Exploring Cloud Native Projects in Sandbox: 13 Arrivals from 2024 H2
Originally posted on the Palark blog. This article covers the second half of the new Open Source projects accepted to the CNCF Sandbox last year. They were added as a result of the CNCF TOC (Technical…
What 500+ Experts Revealed About Kubernetes Adoption and Workloads
Applications running in containers have come a long way. The conversation has shifted from if organizations are adopting cloud native technologies like Kubernetes to what kinds of applications they’re running in these environments. Today, many of…
CNCF Unveils Schedule for 10th Anniversary Edition of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America returns Nov. 10–13 in Atlanta, bringing the global community together to celebrate CNCF’s 10th anniversary and explore what’s next for cloud native infrastructure SAN FRANCISCO, July 31, 2025 – The Cloud…
Kgateway – The Next-Gen Gateway for Kubernetes, AI, and Agents
Kgateway may be new to the CNCF, but it’s not new to the market: it was born as “Gloo” in 2018, a project to provide modern API management within Kubernetes. Gloo built a large user base…
Prometheus Labels: Understanding and Best Practices
Member post originally published on the Middleware blog by Keval Bhogayata, covering all the best practices for prometheus labels. In observability, Prometheus is a well-known tool amongst SREs and engineers alike. What makes Prometheus so effective…
“Managing connections across different cloud storage providers was cumbersome. We needed a solution that could simplify this complexity and will scale with our business and not the volume of our storage transactions.” – George Zubrienko, Ecco’s…
10 Years in Cloud Native: TOC Restructures Technical Groups
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) is the technical governing body responsible for maintaining the technical vision of the CNCF. At the time the CNCF was founded in 2015 and as of 2016, there were four…
Istio publishes results of ztunnel security audit
Passes with flying colors Istio’s ambient mode splits the service mesh into two distinct layers: Layer 7 processing (the “waypoint proxy”), which remains powered by the traditional Envoy proxy; and a secure overlay (the “zero-trust tunnel”…
Deep Dive into the Gateway API Inference Extension
Running AI inference workloads on Kubernetes has some unique characteristics and challenges, and the Gateway API Inference Extension project aims to solve some of those challenges. I recently wrote about these new capabilities in the kgateway…
The CNCF TOC @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) provides technical leadership to the cloud native community. Strong TOC participation at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in London enabled in-person discussions and strategic planning for CNCF project technical priorities…