FOSDEM 2017 recap: Monitoring and Cloud Devroom & Linux Containers and Microservices Devroom sponsored by CNCF
Each year, FOSDEM attracts more than 8,000 developers – as Josh Berkus, the project atomic community lead at Red Hat, puts it, the event is “a great way to reach a large number of open source geeks, community members and potential...
March 21, 2017 | By Chris Aniszczyk
Linkerd celebrates one year with one hundred billion production requests
By William Morgan, Linkerd co-creator and Buoyant co-founder We’re happy to announce that, one year after version 0.1.0 was released, Linkerd has processed over 100 billion production requests in companies around the world. Happy birthday, Linkerd! Let’s take...
March 9, 2017
Cloud Native Computing Foundation becomes steward of service naming and discovery project CoreDNS
The CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) recently voted CoreDNS into the CNCF portfolio of projects. CoreDNS, a fast, flexible and modern DNS server, joins a growing number of projects integral to the adoption of cloud native computing. CoreDNS was voted in as an inception...
March 2, 2017 | By Natasha Woods
Slack gives back to K8s and CNCF community
Slack is giving back to the Kubernetes and CNCF communities with free access as part of their not for profit program. We are also thrilled that they have extended their not for profit program to include 501(c)(6) organizations...
March 1, 2017 | By Kristen Evans
Cloud Native Computing Foundation to host gRPC from Google
CNCF is the new home for gRPC and its existing ecosystem projects (https://github.com/grpc and https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem). The sixth project voted in by CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), gRPC is a modern, open source, high performance remote procedure call (RPC)...
March 1, 2017 | By Natasha Woods
Prometheus user profile: How DigitalOcean uses Prometheus
DigitalOcean – a CNCF member and devoted Prometheus user – is approaching one million registered users with more than 40,000 active teams. With workloads becoming more complex, it is focused on delivering the tools and performance that are required...
February 28, 2017 | By Kristen Evans
Measuring the popularity of Kubernetes using BigQuery
By Dan Kohn, CNCF Executive Director, @dankohn1 As the executive director of CNCF, I’m proud to host Kubernetes, which is one of the highest development velocity projects in the history of open source. I know this because I...
February 27, 2017 | By Dan Kohn
Prometheus user profile: Dynamically helping Weaveworks accelerate cloud native application development
Sometimes two things go so well together you wonder how you ever saw them separately, like peanut butter and chocolate coming together to make Reese’s cups. The combination of Kubernetes and Prometheus invokes the same feeling for Weaveworks, the makers...
February 24, 2017 | By Kristen Evans
Getting to know Todd Moore, CNCF’s new governing board chair
1) What does the CNCF Governing Board do and what is your role as chair? The CNCF is a result of a shared vision by many of us in the cloud community. It was created to develop a...
February 15, 2017 | By Natasha Woods
CNCF purchases RethinkDB source code and contributes it to The Linux Foundation under the Apache license
CNCF has purchased the source code to the RethinkDB database, relicensed the code under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ASLv2) and contributed it to The Linux Foundation. RethinkDBTM is an open source, NoSQL, distributed document-oriented database that is...
February 6, 2017