A mid-year 2025 look at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and the top 30 open source projects
Building upon our previous analyses, we continue to monitor trends and technologies that resonate with developers and end users. Take a look at our past timeframes from our blogs. Here are the main takeaways I see…
Cloud Native Live: Taming the configuration beast with Pkl!
Infrastructure-as-code has revolutionized the way that infrastructure and applications get managed, increasing velocity and scalability. However, this same philosophy has introduced its own problems. Different tools have their own configuration formats, and formats like YAML, TOML…
Cloud Native App Local Development Made Easy with Microcks and Dapr
Cloud native application development can be intimidating sometimes! Architecting distributed applications that need to access and connect to complex infrastructure requires developers to learn different technologies and cloud services, which slows down their development tasks. It…
GitOps in 2025: From Old-School Updates to the Modern Way
1. Introduction: Why Everyone’s Talking About GitOps in 2025 It’s 2025, and building software is more cloud-driven than ever. Cloud computing offers incredible speed and flexibility, but it also brings complexity. Companies are expected to ship…
Cloud Native Live: The future of cloud governance: AI remediation in action
Modern enterprises struggle with the scale and complexity of fixing policy violations in cloud-native environments, which is often manual and time-consuming. Nirmata’s new AI-Powered Remediations, now in preview within the Nirmata Control Hub (NCH), offer a…
CNCF Announces Speakers and Sessions for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India
Second annual India event to spotlight developer innovation and cloud native leadership Hyderabad, India, 7 May, 2025– The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud-native software, today announced the keynote speakers and…
These Kubernetes mistakes will make you an easy target for hackers
Kubernetes is exceedingly powerful for orchestrating containerized applications at scale. But without proper monitoring and observability—especially in self-managed infrastructure—it can quickly become a security disaster waiting to happen. This is not due to inherent flaws in…
CNCF Fuels Cloud Native Growth with New Silver Members Driving Open Source Innovation
As cloud native technologies evolve, CNCF welcomes new members driving open source innovation and scalable infrastructure KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, London, UK – April 3, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable…
Building Scalable, Agile, and Secure APIs with Kubernetes and Microservices
The dawn of APIs across the digital ecosystem has fundamentally disrupted standard business models and software development. And enhancing these approaches with intelligent, data-driven, and real-time insights allows your organization to dynamically scale. However traditional monolithic…
Advancing Open Source Gateways with kgateway
At KubeCon NA 2024, Solo.io announced its intention to donate the Gloo Gateway open source project to the CNCF, to benefit the broader cloud native ecosystem. In case you are not familiar with Gloo Gateway, it…