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…
CNCF On-Demand: Building a fully open source private cloud with Kubernetes & OpenStack
On-demand webinars premier for 24 hours.========================As more organizations look to move away from vendor lock-in, maintain data sovereignty, and achieve cost predictability, private cloud is making a strong comeback and it can be built entirely with…
The 4-body problem of SRE: Why autonomous operations depend on context
What a room full of senior SREs confirmed about the trust gap, and where the actual work begins I spent a day last week at an event in Bengaluru asking a room full of senior SREs,…
Challenge: Scaling Infrastructure Without Linear Team Growth Operating Kubernetes at large scale required more than deploying clusters. Manual provisioning and ad-hoc operations would not scale, and planned maintenance could not be disruptive. As internal adoption increased,…
Kepler, re-architected: Improved power accuracy and a community call to action!
Thank you to Laura Llinares, Mary Baldwin Hughes, Vimal Kumar, and Sunil Thaha for their significant contributions to this blog post and the Kepler project. Data centers accounted for 1.5% of global electricity demand in 2024,…
OTel and mesh-derived metrics: A 2026 reference
If you already run an OpenTelemetry pipeline, you have good visibility into what your applications are doing. This blog post is about what you don’t see yet: the east-west traffic between your services, measured at the…
Security Profiles Operator v1: Stable APIs, Security Hardened, and Shaping Upstream Kubernetes
Linux provides powerful kernel-level security mechanisms, seccomp, SELinux, and AppArmor, that restrict what containerized workloads can do. Each uses profiles that define permitted behavior, but writing, distributing, and maintaining those profiles by hand is tedious and…
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, OpenInfra Summit and PyTorch Conference Unite in China to Scale AI
Schedule highlights global communities bridging cloud native infrastructure with AI stacks Key Highlights SHANGHAI — JUNE 18, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, the OpenInfra Foundation,…