containerd joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Foundation fostering cross-project collaboration and growth of cloud native ecosystem BERLIN – CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe – March 29, 2017 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which is sustaining and integrating open source technologies to…
ServerWatch: "Docker donating containerD to Cloud Native Computing Foundation"
In December 2016, Solomon Hykes, the founder of Docker, announced a re-focused containerd (Con-tay-ner-D) initiative, spinning out the core container runtime from the Docker Engine community project. At the time, it wasn’t entirely clear where containerd…
SD Times: "Docker announces intent to donate containerd to the CNCF"
Late last year Docker announced it was releasing its core container runtime as a standalone open-source project with the intent to donate the project to a foundation. Today, the company is making good on that promise…
SDxCentral: "Docker donates containerd to Cloud Native Computing Foundation"
Docker, Inc. plans to donate its containerd open source project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Containerd is the core container runtime functionality – the bare-bones software – needed to create a Docker container. In…
Lima v2.3: Native on Windows, VMnet on Linux, and menu TUI
Back in July with v2.2, we added support for Windows guests. On November 6, we shipped v2.3 of Lima and now it runs without extra dependencies on Windows: VMs start through the same Host Compute System…
Faster LLM inference startup: What you need to know
Adding an inference replica creates capacity only after the new instance can serve requests. Between starting a process and generating a response, an LLM server may need to load weights, initialize GPU resources, compile kernels, capture…
Who owns NIS2 and DORA on a Kubernetes platform team
There is a meeting that repeats across a lot of European engineering organizations right now. Someone from legal or risk brings a NIS2 control, a DORA article, or a “can we evidence this” request into the…
Kubelet watches inodes. Just not until it’s an emergency.
A worker node pages with NodeFilesystemFilesFillingUp. It’s on course to run out of inodes. You check the disk first, because that’s what everyone checks first, and it reads 83% used: 103G used, 22G available. Then you…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Your Week in Salt Lake City
This November, the cloud native community is heading to Salt Lake City. From November 9–12, 2026, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America will bring together adopters and technologists from across open source and cloud native communities for…
Lightweight Dragonfly Deployment: P2P Distribution Without the Database Stack
Dragonfly speeds up file and container image distribution using peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, but a standard installation deploys several components and dependencies. Beyond the Scheduler, Seed Client, and Client that move data, a traditional setup requires a…