The open-source observability playbook
Observability within distributed systems is essential to understanding how your application is performing and establishing application reliability. In this talk, we will discuss the rise of microservices in the cloud, the pillars of observability (metrics, logs…
Debugging your debugging tools; What to do when your service mesh goes down in production?
Service Meshes are widely used as a means to enforce policies and at the same time gain visibility into your application behavior and performance. As more organizations adopt service mesh in their architectures, they are relying…
TOC approves Operator Framework as Incubating Project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept the Operator Framework, which is made up of two main components Operator SDK and Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) as an incubation-level hosted project. The Operator Framework…
TOC accepts Contour as Incubating project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Contour as an incubation-level hosted project. Contour is a high-performance ingress controller for Kubernetes that provides a control plane for Envoy. “One of the most important…
Jaeger is an open source, end-to-end distributed tracing platform built to help companies of all sizes monitor and troubleshoot their cloud native architectures. Created in 2015 by Uber, Jaeger is now integrated into thousands of microservices…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Continues Steady Growth with 30 New Members
From Open Source Summit North America, CNCF welcomes 30 new members, including A10 Networks, Futurewei, and Toyota Motor Corporation SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – June 29, 2020 – Open Source Summit North America – The Cloud Native…
OpenTelemetry best practices (overview part 2/2)
Guest post originally published on the Espagon blog by Ran Ribenzaft, co-founder and CEO at Epsagon In the second article of our OpenTelemetry series, we’ll focus on best practices for using OpenTelemetry, after covering the OpenTelemetry ecosystem and its…
The New Stack: "Kubernetes authentication ‘solved’: SPIFFE/SPIRE move to CNCF Incubation"
It’s been just over two years now since the SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone) and SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment) projects joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and now the projects have moved…
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…