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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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Salt came to Linkerd for load balancing, stayed for efficiency, reliability & performance
End User Post Salt came to Linkerd for load balancing, stayed for efficiency, reliability & performance
Salt Security is tackling the security challenges of today’s API-dependent applications. API requests can represent tens of thousands of opportunities per second for attacks or PII exposure. To combat these risks, Salt runs AI and ML...
February 9, 2022

How to select a Network Gateway for your Private Cloud
Member Post How to select a Network Gateway for your Private Cloud
Guest post originally published on Netris’ blog by Alex Saroyan Let’s be honest, nobody wants to deal with networking, but we can’t serve our applications without investing time and money in developing a good network design and...
February 8, 2022 | Alex Saroyan

WasmEdge and OpenYurt bring cloud computing to the edge
Member Post WasmEdge and OpenYurt bring cloud computing to the edge
Guest post by Vivian Hu and Michael Yuan from Second State with the help from Chen Jin from the OpenYurt project. Edge computing is a distributed application architecture that places computational resources (eg, CPU and storage)...
February 7, 2022 | Vivian Hu, Michael Yuan, and Chen Jin

Envoy Fundamentals, a training course to enable faster adoption of Envoy Proxy
Member Post Envoy Fundamentals, a training course to enable faster adoption of Envoy Proxy
Guest post by Tetrate Envoy Proxy, an open-source edge and service proxy, is a vital part of today’s modern, cloud-native application and is used in production by large companies like Booking.com, Pinterest, and Airbnb(Source). Tetrate, a...
February 4, 2022

Experience as an LFX Mentee for Chaos Mesh
Mentorship Post Experience as an LFX Mentee for Chaos Mesh
Mentorship guest post by Chunxu Zhang I am a graduate student studying software engineering at Nanjing University. My research focuses on DevOps, which has intrinsic connections with chaos engineering and observability. To get involved in the...
February 4, 2022 | Chunxu Zhang

Securing cloud native comms: from ingress to service mesh and beyond
Member Post Securing cloud native comms: from ingress to service mesh and beyond
Guest post originally published on Ambassador Labs’ blog by Jason Morgan As developers and operators, we all know the importance of securing data both in transit and at rest. However, hardly a day goes by that...
February 3, 2022 | Jason Morgan

CNCF-cultivated OpenMetrics becomes an incubating project
Staff Post CNCF-cultivated OpenMetrics becomes an incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenMetrics as a CNCF incubating project.  OpenMetrics creates an open standard for transmitting cloud-native metrics at scale. It acts as an open standard for Prometheus and...
February 3, 2022

The Cost of a Kubernetes Repair in Development vs. Production
Member Post The Cost of a Kubernetes Repair in Development vs. Production
Guest post by Sarah Geisenger, Sales Engineer at Fairwinds One of the main benefits known about Kubernetes is the platform’s ability to increase the speed of development. By using microservices and containers, development happens faster. This...
February 2, 2022 | Sarah Geisenger

The intersection of Terraform and Kubernetes
Member Post The intersection of Terraform and Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on Morpheus’ blog by Martez Reed Regardless of the industry or market, enterprises around the globe are at some stage on their cloud journey – with digital transformation as the destination. The...
February 1, 2022 | Martez Reed

CNCF Archives the OpenTracing Project
Staff Post CNCF Archives the OpenTracing Project
CNCF announced today that the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has approved the archiving of the OpenTracing project. Archived projects are fairly rare but a sign of a healthy open source community. OpenTracing is only the second...
January 31, 2022

Chaos Mesh + SkyWalking: better observability for chaos engineering
Member Post Chaos Mesh + SkyWalking: better observability for chaos engineering
Guest post originally published on the PingCAP blog by Ningxuan Wang Chaos Mesh is an open-source cloud-native chaos engineering platform. You can use Chaos Mesh to conveniently inject failures and simulate abnormalities that might occur in reality, so you...
January 31, 2022 | Ningxuan Wang

Announcing the Kubernetes Policy Management Paper
Community Post Announcing the Kubernetes Policy Management Paper
Community post by Jim Bugwadia The CNCF Kubernetes Security Special Interest Group (SIG) and Policy Working group (WG) have just released a new paper on Kubernetes Policy Management to help educate the community about best practices...
January 28, 2022 | Jim Bugwadia

Serverless architecture: pros and cons
Member Post Serverless architecture: pros and cons
Guest post originally published on SparkFabrik’s blog by SparkFabrik Team Serverless computing is an execution model in which the Cloud service provider is responsible for executing part of the code through the dynamic allocation of resources. In this...
January 28, 2022 | SparkFabrik Team

Unveil the secret ingredients of continuous delivery at enterprise scale with Argo CD
Unveil the secret ingredients of continuous delivery at enterprise scale with Argo CD
Guest post originally published on Akuity’s blog by Yuan Tang (Akuity), Hong Wang (Akuity), and Alexander Matyushentsev (Intuit) Deep Dive into Argo CD and Best Practices for Operating at Enterprise-Scale This is a recap from our KubeCon China 2021 talk. If you...
January 27, 2022 | Yuan Tang, Hong Wang, Alexander Matyushentsev

Secure your GitOps flows with Security-as-Code
Member Post Secure your GitOps flows with Security-as-Code
Guest post originally published on Magalix’s blog by Andrew Zola GitOps teams are shifting security left. This is fantastic news for anyone looking for a solid and efficient plan to secure applications, infrastructure, and other processes...
January 26, 2022 | Andrew Zola

Secrets management: essential when using Kubernetes
End User Post Secrets management: essential when using Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on True‘s blog by Sebastiaan Kok In Kubernetes secrets contain all kinds of sensitive information. For instance, database credentials or API keys. The term secrets management describes the centralised and secured management...
January 25, 2022 | Sebastiaan Kok

Getting started with your CNCF membership
Staff Post Getting started with your CNCF membership
CNCF is adding members at an astounding rate, with 98 joining at the last KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. When members join, they are often overwhelmed by the number and variety of marketing benefits their membership offers and...
January 25, 2022

How does threat intelligence work?
Member Post How does threat intelligence work?
Guest post originally published on Snapt’s blog by Iwan Price-Evans The software and web industries speak a lot about security and the ability to handle security threats intelligently. In a landscape where security is becoming increasingly...
January 24, 2022 | Iwan Price-Evans

KEDA at Zapier
End User Post KEDA at Zapier
End User guest post by Ratnadeep Debnath, Site Reliability Engineer at Zapier At Zapier, RabbitMQ is at the heart of Zap processing. We enqueue messages to RabbitMQ for each step in a Zap. These messages get...
January 21, 2022

How to monitor endpoints in Kubernetes using Blackbox Exporter
Member Post How to monitor endpoints in Kubernetes using Blackbox Exporter
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Suramya Shah Monitoring endpoints is an important aspect of system observability for diagnosing performance and availability issues. In this article, we will cover in detail how to achieve...
January 20, 2022 | Suramya Shah