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DevOps.com: “OpenTelemetry and the Future of Monitoring Instrumentation”
DevOps.com: “OpenTelemetry and the Future of Monitoring Instrumentation” October 13, 2020
The project, OpenTelemetry, was officially started in May 2019. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and came out of the merger of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects. They’ve since expanded their goal to include not...

The New Stack: “The Most Popular Cloud Native Storage Solutions”
The New Stack: “The Most Popular Cloud Native Storage Solutions” October 12, 2020
Storage is one of the most critical components of a Containers-as-a-Service platform. Container-native storage exposes the underlying storage services to containers and microservices. Like software-defined storage, it aggregates and pools storage resources from disparate mediums. Container-native storage enables...

CNCF Media Coverage
DevClass: “What’s the point: Rook, Kong, Docker Hub, Elixir, Sumo Logic, and Sonatype” October 9, 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has gained another graduate project. Accepted into the CNCF in 2018, storage project Rook is now mature enough to fall into one category with cloud native bedrocks Kubernetes and Prometheus.

SiliconANGLE: “Rook graduates from the CNCF, enabling persistent storage for Kubernetes apps”
SiliconANGLE: “Rook graduates from the CNCF, enabling persistent storage for Kubernetes apps” October 7, 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which houses the open-source Kubernetes project and other cloud-native technology initiatives, said today that Rook has become its latest project to graduate. Rook is an open-source, cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, which is...

GCN: “Famed spy plane gets AI upgrade via Kubernetes”
GCN: “Famed spy plane gets AI upgrade via Kubernetes” October 7, 2020
The Air Force has equipped a legacy U-2 surveillance aircraft with machine learning thanks to Kubernetes, an open-source container-orchestration system that automates the application deployment, scaling and management. Tested on a local training sortie on Sept. 22, Kubernetes...

VentureBeat: “CNCF’s Priyanka Sharma on building an open source movement during a pandemic”
VentureBeat: “CNCF’s Priyanka Sharma on building an open source movement during a pandemic” October 5, 2020
When Priyanka Sharma took the reins at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this summer, it was hard to say whether her timing was auspicious or ominous. As general manager of the organization that oversees the fast-growing open...

Computing: “Going cloud native at the FT. An interview with tech director Sarah Wells”
Computing: “Going cloud native at the FT. An interview with tech director Sarah Wells” October 2, 2020
Few sectors have had to change more rapidly or more frequently than news media, where the move to online, the plethora of free competitive content available on the web, and the precipitous fall in advertising revenues have created...

ITOps Times: “ITOps Times Open-Source Project of Week: SPIFFE”
ITOps Times: “ITOps Times Open-Source Project of Week: SPIFFE” October 2, 2020
SPIFFE stands for the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone. The project aims to define a framework and standards for identifying and securing communications between app services.

The New Stack: “How Kubernetes is Becoming the Universal Control Plane for Distributed Applications”
The New Stack: “How Kubernetes is Becoming the Universal Control Plane for Distributed Applications” October 1, 2020
Kubernetes is emerging as one of the best control planes in the context of modern applications and infrastructure. The powerful scheduler, which was originally designed to deal with the placement of pods on appropriate nodes, is quite extensible....

TechRepublic: “How to transition a developer career into Kubernetes”
TechRepublic: “How to transition a developer career into Kubernetes” September 28, 2020
Even developers who do well know new skills can help them negotiate a pay rise and make them more attractive to other companies. And the hot tech to learn now? Kubernetes.