All posts by Kaitlyn Barnard


Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification is now valid for 3 years
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification is now valid for 3 years
In 2017, CNCF launched the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam which has become one of the most popular Linux Foundation certifications to date. Over 9,000 individuals have registered for the exam and over 1,700 have achieved the certification....
May 28, 2019 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

CNCF Survey: Cloud usage in Asia has grown 135% since March 2018
CNCF Survey: Cloud usage in Asia has grown 135% since March 2018
The bi-annual CNCF survey takes a pulse of the community to better understand the adoption of cloud native technologies. This is the second time CNCF has conducted its cloud native survey in Mandarin to better gauge how Asian...
November 13, 2018 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

CNCF Survey: Use of cloud native technologies in production has grown over 200%
CNCF Survey: Use of cloud native technologies in production has grown over 200%
The bi-annual CNCF survey takes a pulse of the community to better understand the adoption of cloud native technologies. This is the sixth time CNCF has taken the temperature of the container management marketplace. Key takeaways Production usage...
August 29, 2018 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Demystifying RBAC in Kubernetes
Demystifying RBAC in Kubernetes
Today’s post is written by Javier Salmeron, Engineer at Bitnami Many experienced Kubernetes users may remember the Kubernetes 1.6 release, where the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) authorizer was promoted to beta. This provided an alternative authentication mechanism to...
August 1, 2018 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Getting the most out of Istio with CNCF projects
Getting the most out of Istio with CNCF projects
This guest post was written by Neeraj Poddar, Platform Lead, Aspen Mesh Are you considering or using a service mesh to help manage your microservices infrastructure? If so, here are some basics on how a service mesh can...
June 29, 2018 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

CNCF survey: China is going native with cloud
CNCF survey: China is going native with cloud
By Swapnil Bhartiya, Founder & Writer at TFiR: The Fourth Industrial Revolution Swapnil is a journalist and writer who has been covering Linux & Open Source for 10 years. He is also a science fiction writer whose stories have...
March 26, 2018 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Kubernetes 1.10: Stabilizing storage, security, and networking
Kubernetes 1.10: Stabilizing storage, security, and networking
Editor’s note: today’s post is by the 1.10 Release Team Originally posted on Kubernetes.io We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.10, our first release of 2018! Today’s release continues to advance maturity, extensibility, and pluggability of...
March 26, 2018 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

This week in Kubernetes: March 21st
This week in Kubernetes: March 21st
Each week, the Kubernetes community shares an enormous amount of interesting and informative content including articles, blog posts, tutorials, videos, and much more. We’re highlighting just a few of our favorites from the week before. This week we’re...
March 21, 2018 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Trace your microservices application with Zipkin and OpenTracing
Trace your microservices application with Zipkin and OpenTracing
By Gianluca Arbezzano, Site Reliability Engineer at InfluxDB, CNCF Ambassador Walter Dal Mut is a certified Amazon Web Service consultant. He works at Corley SRL, an Italian company that helps other small and big companies move to the...
March 19, 2018 | By Kaitlyn Barnard

Cloud Native Computing Foundation expands certification program to Kubernetes application developers – Beta testers needed
Cloud Native Computing Foundation expands certification program to Kubernetes application developers – Beta testers needed
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus, announced today that it is expanding its certification program to include application developers who deploy to Kubernetes. After launching the highly successful Certified Kubernetes Administrator...
March 16, 2018 | By Kaitlyn Barnard