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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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Fluentd: cloud native logging
By Eduardo Silva, Fluentd Maintainer When deploying applications – either for development or production purposes – there are several steps one needs to take to have a healthy environment. One such step is making sure you...
December 8, 2016
CNCF webinar series launches December 15th!
Cloud native – orchestrating containers as part of a microservices architecture – is a departure from traditional application design. Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies enable more rapid software development at a lower cost than traditional...
December 6, 2016
Calling all Kubernauts: First K8s certification workgroup meeting coming soon!
We recently announced a new curriculum development, training and certification initiative for Kubernetes – announced during CloudNativeCon + KubeCon. To kick things off, CNCF will be hosting two in-person sessions for the CNCF Certification Working Group,...
December 1, 2016
Diversity scholarship series: My programming journey – becoming a Kubernetes maintainer
I’m Lucas Käldström from Finland. I speak Swedish as my mother tongue in the same manner as 300,000 others in my country do. I just turned 17 and am attending my second year in general upper...
November 29, 2016
Diversity scholarship series: My time at CloudNativeCon 2016
Author: Leah Petersen, intern, Samsung SDS CNCT In her opening keynote speech at CloudNativeCon/KubeCon 2016 in Seattle, WA, Chen Goldberg stated Kubernetes was more than open source it was an “open community.” As someone who is both new to the community and to...
November 18, 2016
CloudNativeCon/KubeCon 2016 – It's a wrap!
The sold out CloudNativeCon/KubeCon NA 2016 has come to an end. More than 1,000 end users, leading contributors and developers from around the world came together for two days in Seattle to exchange knowledge, best practices, and...
November 17, 2016 | Natasha Woods
Fluentd joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Fluentd as the fourth hosted project after Kubernetes, Prometheus and OpenTracing. You can find more information on the project in this proposal...
November 9, 2016 | Natasha Woods
CNCF partners with The Linux Foundation to launch new Kubernetes certification, training and managed service provider program
Today the CNCF is pleased to launch a new training, certification and Kubernetes Managed Service Provider (KMSP) program. The goal of the program is to ensure enterprises get the support they’re looking for to get up...
November 8, 2016 | Sarah Conway
Cloud native: software you can trust
By: Alexis Richardson, chairman of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation TOC Here is the news: CNCF is on track to provide common open source tools for cloud native apps. We are a young organisation, but we are...
November 8, 2016
OpenTracing: turning the lights on for microservices
By Ben Sigelman (@el_bhs), OpenTracing co-author Those building microservices at scale understand the role and importance of distributed tracing: after all, it’s the most direct way to understand how and why complex systems misbehave. When we...
October 20, 2016
CNCF project session: Björn Rabenstein & Julius Volz of Prometheus on “service instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting with Prometheus”
During last year’s O’Reilly Velocity conference in Amsterdam, Björn Rabenstein & Julius Volz of Prometheus presented on “Service Instrumentation, Monitoring, and Alerting with Prometheus.” Their comprehensive tutorial kicked off with an introduction into the fundamental concepts...
October 20, 2016 | Kristen Evans
OpenTracing joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee voted to accept OpenTracing as a third hosted project after Kubernetes and Prometheus. You can find more information on the project in this proposal presented to...
October 11, 2016 | Natasha Woods
Announcing “CNCF Community Awards” – winners to be recognized at CloudNativeCon
Nominations open today for the CNCF Community Awards to honor those who have made the greatest impact over the last year in the cloud native space. Within the fast-growing Kubernetes and Prometheus communities, there’s an incredible...
October 10, 2016 | Kristen Evans
CNCF member session: Vipin Jain of Cisco on “leveraging enterprise networks for containers”
At the recent May 2016 CoreOS Fest in San Francisco, Vipin Jain of Cisco gave a persuasive presentation to attendees on “Leveraging Enterprise Networks for Containers.” The distinguished engineer covered everything from the traditional enterprise data center at...
October 6, 2016 | Kristen Evans
CNCF Member Session: Tim Hockin of Google on “building longevity into Kubernetes”
This year’s CoreOS Fest in San Francisco was jam packed with exciting sessions. Tim Hockin of Google gave one of the event’s most informative sessions, titled “Building Longevity into Kubernetes.” The veteran Kubernetes engineer discussed the...
September 29, 2016 | Kristen Evans
Why Prometheus developers love open source
“Open source is a lot of people working hard to build the best software they can to give it to you for free,” said Fabian Reinartz, engineer at CoreOS and core Prometheus developer. We asked the...
September 12, 2016
CNCF project session: Björn Rabenstein & Fabian Reinartz of Prometheus on “Monitoring Kubernetes clusters with Prometheus”
September 8, 2016 | Kristen Evans
Prometheus user profile: Monitoring the world's largest digital festival – DreamHack
A local area network gathering with live concerts and competitions in digital art and esports, DreamHack is considered the world’s largest digital festival. In fact, it was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records and Twin...
August 24, 2016 | Kristen Evans
Deploying 1000 nodes of OpenShift on the CNCF Cluster (Part 1)
By Jeremy Eder, Red Hat, Senior Principal Software Engineer Imagine being able to stand up thousands of tenants with thousands of apps, running thousands of Docker-formatted container images and routes, on a self healing cluster. Take...
August 23, 2016
Ambassador program, Meetup program + community store available for growing Cloud Native Community
Now Open: CNCF Community Store, Ambassador Program, and Meetup Community Today’s cloud native ecosystem is growing at an incredibly rapid pace – as new technologies are continuously introduced and current applications are ever-evolving. Our new Cloud...
August 23, 2016 | Natasha Woods