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The five laws of cloud native authorization
Member Post The five laws of cloud native authorization
Guest post originally published on Aserto’s blog by Omri Gazitt Overview In a microservices world, each service needs to verify that a subject (user or machine) has permission to perform an operation on a resource that the service...
January 19, 2023 | By Omri Gazitt

Fast and effective tools for CNCF and open source project websites
Staff Post Fast and effective tools for CNCF and open source project websites
By Patrice Chalin Why some top-velocity projects use Hugo and Docsy to publish technical documentation Some of CNCF’s top-velocity projects — such as Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry and gRPC — use Hugo as their static website generator. Why? Because Hugo...
January 19, 2023

CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy microsurvey: open source contributors say contributing helps careers
Staff Post CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy microsurvey: open source contributors say contributing helps careers
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, we share...
January 18, 2023

Trends for DevOps engineering in 2023
Member Post Trends for DevOps engineering in 2023
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 make specific...
January 17, 2023

CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023: 3 key areas to watch
Staff Post CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023: 3 key areas to watch
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 Order on...
January 17, 2023 | By Chris Aniszczyk

What is a sovereign cloud and what is its importance?
Member Post What is a sovereign cloud and what is its importance?
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 the cloud...
January 16, 2023 | By Coredge

With BFE, China Merchants Bank has improved application availability and operation efficiency
Member Post With BFE, China Merchants Bank has improved application availability and operation efficiency
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 popular solutions:...
January 13, 2023 | By Miao Zhang

Cloud Native Glossary — the Portuguese Version is Live!
Community Post Cloud Native Glossary — the Portuguese Version is Live!
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 the process...
January 12, 2023

A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects
Staff Post A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects
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 are able...
January 11, 2023 | By Chris Aniszczyk

Introducing a dedicated CloudNativeSecurityCon
Staff Post Introducing a dedicated CloudNativeSecurityCon
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 but is...
January 11, 2023 | By Priyanka Sharma