TOC approves Thanos from sandbox to incubation
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Thanos as an incubation-level hosted project. Thanos is a metric system that provides a simple and cost-effective way to centralize and scale Prometheus based systems. The…
21 CNCF interns graduate from the Q2 2020 Linux Foundation CommunityBridge Program
In our biggest class yet, 21 CNCF interns have successfully passed the CommunityBridge program! 14 CNCF Graduated, Incubating and Sandbox projects participated in the program this quarter including CoreDNS, Envoy, Kubernetes, Linkerd, Prometheus and more. CommunityBridge…
Let’s untangle The Service Mesh
Service Meshes are receiving a significant amount of attention. However, even experienced software engineers struggle to reason about Service Meshes end-to-end. Apparently, simple questions like “What is a Service Mesh?” or “What is a Service for?”…
A guide to untangling the CNCF cross-community relationships
Guest post from Diane Mueller, Director of Community Development at Red Hat The adoption of CNCF technology and continuous growth in terms of projects, contributors, and end users has created one of the most active, dynamic open…
Conftest joins the Open Policy Agent project
Guest post from Gareth Rushgrove, maintainer of the Open Policy Agent project Today the Open Policy Agent maintainers are happy to announce that Conftest has formally joined the project. A bit of history Conftest is a…
TOC approves Operator Framework as Incubating Project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept the Operator Framework, which is made up of two main components Operator SDK and Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) as an incubation-level hosted project. The Operator Framework…
TOC accepts Contour as Incubating project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Contour as an incubation-level hosted project. Contour is a high-performance ingress controller for Kubernetes that provides a control plane for Envoy. “One of the most important…
The New Stack: "Kubernetes authentication ‘solved’: SPIFFE/SPIRE move to CNCF Incubation"
It’s been just over two years now since the SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone) and SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment) projects joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and now the projects have moved…
DevClass: "CNCF plants SPIFFE and SPIRE into its incubator, looks to grow secure cloud projects"
Linux Foundation subsidiary Cloud Native Computing Foundation has promoted security projects SPIFFE and SPIRE into its incubator, where they join the likes of container runtime cri-o, registry Harbor, Argo, the Open Policy Agent, and service mesh…
Rust is a systems language originally created by Mozilla to power parts of its experimental Servo browser engine. Once highly experimental and little used, Rust has become dramatically more stable and mature in recent years and…