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Cloud Native Batch System Volcano moves to the CNCF Incubator
Staff Post Cloud Native Batch System Volcano moves to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Volcano as a CNCF incubating project.  Volcano is a cloud native batch system and CNCF’s first batch computing project. It is developed to extend cloud native from micro...
April 7, 2022

Backstage project joins the CNCF Incubator
Staff Post Backstage project joins the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Backstage as a CNCF incubating project.  Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals maintained by a global community. It unifies an organization’s tooling, services, apps, data,...
March 15, 2022

Supply chain security project in-toto moves to the CNCF Incubator
Staff Post Supply chain security project in-toto moves to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept in-toto as a CNCF incubating project.  in-toto is a framework that protects the software supply chain by collecting and verifying relevant data. It does so by enabling libraries...
March 10, 2022

Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2022
Staff Post Inside the Numbers: The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon selection process for Europe 2022
As part of our commitment to transparency within the cloud native community, we are providing an inside look into the work that goes on behind the scenes to bring the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon schedule to life. Note that...
March 9, 2022

Knative accepted as a CNCF incubating project
Staff Post Knative accepted as a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Knative as a CNCF incubating project.  Knative is an open source, Kubernetes-based platform for building, deploying, and managing serverless and event-driven applications. It helps development teams manage, monitor,...
March 2, 2022

Cloud native projects & team culture power Allianz Direct’s CI/CD capabilities
End User Post Cloud native projects & team culture power Allianz Direct’s CI/CD capabilities
In 2019, 132-year old European financial services company Allianz SE founded Allianz Direct in response to disruption in the insurance space. To keep up with digital-first competitors, like the big four (GAFA), Allianz Direct developed digital models for...
February 23, 2022

Chaos Mesh moves to the CNCF Incubator
Staff Post Chaos Mesh moves to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Chaos Mesh as a CNCF incubating project.  Initially created as a testing platform for the open source distributed database, TiDB, Chaos Mesh is a versatile chaos engineering platform...
February 16, 2022

Salt came to Linkerd for load balancing, stayed for efficiency, reliability & performance
End User Post Salt came to Linkerd for load balancing, stayed for efficiency, reliability & performance
Salt Security is tackling the security challenges of today’s API-dependent applications. API requests can represent tens of thousands of opportunities per second for attacks or PII exposure. To combat these risks, Salt runs AI and ML against its...
February 9, 2022

CNCF-cultivated OpenMetrics becomes an incubating project
Staff Post CNCF-cultivated OpenMetrics becomes an incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenMetrics as a CNCF incubating project.  OpenMetrics creates an open standard for transmitting cloud-native metrics at scale. It acts as an open standard for Prometheus and is the...
February 3, 2022

CNCF Archives the OpenTracing Project
Staff Post CNCF Archives the OpenTracing Project
CNCF announced today that the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has approved the archiving of the OpenTracing project. Archived projects are fairly rare but a sign of a healthy open source community. OpenTracing is only the second project to...
January 31, 2022