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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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New research says cert-manager is vital for production environments that are scaling
Member Post New research says cert-manager is vital for production environments that are scaling
Guest post from Richard Collins, Jetstack In recent months the cert-manager user community has been surveyed to understand how this CNCF Sandbox project is being used in production environments. As a highly popular developer-centric tool used...
September 20, 2022 | Richard Collins

LitmusChaos August 2022 update
Project Post LitmusChaos August 2022 update
As promised, we are back with another edition of monthly updates from the LitmusChaos community. With the growth of the Chaos Engineering community as well as the LitmusChaos community, we appreciate this massive participation and immense...
September 20, 2022

Managing Kyverno policies as OCI Artifacts with OCIRepository sources
Project Post Managing Kyverno policies as OCI Artifacts with OCIRepository sources
Project post originally published on the Flux blog The Flux team has released a new version of Flux  v0.32 that includes fantastic features. One of them is OCI Repositories feature that allows us to store and distribute a wide variety...
September 19, 2022

An open source policy engine that automates remediation: Polaris 
Member Post An open source policy engine that automates remediation: Polaris 
Guest post by Robert Brennan, VP of product development, Fairwinds Polaris is an open source policy engine that runs dozens of checks to ensure that your Kubernetes pods and controllers are configured using best practices in...
September 16, 2022 | Robert Brennan

10 critical Kubernetes tools and how to debug them
Member Post 10 critical Kubernetes tools and how to debug them
Guest post originally published on the Rookout blog by Gedalyah Reback, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Rookout Kubernetes is both revolutionary and “diffusionary.” It is a complete restructuring demanding a whole new slew of companion and...
September 15, 2022

Protect the pipe! Secure CI/CD pipelines with a policy-based approach using Tekton and Kyverno
Member Post Protect the pipe! Secure CI/CD pipelines with a policy-based approach using Tekton and Kyverno
Guest post originally published on the Nirmata blog by Jim Bugwadia of Nirmata and Shripad Nadgowda a Cloud Architect at Intel Rise of software supply chain attacks In the last few years there has been a...
September 14, 2022 | Jim Bugwadia + Shripad Nadgowda

Flux August 2022 project update
Project Post Flux August 2022 project update
Project post originally published on the Flux blog by Daniel Holbach As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities...
September 14, 2022

Cloud Custodian becomes a CNCF incubating project
Project Post Cloud Custodian becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Cloud Custodian as a CNCF incubating project.  Cloud Custodian is a governance as a code tool that allows organizations to use code to manage and automate...
September 14, 2022

Application performance monitoring vs. application performance observability
Member Post Application performance monitoring vs. application performance observability
Guest post originally published on the Scout APM blog by Dave Anderson, CTO, Scout APM  You’ve likely heard the term Observability lately. There’s a fundamental change taking place in the Monitoring space, and Observability is behind it. Observability...
September 13, 2022 | Dave Anderson

An introduction to OpenTelemetry and observability
Member Post An introduction to OpenTelemetry and observability
Guest post originally published on the InfluxData blog by Charles Mahler Cloud native and microservice architectures bring many advantages in terms of performance, scalability, and reliability, but one thing they can also bring is complexity. Having requests...
September 12, 2022 | Charles Mahler

Top 11 things you didn’t know about cloud native statefulness
Community Post Top 11 things you didn’t know about cloud native statefulness
Community post by W. Watson and Denver Wiliams from the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Test Suite 1. You need more than ACID An RDBMS’s atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability are not what they seem to...
September 12, 2022 | W. Watson and Denver Wiliams

Securing Kubernetes cluster using Kubescape and kube-bench
Member Post Securing Kubernetes cluster using Kubescape and kube-bench
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Amar Chand With businesses adopting cloud native technology, Kubernetes has emerged as a primary tool of choice for container orchestration. Deploying and managing applications has never been easier....
September 9, 2022 | Amar Chand

4 challenges retailers face when adopting Kubernetes at the edge
Member Post 4 challenges retailers face when adopting Kubernetes at the edge
Guest post originally published on the Weaveworks blog by Jeff Krupinski, Weaveworks Senior Director of Sales Have you ever thought about how retailers or restaurant chains have adopted cloud-native technology with edge presence at their brick and mortar...
September 8, 2022 | Jeff Krupinski

How OpenTelemetry works under the hood in JavaScript
How OpenTelemetry works under the hood in JavaScript
Guest post originally published on the Helios blog by Ran Nozik OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open source selection of tools, SDKs and APIs, that allows developers to collect and export traces, metrics and logs. It’s the second-most...
September 7, 2022

Karmada in AIML INSTITUTE
Member Post Karmada in AIML INSTITUTE
Guest post from Huawei by Xu Yuanchang, Karmada Member, Tech Head of Container Platform, Hurricane Engines Ltd Background AIML INSTITUTE is a tech company that helps enterprises build integrated cloud native solutions for digital transformation. Their...
September 6, 2022

The 2-minute test for Kubernetes Pod security
Project Post The 2-minute test for Kubernetes Pod security
Project post originally published on DZone by Jim Bugwadia Learn how to audit your clusters for compliance with the latest Kubernetes Pod Security Standards without installing anything in the cluster. In this post, I will show...
September 6, 2022 | Jim Bugwadia

Kubernetes version 1.25 – everything you should know
Member Post Kubernetes version 1.25 – everything you should know
Guest post originally published on the ARMO blog by Amir Kaushansky Kubernetes’ new version – version 1.25 – will be released on Tuesday 23rd August 2022, and it comes with 40 new enhancements in various areas...
September 2, 2022 | Amir Kaushansky

What can Confidential Computing do for the Kubernetes community?
Member Post What can Confidential Computing do for the Kubernetes community?
Guest post originally published on the Edgeless Systems blog by Fabian Kammel, Senior Security Engineer This is a summary of the talk I gave at the Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Berlin 2022. Both, the slides and a recording...
August 31, 2022

GitOps Days 2022: Flux Flagger deep dive
Project Post GitOps Days 2022: Flux Flagger deep dive
Flux project post by Scott Rigby Hey everyone! 👋If you couldn’t join Flux maintainers Stefan Prodan & Philip Laine’s session at GitOps Days 2022, you can now watch the full talk online! This blog post outlines...
August 30, 2022

Backstage security audit & updates 
Project Post Backstage security audit & updates 
Project post originally posted on the Backstage blog by Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify TL;DR: Backstage’s security posture continues to mature! Today, we’re releasing a report from an independent security audit and the first version of the Backstage...
August 30, 2022 | Patrik Oldsberg