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Community Member and Volunteer Guidelines
Staff Post Community Member and Volunteer Guidelines
The CNCF has recently unveiled new and updated guidelines for volunteers at CNCF events. These guidelines are designed to create and sustain a collaborative, professional, courteous and kind environment leading up to, at, and following CNCF events.  We’re...
December 5, 2022

CNCF TOC elections for 2023
Staff Post CNCF TOC elections for 2023
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has three main bodies: a Governing Board (GB) that is responsible for marketing, budget and other business oversight decisions for the CNCF, a Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) that is responsible for defining...
December 1, 2022

Updates to the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon maintainer track
Staff Post Updates to the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon maintainer track
When we started offering the maintainer track over four years ago at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Seattle in 2018, it was a very exciting but small part of our events. Since then, our maintainer track (and the total number...
November 28, 2022

Looking back on KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
Staff Post Looking back on KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
By Priyanka Sharma It’s been a little over a month since KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022, and I wanted to take a look back at this fantastic event as our Transparency Report comes together. Almost 17,000 of...
November 23, 2022

Announcing a new event scholarship for maintainers only
Staff Post Announcing a new event scholarship for maintainers only
We are excited to announce that CNCF will be adding a Maintainer category to the Dan Kohn Scholarship fund for active CNCF project maintainers who are not being assisted or sponsored by a company or organization and are...
November 22, 2022

Free introduction to Backstage course now available
Staff Post Free introduction to Backstage course now available
Backstage, which joined the CNCF Incubator in March of this year has seen considerable interest, with the project hosting its first co-located event – BackstageCon – at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America last month. Over 200 organizations have...
November 8, 2022

Inside Prometheus: new film showcases the impact and the innovators
Staff Post Inside Prometheus: new film showcases the impact and the innovators
CNCF exists to help nurture and launch technologies that make life better and Prometheus does just that. We also take it upon ourselves to educate the world on the power of cloud native and open source. So, we...
October 26, 2022

Linux Foundation and CNCF partner with Razom for Ukraine
Staff Post Linux Foundation and CNCF partner with Razom for Ukraine
Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) will partner with Razom for Ukraine on Razom’s Project Veteranius to provide access to technology education for Ukrainian veterans, their families, and Ukrainians in need. Leveraging its expertise in...
October 26, 2022

CNCF Wasm microsurvey: a transformative technology, yes, but time to get serious
Staff Post CNCF Wasm microsurvey: a transformative technology, yes, but time to get serious
WebAssembly – or Wasm – has been warmly received since its first release in 2017, but our survey shows projects seem to be outstripping the capabilities of today’s tools and technologies and an overwhelming number of users hungry...
October 24, 2022

cert-manager becomes a CNCF incubating project
Project Post cert-manager becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept cert-manager as a CNCF incubating project.  cert-manager is a Kubernetes add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources, for cloud native Kubernetes...
October 19, 2022