All posts by Katie Meinders


Service meshes are on the rise – but greater understanding and experience are required
Staff Post Service meshes are on the rise – but greater understanding and experience are required
CNCF conducted a microsurvey of the cloud native community at the end of last year to discover how organizations adopt service meshes. Overall we found that adoption is high and growing, but the community is still working through...
May 17, 2022

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 mask mandate post mortem
Staff Post KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 mask mandate post mortem
First, we want to apologize for the confusion and strife that this change in policy caused for our community. We will be making improvements to our processes due to the lessons learned in this event and are always...
April 28, 2022

Kubernetes & Cloud Native Essentials Training Now Available in Japanese
Kubernetes & Cloud Native Essentials Training Now Available in Japanese
Cloud native skills are in higher demand than ever, with these skills being rated the most sought after by employers in the most recent Open Source Jobs Report. And with 92% of employers having difficulty finding and retaining...
April 20, 2022

KubeVirt becomes a CNCF incubating project
Staff Post KubeVirt becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept KubeVirt as a CNCF incubating project.  KubeVirt enables users to run virtual machine workloads on top of Kubernetes in a Kubernetes-native way. It allows the migration of legacy...
April 19, 2022

Cloud Native Batch System Volcano moves to the CNCF Incubator
Staff Post Cloud Native Batch System Volcano moves to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Volcano as a CNCF incubating project.  Volcano is a cloud native batch system and CNCF’s first batch computing project. It is developed to extend cloud native from micro...
April 7, 2022

Backstage project joins the CNCF Incubator
Staff Post Backstage project joins the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Backstage as a CNCF incubating project.  Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals maintained by a global community. It unifies an organization’s tooling, services, apps, data,...
March 15, 2022

Supply chain security project in-toto moves to the CNCF Incubator
Staff Post Supply chain security project in-toto moves to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept in-toto as a CNCF incubating project.  in-toto is a framework that protects the software supply chain by collecting and verifying relevant data. It does so by enabling libraries...
March 10, 2022

Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2022
Staff Post Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2022
As part of our commitment to transparency within the cloud native community, we are providing an inside look into the work that goes on behind the scenes to bring the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon schedule to life. Note that...
March 9, 2022

Cloud Native Observability Microsurvey: Prometheus leads the way, but hurdles remain to understanding the health of systems
Cloud Native Observability Microsurvey: Prometheus leads the way, but hurdles remain to understanding the health of systems
We recently partnered with the CNCF Observability Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to conduct a microsurvey of the cloud native community at the end of 2021 to find out how organizations use observability tools. The desire to achieve the...
March 8, 2022

Knative accepted as a CNCF incubating project
Staff Post Knative accepted as a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Knative as a CNCF incubating project.  Knative is an open source, Kubernetes-based platform for building, deploying, and managing serverless and event-driven applications. It helps development teams manage, monitor,...
March 2, 2022