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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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Open sourcing the SPIFFE/SPIRE security audit
Staff Post Open sourcing the SPIFFE/SPIRE security audit
A few years back, CNCF began performing and open sourcing third-party security audits for projects to improve the overall security of our ecosystem. These audits have helped identify security issues, from general weaknesses to critical vulnerabilities,...
August 17, 2021

Why cloud financial management is core to business survival
Member Post Why cloud financial management is core to business survival
Guest post originally published on Virtasant’s blog by the Virtasant Research Team Innovating in the cloud comes with a price, but cloud financial management allows businesses to get a handle on the unpredictable cloud costs that...
August 17, 2021 | Virtasant Research Team

CNCF LFX projects are open for Fall 2021 – Apply by August 22nd!
Staff Post CNCF LFX projects are open for Fall 2021 – Apply by August 22nd!
We are excited to announce another amazing line up of CNCF projects that will be participating in the Fall Term of LFX – offering full-time, three month internships starting in September. LFX is a platform that...
August 16, 2021 | Chris Abraham

China Mobile: KubeEdge-based customer service platform featuring edge-cloud synergy
Project Post China Mobile: KubeEdge-based customer service platform featuring edge-cloud synergy
Guest post by KubeEdge Maintainers Service Architecture Evolution Introduction to China Mobile Online Marketing Service Center The Center is a secondary organ of the China Mobile Communications Group. It operates and manages online service resources and...
August 16, 2021 | KubeEdge Maintainers

Mentorship Spotlight: Second time lucky with OpenTelemetry
Community Post Mentorship Spotlight: Second time lucky with OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on Medium by Ndubuisi Onyemenam Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity Seneca The first time I applied to OpenTelemetry for the Linux Foundation Internship was for the Q3-Q4 round of 2020. I received a...
August 13, 2021 | Ndubuisi Onyemenam

Flux August 2021 update
Project Post Flux August 2021 update
Guest post originally published on Flux’s blog by Daniel Holbach, Community Management for Flux As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already...
August 12, 2021 | Daniel Holbach

Trace-based testing with OpenTelemetry: Meet open source Malabi
Community Post Trace-based testing with OpenTelemetry: Meet open source Malabi
Community guest post by Yuri Shkuro, creator and maintainer of Jaeger, and Michael Haberman, Co-Founder & CTO of Aspecto If you deal with distributed applications at scale, you probably use tracing. And if you use tracing...
August 11, 2021 | Yuri Shkuro + Michael Haberman

CNCF Cloud Native Survey 2021: Part 2 is open now!
Staff Post CNCF Cloud Native Survey 2021: Part 2 is open now!
The Cloud Native Survey 2021 – Part 2 is now open! We want to extend a HUGE thank you to everyone who completed Part 1. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us and the whole of...
August 11, 2021

Avoiding Kubernetes cluster outages with synthetic monitoring
Member Post Avoiding Kubernetes cluster outages with synthetic monitoring
Guest post originally published on Infracloud’s blog by Ruturaj Kadikar What is synthetic monitoring? Synthetic monitoring consists of pre-defined checks to proactively monitor the critical elements in your infrastructure. These checks simulate the functionality of the...
August 10, 2021 | Ruturaj Kadikar

Application consistency in Kubernetes
Member Post Application consistency in Kubernetes
Guest post by Zerto Gone are the days that a backup of a virtual machine is enough for backing up an entire application. Applications, especially modern, cloud-native applications, span across virtual machines, containers and cloud services....
August 9, 2021

What is OpenTelemetry and why is it the future of instrumentation?
Member Post What is OpenTelemetry and why is it the future of instrumentation?
Guest post originally published on New Relic’s blog by Lavanya Chockalingam of New Relic This blog is the first part in the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 begins with an overview of what OpenTelemetry is and why this open standard is the...
August 6, 2021 | Lavanya Chockalingam

Cloud Native WebAssembly
Community Post Cloud Native WebAssembly
Guest post originally published on Medium by Michael Yuan WebAssembly was originally created for the browser. But like Java and JavaScript before it, once it gained support from the community (esp standardization and toolchain support), WebAssembly...
August 5, 2021 | Michael Yuan

Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021
Staff Post Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021
As part of our commitment to transparency within the cloud native community, we are providing an inside look into the work that goes on behind the scenes to bring the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon schedule to life....
August 4, 2021

Keeping KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Los Angeles 2021 Safe for Onsite Attendees
Staff Post Keeping KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Los Angeles 2021 Safe for Onsite Attendees
We are looking forward to connecting with many of you in the cloud native community in Los Angeles (after quite a long hiatus!) at the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 from October 11-15.  In...
August 4, 2021

gRPC in action – Example using Java microservices
gRPC in action – Example using Java microservices
Guest post by Nikhil Mohan, Senior Technology Architect at Infosys In this article, we will implement a Java based microservices solution  with gRPC as the integration technology. The solution is a Movie  Finder application that provides a...
August 4, 2021

Edge stream data processing based on KubeEdge and Kuiper
Edge stream data processing based on KubeEdge and Kuiper
Guest post by KubeEdge Maintainers Introduction: KubeEdge is an open-source edge computing platform. Based on the native container orchestration and scheduling capabilities of Kubernetes, KubeEdge achieves functionalities such as cloud-edge synergy, edge computing, edge device management,...
August 3, 2021

Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020
Staff Post Update on CNCF and Open Source Project Velocity 2020
Back in 2017, we provided insight into the top 30 highest velocity open source projects at the time and the findings were very interesting. This year, we want to look at both CNCF’s project velocity as...
August 2, 2021 | Chris Aniszczyk

Why Kubernetes was inevitable
Member Post Why Kubernetes was inevitable
Guest post originally published on Elastisys’ blog by Lars Larsson Do you feel that Kubernetes is too complicated? That it’s going to be a waste of time to learn it? I know from experience that you...
August 2, 2021 | Lars Larsson

How data meets software development and debugging
Member Post How data meets software development and debugging
Guest post originally published on the Rookout Blog by Elad Uzan, Rookout There’s no doubt about it: data is the new gold. The last decade has created a revolution in everything related to data, whether it’s...
July 30, 2021

Success Story: Preparing for Kubernetes Certification Improves a Platform Development Engineer’s Skill Set
Staff Post Success Story: Preparing for Kubernetes Certification Improves a Platform Development Engineer’s Skill Set
Guest post from LF Training & Certification Faseela K. is a platform development engineer with a background in open source networking. As she saw the use of containers growing more than the VMs she was working...
July 30, 2021