CNCF to host Cortex in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced acceptance of Cortex, a multitenant Prometheus-as-a-Service, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Developed to scale Prometheus in a multitenant fashion,…
Linkerd 2.0 now in general availability: From service mesh to service sidecar
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and maintainers of Linkerd are excited to announce the general availability of Linkerd 2.0. The 2.0 release brings dramatic improvements to performance, resource consumption, and ease of use to Linkerd. It also transforms…
GSoC 18: Kata Containers support for containerd
Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program 2018 has come to an end and we followed up with CNCF’s seven interns previously featured in this blog post to check in on how their summer project progressed. Over the summer,…
Northwestern Mutual: Focus on risk management, built on cloud native
For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has maintained its industry leadership in part by keeping a strong focus on risk management. For many years, the company took a similar approach to managing its technology and…
Data Center Dynamics: "Who’s afraid of cloud native?"
The world of IT is changing at breakneck speed, and much of it is down to just one technology – application containers, and Kubernetes in particular. Designed for cloud computing, this approach has given birth to…
CNCF’s full GSoC roster passes summer evaluations
Each summer, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program welcomes hundreds (if not thousands) of students to write code and learn about the open source community – all with help from mentor organizations like CNCF. As…
The Register: "Google sets Kubernetes free with $9m in its pocket for expenses"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which oversees various open source projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus, on Wednesday said Google has begun shifting the ownership of Kubernetes cloud resources – the Google Cloud Platform accounts – to…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation welcomes 38 new members at Open Source Summit North America
Foundation reaches membership milestone, 10x growth in less than three years, from industry’s biggest cross-collaboration gathering around open source technologies VANCOUVER, Canada – August 29, 2018 – Open Source Summit North America – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation®…
Google’s donation will allow Kubernetes community to self-manage cloud resources, increasing project control and velocity VANCOUVER, Canada – August 29, 2018 – Open Source Summit North America – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which sustains…
Bridging Communities: Hello FoundationDB Summit
We are thrilled to announce the very first FoundationDB Summit on December 10, 2018 in Seattle as part of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Community Events Day. FoundationDB, the distributed and ACID-compliant database, was just recently open sourced in April 2018….