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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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CNCF joins Google Summer of Code 2019 with 17 interns, projects for containerd, CoreDNS, Kubernetes, OPA, Prometheus, Rook and more
Since 2005, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program has accepted thousands of university students from around the world to spend their summer holiday writing code and learning about the open source community. This year GSoC accepted 1,276 students from...
August 23, 2019
CNCF hosts three student internships for Kubernetes and CoreDNS projects through Linux Foundation’s CommunityBridge
CNCF is pleased to announce its participation in the CommunityBridge, sponsoring three students to work on Kubernetes and CoreDNS projects during the programs pilot stage. Recently launched by The Linux Foundation, CommunityBridge is a platform that...
August 22, 2019
Introducing the end user case study redesign - now with filtering!
For the past three years, we’ve been talking to CNCF end users around the globe and sharing their stories about how cloud native technologies are having real-world impact on their businesses. These case studies all live on...
August 20, 2019
How Kubernetes works
Guest Post from Jef Spaleta, originally published on The Sensu Blog. It’s no secret that the popularity of running containerized applications has exploded over the past several years. Being able to iterate and release an application by provisioning its...
August 19, 2019
CNCF archives the rkt project
As part of a new Archiving Process initiated earlier this year, CNCF announced today that the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to archive the rkt project. All open source projects are subject to a lifecycle and can become less active for...
August 16, 2019 | Chris Aniszczyk
How Linkerd is Apester’s ‘safety net’ against cascading failure from forgotten timeouts
Next time you get sucked into a quiz or poll on a media site like The Telegraph or Time, you can thank Apester’s drag-and-drop interactive content platform-and its usage of cloud native technologies like Linkerd. With...
August 15, 2019
2019 CNCF cloud native survey call to participate
It’s time for the CNCF Cloud Native Survey! The goal of this survey, which will be issued in advance of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America (November 18-21, 2019), is to understand the state of Kubernetes, container, and serverless...
August 8, 2019 | Kim McMahon
Open sourcing the Kubernetes security audit
Last year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) began the process of performing and open sourcing third-party security audits for its projects in order to improve the overall security of our ecosystem. The idea was to...
August 6, 2019 | Chris Aniszczyk
Diversity scholarship series: Experiencing Kubernetes Day India 2019
Guest post by Atibhi Agrawal, originally published on Medium. I had been hearing the buzzword Kubernetes and cloud computing for a long time but I had no idea what it was. One day my senior Rajula Vineet Reddy posted on our...
August 5, 2019
How JD.com uses Vitess to manage scaling databases for hyperscale
China’s largest retailer, JD.com defines hyperscale: The e-commerce business serves more than 300 million active customers. And in the past few years, as the company’s data ballooned, its MySQL databases became larger, resulting in declining performance...
August 1, 2019
Announcing Kubernetes Forum Seoul and Sydney: expanding cloud native engagement across the globe
Today we’re excited to announce the first two Kubernetes Forums in Seoul and Sydney, which we are launching this December in Seoul, South Korea from December 9-10, and Sydney, Australia from December 12-13. Kubernetes Forum in global cities...
July 31, 2019
How CreditEase, Pinterest, Slamtec, Ant Financial and ING experienced faster iterations and production times
Kubernetes enables CreditEase, Pinterest, Ant Financial, Slamtec and ING to overcome a multitude of challenges experienced as they looked to scale. By investing in Kubernetes and cloud native technology, these companies experienced reduced build times and...
July 31, 2019
Deploy your machine learning models with Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on cnvrg.io by Itay Ariel, Senior Software Developer at cnvrg.io You’re an AI expert. A deep learning Ninja. A master of machine learning. You’ve just completed another iteration of training your awesome...
July 30, 2019
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019 conference transparency report: a record-breaking CNCF and LF event
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019 was a great success with record-breaking registrations, attendance, sponsorships, and co-located events for CNCF’s second annual conference in China. With 3,500 registrations, attendance for this year’s event...
July 26, 2019
The 10 most viewed videos from past KubeCon + CloudNativeCons
Each KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference is jam-packed with inspiring, insightful and informative keynotes, sessions and lightning talks. They are published on our YouTube channel after each event so that regardless of attendance, everyone can benefit! Today,...
July 25, 2019
Diversity scholarship series: From networking in Copenhagen to a lightning talk in Shanghai
At every KubeCon + CloudNativeCon since Seattle in 2016, CNCF has offered funding and support to attendees from traditionally underrepresented and/or marginalized groups. More than 300 of these diversity scholarships — which include free registration, travel...
July 22, 2019
CNCF Meetups are now happening in more than 200 locations
Following our recent 100,000 member milestone, we are excited to highlight that CNCF Meetups are now active in over 200 locations around the world! Thanks to our rapidly growing community and CNCF Ambassadors, Meetup Groups are becoming increasingly prevalent. With...
July 18, 2019
Comcast, ricardo.ch, PingCAP, Prowise and the City of Montreal attain new heights with Kubernetes
Kubernetes enabled Comcast, ricardo.ch, PingCAP, Prowise and The City of Montreal to scale without increasing their operations team, and improved their productivity by over 15%. They also considerably reduced their deployments with faster scaling. Kubernetes enables...
July 17, 2019
What image formats should you be using in 2019?
Here are some succinct guidelines on which image formats to use on the web, in email, and in print, based on CNCF’s experiences: SVG: Use for logos SVGs are the preferred image format for logos as...
July 17, 2019 | Dan Kohn
Demystifying containers – part II: container runtimes
This blog post was first published on suse.com by Sascha Grunert. This series of blog posts and corresponding talks aims to provide you with a pragmatic view on containers from a historic perspective. Together we will discover...
July 15, 2019