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The New Stack: “Linkerd Graduates CNCF with Focus on Simplicity”
The New Stack: “Linkerd Graduates CNCF with Focus on Simplicity” August 2, 2021
The Linkerd service mesh, the first service mesh to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) back in 2017 as the foundation’s fifth project overall, has reached the graduated tier of the foundation.

SearchITOperations: “Linkerd service mesh plans expansion post-graduation”
SearchITOperations: “Linkerd service mesh plans expansion post-graduation” July 28, 2021
The project known now as Linkerd is actually the second incarnation of a service mesh first launched in 2016, built on Java and used to orchestrate virtual machines. Linkerd’s creators, some of whom hailed from Twitter, coined the...

ComputerWeekly: “From incubation-to-graduation: CNCF ‘graduates’ Linkerd service mesh”
ComputerWeekly: “From incubation-to-graduation: CNCF ‘graduates’ Linkerd service mesh” July 28, 2021
To officially graduate from incubating status, Linkerd demonstrated the project maturity expected of a stable and well-established project, including rapidly-growing adoption and a commitment to a sustainable and inclusive community.

SDxCentral: “Linkerd Nabs CNCF Diploma, Counters Istio’s ‘Empty Calories’”
SDxCentral: “Linkerd Nabs CNCF Diploma, Counters Istio’s ‘Empty Calories’” July 28, 2021
Linkerd hit graduation status at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), marking a significant milestone as the first service mesh to earn a diploma. It also adds much-needed stability to the service mesh space that has been dogged...

The New Stack: “CNCF Assesses Tools for Kubernetes Multicluster Management”
The New Stack: “CNCF Assesses Tools for Kubernetes Multicluster Management” July 20, 2021
Once they have piloted Kubernetes, many organizations then want to scale up their K8s deployments, and run workloads across many clusters. But managing multiple clusters requires a new set of tools, ones that automate many routine and manual...

DevClass: “Open Policy Agent 0.30 lands, irons out some kinks”
DevClass: “Open Policy Agent 0.30 lands, irons out some kinks” July 7, 2021
The team behind general-purpose policy engine Open Policy Agent (OPA) has pushed out version 0.30 (and 0.30.1 to make it run correctly) of the project, which should help provide a more secure setup and relax things for those...

Fast Company: “4 ways the coder community can help fix its diversity problem”
Fast Company: “4 ways the coder community can help fix its diversity problem” July 5, 2021
The business results are clear. Diverse and inclusive cultures provide companies with a competitive edge over their peers and deliver better results.

Insider: “A growing movement backed by Google is betting that cutting cloud costs doesn’t just save money — it kickstarts business growth”
Insider: “A growing movement backed by Google is betting that cutting cloud costs doesn’t just save money — it kickstarts business growth” July 1, 2021
Similarly, Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, says engineers don’t currently apply the same level of rigor to cloud management as they do to software. And since they have “unlimited access to go provision infrastructure,”...

ITPro: “Kubernetes costs spiraling as businesses fail to monitor spend”
ITPro: “Kubernetes costs spiraling as businesses fail to monitor spend” June 30, 2021
Expenditure on Kubernetes is rising dramatically, and most businesses are struggling to accurately project how much they’re expecting to spend on their container orchestration systems in future. Over the last year, Kubernetes-related costs surged for 68% of businesses,...

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Container Journal: “Survey Surfaces Recent Spike in Kubernetes Costs” June 29, 2021
A survey of 178 IT professionals that have deployed Kubernetes finds just over two-thirds of respondents (68%) have seen an uptick in Kubernetes costs, with an equal number either relying on monthly estimates (44%) or doing nothing to...