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The sold out CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 gathered more than 1,500 end users, leading contributors and developers from around the world for three days in Berlin to exchange Cloud Native knowledge, best practices, and experiences. What started...

By: Jonathan Boulle, rkt project co-founder, CNCF TOC representative, and head of containers and Berlin site lead at CoreOS Earlier this month, we announced that CoreOS made a proposal to add rkt, the pod-native container engine,...

Overview The Cloud Native community has been incredibly busy since our last set of scaling tests on the CNCF cluster back in August. In particular, the Kubernetes (and by extension, OpenShift) communities have been hard at work pushing scalability to...

Author: Leah Petersen, Systems Engineer Samsung CNCT Contributed blog from CNCF Platinum member Samsung “Tell me your opinion about diversity in tech.” …not something you expect to be asked at a technology conference booth. This year...

Each year, FOSDEM attracts more than 8,000 developers – as Josh Berkus, the project atomic community lead at Red Hat, puts it, the event is “a great way to reach a large number of open source geeks, community members...

By William Morgan, Linkerd co-creator and Buoyant co-founder We’re happy to announce that, one year after version 0.1.0 was released, Linkerd has processed over 100 billion production requests in companies around the world. Happy birthday, Linkerd!...

The CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) recently voted CoreDNS into the CNCF portfolio of projects. CoreDNS, a fast, flexible and modern DNS server, joins a growing number of projects integral to the adoption of cloud native computing. CoreDNS was voted in as...

Slack is giving back to the Kubernetes and CNCF communities with free access as part of their not for profit program. We are also thrilled that they have extended their not for profit program to include...

CNCF is the new home for gRPC and its existing ecosystem projects (https://github.com/grpc and https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem). The sixth project voted in by CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), gRPC is a modern, open source, high performance remote procedure...

DigitalOcean – a CNCF member and devoted Prometheus user – is approaching one million registered users with more than 40,000 active teams. With workloads becoming more complex, it is focused on delivering the tools and performance that...

By Dan Kohn, CNCF Executive Director, @dankohn1 As the executive director of CNCF, I’m proud to host Kubernetes, which is one of the highest development velocity projects in the history of open source. I know this...

Sometimes two things go so well together you wonder how you ever saw them separately, like peanut butter and chocolate coming together to make Reese’s cups. The combination of Kubernetes and Prometheus invokes the same feeling...

1) What does the CNCF Governing Board do and what is your role as chair? The CNCF is a result of a shared vision by many of us in the cloud community. It was created to...

CNCF has purchased the source code to the RethinkDB database, relicensed the code under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ASLv2) and contributed it to The Linux Foundation. RethinkDBTM is an open source, NoSQL, distributed document-oriented database...

By Dan Kohn, @dankohn1, CNCF Executive Director February 1, 2017 The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) believes that the best software license for open source projects today is the Apache-2.0 license (Apache-2.0). Our goal is to...

Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Linkerd as the fifth hosted project alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing and Fluentd. You can find more information on the project on their GitHub page. Linkerd...

In conjunction with CloudNativeCon+ KubeCon (Nov 8-9, 2016), the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) conducted a survey of attendees. More than 170 conference attendees completed the survey, with a majority of respondents (73%) coming from technology companies (vs....

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is taking to the road February 7-9  in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver to offer end users, developers, students and other community members the ability to learn from experts at Red Hat, Apprenda and CNCF...

By: Kris Nova, Platform Engineer at Datapipe Diversity noun : the condition of having or being composed of differing elements. As defined by Merriam-Webster, diversity indicates the presence of differing elements. Without going too data science...

By Eduardo Silva, Fluentd Maintainer When deploying applications – either for development or production purposes – there are several steps one needs to take to have a healthy environment. One such step is making sure you...