TOC votes to move Harbor into CNCF incubator
Harbor started in 2014 as a humble internal project meant to address a simple use case: storing images for developers leveraging containers. The cloud native landscape was wildly different and tools like Kubernetes were just starting…
CNCF to host Harbor in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted Harbor, a cloud native registry, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Project Harbor is an open source cloud native registry that stores, signs, and…
CNCF celebrates successful mentees from LFX Mentorship 2025 Term 3
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is thrilled to congratulate the 2025 Term 3 (September – November) CNCF LFX Mentorship Program mentees who have successfully completed the program! This term saw a fantastic cohort of mentees working…
Platform engineering maintenance pitfalls and smart strategies to stay ahead
Platform engineering is a discipline that aims to increase the productivity of software engineering teams by designing, building, and maintaining internal platforms that abstract underlying infrastructure complexity and provide self-service capabilities. Kubernetes-based platforms are often complex…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Dragonfly’s Graduation
Dragonfly graduates after demonstrating production readiness, powering container and AI workloads at scale Key Highlights: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – January 14, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native…
The mentorship flywheel: How CNCF is growing the next generation of cloud native leaders
A record year for mentorship, 187 graduates contributing to the ecosystem, and one engineer’s journey from “I didn’t know about Docker” to Kyverno maintainer. In 2025, the CNCF mentorship programs hit a milestone: 187 successful mentorship…
How to build a cost-effective observability platform with OpenTelemetry
The challenge Managing millions of concurrent connections during global events like flash sales and online voting requires resilient, scalable observability. At STCLab, we operate platforms including a bot mitigation platform and traffic management platform that support…
Exploring AI, observability and community at OSS Summit Korea 2025
Attending OpenSearchCon, OpenSSF Day, and the Open Source Summit in Seoul was a truly memorable experience, especially because this was the first-ever Open Source Summit hosted in South Korea. I have previously attended two KubeCons in…
Kubestronaut in Orbit: Iliyan Petkov
Get to know Iliyan His fascination with computers and electronics began early, sparked by his father and fueled by various games and sci-fi movies. Over the years, he developed a passion for open-source technologies, system administration,…
Kubestronaut in Orbit: Samah Eddaoudi
Get to know Samah This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit is Samah Eddaoudi! As a recent graduate in networks and telecommunications, Samah transitioned into the field of DevOps and cloud engineering, building on her strong technical foundation….