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How Uber monitors 4,000 Microservices
How Uber monitors 4,000 Microservices
With 4,000 proprietary microservices and a growing number of open source systems that needed to be monitored, by late 2014 Uber was outgrowing its usage of Graphite and Nagios for metrics. They evaluated several technologies, including Atlas and...
February 5, 2019

Diversity scholarship series: Bringing along Kubernetes experience from Shanghai to Nepal
Diversity scholarship series: Bringing along Kubernetes experience from Shanghai to Nepal
CNCF offered diversity scholarships to developers and students to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018. In this post, our scholarship recipient Raksha Roy, an Enterprise Resource Planning Associate from Nepal, shares her experience attending sessions and meeting the...
January 30, 2019

New year, new TOC
New year, new TOC
The CNCF TOC – charged with defining and maintaining the technical vision for CNCF; approving new projects within the scope for CNCF set by the Governing Board, and creating a conceptual architecture for these projects; aligning projects, removing...
January 29, 2019 | By Kristen Evans

Enterprise leaders’ protips for scavenger hunting through the cloud native tool weeds
Enterprise leaders’ protips for scavenger hunting through the cloud native tool weeds
This article was written and produced by the Orate Project, which helps organizations tell technical stories Aren’t enterprises lucky the cloud native ecosystem is growing so lavishly? A whole universe of well-honed tools is expanding before them. The...
January 15, 2019

9 Kubernetes security best practices everyone must follow
9 Kubernetes security best practices everyone must follow
By Connor Gilbert, product manager at StackRox Last month, the Kubernetes ecosystem was shaken by the discovery of the first major security flaw in Kubernetes, the world’s most popular container orchestrator. The vulnerability – CVE-2018-1002105 – enables attackers...
January 14, 2019

Monitoring Kubernetes, part 1: the challenges + data sources
Monitoring Kubernetes, part 1: the challenges + data sources
Originally published here by Sean Porter, CTO of Sensu Our industry has long been relying on microservice-based architecture to deliver software faster and safer. The advent and ubiquity of microservices naturally paved the way for container technology, empowering us to...
January 9, 2019

Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Cortex: a multi-tenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service
Prometheus is one of the standard-bearing open-source solutions for monitoring and observability. From its humble origins at SoundCloud in 2012, Prometheus quickly garnered widespread adoption and later became one of the first CNCF projects and just the second to graduate (after Kubernetes)....
December 18, 2018 | By Luc Perkins

Closing out 2018 with a top-notch cloud native community event!
Closing out 2018 with a top-notch cloud native community event!
With KubeCon Seattle now behind us, here’s a snapshot of all the cloud native goodness at our most jam-packed show to date. The sold-out KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 had the largest attendance and waiting list of...
December 14, 2018 | By Natasha Woods

Phippy + Cloud native friends make CNCF their home
Phippy + Cloud native friends make CNCF their home
In 2016, Deis (now part of Microsoft) platform architect Matt Butcher was looking for a way to explain Kubernetes to technical and non-technical people alike. Inspired by his daughter’s prolific stuffed animal collection, he came up with the...
December 11, 2018 | By Kristen Evans

CNCF to host etcd
CNCF to host etcd
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept etcd as an incubation-level hosted project from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle. etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to...
December 11, 2018 | By Kristen Evans