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…
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…
Learning Cloud-Native Engineering Beyond Tutorials Through LFX
I joined the LFX mentorship expecting to spend three months writing documentation. A few weeks later, I was deploying OpenTelemetry Collectors across AWS EC2 instances, debugging networking problems between machines, and trying to understand why a…
Flagship event returns November 9–12 with sessions on production AI, platform engineering and cloud native security Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud…
Does Kubernetes DRA Replace HAMi?
Projects that want to share a GPU on Kubernetes have to work around an API instead of with it. The device plugin interface could count devices, and that was the whole vocabulary: nvidia.com/gpu: 1. It meant one…
LitmusChaos Q1-Q2 2026 update: community, contributions, and project progress
About LitmusChaos LitmusChaos is an open source chaos engineering platform that helps teams identify weaknesses and potential outages in their infrastructure by running controlled chaos experiments. Built on cloud native principles, LitmusChaos enables teams to validate…