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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
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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...
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Kubernetes Day India schedule announced
Kubernetes Day India schedule announced
We are pleased to announce the schedule for Kubernetes Day India, our inaugural event taking place on March 23 in Bengaluru, India, at Infosys Limited, our Venue sponsor. Additional sponsors include Platinum sponsor, DigitalOcean; Gold sponsors, InfraCloud and OpenEBS...
February 13, 2019

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 Conference Transparency Report: A record-breaking CNCF event
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 Conference Transparency Report: A record-breaking CNCF event
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 was a huge success with record-breaking registrations, attendance, sponsorships, and co-located events. Out of 8,000 attendees, 73% were first-time KubeCon-ers, highlighting massive growth and new interest in CNCF and cloud...
February 12, 2019

Diversity scholarship series: Why not?
Diversity scholarship series: Why not?
CNCF offered diversity scholarships to developers and students to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018. In this post, Dennis Salamanca Farafonov shares what sets KubeCon + CloudNativeCon apart and why you should apply to become a...
February 7, 2019

How Uber monitors 4,000 Microservices
How Uber monitors 4,000 Microservices
With 4,000 proprietary microservices and a growing number of open source systems that needed to be monitored, by late 2014 Uber was outgrowing its usage of Graphite and Nagios for metrics. They evaluated several technologies, including...
February 5, 2019

Diversity scholarship series: Bringing along Kubernetes experience from Shanghai to Nepal
Diversity scholarship series: Bringing along Kubernetes experience from Shanghai to Nepal
CNCF offered diversity scholarships to developers and students to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018. In this post, our scholarship recipient Raksha Roy, an Enterprise Resource Planning Associate from Nepal, shares her experience attending sessions and...
January 30, 2019

New year, new TOC
New year, new TOC
The CNCF TOC – charged with defining and maintaining the technical vision for CNCF; approving new projects within the scope for CNCF set by the Governing Board, and creating a conceptual architecture for these projects; aligning...
January 29, 2019 | Kristen Evans

Enterprise leaders’ protips for scavenger hunting through the cloud native tool weeds
Enterprise leaders’ protips for scavenger hunting through the cloud native tool weeds
This article was written and produced by the Orate Project, which helps organizations tell technical stories Aren’t enterprises lucky the cloud native ecosystem is growing so lavishly? A whole universe of well-honed tools is expanding before...
January 15, 2019

9 Kubernetes security best practices everyone must follow
9 Kubernetes security best practices everyone must follow
By Connor Gilbert, product manager at StackRox Last month, the Kubernetes ecosystem was shaken by the discovery of the first major security flaw in Kubernetes, the world’s most popular container orchestrator. The vulnerability – CVE-2018-1002105 –...
January 14, 2019

Monitoring Kubernetes, part 1: the challenges + data sources
Monitoring Kubernetes, part 1: the challenges + data sources
Originally published here by Sean Porter, CTO of Sensu Our industry has long been relying on microservice-based architecture to deliver software faster and safer. The advent and ubiquity of microservices naturally paved the way for container technology, empowering...
January 9, 2019

Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Prometheus is one of the standard-bearing open-source solutions for monitoring and observability. From its humble origins at SoundCloud in 2012, Prometheus quickly garnered widespread adoption and later became one of the first CNCF projects and just the second to...
December 18, 2018 | Luc Perkins

Closing out 2018 with a top-notch cloud native community event!
Closing out 2018 with a top-notch cloud native community event!
With KubeCon Seattle now behind us, here’s a snapshot of all the cloud native goodness at our most jam-packed show to date. The sold-out KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 had the largest attendance and waiting...
December 14, 2018 | Natasha Woods

Phippy + Cloud native friends make CNCF their home
Phippy + Cloud native friends make CNCF their home
In 2016, Deis (now part of Microsoft) platform architect Matt Butcher was looking for a way to explain Kubernetes to technical and non-technical people alike. Inspired by his daughter’s prolific stuffed animal collection, he came up...
December 11, 2018 | Kristen Evans

CNCF to host etcd
CNCF to host etcd
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept etcd as an incubation-level hosted project from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle. etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable...
December 11, 2018 | Kristen Evans

A look back at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Shanghai 2018
A look back at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Shanghai 2018
Now that we’ve finally caught our breath after a fantastic two days at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Shanghai, let’s dive into some of the key highlights and news. The best part is we get to...
December 5, 2018

The “Function” Package – Creating a Spec for serverless application packaging
The “Function” Package – Creating a Spec for serverless application packaging
by Yoav Landman, CTO, JFrog What’s in a function? Creating serverless applications is a multi-step process. One of the critical steps in this process is packaging the serverless functions you want to deploy into your FaaS...
December 4, 2018

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Barcelona 2019 call for proposals (CFP) is open
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Barcelona 2019 call for proposals (CFP) is open
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon has expanded from its start with 500 attendees in 2015 to become one of the largest and most successful open source conferences ever. With that growth comes challenges, and CNCF is eager to...
November 16, 2018 | Dee Kumar

JD.com recognized for cloud native open source technology usage with CNCF Top End User Award
JD.com recognized for cloud native open source technology usage with CNCF Top End User Award
JD.com, China’s largest retailer, has been presented with the Top End User Award by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) for its unique usage of cloud native open source projects. The award was announced at China’s...
November 14, 2018

TOC votes to move Harbor into CNCF incubator
TOC votes to move Harbor into CNCF incubator
Harbor started in 2014 as a humble internal project meant to address a simple use case: storing images for developers leveraging containers. The cloud native landscape was wildly different and tools like Kubernetes were just starting...
November 14, 2018

CNCF Survey: Cloud usage in Asia has grown 135% since March 2018
CNCF Survey: Cloud usage in Asia has grown 135% since March 2018
The bi-annual CNCF survey takes a pulse of the community to better understand the adoption of cloud native technologies. This is the second time CNCF has conducted its cloud native survey in Mandarin to better gauge...
November 13, 2018 | Kaitlyn Barnard

The beginner’s guide to the CNCF landscape
The beginner’s guide to the CNCF landscape
This blog was originally posted on the CloudOps blog, by Ayrat Khayretdinov The cloud native landscape can be complicated and confusing. Its myriad of open source projects are supported by the constant contributions of a vibrant...
November 5, 2018