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Announcing the CNCF job board
Announcing the CNCF job board
We are excited to announce the availability of the CNCF job board, the official job board of CNCF. According to the 2018 Linux Foundation Open Source Jobs Report, containers are rapidly growing in popularity and importance, with 57%...
November 19, 2019

kubectl flags in your plugin
kubectl flags in your plugin
Originally posted by Gianluca Arbezzano on Gianarb.it This is not at all a new topic, no hacking involved, but it is something everybody needs to know where we design kubectl plugin. I was recently working at one and...
November 15, 2019

Kubernetes Scheduler 101
Kubernetes Scheduler 101
Originally published on Magalix Blog by Mohamed Ahmed What is Kubernetes Scheduling? If you’ve read any Kubernetes documentation, books, or articles you’ve undoubtedly seen the word “schedule” in phrases like “the Pod gets scheduled to the next available node” for example. Kubernetes Scheduling...
November 11, 2019

Announcing the CNCF Prometheus project journey report
Announcing the CNCF Prometheus project journey report
Today we are very excited to release our Project Journey Report for Prometheus. This is the third report we have issued for CNCF graduated projects following reports for Kubernetes and Envoy. Prometheus is a widely-adopted open source metrics-based monitoring and alerting system. When...
November 7, 2019

Cloud native chaos engineering – Enhancing Kubernetes application resiliency
Cloud native chaos engineering – Enhancing Kubernetes application resiliency
Guest post by Uma Mukkara, COO, MayaData Extending cloud native principles to chaos engineering Faults are bound to happen no matter how hard you test to find them before putting your software into production – clouds and availability...
November 6, 2019

Building a large-scale distributed storage system based on Raft
Building a large-scale distributed storage system based on Raft
Guest post by Edward Huang, Co-founder & CTO of PingCAP In recent years, building a large-scale distributed storage system has become a hot topic. Distributed consensus algorithms like Paxos and Raft are the focus of many technical articles. But those articles tend to be...
November 4, 2019

Why you should join the CNCF Meetup program
Why you should join the CNCF Meetup program
With the recent changes to Meetup’s policies, we wanted to share a reminder of the benefits of joining the CNCF Meetup Program and encourage Meetups in the CNCF ecosystem to apply. As part of our Meetup Pro membership, CNCF is able...
November 1, 2019

A hot AI startup relies on Kubernetes to support its exponential growth
A hot AI startup relies on Kubernetes to support its exponential growth
AlphaSense had already been named one of the fastest growing companies by Inc. when it made Fortune’s Top 50 AI Startups list in 2017. “From this point, we realized that we needed to be prepared for exponential growth,”...
November 1, 2019

Kubernetes Autoscaling 101: Cluster Autoscaler, Horizontal Autoscaler, and Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Kubernetes Autoscaling 101: Cluster Autoscaler, Horizontal Autoscaler, and Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Originally published on Medium by Mohamed Ahmed Kubernetes at its core is a resources management and orchestration tool. It is ok to focus day-1 operations to explore and play around with its cool features to deploy, monitor and...
October 29, 2019

Apple provides scholarships for FoundationDB Summit
Apple provides scholarships for FoundationDB Summit
Apple will be providing sponsorships for the scholarships at FoundationDB Summit, happening on Day Zero of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon San Diego. For its second year, FoundationDB Summit has two tracks. The first is curated for attendees new to...
October 25, 2019