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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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Fun times at the Kubernetes forum Seoul and Sydney 2019
Guest post by Ricardo Aravena Hello everyone! I’m excited to write this post about my experience at the Kubernetes Forum Seoul and Sydney 2019. My journey started in San Francisco on Friday evening, December 6th, 2019,...
January 27, 2020
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With Kubernetes, China Minsheng Bank transformed its legacy applications-and moved into AI, Blockchain, and Big Data
China Minsheng Bank was the country’s first national commercial bank owned primarily by non-government enterprises, so it should come as no surprise that it’s part of CMBC’s culture to be pioneers. “My bank is always leading...
January 23, 2020
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2019 CNCF Annual Report
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) annual report for 2019 is now available. The report highlights the growth of the community, events, projects, and more, over the past year. As CNCF celebrated its fourth birthday in...
January 21, 2020
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Using Containers and Kubernetes to Increase the Efficacy of Anomaly Detection
Guest post from Connor Gorman, Sr. Software Engineer, StackRox The maturation of the container ecosystem has coincided in parallel with the emergence of Kubernetes as the de facto orchestrator for running containerized applications. This new declarative...
January 21, 2020
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Linkerd 2019 year in review
I think it’s safe to say that 2019 was a huge year for Linkerd. It saw the project emerge from the “seems promising but let’s wait and see” phase and firmly into “okay, I need an excuse to try...
January 20, 2020 | Luc Perkins
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CNCF webinars: fresh insights for the cloud native community
As we jump into 2020, we wanted to share a reminder and quick overview of CNCF’s webinar program. These webinars are hosted by members, CNCF incubating and graduated projects, and CNCF SIGs. Anyone can register to...
January 17, 2020 | Kim McMahon
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Kubernetes Message Queue
Guest post originally published in KubeMQ by Lior Nabat Background Most enterprises are adopting Kubernetes as a result of the endless benefits it offers. It is adopted for seamless container management; it provides high scalability and enhances communication...
January 16, 2020
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Introducing the Kubernetes bug bounty program
We are happy to announce that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is funding a new Kubernetes bug bounty program to reward researchers who find security vulnerabilities in Kubernetes’ codebase, as well as build and release processes. The...
January 14, 2020
Zendesk: ‘Kubernetes Seemed Like It Was Designed to Solve the Problems We Were Having’
Launched in 2007 with a mission of making customer service easy for organizations, Zendesk offers products involving real-time messaging, voice chat, and data analytics. All of this was built as a monolithic Rails app, using MySQL...
January 13, 2020
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Keeping Cloud Native Well
While the CNCF makes every effort to ensure the comfort, health, and happiness of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon attendees, there were some attendees at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle 2018 who felt overwhelmed or unhappy. Some of those...
January 10, 2020
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Conference Transparency Report: The biggest KubeCon + CloudNativeCon to date
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 was our largest event to date with record-breaking registrations, attendance, sponsorships, and co-located events. With nearly 12,000 attendees, this year’s event in San Diego saw a 49% increase in attendance...
January 9, 2020
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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification is now valid for 3 years
Announced in May 2018, the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) program was designed as an extension of CNCF’s Kubernetes training offerings which already includes certification for Kubernetes administrators. By adding this exam to the CNCF certification...
January 9, 2020 | Kim McMahon
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TOC votes to move Falco into CNCF incubator
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Falco as an incubation-level hosted project. Falco, which entered the CNCF Sandbox in October 2018, is an open source Kubernetes runtime security project. It provides intrusion...
January 8, 2020
A look back at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon San Diego 2019
Following our BIGGEST KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event yet, we wanted to share a snapshot of the notable highlights and news from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2019 in San Diego! This year we welcomed 12,000 attendees from...
January 7, 2020
Kubernetes knights at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA ’19
Guest blog by Pankaj Gupta from Citrix KubeCon + CloudNativeCon San Diego 2019 was the place to take stock and ponder the progress being made with Kubernetes. It was also the place to learn the art...
December 17, 2019
Kubernetes 101
Guest post by Jef Spaleta, Sensu, originally published on the Sensu blog The appeal of running workloads in containers is intuitive and there are numerous reasons to do so. Shipping a process with its dependencies in...
December 16, 2019
FAQ for December 2019 TOC nominations
FAQ for December 2019 TOC Nominations How many seats? There are 5 seats to nominate: 3 from the Governing Board (GB), 1 from the end user community, 1 from the maintainers of Graduating + Incubating projects....
December 13, 2019 | Amye Scavarda Perrin
Does testing Kubernetes conformance leave you in the dark? Get progress updates as tests run
Guest post originally published on Sonobuoy, by John Schnake In Sonobuoy 0.15.4, we introduced the ability for plugins to report their plugin’s progress to Sonobuoy by using a customizable webhook. Reporting status is incredibly important for...
December 13, 2019
Demystifying Kubernetes as a service – How Alibaba cloud manages 10,000s of Kubernetes clusters
Guest post by Zhimin Tang, Xiang Li and Fei Guo of Alibaba Abstract Since 2015, the Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) has been one of the fastest growing cloud services on Alibaba Cloud. Today,...
December 12, 2019
How Jaeger helped Grafana Labs improve query performance and root out tough bugs
The company behind the popular open source Grafana project, Grafana Labs offers customers a hosted metrics platform called Grafana Cloud, which incorporates Metrictank, a Graphite-compatible metrics service, and Cortex, the CNCF sandbox project for multitenant, horizontally...
December 11, 2019