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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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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
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
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
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 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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
CNCF to host etcd
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept etcd as an incubation-level hosted project from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle. etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable...
December 11, 2018 | Kristen Evans
A look back at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Shanghai 2018
Now that we’ve finally caught our breath after a fantastic two days at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Shanghai, let’s dive into some of the key highlights and news. The best part is we get to...
December 5, 2018
The “Function” Package – Creating a Spec for serverless application packaging
by Yoav Landman, CTO, JFrog What’s in a function? Creating serverless applications is a multi-step process. One of the critical steps in this process is packaging the serverless functions you want to deploy into your FaaS...
December 4, 2018
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Barcelona 2019 call for proposals (CFP) is open
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon has expanded from its start with 500 attendees in 2015 to become one of the largest and most successful open source conferences ever. With that growth comes challenges, and CNCF is eager to...
November 16, 2018 | Dee Kumar
JD.com recognized for cloud native open source technology usage with CNCF Top End User Award
JD.com, China’s largest retailer, has been presented with the Top End User Award by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) for its unique usage of cloud native open source projects. The award was announced at China’s...
November 14, 2018