All posts by CNCF


OpenTracing: turning the lights on for microservices
OpenTracing: turning the lights on for microservices
By Ben Sigelman (@el_bhs), OpenTracing co-author Those building microservices at scale understand the role and importance of distributed tracing: after all, it’s the most direct way to understand how and why complex systems misbehave. When we deployed Dapper...
October 20, 2016

Keynotes, lightning talks and additional programming announced for CloudNativeCon, KubeCon and PrometheusDay
Keynotes, lightning talks and additional programming announced for CloudNativeCon, KubeCon and PrometheusDay
Keynoters include Box’s Sam Ghods, Comcast’s Erik St. Martin, LightStep’s Ben Sigelman, Prometheus Expert Fabian Reinartz and Kubernetes Experts Kelsey Hightower and David Aronchick SAN FRANCISCO – October 12, 2016 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which is...
October 12, 2016

The New Stack: "A talk with Dan Kohn, CNCF’s new executive director"
The New Stack: "A talk with Dan Kohn, CNCF’s new executive director"
Docker containerization has established itself as a winner with developers. But now many organizations are looking to move these containers into production and the choices are plenty, said Dan Kohn, the new executive director of the Cloud Native...
September 30, 2016

Why Prometheus developers love open source
Why Prometheus developers love open source
“Open source is a lot of people working hard to build the best software they can to give it to you for free,” said Fabian Reinartz, engineer at CoreOS and core Prometheus developer. We asked the Prometheus developers...
September 12, 2016

Deploying 1000 nodes of OpenShift on the CNCF Cluster (Part 1)
Deploying 1000 nodes of OpenShift on the CNCF Cluster (Part 1)
By Jeremy Eder, Red Hat, Senior Principal Software Engineer Imagine being able to stand up thousands of tenants with thousands of apps, running thousands of Docker-formatted container images and routes, on a self healing cluster. Take that one...
August 23, 2016

CNCF offers open source developers free access to its 1000 node server community cluster
CNCF offers open source developers free access to its 1000 node server community cluster
World’s largest freely available bare metal server cluster for advancing cloud native computing TORONTO – LinuxCon/ContainerCon – August 23, 2016 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which is advancing the development of open source software stacks that...
August 23, 2016

Only at CloudNativeDay: Your checklist for a cloud native world
Only at CloudNativeDay: Your checklist for a cloud native world
Founder and Chief Architect at Mesosphere, Ben Hindman, knows that building cloud native applications is only half of the challenge. Once you start running them at scale, you then run into outages and the need to make upgrades....
August 22, 2016

Only at CloudNativeDay: Abby Kearns “opens up” the Cloud Foundry Service Broker API
Only at CloudNativeDay: Abby Kearns “opens up” the Cloud Foundry Service Broker API
Services are integral to the success of a platform, and, for Cloud Foundry, the ability to connect to and manage services is a crucial piece of its platform. During CloudNativeDay on August 25th in Toronto, Abby Kearns, VP...
August 19, 2016

Only at CloudNativeDay: Innovative open source strategies key to cloud native in the Enterprise
Only at CloudNativeDay: Innovative open source strategies key to cloud native in the Enterprise
As IT spending on cloud services reaches $114 billion this year and grows to $216 billion in the year 2020 (according to a report released by Gartner), cloud-native apps are becoming commonplace across enterprises of all sizes. Enterprises...
August 17, 2016

Only at CloudNativeDay: Dive into OpenWhisk with IBM’s cloud platform team
Only at CloudNativeDay: Dive into OpenWhisk with IBM’s cloud platform team
Cloud computing has been a game changer in many ways and the emergence of serverless computing/architectures is a prime example of what cloud technology has been able to achieve. Serverless cloud platforms are a major trend in 2016....
August 12, 2016