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Announcing the Cilium annual report
Project Post Announcing the Cilium annual report
Guest post by Bill Mulligan Cilium has seen massive growth in both contribution and adoption in 2022. The 2022 Cilium Annual Report seeks to capture some of the Cilium project’s contributor and end user community growth and activities....
January 26, 2023

CURP – revisit the consensus protocol
Member Post CURP – revisit the consensus protocol
Guest post by Shi Jicheng, CTO, DatenLord Introduction of consensus Consensus protocol is a protocol to keep the information consistent and durable in multiple servers, and the property is kept even if some servers fail. When we talk...
January 25, 2023 | By Shi Jicheng

Platform engineering trends in 2023
Member Post Platform engineering trends in 2023
Guest post originally published on Humanitec’s blog by Luca Galante 2022 was an explosive year for platform engineering. PlatformCon 2022, the first-ever conference by and for platform engineers, garnered over 78 community-submitted talks and 6000 attendees. Platform engineering went viral...
January 24, 2023 | By Luca Galante

Navigate your way to production bliss with Caretta
Member Post Navigate your way to production bliss with Caretta
Guest post originally published on groundcover’s blog by Udi Rot Get to know Caretta – a lightweight, standalone tool that instantly creates a visual network map of the services running in your cluster. Caretta leverages eBPF to efficiently...
January 23, 2023 | By Udi Rot

Service mesh 2022 recap: Linkerd adoption doubled, and what we learned about eBPF, the Gateway API, and more
Project Post Service mesh 2022 recap: Linkerd adoption doubled, and what we learned about eBPF, the Gateway API, and more
Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan It’s been a good year for Linkerd. Although much of the software industry has struggled through an economic downturn, Linkerd adoption has only been growing. In fact, log...
January 20, 2023 | By William Morgan

Cloud Native Ambassadors 2.0
Staff Post Cloud Native Ambassadors 2.0
CNCF is excited to unveil the updated version of the organization’s immensely popular Cloud Native Ambassadors program. As dedicated community leaders promoting cloud native technologies, CNCF Ambassadors play a critical role in fostering an open and welcoming community...
January 20, 2023

What is the Cloud Native Maturity Model (and why do I care)?
Community Post What is the Cloud Native Maturity Model (and why do I care)?
Community post by Robert Glenn, CNCF Cartografos Working Group Founding Member at Accenture The maturity model is an emerging concept and requires some explanation to ensure clarity of our usage in the Cloud Native Maturity Model (CNMM). To...
January 20, 2023 | By Robert Glenn

The five laws of cloud native authorization
Member Post The five laws of cloud native authorization
Guest post originally published on Aserto’s blog by Omri Gazitt Overview In a microservices world, each service needs to verify that a subject (user or machine) has permission to perform an operation on a resource that the service...
January 19, 2023 | By Omri Gazitt

Fast and effective tools for CNCF and open source project websites
Staff Post Fast and effective tools for CNCF and open source project websites
By Patrice Chalin Why some top-velocity projects use Hugo and Docsy to publish technical documentation Some of CNCF’s top-velocity projects — such as Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry and gRPC — use Hugo as their static website generator. Why? Because Hugo...
January 19, 2023

CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy microsurvey: open source contributors say contributing helps careers
Staff Post CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy microsurvey: open source contributors say contributing helps careers
What motivates developers to contribute to open source? What discourages them? Does it help their careers? The CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy asked these and other questions in a new annual micro-survey. In this blog post, we share...
January 18, 2023