Since the beginning of 2017 the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), an open source foundation dedicated to advancing the development of cloud native services, has added three new projects to their portfolio for hosting and stewardship, including: linkerd, a transparent proxy ‘service mesh’ that provides service discovery, and communication failure handling and visibility; gRPC, a language agnostic, high performance RPC framework; and CoreDNS, a fast and configurable cloud native DNS server.