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When Kubernetes restarts your pod — And when it doesn’t
A production internals guide verified against Kubernetes 1.35 GACompanion repository: github.com/opscart/k8s-pod-restart-mechanics The terminology problem Engineers say “the pod restarted” when they mean four different things. Getting this wrong leads to flawed runbooks and bad on-call decisions....
March 17, 2026 | Shamsher Khan, Project Maintainer
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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
TOC votes to move Harbor into CNCF incubator
Harbor started in 2014 as a humble internal project meant to address a simple use case: storing images for developers leveraging containers. The cloud native landscape was wildly different and tools like Kubernetes were just starting...
November 14, 2018
CNCF Survey: Cloud usage in Asia has grown 135% since March 2018
The bi-annual CNCF survey takes a pulse of the community to better understand the adoption of cloud native technologies. This is the second time CNCF has conducted its cloud native survey in Mandarin to better gauge...
November 13, 2018 | Kaitlyn Barnard
The beginner’s guide to the CNCF landscape
This blog was originally posted on the CloudOps blog, by Ayrat Khayretdinov The cloud native landscape can be complicated and confusing. Its myriad of open source projects are supported by the constant contributions of a vibrant...
November 5, 2018
Connect everything: A look at how NATS.io can lead to a securely connected world
By Colin Sullivan Developing and deploying applications that communicate in distributed systems, especially in cloud computing, is complex. Messaging has evolved to address the general needs of distributed applications but hasn’t gone far enough. We need...
November 1, 2018
GSoC 2018: Building a conditional name server identifier for CoreDNS
Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program 2018 has come to an end and we followed up with CNCF’s seven interns previously featured in this blog post to check in on how their summer project progressed. Over the summer,...
October 30, 2018
FoundationDB summit program announced
This post was originally published by the FoundationDB team, here. We’re pleased to announce the program for FoundationDB Summit, our inaugural community conference taking place on December 10 during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle, Washington. Register today to join...
October 26, 2018
gRPC-Web is going GA
On behalf of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, I’m excited to announce the GA release of gRPC-Web, a JavaScript client library that enables web apps to communicate directly with backend gRPC services, without requiring an HTTP server to...
October 24, 2018 | Luc Perkins