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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

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

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

CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2023: 5 sessions you don’t want to miss!
Staff Post CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2023: 5 sessions you don’t want to miss!
CloudNativeSecurityCon has consistently been one of our most popular KubeCon + CloudNativeCon colocated events, and we’ve heard from our community that they want even more content on the topic. So we’ve decided to make CloudNativeSecurityCon North America a...
January 4, 2023

Argo and Flux: grown-up GitOps for cloud native generation
Staff Post Argo and Flux: grown-up GitOps for cloud native generation
It’s a watershed moment in the evolution of cloud native: Argo and Flux, which let teams declaratively deploy and run applications and workflows on Kubernetes using GitOps, have left CNCF’s incubation phase. In graduating, the pair demonstrated advanced...
December 27, 2022 | By Chris Aniszczyk

Important updates for 2023 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and co-located events
Staff Post Important updates for 2023 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and co-located events
We’ve received a lot of great feedback from the community regarding the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-located event strategy, including feedback on the overall length of the conference week/number of co-located event days, the registration policies/process, and the need...
December 14, 2022

Health + safety event updates for 2023
Staff Post Health + safety event updates for 2023
As we move forward into 2023, we at the CNCF remain committed to detailed explanations for the more impactful policy decisions we make, especially with regard to our events. In particular, many of you had questions about our...
December 14, 2022

Congratulations to 24 CNCF fall term LFX Program mentees!
Staff Post Congratulations to 24 CNCF fall term LFX Program mentees!
We are excited to announce that 24 CNCF interns have successfully completed this term’s LFX  Program! 24 of CNCF’s Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects joined this round with projects including Meshery, WasmEdge, Kyverno, and Vitess. Additional details on...
December 8, 2022