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TOC approves Thanos from sandbox to incubation
Project Post TOC approves Thanos from sandbox to incubation
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Thanos as an incubation-level hosted project. Thanos is a metric system that provides a simple and cost-effective way to centralize and scale Prometheus based systems. The project was...
August 19, 2020

Jaeger turns five: a tribute to project contributors
Project Post Jaeger turns five: a tribute to project contributors
Guest post by Yuri Shkuro, creator and maintainer of Jaeger  August 3rd, 2015 was the date of the first commit in the internal Jaeger repository at Uber. Technically, the true birthday of the project was probably a week or so earlier,...
August 18, 2020 | By Yuri Shkuro

Falco Update: What's new in Falco?
Project Post Falco Update: What's new in Falco?
Guest post from Falco project maintainers Kris Nóva (Sysdig), Lorenzo Fontana (Sysdig), Spencer Krum (IBM), Kaizhe Huang (Sysdig), Leonardo Di Donato (Sysdig) A lot has happened in the world since the Falco maintainers were face to face at...
August 17, 2020 | By Falco project maintainers

Envoy 1.15 introduces a new Postgres extension with monitoring support
Project Post Envoy 1.15 introduces a new Postgres extension with monitoring support
This is a guest post co-authored by Fabrízio Mello and Álvaro Hernández, from OnGres. Envoy 1.15 was released on July 6th, and it included an interesting mention in the release notes: a new plugin, for Postgres! This post will introduce why this plugin was...
August 13, 2020 | By Fabrízio Mello and Álvaro Hernández

CNCF Project Envoy enables Arm64 CI using Azure Pipelines on AWS Graviton2
Project Post CNCF Project Envoy enables Arm64 CI using Azure Pipelines on AWS Graviton2
By Envoy Contributors: Kushal Koolwal (Arm), Jingzhao Ni (Arm), Matt Klein (Envoy/CNCF), Lizan Zhou (Tetrate) Software applications are being created and rewritten with a “cloud-native first” mindset, leveraging principles of containerization and its orchestration, microservices, and delivering them...
August 12, 2020

Jaeger Project Journey Report: A 917% increase in companies contributing code
Project Post Jaeger Project Journey Report: A 917% increase in companies contributing code
Today we are excited to release our next project journey report for Jaeger. This is the sixth such report we have compiled for one of our graduated projects. It assesses the state of the Jaeger project and how...
July 30, 2020

Announcing Vitess 7
Project Post Announcing Vitess 7
Guest post originally published on the Vitess blog by Deepthi Sigireddi, Vitess maintainer On behalf of the Vitess maintainers team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 7. Major Themes Improved SQL Support We continued...
July 28, 2020

Conftest joins the Open Policy Agent project
Project Post Conftest joins the Open Policy Agent project
Guest post from Gareth Rushgrove, maintainer of the Open Policy Agent project Today the Open Policy Agent maintainers are happy to announce that Conftest has formally joined the project. A bit of history Conftest is a command line...
July 23, 2020

Linkerd case studies: meeting security requirements, reducing latency, and migrating from Istio
Project Post Linkerd case studies: meeting security requirements, reducing latency, and migrating from Istio
Guest post originally published on the Buoyant blog by William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant and Linkerd maintainer Adoption of the Linkerd service mesh continues to grow rapidly across industries and verticals. But why are organizations adopting Linkerd? In...
July 21, 2020

Fluent Bit v1.5: lightweight and high-performance log processor
Project Post Fluent Bit v1.5: lightweight and high-performance log processor
Guest post from Eduardo Silva, maintainer for Fluent Bit Fluent Bit, a sub-project under the umbrella of CNCF graduated project Fluentd, has reached its version v1.5.  One of the biggest highlights of this major release is the joint work of different companies...
July 14, 2020