instrument my system with OpenTelemetry?’ And the answer is almost always ‘yes.’ Well, mostly. Any system with internet... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Flux’ blog Cosign integration was one of the most important features we shipped in the Flux v0.35 release. After that, we wrote a blog post which explains how to use the feature with OCIRepository resources which enables fetching... ⌘ Read more
By Priyanka Sharma It’s been a little over a month since KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022, and I wanted to take a look back at this fantastic event as our Transparency Report comes together. Almost 17,000 of... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Karthik Satchitanand, LitmusChaos Maintainer & Principal Software Engineer at Harness Introduction Not unlike the previous editions, KubeCon NA 2022 @ Detroit was quite eventful for the LitmusChaos project. The interest around the project and chaos... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Nethopper’s blog by Dan Donahue, Principal Solutions Architect at Nethopper As a Principal Solutions Architect at Nethopper my hope for my first KubeCon 2022 in Detroit was to connect and collaborate with other... ⌘ Read more
We are excited to announce that CNCF will be adding a Maintainer category to the Dan Kohn Scholarship fund for active CNCF project maintainers who are not being assisted or sponsored by a company or organization and are... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by LitmusChaos’ maintainers After an amazing KubeCon North America 2022 in Detroit, MI, the LitmusChaos community has a lot to share and is back with another edition of monthly updates from the LitmusChaos community. With the... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Gemini Open Cloud’s blog by Patrick Fu With the fine granularity and the plugin architecture of the new Kube scheduler framework, the default scheduler can be customized to handle different workload to increase... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Dragonfly blog by Gaius Introduce definition Dragonfly has been selected and put into production use by many Internet companies since its open source in 2017, and entered CNCF in October 2018, becoming the... ⌘ Read more
End user post by Sean Isom and Colin Murphy, Adobe Adobe runs over 90% of its container compute in Kubernetes – centrally managed via Adobe’s Ethos team. Colocating a growing and diverse set of applications and standardizing on... ⌘ Read more
Community post by Annalisa Gennaro of the Cartographos Working Group This blog post takes a closer look at the People section of the Cloud Native Maturity Model (CNMM). To learn more visit the Cartografos Working Group GitHub repo.... ⌘ Read more
Community post from the KCD Munich Organizers – Hannes Hanusch (Blueshoe/Unikube), Max Körbächer (Liquid Reply), Philipp Maier (Isovalent/Cilium), Tabea (Blueshoe/Unikube), Tom Uhlig (Liquid Reply), Vivien Pfeiffer (Liquid Reply) > Disclaimer: Due to the highly positive feedback from the... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Dragonfly’s blog by Jingbo Xu Optimized container images together with technologies such as P2P networks can effectively speed up the process of container deployment and startup. In order to achieve this, we developed... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on SparkFabric’s blog Containerized applications are becoming increasingly more common, and with their deployment comes an increased need to ensure adequate container security and resilience of the software supply chain. In this article, we will... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Armo’s blog by Bezalel Brandwinen, Team Lead at Armo Ltd Kubernetes has taken center stage in how we now manage our containerized applications. As a result, many conventions to define our Kubernetes apps... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on groundcover’s blog by Yechezkel Rabinovich, Co-Founder and CTO at groundcover Meet Murre. Murre is an on-demand, scaleable source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes. Murre fetches CPU & memory resource metrics directly from... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published by Marcello Testi, CNCF Cartografos Working Group Member This blog post takes a closer look at the Technology section of the Cloud Native Maturity Model (CNMM). To learn more visit the Cartografos Working Group... ⌘ Read more
Guest post by Feng Ye, Software Engineering Manager & Virtink Project Maintainer at SmartX Kubernetes users usually share clusters to meet the demands of multiple teams and multiple customers, which is usually described using the term multi-tenancy. Multi-tenancy... ⌘ Read more
Backstage, which joined the CNCF Incubator in March of this year has seen considerable interest, with the project hosting its first co-located event – BackstageCon – at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America last month. Over 200 organizations have... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the Miraxia blog by Takuma Kawai In the previous post, I wrote how we can develop our own scheduler with kube-scheduler-simulator. If you could implemented your new scheduler, you may want to try it in... ⌘ 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
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Guest post originally published on the Tigera blog by Giri Radhakrishnan In my previous blog post, I introduced the brief history of zero trust, the core pillars of a zero-trust model, and how to build a zero-trust model... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally by NGINX Every day, the drumbeat to adopt Zero Trust in tech infrastructure amplifies. Like any cybersecurity buzzword, Zero Trust is both more and less than it seems. As more, it holds an enduring concept... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on The New Stack by Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck, Senior Sales Engineer at InfluxData Lightweight Kubernetes, known as K3s, is an installation of Kubernetes half the size in terms of memory footprint. Do you need to... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Mia-Platform’s blog Platform Engineering, DevOps and SRE: is the time to make a definitive choice coming? Everyone is witnessing the IT landscape continue to evolve at a rapid and relentless pace. Every day... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Traefik Labs’ blog by Tiffany Long, Open Source Community Manager at Traefik Labs Open source software (OSS) has changed the way the tech industry works forever. In the early years of OSS, the... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published by Brae Troutman, Red Hat As the Open Cluster Management (OCM) project and community continues to grow, we felt it was important to start periodically communicating what we are doing with the project, where we... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Flux’s blog Software supply chain attacks are one of the most critical risks threatening today’s software and have begun to collapse like a dark cloud over the software industry. For the Flux family... ⌘ Read more
Annual awards recognize outstanding community members for advocacy, contributions, and documentation in cloud native technology DETROIT, Mich. – October 28, 2022 – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable... ⌘ Read more
Project post by the Cloud Custodian maintainers This week the Cloud Custodian project, part of the CNCF incubator, added a Kubernetes admission controller for easy event-driven policy management within your cluster. The project also added support for running... ⌘ Read more
CNCF exists to help nurture and launch technologies that make life better and Prometheus does just that. We also take it upon ourselves to educate the world on the power of cloud native and open source. So, we... ⌘ Read more
Intuit, a CNCF member since early 2018, is a generous contributor and supporter of the cloud native ecosystem DETROIT, MI. – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America – October 26, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which... ⌘ Read more
Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) will partner with Razom for Ukraine on Razom’s Project Veteranius to provide access to technology education for Ukrainian veterans, their families, and Ukrainians in need. Leveraging its expertise in... ⌘ Read more
Post by LitmusChaos maintainers Cloud native adoption continues to increase, and it is not a surprise that new challenges are arising that are associated with the scale. The modern DevOps ecosystem driven by cloud native technologies is helping... ⌘ Read more
Project post by the Vitess maintainer team Vitess 15 is now Generally Available, with a number of new enhancements designed to make Vitess easier to use, more resilient, and easier to scale! VTOrc, a vitess-native cluster monitoring and... ⌘ Read more
Cross-post from the OpenTelemetry project blog by Austin Parker Earlier this year, we announced a project to build an OpenTelemetry Demo, representing the breadth of OpenTelemetry features and languages. Today, the Demo SIG is proud to announce OpenTelemetry Demo v1.0! With this... ⌘ Read more
Recently launched CNF Certification Program gains steam with the release of first four products as certifiably cloud native. DETROIT, Michigan – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America – October 24, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which... ⌘ Read more
Cross-post from the Kyverno blog Following on the heels of the 1.7 release of Kyverno, the Kyverno team is proud to present version 1.8 which is another huge leap forward not just in terms of features and functionality... ⌘ Read more
WebAssembly – or Wasm – has been warmly received since its first release in 2017, but our survey shows projects seem to be outstripping the capabilities of today’s tools and technologies and an overwhelming number of users hungry... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on Fairwinds’s blog by Andy Suderman, Lead R&D engineer at Fairwinds One of my biggest pet peeves when managing Kubernetes is when there are workloads with no resource requests and limits. I was so... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on CNCF TAG App Delivery blog by Josh Gavant, App Platform Solution Architect atRed Hat TAG App Delivery formed the Cooperative Delivery working group in late 2021 to gather and report on emerging trends... ⌘ Read more
Community post by: Caleb Woodbine caleb@ii.coop Riaan Kleinhans riaan@ii.coop Stephen Heywood stephen@ii.coop Introduction The Kubernetes Conformance project has been running for a number of years now, recently there are a few minor updates to it and a few things to celebrate.... ⌘ Read more
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept cert-manager as a CNCF incubating project. cert-manager is a Kubernetes add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources, for cloud native Kubernetes... ⌘ Read more
Community post by Annalisa Gennaro Events, all sorts of events, are meant to enhance knowledge, nurture people’s social need to get together and grow personal networks of real relationships. As easy as it is stated, this doesn’t simply... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Atulpriya Sharma The applications that we use today have evolved greatly over the years. The way we write code has improved considerably along with the way we deploy them... ⌘ Read more
Guest post originally published on the ARMO blog by Ben Hirschberg DevOps and modern engineering have enabled us to provide higher quality code at greater speeds by introducing guardrails and checks into our automated continuous integration (CI) and... ⌘ Read more
Guest post from LitmusChaos maintainers 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... ⌘ Read more
The growth of CNCF to 835 members and 140 projects is driving the need for ever more dynamic leaders familiar with all parts of our ecosystem. That’s why we’re excited to welcome Thabang Mashologu to oversee global business... ⌘ Read more