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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...
January 29, 2025
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Prometheus roadmap and latest updates
Project Post Prometheus roadmap and latest updates
Guest post originally published on Medium’s blog by Dotan Horovits TL;DR Key updates: We Just celebrated 10 year birthday to Prometheus last month. Prometheus was the second project to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after Kubernetes in 2016, and has...
January 3, 2023 | Dotan Horovits

Argo and Flux: grown-up GitOps for cloud native generation
Staff Post Argo and Flux: grown-up GitOps for cloud native generation
It’s a watershed moment in the evolution of cloud native: Argo and Flux, which let teams declaratively deploy and run applications and workflows on Kubernetes using GitOps, have left CNCF’s incubation phase. In graduating, the pair...
December 27, 2022 | Chris Aniszczyk

A DevOps reset for a multi-cloud world
Member Post A DevOps reset for a multi-cloud world
Guest post originally published on DevOps.com by Chris Munford In the world of DevOps, only two things really matter:  The measures used to achieve these twin goals should work together seamlessly–otherwise, you’re inefficient. But software development...
December 20, 2022 | Chris Munford

Stateful authorization is an anti-pattern
Member Post Stateful authorization is an anti-pattern
Guest post by Alex Olivier, Product Lead at Cerbos When it comes to designing core components of a software architecture one of the early decisions that need to be made is where to store the state...
December 19, 2022 | Alex Olivier

Why OpenTelemetry Is Taking Cloud Native to New Heights
Member Post Why OpenTelemetry Is Taking Cloud Native to New Heights
Guest post by Dave McAllister, Sr OSS Technical Evangelist at NGINX Observability is key when running cloud‑native apps. In cloud native, app functionality emerges from the interaction between numerous microservices running in multiple locations. The loosely...
December 16, 2022 | Dave McAllister

Progressive delivery with service mesh – Argo Rollouts with Istio
Member Post Progressive delivery with service mesh – Argo Rollouts with Istio
Guest post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Atulpriya Sharma We’ve all heard the phrase – Change is the only constant. That holds true for everything around us. Traditionally applications were released in a waterfall-based...
December 16, 2022 | Atulpriya Sharma

Istio 1.16 is out, what does it mean for ambient mesh and you?
Member Post Istio 1.16 is out, what does it mean for ambient mesh and you?
Guest post originally published on Solo.io’s blog by Lin Sun and Daniel Hawton While there was not much new in Istio 1.15, Istio 1.16, led by our own release manager Daniel Hawton, has a lot of improvements....
December 15, 2022 | Lin Sun and Daniel Hawton

Important updates for 2023 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and co-located events
Staff Post Important updates for 2023 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and co-located events
We’ve received a lot of great feedback from the community regarding the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-located event strategy, including feedback on the overall length of the conference week/number of co-located event days, the registration policies/process, and...
December 14, 2022

Health + safety event updates for 2023
Staff Post Health + safety event updates for 2023
As we move forward into 2023, we at the CNCF remain committed to detailed explanations for the more impactful policy decisions we make, especially with regard to our events. In particular, many of you had questions...
December 14, 2022

Why Sumo Logic is betting its future on OpenTelemetry
Member Post Why Sumo Logic is betting its future on OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on Sumo Logic’s blog by Melissa Sussmann When teams collect data without full observability of what others on the team can see, it becomes clear that no one’s picture is truly accurate....
December 13, 2022 | Melissa Sussmann

Why we advocate for workload-centric over infrastructure-centric development
Member Post Why we advocate for workload-centric over infrastructure-centric development
Guest post originally published on Score’s blog by Susa Tünker of Humanitec Score envisions a developer and workload-centric approach to improve developer productivity and experience. In this article, we take a deeper look at the “why”...
December 12, 2022 | Susa Tünker

Kubernetes {open-source} security: a survey
Member Post Kubernetes {open-source} security: a survey
Guest post originally published on ARMO’s blog by Jonathan Kaftzan, VP Marketing & Business Development at ARMO A first of its kind survey looks at the relationship between open-source and K8s security. Today DevOps and security...
December 9, 2022 | Jonathan Kaftzan

Data Mesh vs Data Fabric: a tale of two new data paradigms
Member Post Data Mesh vs Data Fabric: a tale of two new data paradigms
Guest post originally published on Mia-Platform’s blog Data is one of the most critical components of any business, as it allows us to personalize and customize our products for potential consumers. As important as data is, studies have...
December 8, 2022

Congratulations to 24 CNCF fall term LFX Program mentees!
Staff Post Congratulations to 24 CNCF fall term LFX Program mentees!
We are excited to announce that 24 CNCF interns have successfully completed this term’s LFX  Program! 24 of CNCF’s Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects joined this round with projects including Meshery, WasmEdge, Kyverno, and Vitess. Additional...
December 8, 2022

Flux November 2022 Update
Project Post Flux November 2022 Update
Project post originally published on the Flux blog by Daniel Holbach As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities...
December 7, 2022 | Daniel Holback

OpenCost: A new CNCF Sandbox Project for real-time Kubernetes cost monitoring
Member Post OpenCost: A new CNCF Sandbox Project for real-time Kubernetes cost monitoring
Guest post by Matt Ray, Senior Technical Success Manager at Kubecost As a growing number of teams scale their Kubernetes deployments, it’s becoming increasingly important for them to better understand and manage related infrastructure spend. OpenCost,...
December 6, 2022 | Matt Ray

Community Member and Volunteer Guidelines
Staff Post Community Member and Volunteer Guidelines
The CNCF has recently unveiled new and updated guidelines for volunteers at CNCF events. These guidelines are designed to create and sustain a collaborative, professional, courteous and kind environment leading up to, at, and following CNCF...
December 5, 2022

No-Cost Istio training: from fundamentals to ambient to production readiness
Member Post No-Cost Istio training: from fundamentals to ambient to production readiness
Guest post by Jim Barton, Field Engineer at Solo.io The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) recently voted to accept Istio as a CNCF incubating project. Istio solves the challenges of managing microservices by allowing you to...
December 5, 2022 | Jim Barton

Getting started with Fluentd for data collection
Member Post Getting started with Fluentd for data collection
Guest post originally published on InfluxData’s blog by Thinus Swart Fluentd is an open source data collector capable of retrieving and receiving event data from several sources and then filtering, buffering, and routing data to different compatible...
December 2, 2022 | Thinus Swart

CNCF TOC elections for 2023
Staff Post CNCF TOC elections for 2023
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has three main bodies: a Governing Board (GB) that is responsible for marketing, budget and other business oversight decisions for the CNCF, a Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) that is responsible...
December 1, 2022