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A mid-year 2025 look at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and the top 30 open source projects 
Staff Post A mid-year 2025 look at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and the top 30 open source projects 
Building upon our previous analyses, we continue to monitor trends and technologies that resonate with developers and end users. Take a look at our past timeframes from our blogs.  Here are the main takeaways I see...
July 18, 2025 | Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF
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Health + safety event updates for 2023
Staff Post Health + safety event updates for 2023
As we move forward into 2023, we at the CNCF remain committed to detailed explanations for the more impactful policy decisions we make, especially with regard to our events. In particular, many of you had questions...
December 14, 2022

Why Sumo Logic is betting its future on OpenTelemetry
Member Post Why Sumo Logic is betting its future on OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on Sumo Logic’s blog by Melissa Sussmann When teams collect data without full observability of what others on the team can see, it becomes clear that no one’s picture is truly accurate....
December 13, 2022 | Melissa Sussmann

Why we advocate for workload-centric over infrastructure-centric development
Member Post Why we advocate for workload-centric over infrastructure-centric development
Guest post originally published on Score’s blog by Susa Tünker of Humanitec Score envisions a developer and workload-centric approach to improve developer productivity and experience. In this article, we take a deeper look at the “why”...
December 12, 2022 | Susa Tünker

Kubernetes {open-source} security: a survey
Member Post Kubernetes {open-source} security: a survey
Guest post originally published on ARMO’s blog by Jonathan Kaftzan, VP Marketing & Business Development at ARMO A first of its kind survey looks at the relationship between open-source and K8s security. Today DevOps and security...
December 9, 2022 | Jonathan Kaftzan

Data Mesh vs Data Fabric: a tale of two new data paradigms
Member Post Data Mesh vs Data Fabric: a tale of two new data paradigms
Guest post originally published on Mia-Platform’s blog Data is one of the most critical components of any business, as it allows us to personalize and customize our products for potential consumers. As important as data is, studies have...
December 8, 2022

Congratulations to 24 CNCF fall term LFX Program mentees!
Staff Post Congratulations to 24 CNCF fall term LFX Program mentees!
We are excited to announce that 24 CNCF interns have successfully completed this term’s LFX  Program! 24 of CNCF’s Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects joined this round with projects including Meshery, WasmEdge, Kyverno, and Vitess. Additional...
December 8, 2022

Flux November 2022 Update
Project Post Flux November 2022 Update
Project post originally published on the Flux blog by Daniel Holbach As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities...
December 7, 2022 | Daniel Holback

OpenCost: A new CNCF Sandbox Project for real-time Kubernetes cost monitoring
Member Post OpenCost: A new CNCF Sandbox Project for real-time Kubernetes cost monitoring
Guest post by Matt Ray, Senior Technical Success Manager at Kubecost As a growing number of teams scale their Kubernetes deployments, it’s becoming increasingly important for them to better understand and manage related infrastructure spend. OpenCost,...
December 6, 2022 | Matt Ray

Community Member and Volunteer Guidelines
Staff Post Community Member and Volunteer Guidelines
The CNCF has recently unveiled new and updated guidelines for volunteers at CNCF events. These guidelines are designed to create and sustain a collaborative, professional, courteous and kind environment leading up to, at, and following CNCF...
December 5, 2022

No-Cost Istio training: from fundamentals to ambient to production readiness
Member Post No-Cost Istio training: from fundamentals to ambient to production readiness
Guest post by Jim Barton, Field Engineer at Solo.io The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) recently voted to accept Istio as a CNCF incubating project. Istio solves the challenges of managing microservices by allowing you to...
December 5, 2022 | Jim Barton

Getting started with Fluentd for data collection
Member Post Getting started with Fluentd for data collection
Guest post originally published on InfluxData’s blog by Thinus Swart Fluentd is an open source data collector capable of retrieving and receiving event data from several sources and then filtering, buffering, and routing data to different compatible...
December 2, 2022 | Thinus Swart

CNCF TOC elections for 2023
Staff Post CNCF TOC elections for 2023
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has three main bodies: a Governing Board (GB) that is responsible for marketing, budget and other business oversight decisions for the CNCF, a Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) that is responsible...
December 1, 2022

Constellation – The first always-encrypted Kubernetes engine
Member Post Constellation – The first always-encrypted Kubernetes engine
Guest post by Edgeless Systems Constellation is the first always-encrypted Kubernetes, released as open source in September. It’s a K8s distribution like SUSE Rancher or RedHat OpenShift. What makes Constellation special is that it leverages confidential...
November 30, 2022 | Edgeless Systems

Support for 100 Large-Scale Clusters: Test Report on Karmada
Member Post Support for 100 Large-Scale Clusters: Test Report on Karmada
Guest post by Kevin Wang TL;DR Cloud native implementations, growing in scale and complexity, are challenging organizations on how to efficiently, reliably manage large-scale resource pools to meet growing demands. Players in the cloud field attempted...
November 29, 2022 | Kevin Wang

Updates to the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon maintainer track
Staff Post Updates to the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon maintainer track
When we started offering the maintainer track over four years ago at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle in 2018, it was a very exciting but small part of our events. Since then, our maintainer track (and the...
November 28, 2022

Kubernetes resource usage: estimate workload cost with Goldilocks Open Source
Member Post Kubernetes resource usage: estimate workload cost with Goldilocks Open Source
Guest post originally published on Fairwinds’s blog by Andy Suderman, lead R&D engineer at Fairwinds If you are looking for help on how to set Kubernetes resource limits and requests, you’ve come to the right place....
November 28, 2022 | Andy Suderman

Verify the integrity of the Helm Charts stored in OCI-compliant registries as OCI artifacts
Project Post Verify the integrity of the Helm Charts stored in OCI-compliant registries as OCI artifacts
Guest post originally published on Flux’ blog Cosign integration was one of the most important features we shipped in the Flux v0.35 release. After that, we wrote a blog post which explains how to use the feature with OCIRepository resources which...
November 24, 2022 | Flux maintainers

The LitmusChaos Diary from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
Project Post The LitmusChaos Diary from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
Guest post by Karthik Satchitanand, LitmusChaos Maintainer & Principal Software Engineer at Harness Introduction Not unlike the previous editions, KubeCon NA 2022 @ Detroit was quite eventful for the LitmusChaos project. The interest around the project...
November 23, 2022 | Karthik Satchitanand

Looking back on KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
Staff Post Looking back on KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
By Priyanka Sharma It’s been a little over a month since KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022, and I wanted to take a look back at this fantastic event as our Transparency Report comes together. Almost...
November 23, 2022

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022: First-time next-time
Member Post KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022: First-time next-time
Guest post originally published on Nethopper’s blog by Dan Donahue, Principal Solutions Architect at Nethopper As a Principal Solutions Architect at Nethopper my hope for my first KubeCon 2022 in Detroit was to connect and collaborate...
November 23, 2022 | Dan Donahue