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What motivates developers to contribute to open source? What discourages them? Does it help their careers? The CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy asked these and other questions in a new annual micro-survey. In this blog post,...

Guest post originally published on Traceroute42’s blog DevOps movement is still an evolving field and is influenced by a variety of factors such as technological advances, industry trends, and organizational needs. That makes it difficult to...

If the past couple of years taught us anything, it’s the importance of security in cloud native and open source environments. The fallout of vulnerabilities like Log4j even reached the U.S. Federal Government with the Executive...

Guest post originally published on Coredge’s blog The term “sovereign cloud” describes a cloud architecture to provide security and data access while adhering to local laws and regulations around data privacy and security. Depending on where...

Guest post by Miao Zhang, Baidu As CMB’s adoption of cloud native technologies, the Kubernetes container platform is now supporting 100k+ applications in CMB. With such huge number of applications, CMB encountered multiple issues with some...

The Cloud Native Glossary is a project led by the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee. Its goal is to explain cloud native concepts in clear and simple language without requiring any previous technical knowledge. We are in...

By Priyanka Sharma Our mission at CNCF is to make cloud native ubiquitous, and we are well on the way to achieving this. Security is one of the most important and fast-growing areas in the ecosystem...

Guest post originally published on CloudWeGo’s blog by CoderPoet and Guangming Luo This blog mainly introduces the realization of traffic routing based on Kitex Proxyless and the bookinfo demo rewrote with Kitex and Hertz. The purpose...

In line with our goal of providing velocity updates every six months or so, below are the charts showing open source project velocity over 2022. Thanks to the insights we can glean from these charts, we...

Guest post originally published on Fairwinds’s blog by Liz Coolman Organizations have moved increasingly to the cloud, adopting containers and Kubernetes to change their infrastructure and take advantage of these cloud native technologies. Kubernetes itself is...

Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Sudhanshu Prajapati Feature flags (often called feature toggles) have existed for a long time in the software development process. We have been using feature flags in some way or...

Community post by Yelin Liu, Technical Marketing at DaoCloud On November 18, the “Kubernetes Community Days Chengdu 2022,” initiated by CNCF, DaoCloud, Huawei Cloud, Sichuan Tianfu Bank, and OPPO was successfully held, gathering end users, contributors...

Guest post originally published on Mia-Platform’s blog In an increasingly sustainability‑conscious world, cloud software, services, and infrastructure are no longer evaluated only in terms of performance, resilience, scalability, and reliability, but also according to their environmental...

Guest post originally published on Ozone’s blog Preface Everyone talks of DevOps and how their organizations are going about transforming their development and operational processes. Investments are high and measuring the real-world outcomes of these DevOps...

CloudNativeSecurityCon has consistently been one of our most popular KubeCon + CloudNativeCon colocated events, and we’ve heard from our community that they want even more content on the topic. So we’ve decided to make CloudNativeSecurityCon North...

Guest post originally published on ARMO’s blog by Ben Hirschberg All the main K8s vulnerabilities from 2022 consolidated into one article. Put together by Ben Hirschberg, CTO & co-founder of ARMO. During 2022, Kubernetes continued to cement itself...

Guest post originally published on Medium’s blog by Dotan Horovits TL;DR Key updates: We Just celebrated 10 year birthday to Prometheus last month. Prometheus was the second project to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after Kubernetes in 2016, and has...

It’s a watershed moment in the evolution of cloud native: Argo and Flux, which let teams declaratively deploy and run applications and workflows on Kubernetes using GitOps, have left CNCF’s incubation phase. In graduating, the pair...

Guest post originally published on DevOps.com by Chris Munford In the world of DevOps, only two things really matter:  The measures used to achieve these twin goals should work together seamlessly–otherwise, you’re inefficient. But software development...

Guest post by Alex Olivier, Product Lead at Cerbos When it comes to designing core components of a software architecture one of the early decisions that need to be made is where to store the state...