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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
Staff Post 2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
By Chris Aniszczyk  By consistently tracking open source project velocity, we are able to see the trends and technologies resonating with developers and end users. We have been tracking these trends since 2017; all previous blogs...
January 29, 2025
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Is serverless the ‘right’ way to cloud?
Member Post Is serverless the ‘right’ way to cloud?
Guest post originally published on CloudOps’ blog by Marc Boudreau, Cloud Architect at CloudOps Serverless computing is taking off. Despite having been around since the announcement of Lambda by AWS in 2014 serverless is finally reaching...
September 15, 2021 | Marc Boudreau

Forbes: How crossplane transforms Kubernetes into a universal control plane
Forbes: How crossplane transforms Kubernetes into a universal control plane
At the heart of the orchestration engine lies an efficient control plane that acts as an interface between the infrastructure and the operators. The control plane exposes a uniform API and taxonomy to perform a standard...
September 15, 2021

Crossplane moves from Sandbox to CNCF Incubator
Staff Post Crossplane moves from Sandbox to CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Crossplane as a CNCF incubating project. Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that enables modern organizations to consume infrastructure through an open, community-driven, and standards-based...
September 14, 2021

How to secure containers with Cosign and Distroless images
Member Post How to secure containers with Cosign and Distroless images
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Jeswin Ninan, Senior SRE at InfraCloud Container technology and the term “container images’’ are not new for many developers, SREs and DevOps engineers. But the need to have...
September 14, 2021

What is Goldilocks? (Or how to set your Kubernetes resource requests)
Member Post What is Goldilocks? (Or how to set your Kubernetes resource requests)
Guest post originally published on Fairwinds’s blog by Andrew Suderman, Lead R&D Engineer at Fairwinds When we open sourced Goldilocks in October 2019, our goal was to provide a dashboard utility that helps you identify a baseline for...
September 13, 2021 | Andrew Suderman

Prometheus HA with Thanos sidecar or receiver?
Member Post Prometheus HA with Thanos sidecar or receiver?
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Tayyab Jamadar Prometheus has been the flag bearer for monitoring the systems for a long time now. It has proved itself as a go-to solution for monitoring and...
September 10, 2021 | Tayyab Jamadar

How to detect runtime threats in Kubernetes
Member Post How to detect runtime threats in Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on Logiq’s blog by Ajit Chelat, Citrix Kubernetes is one of the leaders in the container orchestration market. A recent survey by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) suggests that 84% of companies are running...
September 9, 2021 | Ajit Chelat

How Seagate runs real-time analytics at the Edge
Staff Post How Seagate runs real-time analytics at the Edge
With global data creation predicted to hit 180 zettabytes by 2025, leading data storage provider Seagate needed to introduce greater automation at immense scale to its operations, to ensure it could keep pace with growing demand. ...
September 8, 2021

Octopod Episode 1: What is an open source community?
Octopod Episode 1: What is an open source community?
Guest post from SUSE originally published on the SUSE community page In Episode 1 of the OCTOpod, Alan Clark talks with Thierry Carrez about open source communities: what they are, how they work, and how you...
September 8, 2021

Flux: September 2021 update
Member Post Flux: September 2021 update
Guest post originally published on Flux’s blog by Daniel Holback, Flux maintainer As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new...
September 7, 2021 | Daniel Holback

Understand OpenTelemetry part 3: data sources
Member Post Understand OpenTelemetry part 3: data sources
Guest post originally published on the New Relic blog by Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam This blog post is part of the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 provided an overview to OpenTelemetry and why it is the future of instrumentation. Part 2 explored some...
September 6, 2021 | Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam

Best practices for load balancing Kubernetes containers
Member Post Best practices for load balancing Kubernetes containers
Guest post originally published on Snapt’s blog by Craig Risi More organizations are using containers as a mechanism for driving their cloud-native applications. Some organizations have hundreds of small containers across many different servers in different...
September 2, 2021 | Craig Risi

Chaos Mesh 2.0 GA: To a chaos engineering ecology
Member Post Chaos Mesh 2.0 GA: To a chaos engineering ecology
Guest post originally published on PingCAP’s blog by Zhiqiang Zhou, Research Scientist at Alibaba Group On July 23, 2021, Chaos Mesh 2.0 was made generally available! It’s an exciting release, marking a solid milestone towards the...
September 1, 2021 | Zhiqiang Zhou

HarmonyCloud promotes edge computing implementation
Project Post HarmonyCloud promotes edge computing implementation
Guest post by KubeEdge Maintainers Introduction KubeEdge is an open-source edge computing platform. Based on the native container orchestration and scheduling capabilities of Kubernetes, KubeEdge achieves functionalities such as cloud-edge synergy, edge computing, edge device management,...
August 31, 2021 | KubeEdge Maintainers

How FinOps changed the way businesses approach the cloud
Member Post How FinOps changed the way businesses approach the cloud
Guest post originally published on the Virtasant blog by the Virtasant Research Team FinOps enables cross-functional teams to work together, deliver faster, and manage their cloud costs better. The appeal of the cloud is that it...
August 30, 2021 | Virtasant Research Team

Why and how of Kubernetes Ingress (and networking)
Member Post Why and how of Kubernetes Ingress (and networking)
Guest post originally published on Saaras’s blog by the Saaras team Services running in Kubernetes are not accessible on public or private cloud. This is how Kubernetes is designed considering service security in mind. Securely allowing...
August 27, 2021 | Saaras team

OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project
Staff Post OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as a CNCF incubating project. OpenTelemetry is an observability framework for cloud native software. It is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that can...
August 26, 2021

Understand OpenTelemetry part 2: core components
Member Post Understand OpenTelemetry part 2: core components
Guest post originally published on New Relic’s blog by Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam This blog post is part of the Understand OpenTelemetry series. Part 1 gave an overview to OpenTelemetry and discussed why it is the future of instrumentation. Now in...
August 26, 2021 | Alan West and Lavanya Chockalingam

WebAssembly serverless functions in AWS Lambda
Member Post WebAssembly serverless functions in AWS Lambda
Guest post by Robby Qiu, Developer at Second State and contributor to WasmEdge Serverless functions save developers a ton of trouble managing the backend infrastructure. It also simplifies the development process as developers only need to...
August 25, 2021 | Robby Qiu