All posts by Katie Meinders


Introducing the CNCF End User Journey Report: First up, Spotify
Staff Post Introducing the CNCF End User Journey Report: First up, Spotify
In the world of open source software, end users are the best resource for providing feedback to projects on usability, feature additions, and improvements. They also offer incredibly valuable feedback to each other. Chances are if your organization...
September 16, 2021

Crossplane moves from Sandbox to CNCF Incubator
Staff Post Crossplane moves from Sandbox to CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Crossplane as a CNCF incubating project. Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that enables modern organizations to consume infrastructure through an open, community-driven, and standards-based universal control...
September 14, 2021

How Seagate runs real-time analytics at the Edge
Staff Post How Seagate runs real-time analytics at the Edge
With global data creation predicted to hit 180 zettabytes by 2025, leading data storage provider Seagate needed to introduce greater automation at immense scale to its operations, to ensure it could keep pace with growing demand.  To manage...
September 8, 2021

OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project
Staff Post OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as a CNCF incubating project. OpenTelemetry is an observability framework for cloud native software. It is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that can be used...
August 26, 2021

KEDA moves from the CNCF Sandbox to become an incubating project
Staff Post KEDA moves from the CNCF Sandbox to become an incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept KEDA as a CNCF incubating project. Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) is a single-purpose event-driven autoscaler for Kubernetes that can be easily added to Kubernetes clusters to scale applications....
August 18, 2021

Open sourcing the SPIFFE/SPIRE security audit
Staff Post Open sourcing the SPIFFE/SPIRE security audit
A few years back, CNCF began performing and open sourcing third-party security audits for projects to improve the overall security of our ecosystem. These audits have helped identify security issues, from general weaknesses to critical vulnerabilities, and given...
August 17, 2021

CNCF Cloud Native Survey 2021: Part 2 is open now!
Staff Post CNCF Cloud Native Survey 2021: Part 2 is open now!
The Cloud Native Survey 2021 – Part 2 is now open! We want to extend a HUGE thank you to everyone who completed Part 1. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us and the whole of #TeamCloudNative. We...
August 11, 2021

Keeping KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Los Angeles 2021 Safe for Onsite Attendees
Staff Post Keeping KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Los Angeles 2021 Safe for Onsite Attendees
We are looking forward to connecting with many of you in the cloud native community in Los Angeles (after quite a long hiatus!) at the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 from October 11-15.  In order to...
August 4, 2021

Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020
Staff Post Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020
Back in 2017, we provided insight into the top 30 highest velocity open source projects at the time and the findings were very interesting. This year, we want to look at both CNCF’s project velocity as well as...
August 2, 2021 | By Chris Aniszczyk

Success Story: Preparing for Kubernetes Certification Improves a Platform Development Engineer’s Skill Set
Staff Post Success Story: Preparing for Kubernetes Certification Improves a Platform Development Engineer’s Skill Set
Guest post from LF Training & Certification Faseela K. is a platform development engineer with a background in open source networking. As she saw the use of containers growing more than the VMs she was working with, she...
July 30, 2021