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SiliconANGLE: "What would CNCF do? Team ‘cloud native’ tackles 2020 challenges through open-source ethos"
SiliconANGLE: "What would CNCF do? Team ‘cloud native’ tackles 2020 challenges through open-source ethos" August 18, 2020
In a year where cloud transformation became a do-or-die choice for many organizations, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is shining a light through the complexities of adapting to a remote-first world.

The New Stack "KubeCon EU: Surge of Kubernetes Edge deployments leads to cluster sprawl"
The New Stack "KubeCon EU: Surge of Kubernetes Edge deployments leads to cluster sprawl" August 18, 2020
A surge of Kubernetes deployments in retail location, assembly lines and other “edge computing” environments is leading to cluster sprawl, which can be a security hazard, as Keith Basil, Rancher vice president of edge solutions, will discuss in...

InfoQ: "KubeCon EU, CNCF Community, and role of the cloud during the pandemic: Q&A with Priyanka Sharma
InfoQ: "KubeCon EU, CNCF Community, and role of the cloud during the pandemic: Q&A with Priyanka Sharma August 14, 2020
InfoQ recently caught up with Priyanka Sharma, General Manager of CNCF, to discuss the upcoming virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU event. Topics also discussed included the role of the cloud, open source, and the current and future work...

DevOps.com: "CNCF provides Jaeger distributed tracing update"
DevOps.com: "CNCF provides Jaeger distributed tracing update" August 10, 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has made available a report detailing the progress being made around the open source Jaeger distributed tracing software. Among other things, the report notes there are now more than 300 organizations contributing...

The New Stack: "Introducing Contour: routing traffic to applications in Kubernetes"
The New Stack: "Introducing Contour: routing traffic to applications in Kubernetes" August 7, 2020
We’re excited to share the news that Contour is now an incubation-level hosted project with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This is a very proud moment and on behalf of the other project maintainers we want to...

CNCF Media Coverage
ContainerJournal: "The CNCF etcd project reaches a significant milestone with completion of security audit" August 5, 2020
This week, a third-party security audit was published on etcd, the open source distributed key-value store that plays a crucial role in scaling Kubernetes in the cloud. For etcd, this audit was important in multiple ways. The audit...

DevClass: "What’s the point: Vitess, Cloudflare Workers Unbound, Kuma, New Relic, GitHub, and Oso"
DevClass: "What’s the point: Vitess, Cloudflare Workers Unbound, Kuma, New Relic, GitHub, and Oso" August 4, 2020
Database clustering system and CNCF graduated project Vitess has recently become available in version 7.0, improving SQL support and stability amongst other things. The tool, which originated at YouTube, now sports VExec and Workflow commands to facilitate automation...

The New Stack: "Google’s management of Istio raises questions in the Cloud Native Community"
The New Stack: "Google’s management of Istio raises questions in the Cloud Native Community" July 28, 2020
When the Istio service mesh was first proposed to be included in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in November 2017, it was still v.02, had only been around less than six months, and yet it aimed to...

TechRepublic: "Linux Foundation offering Kubernetes certifications courses and exams as demand spikes"
TechRepublic: "Linux Foundation offering Kubernetes certifications courses and exams as demand spikes" July 24, 2020
With more than 40 million Americans filing for unemployment benefits since the coronavirus pandemic cratered the economy, dozens of states and organizations are looking for ways to reskill people as they look for new lines of work.

ZDNet: "The Linux Foundation offers Advanced Cloud Engineer Bootcamp program"
ZDNet: "The Linux Foundation offers Advanced Cloud Engineer Bootcamp program" July 22, 2020
Cloud jobs are hotter than hot. Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Indeed.com reported that between October 2015 and October 2019, cloud computing jobs increased by 55%. By 2022, Gartner predicts the public cloud services market alone will be...