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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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Linkerd 2.0 now in general availability: From service mesh to service sidecar
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and maintainers of Linkerd are excited to announce the general availability of Linkerd 2.0. The 2.0 release brings dramatic improvements to performance, resource consumption, and ease of use to Linkerd. It also transforms...
September 18, 2018 | Kristen Evans
GSoC 18: Kata Containers support for containerd
Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program 2018 has come to an end and we followed up with CNCF’s seven interns previously featured in this blog post to check in on how their summer project progressed. Over the summer,...
September 17, 2018
Northwestern Mutual: Focus on risk management, built on cloud native
For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has maintained its industry leadership in part by keeping a strong focus on risk management. For many years, the company took a similar approach to managing its technology and...
September 13, 2018 | Kim McMahon
New Co-Lo alert: Observability practitioners summit
Gearing up for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle? Don’t miss Observability Practitioners Summit – our new co-located event on Monday, December 10, focused on pushing the field of monitoring and observability forwards by providing a mix of...
September 11, 2018 | Kristen Evans
Announcing the final four keynotes for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China, taking place on November 13-15 in Shanghai, has added the final four new keynotes to its line-up. With the rapidly growing interest in cloud native technologies in Asia, the event provides a...
September 11, 2018
Meet the CNCF Ambassadors
A few years ago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) launched the Ambassadors Program for individuals who are passionate about cloud native technologies and are actively contributing to CNCF projects.Today, we have more than 50 CNCF...
September 7, 2018 | Ihor Dvoretskyi
Meet the Ambassador: Gianluca Arbezzano
Gianluca Arbezzano, InfluxDB, 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. Kaitlyn: Hi...
September 7, 2018 | Kim McMahon
CNCF’s full GSoC roster passes summer evaluations
Each summer, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program welcomes hundreds (if not thousands) of students to write code and learn about the open source community – all with help from mentor organizations like CNCF. As...
September 4, 2018 | Ihor Dvoretskyi
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