With Kubernetes, Spotify’s capacity planning went from almost an hour to seconds or minutes
Spotify’s audio-streaming platform has grown to over 200 million monthly active users across the world since launching in 2008. Their homegrown container orchestration system called Helios was no longer efficient enough for their needs. Spotify wanted to benefit...
June 27, 2019
Demystifying containers – part I: Kernel Space
This blog post was first published on suse.com by Sascha Grunert. This series of blog posts and corresponding talks aims to provide you with a pragmatic view on containers from a historic perspective. Together we will discover modern cloud...
June 24, 2019
TOC approves CNCF SIGs and creates security and storage SIGs
Earlier this year, the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to create CNCF Special Interest Groups (SIGs). CNCF SIGs are currently being bootstrapped in various focus areas and primarily led by recognized experts and supported by contributors. They report directly...
June 24, 2019
Virtual cluster – extending namespace based multi-tenancy with a cluster view
Guest post by Fei Guo and Lei Zhang of Alibaba In this guest post, the Kubernetes team from Alibaba will share how they are building hard multi-tenancy on top of upstream Kubernetes by leveraging a group of plugins...
June 20, 2019
Linkerd benchmarks
Originally published on linkerd.io by William Morgan. Update 5/30/2019: Based on feedback from the Istio team, Kinvolk has re-run some of the Istio benchmarks. The results are largely similar to before, with Linkerd maintaining a significant advantage over...
June 17, 2019
Diversity scholarship series: My KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe Experience 2019
Guest post by Ines Cheikhrouhou, DevOps and Cloud consultant, Agyla originally published on Medium Hi, My name is Ines and I’m one of the lucky people who was sent an invite as a diversity scholar to Kubecon + CloudNativeCon...
June 14, 2019
CNCF openness guidelines
CNCF is an open source technical community where technical project collaboration, discussions, and decision-making should be open and transparent. Please see our charter, particularly section 3(b), for more background on CNCF values. Design, discussions, and decision-making around technical...
June 11, 2019 | By Dan Kohn
Apple joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation as Platinum End User Member
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes® and Prometheus™, today announced that Apple has joined the CNCF as a Platinum End User Member. Apple has completely revolutionized personal and enterprise...
June 11, 2019
Square: How Vitess enables ‘near unlimited scale’ for Cash App
Four years ago, Square branched out into peer-to-peer transactions via its Cash App. After doing so, users started increasing by the minute and they needed to come up with a long term solution for scalability. Vitess was the...
June 10, 2019
Reflections on the Fifth Anniversary of Kubernetes
Guest post from the Kubernetes Project Five years ago, Kubernetes was released into the world. Like all newborns, it was small, limited in functionality, and had only a few people involved in its creation. Unlike most newborns, it...
June 6, 2019