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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
Staff Post 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...
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Scaling Up Smart: 4 key tips on successfully using cloud native technology to scale your infrastructure
Scaling Up Smart: 4 key tips on successfully using cloud native technology to scale your infrastructure
Today’s post is by Reda Benzair, CNCF Ambassador and VP of Engineering at Streamroot. This was originally posted on the Streamroot techdeveloper’s blog. In this post, I’d like to share some high-level takeaways for engineering managers...
March 25, 2019

NAV saved the company 50% in infrastructure costs with Kubernetes
NAV saved the company 50% in infrastructure costs with Kubernetes
Nav, helps small businesses increase their success rate by understand their financial health and guides them in choosing financial options to support their vision and goals. With rapid growth within the first 5 years, Nav struggled...
March 21, 2019

NetEase’s system supports 30,000 nodes in a single cluster
NetEase’s system supports 30,000 nodes in a single cluster
Not only is NetEase the fifth largest gaming company in the world, they also operate e-commerce, advertising, music streaming, online education, and email platforms throughout China. With that kind of scale, the NetEase Cloud team realized...
March 14, 2019

CNCF joins Google Summer of Code 2019!
CNCF joins Google Summer of Code 2019!
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is one of the most well-known and popular programs for the new contributors in the world of open source development, and we are excited to announce that Cloud Native Computing Foundation...
March 5, 2019 | Ihor Dvoretskyi

Diversity scholarship series: An opportunity to learn and grow
Diversity scholarship series: An opportunity to learn and grow
CNCF offered diversity scholarships to developers and students to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018. In this post, Surbhi Aggarwal shares her experience as a first time KubeCon attendee and the immense technical benefits she took...
March 4, 2019

Introduction to YAML: Creating a Kubernetes Deployment
Introduction to YAML: Creating a Kubernetes Deployment
Originally posted on Mirantis.com. There’s an easier and more useful way to use Kubernetes to spin up resources outside of the command line: creating configuration files using YAML. In this article, we’ll look at how YAML...
February 21, 2019 | Chris Blum

How VSCO saved 70% with Kubernetes
How VSCO saved 70% with Kubernetes
After VSCO moved to AWS in 2015 and its user base passed the 30 million mark, the team quickly realized that set-up wouldn’t work anymore. With a checklist that included ease of use and implementation, level...
February 20, 2019

Diversity scholarship series: Making the Microservices, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native Connection
Diversity scholarship series: Making the Microservices, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native Connection
CNCF offered diversity scholarships to developers and students to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018. In this post, Emmelyn Wang shares her Diversity Scholarship experience of visiting China for the first time as a person of...
February 14, 2019

Kubernetes Day India schedule announced
Kubernetes Day India schedule announced
We are pleased to announce the schedule for Kubernetes Day India, our inaugural event taking place on March 23 in Bengaluru, India, at Infosys Limited, our Venue sponsor. Additional sponsors include Platinum sponsor, DigitalOcean; Gold sponsors, InfraCloud and OpenEBS...
February 13, 2019

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 Conference Transparency Report: A record-breaking CNCF event
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 Conference Transparency Report: A record-breaking CNCF event
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 was a huge success with record-breaking registrations, attendance, sponsorships, and co-located events. Out of 8,000 attendees, 73% were first-time KubeCon-ers, highlighting massive growth and new interest in CNCF and cloud...
February 12, 2019

Diversity scholarship series: Why not?
Diversity scholarship series: Why not?
CNCF offered diversity scholarships to developers and students to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018. In this post, Dennis Salamanca Farafonov shares what sets KubeCon + CloudNativeCon apart and why you should apply to become a...
February 7, 2019

How Uber monitors 4,000 Microservices
How Uber monitors 4,000 Microservices
With 4,000 proprietary microservices and a growing number of open source systems that needed to be monitored, by late 2014 Uber was outgrowing its usage of Graphite and Nagios for metrics. They evaluated several technologies, including...
February 5, 2019

Diversity scholarship series: Bringing along Kubernetes experience from Shanghai to Nepal
Diversity scholarship series: Bringing along Kubernetes experience from Shanghai to Nepal
CNCF offered diversity scholarships to developers and students to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018. In this post, our scholarship recipient Raksha Roy, an Enterprise Resource Planning Associate from Nepal, shares her experience attending sessions and...
January 30, 2019

New year, new TOC
New year, new TOC
The CNCF TOC – charged with defining and maintaining the technical vision for CNCF; approving new projects within the scope for CNCF set by the Governing Board, and creating a conceptual architecture for these projects; aligning...
January 29, 2019 | Kristen Evans

Enterprise leaders’ protips for scavenger hunting through the cloud native tool weeds
Enterprise leaders’ protips for scavenger hunting through the cloud native tool weeds
This article was written and produced by the Orate Project, which helps organizations tell technical stories Aren’t enterprises lucky the cloud native ecosystem is growing so lavishly? A whole universe of well-honed tools is expanding before...
January 15, 2019

9 Kubernetes security best practices everyone must follow
9 Kubernetes security best practices everyone must follow
By Connor Gilbert, product manager at StackRox Last month, the Kubernetes ecosystem was shaken by the discovery of the first major security flaw in Kubernetes, the world’s most popular container orchestrator. The vulnerability – CVE-2018-1002105 –...
January 14, 2019

Monitoring Kubernetes, part 1: the challenges + data sources
Monitoring Kubernetes, part 1: the challenges + data sources
Originally published here by Sean Porter, CTO of Sensu Our industry has long been relying on microservice-based architecture to deliver software faster and safer. The advent and ubiquity of microservices naturally paved the way for container technology, empowering...
January 9, 2019

Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Prometheus is one of the standard-bearing open-source solutions for monitoring and observability. From its humble origins at SoundCloud in 2012, Prometheus quickly garnered widespread adoption and later became one of the first CNCF projects and just the second to...
December 18, 2018 | Luc Perkins

Closing out 2018 with a top-notch cloud native community event!
Closing out 2018 with a top-notch cloud native community event!
With KubeCon Seattle now behind us, here’s a snapshot of all the cloud native goodness at our most jam-packed show to date. The sold-out KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 had the largest attendance and waiting...
December 14, 2018 | Natasha Woods

Phippy + Cloud native friends make CNCF their home
Phippy + Cloud native friends make CNCF their home
In 2016, Deis (now part of Microsoft) platform architect Matt Butcher was looking for a way to explain Kubernetes to technical and non-technical people alike. Inspired by his daughter’s prolific stuffed animal collection, he came up...
December 11, 2018 | Kristen Evans