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…
CNCF Welcomes 12 New Silver Members Emphasizing a Growing Need for Observability and Automation
New global members join CNCF to strengthen community contributions in observability, cloud infrastructure, and cloud native AI SAN FRANCISCO, CA – December 17, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for…
KubeVirt undergoes OSTIF security audit
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is proud to share the results of a recent security audit of KubeVirt, a Kubernetes virtualization API and runtime for managing virtual machines. With the continued support of Quarkslab…
How to build a cost-effective observability platform with OpenTelemetry
The challenge Managing millions of concurrent connections during global events like flash sales and online voting requires resilient, scalable observability. At STCLab, we operate platforms including a bot mitigation platform and traffic management platform that support…
Building platforms using kro for composition
Recent industry developments, such as Amazon’s announcement of the new EKS capabilities, highlight a trend toward supporting platforms with managed GitOps, cloud resource operators, and composition tooling. In particular, the involvement of Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro)—a…
CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe returns 23-26 March in Amsterdam, bringing the global community together to drive the future of cloud native computing SAN FRANCISCO, December 10, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds…
Optimizing Kyverno CLI performance: My LFX mentorship journey
Why Open Source? While exploring CNCF Projects in early 2025, I stumbled upon Kyverno and its community impressed me. The mentors and community members encouraged me to become a part of LFX Mentorship and motivated me…
The New Stack: “Why the CNCF’s New Executive Director Is Obsessed With Inference”
Why inference will dominate the next decade of computing and what the CNCF’s new Kubernetes AI conformance program means for enterprises.
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Solution: Turning compliance challenges Into a secure, scalable network As regulatory requirements tightened, UW–Madison needed a network layer that could deliver fine-grained control without sacrificing performance. The team migrated from Calico to Cilium, gaining an eBPF-powered…
Building microservices the easy way with Dapr
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits Microservices have been with us for nearly two decades, but it’s still far from easy to develop at scale, in a polyglot environment. The Dapr project, the…