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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity
By Chris Aniszczyk By consistently tracking open source project velocity, we are able to see the trends and technologies resonating with developers and end users. We have been tracking these trends since 2017; all previous blogs...
January 29, 2025
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Connect everything: A look at how NATS.io can lead to a securely connected world
By Colin Sullivan Developing and deploying applications that communicate in distributed systems, especially in cloud computing, is complex. Messaging has evolved to address the general needs of distributed applications but hasn’t gone far enough. We need...
November 1, 2018
GSoC 2018: Building a conditional name server identifier for CoreDNS
Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program 2018 has come to an end and we followed up with CNCF’s seven interns previously featured in this blog post to check in on how their summer project progressed. Over the summer,...
October 30, 2018
FoundationDB summit program announced
This post was originally published by the FoundationDB team, here. We’re pleased to announce the program for FoundationDB Summit, our inaugural community conference taking place on December 10 during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle, Washington. Register today to join...
October 26, 2018
gRPC-Web is going GA
On behalf of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, I’m excited to announce the GA release of gRPC-Web, a JavaScript client library that enables web apps to communicate directly with backend gRPC services, without requiring an HTTP server to...
October 24, 2018 | Luc Perkins
Now Live: First observability practitioners summit schedule is jam-packed
Are you planning to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle, and want a deep dive into all things monitoring and observability? Arrive early so that you can attend the first-ever Observability Practitioners Summit – sponsored by LightStep – on Monday, December...
October 18, 2018 | Kristen Evans
CNCF and BVP host discussions with leading open source contributors and end users
This blog was originally posted on the Bessemer Venture Partners Blog. Bessemer was proud to partner with the CNCF to host an evening devoted to discussion around exciting new open source infrastructure projects and best practices for...
October 16, 2018
Annual “CNCF Community Awards” nominations kick off – winners to be recognized at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle
Nominations open today for the third-annual CNCF Community Awards – sponsored by VMware – honoring those who have made the greatest impact over the last year in the cloud native space. Within our fast-growing project communities,...
October 8, 2018 | Kristen Evans
CNCF to host Cloud Native Buildpacks in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB) into the CNCF Sandbox for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. The CNCF Sandbox is a home for early stage projects; for further...
October 3, 2018 | Kristen Evans
Schedule is LIVE for First-Ever EnvoyCon
Gearing up for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle? The inaugural EnvoyCon – taking place on December 10 in Seattle as part of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Community Events Day – JUST published a jam packed speaker line-up! The program features either 30 minute sessions or 10 minute...
October 1, 2018 | Kristen Evans
GSoC 2018: Extending Envoy’s fuzzing coverage
Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program 2018 has come to an end and we followed up with CNCF’s seven interns previously featured in this blog post to check in on how their summer project progressed. Over...
September 28, 2018
TOC votes to move Rook into CNCF incubator
By Jared Watts Rook, an open source cloud native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, was the first storage project accepted into CNCF back in January of this year. Today, roughly 8 months later, we are excited to announce...
September 25, 2018
CNCF to host Cortex in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced acceptance of Cortex, a multitenant Prometheus-as-a-Service, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Developed to scale Prometheus in a multitenant fashion,...
September 20, 2018 | Kristen Evans
Linkerd 2.0 now in general availability: From service mesh to service sidecar
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and maintainers of Linkerd are excited to announce the general availability of Linkerd 2.0. The 2.0 release brings dramatic improvements to performance, resource consumption, and ease of use to Linkerd. It also transforms...
September 18, 2018 | Kristen Evans
GSoC 18: Kata Containers support for containerd
Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program 2018 has come to an end and we followed up with CNCF’s seven interns previously featured in this blog post to check in on how their summer project progressed. Over the summer,...
September 17, 2018
Northwestern Mutual: Focus on risk management, built on cloud native
For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has maintained its industry leadership in part by keeping a strong focus on risk management. For many years, the company took a similar approach to managing its technology and...
September 13, 2018 | Kim McMahon
New Co-Lo alert: Observability practitioners summit
Gearing up for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle? Don’t miss Observability Practitioners Summit – our new co-located event on Monday, December 10, focused on pushing the field of monitoring and observability forwards by providing a mix of...
September 11, 2018 | Kristen Evans
Announcing the final four keynotes for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China, taking place on November 13-15 in Shanghai, has added the final four new keynotes to its line-up. With the rapidly growing interest in cloud native technologies in Asia, the event provides a...
September 11, 2018
Meet the CNCF Ambassadors
A few years ago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) launched the Ambassadors Program for individuals who are passionate about cloud native technologies and are actively contributing to CNCF projects.Today, we have more than 50 CNCF...
September 7, 2018 | Ihor Dvoretskyi
Meet the Ambassador: Gianluca Arbezzano
Gianluca Arbezzano, InfluxDB, sat down with Kaitlyn Barnard, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to talk about cloud native, trends in the industry, and being an Ambassador. Below is their interview. You can also view the video. Kaitlyn: Hi...
September 7, 2018 | Kim McMahon
CNCF’s full GSoC roster passes summer evaluations
Each summer, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program welcomes hundreds (if not thousands) of students to write code and learn about the open source community – all with help from mentor organizations like CNCF. As...
September 4, 2018 | Ihor Dvoretskyi