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Guest post by Bill Mulligan Cilium has seen massive growth in both contribution and adoption in 2022. The 2022 Cilium Annual Report seeks to capture some of the Cilium project’s contributor and end user community growth...

Guest post by Shi Jicheng, CTO, DatenLord Introduction of consensus Consensus protocol is a protocol to keep the information consistent and durable in multiple servers, and the property is kept even if some servers fail. When...

Guest post originally published on Humanitec’s blog by Luca Galante 2022 was an explosive year for platform engineering. PlatformCon 2022, the first-ever conference by and for platform engineers, garnered over 78 community-submitted talks and 6000 attendees. Platform engineering...

Guest post originally published on groundcover’s blog by Udi Rot Get to know Caretta – a lightweight, standalone tool that instantly creates a visual network map of the services running in your cluster. Caretta leverages eBPF...

Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan It’s been a good year for Linkerd. Although much of the software industry has struggled through an economic downturn, Linkerd adoption has only been growing. In...

CNCF is excited to unveil the updated version of the organization’s immensely popular Cloud Native Ambassadors program. As dedicated community leaders promoting cloud native technologies, CNCF Ambassadors play a critical role in fostering an open and...

Community post by Robert Glenn, CNCF Cartografos Working Group Founding Member at Accenture The maturity model is an emerging concept and requires some explanation to ensure clarity of our usage in the Cloud Native Maturity Model...

Guest post originally published on Aserto’s blog by Omri Gazitt Overview In a microservices world, each service needs to verify that a subject (user or machine) has permission to perform an operation on a resource that...

By Patrice Chalin Why some top-velocity projects use Hugo and Docsy to publish technical documentation Some of CNCF’s top-velocity projects — such as Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry and gRPC — use Hugo as their static website generator. Why?...

What motivates developers to contribute to open source? What discourages them? Does it help their careers? The CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy asked these and other questions in a new annual micro-survey. In this blog post,...

Guest post originally published on Traceroute42’s blog DevOps movement is still an evolving field and is influenced by a variety of factors such as technological advances, industry trends, and organizational needs. That makes it difficult to...

If the past couple of years taught us anything, it’s the importance of security in cloud native and open source environments. The fallout of vulnerabilities like Log4j even reached the U.S. Federal Government with the Executive...

Guest post originally published on Coredge’s blog The term “sovereign cloud” describes a cloud architecture to provide security and data access while adhering to local laws and regulations around data privacy and security. Depending on where...

Guest post by Miao Zhang, Baidu As CMB’s adoption of cloud native technologies, the Kubernetes container platform is now supporting 100k+ applications in CMB. With such huge number of applications, CMB encountered multiple issues with some...

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...

By Priyanka Sharma Our mission at CNCF is to make cloud native ubiquitous, and we are well on the way to achieving this. Security is one of the most important and fast-growing areas in the ecosystem...

Guest post originally published on CloudWeGo’s blog by CoderPoet and Guangming Luo This blog mainly introduces the realization of traffic routing based on Kitex Proxyless and the bookinfo demo rewrote with Kitex and Hertz. The purpose...

In line with our goal of providing velocity updates every six months or so, below are the charts showing open source project velocity over 2022. Thanks to the insights we can glean from these charts, we...

Guest post originally published on Fairwinds’s blog by Liz Coolman Organizations have moved increasingly to the cloud, adopting containers and Kubernetes to change their infrastructure and take advantage of these cloud native technologies. Kubernetes itself is...

Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Sudhanshu Prajapati Feature flags (often called feature toggles) have existed for a long time in the software development process. We have been using feature flags in some way or...