Cloud Native Computing Foundation accepts Prometheus as second hosted project
Foundation furthers new computing paradigm with microservices-oriented monitoring system SAN FRANCISCO — May 9, 2016 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a Linux Foundation organization dedicated to advancing the development of cloud native technologies, today announced…
Prometheus user profile: Metrics made easy for ShowMax
Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, the open source monitoring system and time series database. The project has a very active and growing community that counts ShowMax as one of its many users. Here…
Hi – my name is Alexis Richardson and I’m the chairman of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation TOC – Technical Oversight Committee. The TOC is an elected board of nine people. Representing the interests of CNCF’s…
Building an AI factory on Kubernetes
An AI factory is not just a model or a cluster. It is a pool of GPUs that many teams draw from at once: one team fine-tuning, another serving inference, a third running evaluations, all on…
How to turn slow queries into actionable reliability metrics with OpenTelemetry
Slow SQL queries degrade user experience, cause cascading failures, and turn simple operations into production incidents. The traditional fix? Collect more telemetry. But more telemetry means more things to look at, not necessarily more understanding. Instead…
Cloud Native platform sovereignty through multi-plane architecture
When people talk about cloud sovereignty, the conversation often starts with regions: where a workload runs and where its data is stored. But choosing a region is only part of the story. The architecture of the…
CNCF Announces Kubeflow’s Graduation, Solidifying a Standard for Cloud Native AI Operations
Milestone marks widespread enterprise adoption for automating end-to-end AI and machine learning lifecycles on Kubernetes Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO — August 17, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud…
Good apps aren’t born, they’re guided: Building observable policy as code
As parents in tech, we’ve learned that neither children nor applications thrive without clear boundaries. There are no “good” or “bad” kids, just as there are no inherently “good” or “bad” applications, only behaviors shaped by…
CNCF Announces Graduation of Cloud Native Buildpacks, Advancing the Standard for Container Builds
Project reaches broad production adoption for transforming application source code into OCI-compliant container images across cloud environments Key Highlights: SAN FRANCISCO — Aug. 11, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems…
A practical guide to solving when zero+zero=two in mesh observability
A Service Mesh like Istio, together with Kiali gives you a lot on day one. You install the mesh, point Prometheus at it, and suddenly you have request rate, latency, error rate, and a fairly good…