Cloud native projects & team culture power Allianz Direct’s CI/CD capabilities
In 2019, 132-year old European financial services company Allianz SE founded Allianz Direct in response to disruption in the insurance space. To keep up with digital-first competitors, like the big four (GAFA), Allianz Direct developed digital…
Principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on Elastisys’ blog by the Elastisys‘ team Designing scalable cloud native applications requires considerable thought, as there are many challenges to overcome. Even with the great clouds we have today for deploying…
Chaos Mesh moves to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Chaos Mesh as a CNCF incubating project. Initially created as a testing platform for the open source distributed database, TiDB, Chaos Mesh is a versatile chaos…
Allianz disrupts itself with Allianz Direct Allianz SE is a 132-year-old multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It offers a range of insurance products in areas including life, health, auto, as well as asset…
The year Kubernetes crossed the chasm Featuring production data and insights from Datadog, New Relic, and SlashData View the complete raw data on GitHub Get Involved Are you a CNCF member with in-production data and insights,…
CNCF-cultivated OpenMetrics becomes an incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenMetrics as a CNCF incubating project. OpenMetrics creates an open standard for transmitting cloud-native metrics at scale. It acts as an open standard for Prometheus and…
Secrets management: essential when using Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on True‘s blog by Sebastiaan Kok In Kubernetes secrets contain all kinds of sensitive information. For instance, database credentials or API keys. The term secrets management describes the centralised and secured management…
Implementing chaos engineering in K8s: chaos mesh principle analysis and control plane development
Guest post originally published on PingCAP‘s blog by Mayo Cream Chaos Mesh is an open-source, cloud-native Chaos Engineering platform built on Kubernetes (K8s) custom resource definitions (CRDs). Chaos Mesh can simulate various types of faults and has…
Join the CNCF Cloud Native Glossary
How to contribute to open source without having to code! Community post by Catherine Paganini, Cloud Native Glossary Maintainer The CNCF Cloud Native Glossary was officially launched at KubeCon NA 2021 with the goal of explaining…
LitmusChaos becomes a CNCF incubating project
LitmusChaos is an open source chaos engineering platform that enables teams to identify weaknesses and potential outages in infrastructures by inducing chaos tests in a controlled way. Chaos engineering verifies the resilience of business services and…