Linkerd case studies: meeting security requirements, reducing latency, and migrating from Istio
Guest post originally published on the Buoyant blog by William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant and Linkerd maintainer Adoption of the Linkerd service mesh continues to grow rapidly across industries and verticals. But why are organizations adopting…
ContainerJournal: "Google proposes changes to Istio Steering Committee"
Google is making a case for changing the rules under which the open source Istio service mesh project for Kubernetes environments is managed with a proposal to create a new Steering Committee charter around Contributor Seats…
SDxCentral: "Google committed to CNCF despite Istio Snub"
Google maintains that the formation of its Open Usage Commons (OUC) group to initially house a trio of its projects – including the Istio service mesh – does not impact its ongoing commitment to already established…
SDxCentral: "Google’s Istio move Irks IBM, confounds industry"
Google’s decision to move the Istio service mesh project into a newly formed open source organization focused on protecting the trademark of open source projects instead of into an already established open source organization is not…
New process iterations result in 11 new projects accepted into the CNCF Sandbox SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 8, 2020 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today…
Deepening end user engagement with an enhanced ecosystem program
Developers across the open source ecosystem build incredible technologies and spur innovation. Partners in this innovation are the end users who utilize these new technologies. End users are an invaluable part of the virtuous cycle of…
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…
TOC Approves SPIFFE and SPIRE to Incubation
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept SPIFFE and SPIRE as incubation-level hosted projects. The SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone) specification defines a standard to authenticate software services in cloud native…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation welcomes T-Mobile as Gold Member
Second-largest U.S. wireless company joins with cloud native ecosystem to advance container technology in the enterprise SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – May 27, 2020 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud…