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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
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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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5 Kubernetes RBAC mistakes you must avoid
5 Kubernetes RBAC mistakes you must avoid
Guest post by Connor Gilbert, originally published on StackRox If you run workloads in Kubernetes, you know how much important data is accessible through the Kubernetes API-from details of deployments to persistent storage configurations to secrets....
September 16, 2019

Nominations are open for the annual CNCF community awards
Nominations are open for the annual CNCF community awards
The nomination process is now open for the fourth annual CNCF Community Awards. These awards recognize the community members, developers and advocates working hardest to advance cloud native.   If you know a deserving ambassador, maintainer and/or advocate working hard...
September 13, 2019 | Amye Scavarda Perrin

How Bloomberg achieves close to 90-95% hardware utilization with Kubernetes
How Bloomberg achieves close to 90-95% hardware utilization with Kubernetes
If you work in financial services, the Bloomberg Terminal is probably your best friend. Behind the scenes, every day Bloomberg deals with hundreds of billions of pieces of data coming in from the financial markets and...
September 12, 2019

Kubernetes IoT Edge WG: identifying security issues at the Edge
Kubernetes IoT Edge WG: identifying security issues at the Edge
With IoT and Edge computing emerging as viable options for building and deploying applications, more and more developers are wanting to use Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies outside of typical data center deployments. These developers...
September 11, 2019

How T-Mobile is leveraging Kubernetes to handle iPhone-launch scale
How T-Mobile is leveraging Kubernetes to handle iPhone-launch scale
Were you ready for the launch of the new iPhone? Thanks to Kubernetes, T-Mobile was. In 2015, it took T-Mobile seven months to get new code to production. That certainly wasn’t the speed of delivery that...
September 6, 2019

CNCF technical principles and open governance success
CNCF technical principles and open governance success
As CNCF approaches its 4th year anniversary, the community has grown to sustain over 30 projects and 450 members. It has become one of the most successful open source organizations in terms of impact which you...
August 30, 2019 | Chris Aniszczyk

Announcing the CNCF Kubernetes project journey report
Announcing the CNCF Kubernetes project journey report
Today we are very excited to release our first Project Journey Report for Kubernetes. This is the first of several such reports we’ll be issuing for CNCF graduated projects. Here’s the backstory. The largest CNCF-hosted project...
August 29, 2019

How gRPC is enabling Salesforce’s unified interoperability strategy
How gRPC is enabling Salesforce’s unified interoperability strategy
The leader in customer relationship management software, Salesforce supports more than 150,000 organizations with its customer success platform and other products. On the technology side, “the big thing we’re trying to establish is a unified interoperability...
August 28, 2019

CNCF joins Google Summer of Code 2019 with 17 interns, projects for containerd, CoreDNS, Kubernetes, OPA, Prometheus, Rook and more
CNCF joins Google Summer of Code 2019 with 17 interns, projects for containerd, CoreDNS, Kubernetes, OPA, Prometheus, Rook and more
Since 2005, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program has accepted thousands of university students from around the world to spend their summer holiday writing code and learning about the open source community. This year GSoC accepted 1,276 students from...
August 23, 2019

CNCF hosts three student internships for Kubernetes and CoreDNS projects through Linux Foundation’s CommunityBridge
CNCF hosts three student internships for Kubernetes and CoreDNS projects through Linux Foundation’s CommunityBridge
CNCF is pleased to announce its participation in the CommunityBridge, sponsoring three students to work on Kubernetes and CoreDNS projects during the programs pilot stage. Recently launched by The Linux Foundation, CommunityBridge is a platform that...
August 22, 2019

Introducing the end user case study redesign ⁠- now with filtering!
Introducing the end user case study redesign ⁠- now with filtering!
For the past three years, we’ve been talking to CNCF end users around the globe and sharing their stories about how cloud native technologies are having real-world impact on their businesses. These case studies all live on...
August 20, 2019

How Kubernetes works
How Kubernetes works
Guest Post from Jef Spaleta, originally published on The Sensu Blog. It’s no secret that the popularity of running containerized applications has exploded over the past several years. Being able to iterate and release an application by provisioning its...
August 19, 2019

CNCF archives the rkt project
CNCF archives the rkt project
As part of a new Archiving Process initiated earlier this year, CNCF announced today that the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to archive the rkt project. All open source projects are subject to a lifecycle and can become less active for...
August 16, 2019 | Chris Aniszczyk

How Linkerd is Apester’s ‘safety net’ against cascading failure from forgotten timeouts
How Linkerd is Apester’s ‘safety net’ against cascading failure from forgotten timeouts
Next time you get sucked into a quiz or poll on a media site like The Telegraph or Time, you can thank Apester⁠’s drag-and-drop interactive content platform⁠-and its usage of cloud native technologies like Linkerd. With...
August 15, 2019

2019 CNCF cloud native survey call to participate
2019 CNCF cloud native survey call to participate
It’s time for the CNCF Cloud Native Survey! The goal of this survey, which will be issued in advance of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America (November 18-21, 2019), is to understand the state of Kubernetes, container, and serverless...
August 8, 2019 | Kim McMahon

Open sourcing the Kubernetes security audit
Open sourcing the Kubernetes security audit
Last year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) began the process of performing and open sourcing third-party security audits for its projects in order to improve the overall security of our ecosystem. The idea was to...
August 6, 2019 | Chris Aniszczyk

Diversity scholarship series: Experiencing Kubernetes Day India 2019
Diversity scholarship series: Experiencing Kubernetes Day India 2019
Guest post by Atibhi Agrawal, originally published on Medium.  I had been hearing the buzzword Kubernetes and cloud computing for a long time but I had no idea what it was. One day my senior Rajula Vineet Reddy posted on our...
August 5, 2019

How JD.com uses Vitess to manage scaling databases for hyperscale
How JD.com uses Vitess to manage scaling databases for hyperscale
China’s largest retailer, JD.com defines hyperscale: The e-commerce business serves more than 300 million active customers. And in the past few years, as the company’s data ballooned, its MySQL databases became larger, resulting in declining performance...
August 1, 2019

Announcing Kubernetes Forum Seoul and Sydney: expanding cloud native engagement across the globe
Announcing Kubernetes Forum Seoul and Sydney: expanding cloud native engagement across the globe
Today we’re excited to announce the first two Kubernetes Forums in Seoul and Sydney, which we are launching this December in Seoul, South Korea from December 9-10, and Sydney, Australia from December 12-13. Kubernetes Forum in global cities...
July 31, 2019

How CreditEase, Pinterest, Slamtec, Ant Financial and ING experienced faster iterations and production times
How CreditEase, Pinterest, Slamtec, Ant Financial and ING experienced faster iterations and production times
Kubernetes enables CreditEase, Pinterest, Ant Financial, Slamtec and ING to overcome a multitude of challenges experienced as they looked to scale. By investing in Kubernetes and cloud native technology, these companies experienced reduced build times and...
July 31, 2019