With no significant project update available in time for CloudNativeCon, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has stretched its incubator to 21 by welcoming monitoring projects Thanos and Cortex in. The new status and the associated determination to invest…
TOC welcomes Cortex as an incubating project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Cortex as an incubation-level hosted project. Cortex provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus. “Cortex is an excellent addition to the CNCF landscape, and…
Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Prometheus is one of the standard-bearing open-source solutions for monitoring and observability. From its humble origins at SoundCloud in 2012, Prometheus quickly garnered widespread adoption and later became one of the first CNCF projects and just the second to graduate (after Kubernetes)….
CNCF to host Cortex in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced acceptance of Cortex, a multitenant Prometheus-as-a-Service, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Developed to scale Prometheus in a multitenant fashion, Cortex provides…
OpenFeature becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenFeature as a CNCF incubating project. OpenFeature is an open specification that offers a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging, compatible with various feature flag management tools. Feature…
Internal developer platform vs internal developer portal vs PaaS
Member post originally published on Humanitec’s blog by Luca Galante Confused about IDPs? We set the record straight on Internal Developer Platforms vs portals vs PaaS, and what it means to ship one. You’re given a mandate to…
Starting the Platform Engineering journey with Backstage
Member post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Vaibhav Gupta In the continuously growing landscape of platform engineering, which emerged from the DevOps practices to provide self-service capabilities for software development teams, internal developer portals or IDPs are playing an…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces 2023 Community Awards Winners
Seventh annual awards recognize outstanding community members and organizations for advocacy, contributions, and leadership in the cloud native ecosystem CHICAGO, Ill. – November 8, 2023 – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation®…
Congratulations to 57 CNCF Term 1 LFX Program Mentees!
By Staff A huge number of successful CNCF interns have graduated from this term’s LFX Program: 57! We had a great showing from the CNCF community with involvement across Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects as well as TAGs…
Automatically convert Grafana Dashboards from InfluxQL to PromQL with a new open source tool
Guest post originally published on the Logz.io blog by Tamir Michaeli and Dotan Horovits Open source metrics monitoring with Prometheus, InfluxDB, and Grafana It’s monitoring time. We all collect metrics from our system and applications to monitor their…