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In the summer of 2014, Box was feeling the pain of a decade’s worth of hardware and software infrastructure that wasn’t keeping up with the company’s needs. A platform that allows its more than 50 million...

In conjunction with CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe (March 29-30, 2017), the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) conducted a survey of our attendees. More than 430 conference attendees (out of 1500) completed the survey, with a majority of respondents...

Europace is a Germany-based developer of the country’s largest platform for mortgages, building finance products and personal loans – linking banks, insurers and financial product distributors and enabling users to execute 35,000 transactions each month. Europace moved...

By John Belamaric  Email  Twitter  GitHub On June 14, 2017, CoreDNS-008 released! CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains middleware, where each middleware implements a DNS feature. Release v008 has a lot of content, with new middleware and major features...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...