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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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Improving CNCF security posture with independent security audits
Community Post Improving CNCF security posture with independent security audits
When Policy meets Execution  Community post by Amir Montazery, Managing Director, Open Source Technology Improvement Fund In this blog post, we present an overview of independent audits conducted at the end of 2021 and first half...
August 8, 2022 | Amir Montazery

How to deploy Kubernetes apps efficiently
Member Post How to deploy Kubernetes apps efficiently
Guest post originally published on the Snapt blog by Dave Blakey Kubernetes has been a revelation for companies working with containers. It makes container orchestration consistent, which can streamline development and make CI/CD processes more reliable....
August 5, 2022 | Dave Blakey

What is a Platform Orchestrator?
Member Post What is a Platform Orchestrator?
Guest post originally published on the Humanitec blog by Kaspar von Grünberg A Platform Orchestrator sits at the core of a dynamic Internal Developer Platform. It enables dynamic configuration management and developer self-service, allowing for low...
August 4, 2022 | Kaspar von Grünberg

Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for North America 2022
Staff Post Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for North America 2022
As part of our commitment to transparency within the cloud native community, we are providing an inside look into the work that goes on behind the scenes to bring the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon schedule to life....
August 3, 2022

CNCF Telco Microsurvey: Cloud-native Network Functions with Kubernetes are coming – but interoperability and portability are priorities
Staff Post CNCF Telco Microsurvey: Cloud-native Network Functions with Kubernetes are coming – but interoperability and portability are priorities
Telecoms are rolling up their sleeves to build network and customer-facing applications and services on a cloud native architecture. Three-quarters of respondents told the CNCF’s Telco Microsurvey that they are converting services running either as Physical...
August 2, 2022

Kubernetes monitoring: leveraging 4 open-source toolsets
Member Post Kubernetes monitoring: leveraging 4 open-source toolsets
Guest post by Matt Lenhard, co-founder and CTO of ContainIQ You probably already know that Kubernetes is the leading container orchestration system. And according to the most recent CNCF study, you’re likely already using it for...
August 1, 2022 | Matt Lenhard

Prometheus vs. OpenTelemetry metrics: A complete guide
Member Post Prometheus vs. OpenTelemetry metrics: A complete guide
Guest post originally published on Timescale’s blog by James Blackwood-Sewell Welcome to the third and final post of our series about metrics. First, we deep-dived into the four types of Prometheus metrics; then, we examined how metrics work in...
July 29, 2022 | James Blackwood-Sewell

GitOps with Flux at Safaricom
Community Post GitOps with Flux at Safaricom
Community post by Daniel Holbach The team around GitOps Days mission is to educate the world about the leaps that GitOps has made as a methodology and tool chain. A secondary objective of the group is...
July 28, 2022

KubeEdge releases the first Cloud Native Edge Computing Threat Model and Security Protection Analysis paper
Project Post KubeEdge releases the first Cloud Native Edge Computing Threat Model and Security Protection Analysis paper
Project post by KubeEdge maintainers The security of cloud native edge computing has been of concern to many users. It was difficult for users to perform effective security hardening on their edge systems due to no...
July 27, 2022

Kubernetes governance explained
Member Post Kubernetes governance explained
Guest post originally published on the Coredge blog Introduction According to IDC (IDC: Expect 175 zettabytes of data worldwide by 2025 ), it is projected that by 2025 our global data volume will reach 175 zetabytes. As...
July 26, 2022

How to apply GitOps to everything with Crossplane and Flux
Community Post How to apply GitOps to everything with Crossplane and Flux
Community post by Somtochi Onyekwere During GitOps Days 2022 Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, presented Applying GitOps to Everything with Crossplane and Flux. In this session Viktor shows you how to leverage the extensibility of...
July 26, 2022

Cloud Native Glossary — the Bengali Version is Live!
Community Post Cloud Native Glossary — the Bengali Version is Live!
The Cloud Native Glossary is a project led by the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee. Its goal is to explain cloud native concepts in clear and simple language without requiring any previous technical knowledge. We are in...
July 25, 2022

Keep calm and trust A/B testing with Flux, Flagger, and Linkerd
Community Post Keep calm and trust A/B testing with Flux, Flagger, and Linkerd
Community post by Stacey Potter At GitOps Days 2022, Jason Morgan, Technical Evangelist at Buoyant and co-chair of the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee, demonstrated how to make Flux, Flagger, and Linkerd work together. He also showed...
July 21, 2022

Set up and observe a Spring Boot application with Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry
Member Post Set up and observe a Spring Boot application with Grafana Cloud, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on the Grafana Labs blog by Adam Quan Spring Boot is a very popular microservice framework that significantly simplifies web application development by providing Java developers with a platform to get started...
July 21, 2022 | Adam Quan

Cilium 1.12 GA: Cilium Service Mesh and other major new features for enterprise Kubernetes
Project Post Cilium 1.12 GA: Cilium Service Mesh and other major new features for enterprise Kubernetes
The Cilium project is excited to announce the general availability of Cilium 1.12.  Cilium is well known as the de-facto standard for cloud native networking and security, adopted by companies like Adobe, Bell Canada, and IKEA...
July 20, 2022

Kubernetes Cluster API integrates continuous fuzzing
Community Post Kubernetes Cluster API integrates continuous fuzzing
Community post originally published on the Ada Logics blog In the last few months, the team at Ada Logics has worked on integrating continuous fuzzing into the Kubernetes Cluster API project. This was an effort focused...
July 20, 2022

Kubernetes: The blackhole of FinOps
Member Post Kubernetes: The blackhole of FinOps
Guest post originally published on the Fairwinds blog by Patrick Loring FinOps has become another buzzword in the cloud native ecosystem of late. FinOps, as defined by the FinOps Foundation, is the: FinOps is an evolving cloud...
July 20, 2022 | Patrick Loring

OSTIF’s audit of Argo is complete. Critical and high severity security issues found and fixed.
Community Post OSTIF’s audit of Argo is complete. Critical and high severity security issues found and fixed.
Community post originally published on OSTIF’s blog Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is happy to report the results of yet another security audit, this time of the Argo project. The Argo project is a collection of tools for getting...
July 19, 2022 | OSTIF

2022 Argo external security audit: Lessons learned
Project Post 2022 Argo external security audit: Lessons learned
Project post cross-posted from the Argo Blog by Michael Crenshaw In early 2022, the Argo team and CNCF began work with Ada Logics to perform a security audit on the four Argo projects. Ada Logics discovered...
July 19, 2022 | Michael Crenshaw

Take the 2022 CNCF Cloud Native survey
Staff Post Take the 2022 CNCF Cloud Native survey
In 2021, the CNCF Annual Survey revealed that 96% of organizations are using or evaluating Kubernetes (the highest level to date). What will 2022 bring for cloud native adoption and trends? Join #TeamCloudNative by taking the...
July 19, 2022