TOC Approves SPIFFE and SPIRE to Incubation
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept SPIFFE and SPIRE as incubation-level hosted projects. The SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone) specification defines a standard to authenticate software services in cloud native environments through…
eWeek: "CNCF expands cloud security capabilities with SPIFFE, OPA projects"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced on March 29 that it is adding the Open Policy Agent (OPA) and the Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone (SPIFFE) projects to its hosted projects roster. .
CNCF to host the SPIFFE Project
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation accepted SPIFFE into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Also known as the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone, the SPIFFE project is an open-source…
Cloud Native Now: “CNCF and Tetrate Branch Out to Offer Istio Certification”
If you think about the interconnections among them, the cloud-native ecosystem of projects can resemble natural systems. Established CNCF projects such as Kubernetes, Envoy, gRPC, Prometheus and SPIFFE comprise a strong root system of modern cloud-native projects. Service…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Cilium Graduation
eBPF-powered tool has been adopted by well over 100 organizations SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – October 11, 2023 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the graduation of Cilium….
Kubernetes security: best practices for Kubernetes secrets management
Guest post originally published on the CyberArk blog by John Walsh Kubernetes has come a long way since its inception. But as the adoption of containerization has grown, Kubernetes security continues to be top of mind. Red Hat’s “The State of…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms Istio Maturity with Project Graduation
Fast-growing service mesh has added end users, events, features, and maintainers to reach Foundation’s top maturity level SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 12, 2023 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native…
Istio Ambient waypoint proxy made simple
Guest post originally published on Istio’s blog by Lin Sun, Solo.io, and John Howard, Google Introducing the new destination oriented waypoint proxy for simplicity and scalability. Ambient splits Istio’s functionality into two distinct layers, a secure overlay layer…
New Kubernetes security audit complete and open sourced
By Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) and Rey Lejano In 2018, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) started performing and open sourcing third-party security audits with the goal of improving the overall security practices of our ecosystem. Since then, Argo,…
cert-manager becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept cert-manager as a CNCF incubating project. cert-manager is a Kubernetes add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources, for cloud native Kubernetes…