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Cluster out: A design approach to building modern apps
Member Post Cluster out: A design approach to building modern apps
Guest post by Rob Whiteley, Vice President and General Manager of the NGINX Product Group at F5 This past August at NGINX Sprint 2.0, I discussed the patterns we see customers adopt to successfully leverage cloud-native technologies when...
March 15, 2022 | By Rob Whiteley

Backstage project joins the CNCF Incubator
Staff Post Backstage project joins the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Backstage as a CNCF incubating project.  Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals maintained by a global community. It unifies an organization’s tooling, services, apps, data,...
March 15, 2022

Flux Security: More confidence through fuzzing
Project Post Flux Security: More confidence through fuzzing
Project post originally published in the Flux blog by Daniel Holbach Next up in our blog series about Flux Security is how we implemented fuzzing in Flux and its controllers and how that makes things safer for you....
March 11, 2022 | By Daniel Holbach

The maintainer’s toolkit: Must-know resources for CNCF projects
Community Post The maintainer’s toolkit: Must-know resources for CNCF projects
Community guest post by Catherine Paganini, Carolyn Van Slyck, TAG Contributor Strategy Whether you are trying to build an active, welcoming community, manage contributors’ expectations, or motivate members to take on more responsibility, managing an open-source project can...
March 10, 2022 | By Catherine Paganini, Carolyn Van Slyck

Supply chain security project in-toto moves to the CNCF Incubator
Staff Post Supply chain security project in-toto moves to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept in-toto as a CNCF incubating project.  in-toto is a framework that protects the software supply chain by collecting and verifying relevant data. It does so by enabling libraries...
March 10, 2022

Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2022
Staff Post Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2022
As part of our commitment to transparency within the cloud native community, we are providing an inside look into the work that goes on behind the scenes to bring the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon schedule to life. Note that...
March 9, 2022

Reducing negative and biased language in documentation
Member Post Reducing negative and biased language in documentation
Guest post originally published on the Chronosphere blog by Chris Ward The discussions on what represents negative, biased, and diverse language continue in many open source communities, often sparking heated and strongly opinionated debate. Setting those discussions aside,...
March 9, 2022

Cloud Native Observability Microsurvey: Prometheus leads the way, but hurdles remain to understanding the health of systems
Cloud Native Observability Microsurvey: Prometheus leads the way, but hurdles remain to understanding the health of systems
We recently partnered with the CNCF Observability Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to conduct a microsurvey of the cloud native community at the end of 2021 to find out how organizations use observability tools. The desire to achieve the...
March 8, 2022

DevOps: Why it is misunderstood & what it always should have been
Member Post DevOps: Why it is misunderstood & what it always should have been
Guest post originally published on the Elastisys blog by the Elastisys team DevOps is a cultural movement that has brought a lot of much-needed agility to software development. But it is also misunderstood: does DevOps really mean that...
March 7, 2022

Linkerd surpasses Istio adoption in Europe and North America with 118% growth in 2021
Project Post Linkerd surpasses Istio adoption in Europe and North America with 118% growth in 2021
Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan The 2021 Cloud Native survey results were published last week, and the results are striking: production usage of Linkerd in 2021 surpassed that of Istio in both North America and...
March 4, 2022 | By William Morgan