All posts by CNCF


Service mesh: A critical component of the cloud native stack
Service mesh: A critical component of the cloud native stack
What’s a service mesh? And why do I need one? Originally published by William Morgan on Buoyant.io. tl;dr: A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for making service-to-service communication safe, fast, and reliable. If you’re building a cloud native...
April 26, 2017

Release update: Linkerd 1.0 and service mesh explained
Release update: Linkerd 1.0 and service mesh explained
Announcing Linkerd 1.0 Originally published by Oliver Gould. Today, we’re thrilled to announce Linkerd version 1.0. A little more than one year from our initial launch, Linkerd is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and has a thriving community of...
April 25, 2017

Release update: Prometheus 1.6.1 and sneak peak at 2.0
Release update: Prometheus 1.6.1 and sneak peak at 2.0
Prometheus 1.6.1 After 1.5.0 earlier in the year, Prometheus 1.6.1 is now out. There’s a plethora of changes, so let’s dive in. The biggest change is to how memory is managed. The -storage.local.memory-chunks and -storage.local.max-chunks-to-persist flags have been replaced by -storage.local.target-heap-size. Prometheus will attempt to keep the heap...
April 24, 2017

Diversity scholarship series: One DevOps engineer’s perspective on CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe
Diversity scholarship series: One DevOps engineer’s perspective on CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe
CNCF offered six diversity scholarships to developers to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017. In this post, our scholarship recipient Lee Clench, DevOps Engineer for Capgemini, shares his experience attending sessions, meeting the community and participating in technical...
April 20, 2017

Diversity scholarship series: Berlin through the eyes of a cloud infrastructure fanatic
Diversity scholarship series: Berlin through the eyes of a cloud infrastructure fanatic
By Ricardo Aravena, cloud engineer at Coupa Software I’ve attended many conferences before, but I was happy to get the diversity scholarship to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 in Berlin as there is always so much more to learn. It...
April 18, 2017

containerd joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
containerd joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Foundation fostering cross-project collaboration and growth of cloud native ecosystem BERLIN – CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe – March 29, 2017 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which is sustaining and integrating open source technologies to orchestrate containers...
March 29, 2017

rkt: The pod-native container engine launches in the CNCF
rkt: The pod-native container engine launches in the CNCF
By: Jonathan Boulle, rkt project co-founder, CNCF TOC representative, and head of containers and Berlin site lead at CoreOS Earlier this month, we announced that CoreOS made a proposal to add rkt, the pod-native container engine, as a...
March 29, 2017

Cloud Native Computing Foundation announces Dell Technologies as Platinum Member
Cloud Native Computing Foundation announces Dell Technologies as Platinum Member
{code} by Dell EMC builds on its commitment to open source, joins CNCF to accelerate adoption of cloud native environments BERLIN – CloudNativeCon/KubeCon – March 29, 2017 – T​he Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which is sustaining and integrating...
March 29, 2017

Cloud Native Computing Foundation kicks off Berlin Event with five new international members
Cloud Native Computing Foundation kicks off Berlin Event with five new international members
HarmonyCloud, QAware, Solinea, SUSE and TenxCloud Align with Foundation to Further Cloud Native Ecosystem During Sold Out CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe BERLIN – CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe – March 29, 2017 – T​he Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which...
March 29, 2017

Cloud Native Computing Foundation becomes home to Pod-Native container engine project rkt
Cloud Native Computing Foundation becomes home to Pod-Native container engine project rkt
Container execution solutions to benefit from Foundation fostering community building and interoperability in cloud-native computing technology BERLIN – CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe – March 29, 2017 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which is sustaining and integrating open source technologies...
March 29, 2017