Blog


Release update: Prometheus 1.6.1 and sneak peak at 2.0
Release update: Prometheus 1.6.1 and sneak peak at 2.0
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 The -storage.local.memory-chunks and -storage.local.max-chunks-to-persist flags have been replaced by -storage.local.target-heap-size.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...
April 24, 2017

Diversity scholarship series: One DevOps engineer’s perspective on CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe
Diversity scholarship series: One DevOps engineer’s perspective on CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe
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...
April 20, 2017

Diversity scholarship series: Berlin through the eyes of a cloud infrastructure fanatic
Diversity scholarship series: Berlin through the eyes of a cloud infrastructure fanatic
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...
April 18, 2017

Highlights from CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017
Highlights from CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017
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...
April 17, 2017 | By Natasha Woods

rkt: The pod-native container engine launches in the CNCF
rkt: The pod-native container engine launches in the CNCF
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...
March 29, 2017

Deploying 2048 OpenShift nodes on the CNCF cluster (Part 2)
Deploying 2048 OpenShift nodes on the CNCF cluster (Part 2)
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...
March 28, 2017

Tell us your opinion about diversity in tech at Google Cloud next 2017
Tell us your opinion about diversity in tech at Google Cloud next 2017
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...
March 22, 2017

FOSDEM 2017 recap:  Monitoring and Cloud Devroom & Linux Containers and Microservices Devroom sponsored by CNCF
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
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
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