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…
Understanding dynamic resource allocation in Kubernetes
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) recently reached GA in Kubernetes v1.35, and I believe many of us are eager to give it a try. Adding to the momentum, NVIDIA has moved dra-driver-nvidia-gpu into Kubernetes SIGs, with the…
Dragonfly v2.5.0 is released! Thanks to all of the contributors who made this Dragonfly release happen. New features and enhancements Direct repository downloads from Hugging Face and ModelScope Dragonfly Client now supports directly downloading model repositories…
Improving Arm64 support in CNCF projects with OCI credits
In recent years, Arm64 has been taking the cloud service provider world by storm. Recent reports indicate that, as of the end of 2025, over 50% of new instances on AWS and over 33% on Azure…
What kubectl debug doesn’t tell you: The silent evidence gap
The session that left no record A kubectl debug session can contain the only direct observation of a failing system state. However, once the session ends, Kubernetes does not retain the termination context of that session…
Challenges The aim was to reduce dependency on vendor-specific implementations, improve scalability, and ensure data sovereignty and regulatory compliance, while competing with public cloud providers. Technical challenges included building a platform capable of handling 600+ clusters…
The AI-driven shift in vulnerability discovery: What maintainers and bug finders need to know
AI models have recently drastically changed the sophistication, speed and scale of software vulnerability discovery. It is now trivial for non-experts to find real vulnerabilities in software with minimal effort and expertise. It is also now…