All posts by Kristen Evans

It’s fitting that on the last day of KubeCon it was time to celebrate the community and the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes. A packed ballroom at the Salt Palace Convention Center was treated to a lot...

Announcing a New CNCF certification for OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry (also known as OTel) is an open-source observability framework with tools, libraries, APIs, and SDKs for collecting, processing, and exporting rich telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and...

2025 is right around the corner, and we’re thrilled to announce the CNCF 2025 lineup of events! Next year, we are expanding our reach and will host our first-ever KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Japan. Mark your...

CNCF Event Venue & Date Selection Process Planning a large conference like KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe or North America is a complex endeavor that begins years in advance. The venue and date selection process is an...

Announcing a New CNCF certification for Kyverno Kyverno is an open-source policy engine designed for Kubernetes that allows teams to validate, mutate, and generate configurations, enabling the automation of security policies as code, beyond just audit...

Announcing a New CNCF Certification for Backstage Backstage is an open-source framework for building developer portals, created by Spotify, designed to streamline the process of building software and digital products. Backstage restores order to microservices and...

On the second day of KubeCon, nearly 9,200 attendees had the opportunity to focus on the theme of the day – security – while attending sessions, visiting the Sponsor Showcase, and networking. The mood was upbeat,...

GitOps provides a pathway to stable, dependable, and predictable cloud native infrastructure and workflows. Over the past few years GitOps and Argo have grown hand in hand as ArgoCD has become a reliable solution for consolidating...

More than 9,000 people convened at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City for the first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. The mood was energetic and lively and the audience was primed...

Project post from the LitmusChaos CommunityAs enterprises continue to scale their systems, resilience and stability remain crucial. Testing these under real-world failure scenarios without impacting production environments is essential. Over recent months, LitmusChaos has gained remarkable...

Today at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2024, CNCF announced the Cloud Native Heroes Challenge, a patent troll bounty program in which cloud native developers and technologists can earn swag and win prizes by helping protect our ecosystem...

We’re thrilled to share the details of the inaugural contest in our Cloud Native Heroes Challenge program, a series of crowdsourced “prior art” contests in which cloud native developers can earn swag and prizes by helping...

Project post from the Kubevirt Community The KubeVirt Community is proud to announce the release of v1.4. This release aligns with Kubernetes v1.31 and is the sixth KubeVirt release to follow the Kubernetes release cadence. What’s...

Project post by Alexander Schwartz, Keycloak Maintainer Keycloak brings scalable and customizable authentication to your environment! The team is thrilled to announce the release of Keycloak 26 which again improves its authentication features for its growing...

Thousands of KubeCon + CloudNativecon North America attendees braved cold rain – and even snow – to attend 16 co-located events in the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City. With talks aimed at every...

We’re excited to share the Cilium project journey report!  Cilium is an open source platform designed for cloud-native networking, security, and observability, leveraging eBPF technology. It provides secure, high-performance network connectivity and deep visibility for Kubernetes...

Project post by the Jaeger maintainers Jaeger, the popular open-source distributed tracing platform, has had a successful 9 year history as being one of the first graduated projects in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). After...

Falco has become a vital tool for security practitioners seeking to safeguard containerized and cloud-native environments. Leveraging the power of eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter), Falco monitors system calls and audit events, allowing it to detect...

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept wasmCloud as a CNCF incubating project.  wasmCloud, an open source project from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), enables teams to build and run polyglot applications...

Member post originally published on the Redpill Linpro blog by Amelie Löwe Open source is not just a way of building software; it’s a philosophy that promotes collaboration, transparency, and community. Many of us use open...