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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity
By Chris Aniszczyk By consistently tracking open source project velocity, we are able to see the trends and technologies resonating with developers and end users. We have been tracking these trends since 2017; all previous blogs...
January 29, 2025
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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) style guide
*2024 UPDATE: Please refer to the latest style guide on GitHub. A style guide is used to establish voice and tone for the content you create. The contents of a style guide can be logos, fonts,...
September 4, 2018 | Dee Kumar
gRPC on HTTP/2: Engineering a robust, high performance protocol
This guest post was written by Jean de Klerk, Developer Program Engineer, Google In a previous article, we explored how HTTP/2 dramatically increases network efficiency and enables real-time communication by providing a framework for long-lived connections. In...
August 31, 2018
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...
August 29, 2018 | Kaitlyn Barnard
CNCF to host TiKV in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted TiKV, an open source distributed transactional key-value database, into the CNCF Sandbox for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Built in Rust, powered by Raft (via etcd)...
August 28, 2018 | Kristen Evans
CNCF joins Call for Code
The CNCF, the Linux Foundation, and the entire open source movement would be nothing without community. The ability to come together and foster an ecosystem, develop new, ground-breaking technology, and accelerate innovation is truly inspiring. It’s...
August 27, 2018 | Dan Kohn
Meet the Ambassador: Baruch Sadogursky, JFrog
Baruch Sadogursky, JFrog, sat down with Kim McMahon, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to talk about cloud native, trends in the industry, and being an Ambassador. Kim: Thank you Baruch for joining us for the Ambassador...
August 24, 2018 | Kim McMahon
Becoming Director of Ecosystem at CNCF
After twenty months, I’m moving on from StorageOS. I am deeply grateful to my manager Alex for being an incredible role model, and to my reports Ferran, Frank and the rest of the team for being...
August 23, 2018
Bridging Communities: Hello FoundationDB Summit
We are thrilled to announce the very first FoundationDB Summit on December 10, 2018 in Seattle as part of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Community Events Day. FoundationDB, the distributed and ACID-compliant database, was just recently open sourced in April 2018....
August 22, 2018
Meet the Ambassador: Ariel Jatib – StackPointCloud
Ariel Jatib, StackPointCloud, sat down with Kaitlyn Barnard, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to talk about cloud native, trends in the industry, and being an Ambassador. Below is their interview. You can also view the video....
August 21, 2018 | Kim McMahon
How to rapidly develop apps with microservices
Originally published by Rick Osowski on the IBM Cloud Blog, here. As of late last year, a global majority primarily now accesses the internet through a mobile device. The business implications of the trend are often brought...
August 16, 2018
Prometheus graduates within CNCF
Originally posted August 9, 2018 by Richard Hartmann on Prometheus.io We are happy to announce that as of today, Prometheus graduates within the CNCF. Prometheus is the second project ever to make it to this tier....
August 15, 2018 | Kim McMahon
Pinning its past, present, and future on cloud native
After eight years in existence, Pinterest has grown into 1000 microservices, multiple layers of infrastructure, and a diverse set-up of tools and platforms. In order to manage all of this they needed a compute platform that...
August 14, 2018 | Kim McMahon
CNCF to host OpenMetrics in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted OpenMetrics, an open source specification for metrics exposition, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. OpenMetrics brings together the maturity and...
August 10, 2018 | Kristen Evans
Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes
A few weeks ago, the CNCF family was extended with a new project – Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes. Kubernetes was developed as a solution to manage and orchestrate containerized workloads. At the same time,...
August 7, 2018 | Ihor Dvoretskyi
Q&A with JD.com: Kubernetes, cloud native, and CNCF projects driving big data and AI
Liu Haifeng, Chief Architect at JD.com, sat down with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to talk about Cloud Native, JD.com’s Kubernetes implementation, and tips for other companies looking to get started with open source. Below is their...
August 2, 2018
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...
August 1, 2018 | Kaitlyn Barnard
CNCF to host Harbor in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted Harbor, a cloud native registry, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Project Harbor is an open source cloud native registry that stores, signs, and...
July 31, 2018 | Kristen Evans
Meet the Ambassador: Cheryl Hung
Cheryl Hung, StorageOS, sat down with Kaitlyn Barnard, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to talk about cloud native, the cloud native Meetup group in London, and being an Ambassador. Below is their interview. You can also...
July 26, 2018 | Kim McMahon
Announcing EnvoyCon! CFP due August 24
Originally published by Richard Li on the Envoy blog, here. We are thrilled to announce that the first ever EnvoyCon will be held on December 10 in Seattle, WA as part of the KubeCon / CloudNative Con Community Events Day. The community...
July 25, 2018
Reinventing the world’s largest education company With Kubernetes
Pearson, a global education company serving 75 million learners, set a goal to more than double that number to 200 million by 2025. To serve the digital learning experiences of their users, they needed to scale...
July 24, 2018 | Kim McMahon