Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd
Guest post originally published on Buoyant’s blog by Zahari Dichev Applying L4 network policies with a service mesh In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to run Linkerd and Cilium together and how to use Cilium to…
How Cilium uses BPF to supercharge Kubernetes networking & security
Kubernetes has ushered in an era of complex and often large-scale microservices applications running as containers that are updated frequently via CI/CD, yet still leverages underlying network technologies like iptables built for an era of simple…
Have you ever heard of CNCF’s DevStats? It is a tool that tracks and quantifies all contribution activities within CNCF projects by pulling data from GitHub. Using this data, we can analyze ongoing development in CNCF…
How to Get the Most Out of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe is almost here again, and if you’re heading to Amsterdam in March 2026, you’re probably feeling a mix of excitement and mild panic. Thousands of people. Hundreds of sessions. Endless hallway conversations,…
The Challenge: Scaling Past Conntrack Limits Zynga’s 12-person Kubernetes platform engineering team, spanning North America, Spain, and India, provides game developers with infrastructure to build games quickly and maintain high availability. The team has been running…
Highlights Solution: eBPF-Powered Networking for Multi-Tenant Kubernetes In its first-generation MKS architecture, OVHcloud used Canal (Calico + Flannel) as the CNI. This stack worked well, Calico provided network policy enforcement while Flannel handled VXLAN-based networking, but…
How an enterprise-grade AI copilot company saved 45% on cloud costs, achieved 95% cost attribution, and prevented over 90 anomalies “We needed a FinOps automation platform that could track and act on routine engineering tasks, allowing…
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…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA: Top sessions from the CNCF End User TAB
2025 brought significant developments in the cloud native landscape, with a strong focus on AI but new projects and end user reports in many other areas. As always, KubeCon is one of the key places we…
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…