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A mid-year 2025 look at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and the top 30 open source projects 
Staff Post A mid-year 2025 look at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and the top 30 open source projects 
Building upon our previous analyses, we continue to monitor trends and technologies that resonate with developers and end users. Take a look at our past timeframes from our blogs.  Here are the main takeaways I see...
July 18, 2025 | Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF
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Wink: Connecting your smart home using cloud native infrastructure
Wink: Connecting your smart home using cloud native infrastructure
How many people does it take to turn on a light bulb? Kit Klein whips out his phone to demonstrate. With a few swipes, Wink Head of Engineering officer pulls up the smart-home app created by...
July 26, 2017 | Kaitlyn Barnard

Ancestry: Digging into the past with new technology
Ancestry: Digging into the past with new technology
It started with a Shaky Leaf. Since its introduction a decade ago, the Shaky Leaf icon has become one of Ancestry’s signature features, which signals to users that there’s a helpful hint you can use to...
July 20, 2017 | Kaitlyn Barnard

Prometheus user profile: Canonical talks about its transition to Prometheus
Prometheus user profile: Canonical talks about its transition to Prometheus
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu – the leading OS for container, cloud, scale-out and hyperscale computing. 65 percent of today’s large-scale OpenStack deployments are on Ubuntu, using both KVM and the pure-container LXD hypervisor for the...
July 17, 2017 | Kristen Evans

GolfNow: saving time and money with Cloud Native Infrastructure
GolfNow: saving time and money with Cloud Native Infrastructure
It’s not every day that you can say you’ve slashed an operating expense by half. But Sheriff Mohamed and Josh Chandler did just that when they helped lead their company, GolfNow, on a journey from a...
July 11, 2017 | Kaitlyn Barnard

Prometheus user profile: JustWatch discusses the benefits of Whitebox monitoring
Prometheus user profile: JustWatch discusses the benefits of Whitebox monitoring
JustWatch is a streaming search engine that helps to find out where to watch movies and TV shows legally online and in theaters. You can search movie content across all major streaming providers like Netflix, HBO,...
July 10, 2017 | Kristen Evans

Box: An early adopter envisions a new cloud platform
Box: An early adopter envisions a new cloud platform
In the summer of 2014, Box was feeling the pain of a decade’s worth of hardware and software infrastructure that wasn’t keeping up with the company’s needs. A platform that allows its more than 50 million...
June 29, 2017 | Kaitlyn Barnard

Survey shows Kubernetes leading as orchestration platform
Survey shows Kubernetes leading as orchestration platform
In conjunction with CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe (March 29-30, 2017), the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) conducted a survey of our attendees. More than 430 conference attendees (out of 1500) completed the survey, with a majority of respondents...
June 28, 2017 | Sarah Conway

Prometheus user profile: How Europace discovered Prometheus
Prometheus user profile: How Europace discovered Prometheus
Europace is a Germany-based developer of the country’s largest platform for mortgages, building finance products and personal loans – linking banks, insurers and financial product distributors and enabling users to execute 35,000 transactions each month. Europace moved...
June 21, 2017 | Kristen Evans

CoreDNS-008 release
CoreDNS-008 release
By John Belamaric  Email  Twitter  GitHub On June 14, 2017, CoreDNS-008 released! CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains middleware, where each middleware implements a DNS feature. Release v008 has a lot of content, with new middleware and major features...
June 19, 2017

Sign-up for the Kubernetes beta certification exam
Sign-up for the Kubernetes beta certification exam
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is collaborating with The Linux Foundation to create an inaugural exam certification for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program. As the fourth highest velocity open source projects, Kubernetes use is exploding. This certification...
June 15, 2017

Outside developer perspective: CNCF
Outside developer perspective: CNCF
Gianluca Arbezzano is a full stack developer at InfluxDB, a Docker captain and contributor and maintainer of different oss projects. Passionate about modern monitoring and furthering cloud native technologies, Gianluca recently wrote about his first experience...
June 14, 2017

The 30 highest Velocity open source projects
The 30 highest Velocity open source projects
Open Source projects exhibit natural increasing returns to scale. That’s because most developers are interested in using and participating in the largest projects, and the projects with the most developers are more likely to quickly fix...
June 5, 2017 | Dan Kohn

Open source software fuels explosive startup growth and goes mainstream
Open source software fuels explosive startup growth and goes mainstream
Last week, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Battery Ventures hosted an interactive discussion on the explosive growth of open source software in San Francisco. Event slides can be found here. In SF? Learn about open...
June 1, 2017

Prometheus user profile: Compose explains their monitoring journey from Graphite + InfluxDB to Prometheus
Prometheus user profile: Compose explains their monitoring journey from Graphite + InfluxDB to Prometheus
Compose is a fully-managed platform used by developers to deploy, host and scale databases. Its platform streamlines spinning up and managing MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, RethinkDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RabbitMQ and etcd databases – both for single developers...
May 26, 2017 | Kristen Evans

CNCF hosts Container Networking Interface (CNI)
CNCF hosts Container Networking Interface (CNI)
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept CNI (Container Networking Interface) as the 10th hosted project alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, and rkt. Container-based applications are rapidly...
May 23, 2017 | Natasha Woods

Diversity scholarship series: Inspired by Kubernetes and its community
Diversity scholarship series: Inspired by Kubernetes and its community
CNCF offered six diversity scholarships to developers to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017. In this post, our scholarship recipient Kim Lehtinen, second-year student at University of Vaasa in Finland, shares his experience attending sessions and...
May 19, 2017

Prometheus user profile: ShuttleCloud explains why Prometheus is good for your small startup
Prometheus user profile: ShuttleCloud explains why Prometheus is good for your small startup
ShuttleCloud is a small startup specialized in email and contacts migrations. The company developed a reliable migration platform in high availability used by clients like Gmail, Gcontacts and Comcast. For example, Gmail alone has imported data...
May 17, 2017 | Kristen Evans

Developing cloud native applications
Developing cloud native applications
By Ken Owens, Technologist and Innovation Engineer currently CTO Cloud Native Platforms at Cisco Systems and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) representative *Blog originally posted on DevNetCreate.io Software engineering and developer communities are driving...
May 15, 2017

Diversity scholarship series: My experience at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017
Diversity scholarship series: My experience at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017
CNCF offered six diversity scholarships to developers to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017. In this post, our scholarship recipient Konrad Djimeli, University of Buea student, shares his experience meeting the community, participating in technical sessions and...
May 10, 2017

Where in the world is CNCF? Find us at these community events 🗓
Where in the world is CNCF? Find us at these community events 🗓
Throughout the next few weeks, CNCF is sponsoring, speaking and exhibiting at a number of exciting community events, including: Amazonia, OpenStack Summit Boston, OSCON, DevNet Create, Open Source Summit Japan, CoreOS Fest and LinuxCon + ContainerCon...
May 8, 2017 | Kristen Evans