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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) surveyed attendees at CloudNativeCon+ KubeCon in late 2016 on a range of topics related to container management and orchestration. In a previous blog, we examined the implications of survey results, in particular how Kubernetes had...

What’s a service mesh? And why do I need one? Originally published by William Morgan on Buoyant.io. tl;dr: A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for making service-to-service communication safe, fast, and reliable. If you’re building a cloud native...

Announcing Linkerd 1.0 Originally published by Oliver Gould. Today, we’re thrilled to announce Linkerd version 1.0. A little more than one year from our initial launch, Linkerd is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and has a thriving community of...

Prometheus 1.6.1 After 1.5.0 earlier in the year, Prometheus 1.6.1 is now out. There’s a plethora of changes, so let’s dive in. The biggest change is to how memory is managed. The -storage.local.memory-chunks and -storage.local.max-chunks-to-persist flags have been replaced by -storage.local.target-heap-size. Prometheus will attempt to keep the heap...

CNCF offered six diversity scholarships to developers to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017. In this post, our scholarship recipient Lee Clench, DevOps Engineer for Capgemini, shares his experience attending sessions, meeting the community and participating in technical...

By Ricardo Aravena, cloud engineer at Coupa Software I’ve attended many conferences before, but I was happy to get the diversity scholarship to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 in Berlin as there is always so much more to learn. It...

The sold out CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 gathered more than 1,500 end users, leading contributors and developers from around the world for three days in Berlin to exchange Cloud Native knowledge, best practices, and experiences. What started as our...

By: Jonathan Boulle, rkt project co-founder, CNCF TOC representative, and head of containers and Berlin site lead at CoreOS Earlier this month, we announced that CoreOS made a proposal to add rkt, the pod-native container engine, as a...

Overview The Cloud Native community has been incredibly busy since our last set of scaling tests on the CNCF cluster back in August. In particular, the Kubernetes (and by extension, OpenShift) communities have been hard at work pushing scalability to entirely new...

Author: Leah Petersen, Systems Engineer Samsung CNCT Contributed blog from CNCF Platinum member Samsung “Tell me your opinion about diversity in tech.” …not something you expect to be asked at a technology conference booth. This year at the...