All posts by CNCF


How Linkerd is Apester’s ‘safety net’ against cascading failure from forgotten timeouts
How Linkerd is Apester’s ‘safety net’ against cascading failure from forgotten timeouts
Next time you get sucked into a quiz or poll on a media site like The Telegraph or Time, you can thank Apester⁠’s drag-and-drop interactive content platform⁠-and its usage of cloud native technologies like Linkerd. With a microservice...
August 15, 2019

Cloud Native Computing Foundation reaches 100 end user community members
Cloud Native Computing Foundation reaches 100 end user community members
Community reaches significant milestone as cloud native adoption continues to grow SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – August 14, 2019 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes® and Prometheus™, today announced...
August 14, 2019

HelpNetSecurity: "Kubernetes security matures: Inside the project’s first audit"
HelpNetSecurity: "Kubernetes security matures: Inside the project’s first audit"
Auditing 1.5 million lines of code is a heroic undertaking. With resources provided by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Kubernetes Project leadership created the Security Audit Working Group to perform an audit in an open, transparent,...
August 12, 2019

Security Boulevard: "CNCF-led open source Kubernetes security audit reveals 37 flaws in Kubernetes cluster; recommendations proposed"
Security Boulevard: "CNCF-led open source Kubernetes security audit reveals 37 flaws in Kubernetes cluster; recommendations proposed"
Last year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) initiated a process of conducting third-party security audits for its own projects. The aim of these security audits was to improve the overall security of the CNCF ecosystem.
August 9, 2019

EnterpriseAI: "Kubernetes gets a security audit"
EnterpriseAI: "Kubernetes gets a security audit"
An open source group is expanding its third-party security audits to include the popular but vulnerable Kubernetes cluster orchestrator.
August 9, 2019

ZDNet: "Kubernetes reports the results of its open-source security audit"
ZDNet: "Kubernetes reports the results of its open-source security audit"
All programs need security audits, but the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) took a new open-source approach and revealed all to its users.
August 8, 2019

InfoWorld: "Open source has never been stronger"
InfoWorld: "Open source has never been stronger"
With cloud companies open-sourcing their innovations, and enterprises increasing participation, open source sustainability is at an all-time high.
August 8, 2019

SDxCentral: "Kubernetes looks inside and finds security holes"
SDxCentral: "Kubernetes looks inside and finds security holes"
The Kubernetes ecosystem took a look in the security mirror and found it has some work to do in order to ensure a better security posture for the container orchestration platform. The move comes as a rash of...
August 7, 2019

The New Stack: "CNCF open sources security audit of core Kubernetes components"
The New Stack: "CNCF open sources security audit of core Kubernetes components"
This week, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has released the final results of a two-month-long, third-party security audit of eight core Kubernetes components, uncovering a variety of vulnerabilities.
August 6, 2019

SiliconANGLE: "Security audit reveals 34 vulnerabilities in Kubernetes code"
SiliconANGLE: "Security audit reveals 34 vulnerabilities in Kubernetes code"
An audit released today by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has uncovered no fewer than 34 vulnerabilities in the code for Kubernetes, the highly popular open-source container orchestration system.
August 6, 2019