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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
Staff Post 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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Enforce Ingress Best Practices Using OPA
Member Post Enforce Ingress Best Practices Using OPA
Guest post originally posted on Magalix blog by Mohamed Ahmed In this section of our OPA series, we define policies that ensure that no bad Ingress definitions will be deployed to our cluster. If you haven’t...
September 29, 2020 | Mohamed Ahmed

Best practices in marketing from the first virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU
Staff Post Best practices in marketing from the first virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU
We recently hosted the first-ever virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, which drew nearly 19k attendees. With a higher attendance compared to a traditional in-person KubeCon event, the CNCF marketing committee met to discuss the lessons learned...
September 29, 2020

Monitoring ADCs the Cloud Native Way With Prometheus and Grafana
Member Post Monitoring ADCs the Cloud Native Way With Prometheus and Grafana
Guest post by Dave Blakey, CTO Snapt Cloud Native computing has fundamentally shifted the paradigm for how applications are built and run. Built around concepts of ephemeral compute and immutable infrastructure based on Containers, Cloud Native...
September 28, 2020 | Dave Blakey

Kubernetes Could Be The One To Make the Internet of Things (IoT) Reach Its Potential
Kubernetes Could Be The One To Make the Internet of Things (IoT) Reach Its Potential
Guest post originally published on Hackernoon by Adrian Goins is Director of Community and Evangelism at Rancher Labs The arrival of 5G wireless technology is often touted for the orders-of-magnitude boost in bandwidth it will bring...
September 25, 2020 | Adrian Goins

You can handle pods, but what about clusters?
Member Post You can handle pods, but what about clusters?
Member Blog Post Guest post originally published on DoiT International’s blog by Joshua Fox Kubernetes makes it easy to orchestrate the pods that run your applications. But what about the clusters that the pods run on?...
September 25, 2020 | Joshua Fox

Scholarships at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual: Apply now!
Scholarships at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual: Apply now!
Since 2016, CNCF has offered more than 1,000 diversity scholarships to traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups in the technology and/or open source communities—including, but not limited to persons identifying as LGBTQ, women, persons of color, and/or...
September 24, 2020

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 – Virtual Conference Transparency Report: A very successful first virtual event!
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 – Virtual Conference Transparency Report: A very successful first virtual event!
74% of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 – Virtual keynote speakers identified as women or gender non-conforming 72% were first-time KubeCon + CloudNativeCon attendees 61% of attendees spent 10+ hours on the platform  One of the...
September 23, 2020

With Kubernetes, It’s Not All About Horsepower
Member Post With Kubernetes, It’s Not All About Horsepower
Member Blog Post Guest post originally published on Carbon Relay’s blog by Brad Ascar Sr. Solutions Architect, Carbon Relay I make my living in the software business. I started out as a software developer, moved up to...
September 23, 2020 | Brad Ascar

Container Attached Storage is Cloud Native Storage (CAS)
Member Post Container Attached Storage is Cloud Native Storage (CAS)
Guest post by Evan Powell, CEO at MayaData Or, how can cloud services not be cloud-native? KubeCon EU was great in many ways. One pleasant surprise is that because KubeCon was a virtual event, this led...
September 22, 2020 | Evan Powell

Calling all Mentees: CNCF CommunityBridge Projects for the Fall 2020 Program
Project Post Calling all Mentees: CNCF CommunityBridge Projects for the Fall 2020 Program
Like we mentioned in our previous blog post, CNCF is thrilled to participate in the Fall 2020 CommunityBridge Program and have 22 project ideas from 12 Graduated, Incubating and Sandbox available to mentees. Similar to Google...
September 21, 2020 | Chris Abraham

CommunityBridge Spotlight: Get the most out of the CommunityBridge Program
Mentorship Post CommunityBridge Spotlight: Get the most out of the CommunityBridge Program
Guest post by CommunityBridge mentee, Sonia Singla Hello everyone, my name is Sonia 👱‍♀️, and currently, am pursuing my Bachelor’s in Information Technology from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. I have successfully graduated from Linux Foundation’s Community Bridge...
September 21, 2020 | Sonia Singla

5 Problems with Kubernetes Cost Estimation Strategies
Member Post 5 Problems with Kubernetes Cost Estimation Strategies
Guest post originally published on Fairwinds blog by Robert Brennan Estimating how much you are spending (or wasting) on a particular Kubernetes workload is hard. The good news is that there are some reasonable strategies for...
September 18, 2020 | Robert Brennan

How to Create Ephemeral Environments using Crossplane and ArgoCD?
Member Post How to Create Ephemeral Environments using Crossplane and ArgoCD?
Guest post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Suraj Banakar What if you could just spin up a temporary cluster to test your application and set it to delete it after a certain time period...
September 18, 2020 | Suraj Banakar

16 CNCF Interns Graduate from Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020!
16 CNCF Interns Graduate from Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020!
Having participated in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) since 2017, CNCF is thrilled to announce that this year, 16 interns working on the Foundation’s projects have graduated from the program. Interns this year got to...
September 17, 2020 | Chris Abraham

Simplify Kubernetes Resource Access Control using RBAC Impersonation
Member Post Simplify Kubernetes Resource Access Control using RBAC Impersonation
Guest post originally published on Bitnami by Juanjo Ciarlante Introduction Kubernetes, like any other secure system, supports the following concepts: Authentication: Verifying and proving identities for users and groups, and service accounts Authorization: Allowing users to...
September 17, 2020 | Juanjo Ciarlante

Un-Distance your Web-App!
Member Post Un-Distance your Web-App!
Member Post Guest post originally published on the Volterra blog by Pranav Dharwadkar, VP of Products at Volterra This blog describes a key challenge of web application performance faced by online enterprises around the world. This...
September 16, 2020 | Pranav Dharwadkar

The road ahead for Linkerd2-proxy, and how you can get involved
Project Post The road ahead for Linkerd2-proxy, and how you can get involved
Guest post originally posted on the Linkerd blog by Oliver Gould The past few months have seen a continued interest in Linkerd’s data plane “micro-proxy”, Linkerd2-proxy. Last month, William Morgan wrote about some of the decisions that first...
September 16, 2020 | Oliver Gould

TOC Approves KubeEdge as Incubating Project
Staff Post TOC Approves KubeEdge as Incubating Project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept KubeEdge as an incubation-level hosted project. KubeEdge is an open source system for extending containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at the edge. It is built...
September 16, 2020

Top 7 challenges to becoming cloud native
Member Post Top 7 challenges to becoming cloud native
Guest post originally published on the CloudOps blog Cloud native applications take full advantage of the cloud’s operational model, driving business value by being auto-provisioning, scaling, and redundant. By breaking down monolithic applications into independent but...
September 15, 2020

Leaving the Swarm: The Road to Kubernetes
Member Post Leaving the Swarm: The Road to Kubernetes
Guest post by Kevin Crawley, Developer Advocate for Containous In order to tell this story, we have to go back a little over three years ago, when I was asked to join Single as an investor,...
September 14, 2020 | Kevin Crawley