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Open application model: carving building blocks for platforms
Member Post Open application model: carving building blocks for platforms
Guest Post from Andy Shi, developer advocate for Alibaba Cloud As a platform engineer, I often feel like a sandwich: Being squashed between the customer and the underlying infrastructure. The complaint I get most from users is about...
July 24, 2020

Conftest joins the Open Policy Agent project
Project Post Conftest joins the Open Policy Agent project
Guest post from Gareth Rushgrove, maintainer of the Open Policy Agent project Today the Open Policy Agent maintainers are happy to announce that Conftest has formally joined the project. A bit of history Conftest is a command line...
July 23, 2020

Advanced Cloud Engineer Bootcamp makes it simple for IT pros to learn cloud
Staff Post Advanced Cloud Engineer Bootcamp makes it simple for IT pros to learn cloud
Following the successful launch of the Cloud Engineer Bootcamp last month, The Linux Foundation and CNCF heard from many sysadmins, developers, engineers, and others who wanted a similarly structured program to help them learn the skills necessary to...
July 22, 2020

Linkerd case studies: meeting security requirements, reducing latency, and migrating from Istio
Project Post Linkerd case studies: meeting security requirements, reducing latency, and migrating from Istio
Guest post originally published on the Buoyant blog by William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant and Linkerd maintainer Adoption of the Linkerd service mesh continues to grow rapidly across industries and verticals. But why are organizations adopting Linkerd? In...
July 21, 2020

Which Kubernetes certification is right for you?
Member Post Which Kubernetes certification is right for you?
Guest post originally published on the New Relic blog by Isaac Eldridge, technical content editor at New Relic Since it was open sourced by Google in 2014, Kubernetes has skyrocketed in popularity. Now a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing...
July 20, 2020

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) 101 with DevOps vs SRE
Member Post Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) 101 with DevOps vs SRE
Guest post originally published on the MSys Technologies blog by Sunny Raskar Consider the scenario below An Independent Software Provider (ISV) developed a financial application for a global investment firm that serves global conglomerates, leading central banks, asset...
July 17, 2020

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) Coming in November
Staff Post Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) Coming in November
This autumn The Linux Foundation and CNCF are excited to add a new Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) to the growing list of Kubernetes certification programs. CKS will join the popular and highly respected Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)...
July 15, 2020

Fluent Bit v1.5: lightweight and high-performance log processor
Project Post Fluent Bit v1.5: lightweight and high-performance log processor
Guest post from Eduardo Silva, maintainer for Fluent Bit Fluent Bit, a sub-project under the umbrella of CNCF graduated project Fluentd, has reached its version v1.5.  One of the biggest highlights of this major release is the joint work of different companies...
July 14, 2020

Announcing the New Special Interest Group on Contributor Strategy
SIG Post Announcing the New Special Interest Group on Contributor Strategy
We’re happy to announce that we’ve started a new Special Interest Group on Contributor Strategy. Our mission is to help grow flourishing, sustainable communities that can have smooth journeys throughout their CNCF project lifecycle. To that end, we...
July 13, 2020

How Kubernetes empowered Nubank engineers to deploy 700 times a week
Staff Post How Kubernetes empowered Nubank engineers to deploy 700 times a week
A fintech startup founded in 2013 in Brazil, Nubank was never weighed down by legacy infrastructure. Early on, the company embraced Docker containers and ran almost all of its infrastructure on AWS. Which is not to say that...
July 10, 2020