Meeting challenges in using and deploying containers
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) surveyed attendees at CloudNativeCon+ KubeCon in late 2016 on a range of topics related to container management and orchestration. In a previous blog, we examined the implications of survey results, in particular how Kubernetes had…
Service mesh: A critical component of the cloud native stack
What’s a service mesh? And why do I need one? Originally published by William Morgan on Buoyant.io. tl;dr: A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for making service-to-service communication safe, fast, and reliable. If you’re building a cloud native…
Release update: Linkerd 1.0 and service mesh explained
Announcing Linkerd 1.0 Originally published by Oliver Gould. Today, we’re thrilled to announce Linkerd version 1.0. A little more than one year from our initial launch, Linkerd is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and has a thriving community of…
Release update: Prometheus 1.6.1 and sneak peak at 2.0
Prometheus 1.6.1 After 1.5.0 earlier in the year, Prometheus 1.6.1 is now out. There’s a plethora of changes, so let’s dive in. The biggest change is to how memory is managed. The -storage.local.memory-chunks and -storage.local.max-chunks-to-persist flags have been replaced by -storage.local.target-heap-size. Prometheus will attempt to keep the heap…
Diversity scholarship series: One DevOps engineer’s perspective on CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe
CNCF offered six diversity scholarships to developers to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017. In this post, our scholarship recipient Lee Clench, DevOps Engineer for Capgemini, shares his experience attending sessions, meeting the community and participating in technical…
Diversity scholarship series: Berlin through the eyes of a cloud infrastructure fanatic
By Ricardo Aravena, cloud engineer at Coupa Software I’ve attended many conferences before, but I was happy to get the diversity scholarship to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 in Berlin as there is always so much more to learn. It…
Highlights from CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017
The sold out CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 gathered more than 1,500 end users, leading contributors and developers from around the world for three days in Berlin to exchange Cloud Native knowledge, best practices, and experiences. What started as our…
Computer Weekly: "CNCF: Cloud Native Foundation drives portability forward"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) conference in Berlin kicked off with the release of Kubernetes 1.6, the latest version of Google’s open source container project.
TechCrunch: "Cloud Native Computing Foundation grows with new projects and members"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open source home of the increasingly popular Kubernetes container orchestration service and related projects, is hosting its annual developer conference today and the group used the event to announce that it…
containerd joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Foundation fostering cross-project collaboration and growth of cloud native ecosystem BERLIN – CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe – March 29, 2017 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which is sustaining and integrating open source technologies to orchestrate containers…