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A mid-year 2025 look at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and the top 30 open source projects 
Staff Post A mid-year 2025 look at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and the top 30 open source projects 
Building upon our previous analyses, we continue to monitor trends and technologies that resonate with developers and end users. Take a look at our past timeframes from our blogs.  Here are the main takeaways I see...
July 18, 2025 | Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF
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Sign-up for the Kubernetes beta certification exam
Sign-up for the Kubernetes beta certification exam
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is collaborating with The Linux Foundation to create an inaugural exam certification for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program. As the fourth highest velocity open source projects, Kubernetes use is exploding. This certification...
June 15, 2017

Outside developer perspective: CNCF
Outside developer perspective: CNCF
Gianluca Arbezzano is a full stack developer at InfluxDB, a Docker captain and contributor and maintainer of different oss projects. Passionate about modern monitoring and furthering cloud native technologies, Gianluca recently wrote about his first experience...
June 14, 2017

The 30 highest Velocity open source projects
The 30 highest Velocity open source projects
Open Source projects exhibit natural increasing returns to scale. That’s because most developers are interested in using and participating in the largest projects, and the projects with the most developers are more likely to quickly fix...
June 5, 2017 | Dan Kohn

Open source software fuels explosive startup growth and goes mainstream
Open source software fuels explosive startup growth and goes mainstream
Last week, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Battery Ventures hosted an interactive discussion on the explosive growth of open source software in San Francisco. Event slides can be found here. In SF? Learn about open...
June 1, 2017

Prometheus user profile: Compose explains their monitoring journey from Graphite + InfluxDB to Prometheus
Prometheus user profile: Compose explains their monitoring journey from Graphite + InfluxDB to Prometheus
Compose is a fully-managed platform used by developers to deploy, host and scale databases. Its platform streamlines spinning up and managing MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, RethinkDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RabbitMQ and etcd databases – both for single developers...
May 26, 2017 | Kristen Evans

CNCF hosts Container Networking Interface (CNI)
CNCF hosts Container Networking Interface (CNI)
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept CNI (Container Networking Interface) as the 10th hosted project alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, and rkt. Container-based applications are rapidly...
May 23, 2017 | Natasha Woods

Diversity scholarship series: Inspired by Kubernetes and its community
Diversity scholarship series: Inspired by Kubernetes and its community
CNCF offered six diversity scholarships to developers to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017. In this post, our scholarship recipient Kim Lehtinen, second-year student at University of Vaasa in Finland, shares his experience attending sessions and...
May 19, 2017

Prometheus user profile: ShuttleCloud explains why Prometheus is good for your small startup
Prometheus user profile: ShuttleCloud explains why Prometheus is good for your small startup
ShuttleCloud is a small startup specialized in email and contacts migrations. The company developed a reliable migration platform in high availability used by clients like Gmail, Gcontacts and Comcast. For example, Gmail alone has imported data...
May 17, 2017 | Kristen Evans

Developing cloud native applications
Developing cloud native applications
By Ken Owens, Technologist and Innovation Engineer currently CTO Cloud Native Platforms at Cisco Systems and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) representative *Blog originally posted on DevNetCreate.io Software engineering and developer communities are driving...
May 15, 2017

Diversity scholarship series: My experience at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017
Diversity scholarship series: My experience at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017
CNCF offered six diversity scholarships to developers to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017. In this post, our scholarship recipient Konrad Djimeli, University of Buea student, shares his experience meeting the community, participating in technical sessions and...
May 10, 2017

Where in the world is CNCF? Find us at these community events 🗓
Where in the world is CNCF? Find us at these community events 🗓
Throughout the next few weeks, CNCF is sponsoring, speaking and exhibiting at a number of exciting community events, including: Amazonia, OpenStack Summit Boston, OSCON, DevNet Create, Open Source Summit Japan, CoreOS Fest and LinuxCon + ContainerCon...
May 8, 2017 | Kristen Evans

Kubernetes making a splash at OpenStack Summit Boston (May 7-11)
Kubernetes making a splash at OpenStack Summit Boston (May 7-11)
By: OpenStack Special Interest Group leaders, Ihor Dvoretskyi from Mirantis and Steve Gordon from Red Hat, highlighting the status of collaboration between Kubernetes and OpenStack OpenStack Summit is happening next week in Boston (May 7-11). It...
May 5, 2017

CNCF brings Kubernetes, CoreDNS, OpenTracing and Prometheus to Google Summer of Code 2017
CNCF brings Kubernetes, CoreDNS, OpenTracing and Prometheus to Google Summer of Code 2017
The Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program allows university students (over the age of 18) from around the world to spend their summer breaks writing code and learning about open source development. Accepted students work with a mentor...
May 4, 2017 | Chris Aniszczyk

Meeting challenges in using and deploying containers
Meeting challenges in using and deploying containers
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) surveyed attendees at CloudNativeCon+ KubeCon in late 2016 on a range of topics related to container management and orchestration. In a previous blog, we examined the implications of survey results, in particular how...
April 27, 2017 | Sarah Conway

Service mesh: A critical component of the cloud native stack
Service mesh: A critical component of the cloud native stack
What’s a service mesh? And why do I need one? Originally published by William Morgan on Buoyant.io. tl;dr: A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for making service-to-service communication safe, fast, and reliable. If you’re building a...
April 26, 2017

Release update: Linkerd 1.0 and service mesh explained
Release update: Linkerd 1.0 and service mesh explained
Announcing Linkerd 1.0 Originally published by Oliver Gould. Today, we’re thrilled to announce Linkerd version 1.0. A little more than one year from our initial launch, Linkerd is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and has a thriving...
April 25, 2017

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...
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...
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...
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...
April 17, 2017 | Natasha Woods