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People, processes, and tools for the cloud native telco
Telecommunications companies provide some of the most critical services in the world. From emergency 911 services to air traffic control to buy-sell signals that move billions of dollars worth of bonds, telecommunications networks impact our safety, social stability,...
December 8, 2021
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Meetup EOL, Cloud Native Community Groups expansion
We first launched Cloud Native Community Groups just over a year ago to help the community stay better connected. Since then, the use of the platform has grown dramatically. There are now over 300 active chapters, hosting hundreds...
November 17, 2021
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CNCF TOC Elections for 2022
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...
November 16, 2021
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Longhorn brings cloud native distributed storage to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Longhorn as a CNCF incubating project. Longhorn is a distributed block storage system for Kubernetes, designed to run on top of different types of physical storage devices, infrastructures,...
November 4, 2021
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Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) joins CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Dapr as a CNCF incubating project. Dapr is a set of APIs that makes it easy for developers to write distributed applications. Dapr runs as a sidecar process...
November 3, 2021
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16 CNCF interns graduated from Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021!
In its fifth year participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), CNCF is excited to announce 16 interns have graduated from the program after working with the Foundation’s projects. Interns this year contributed to Graduated, Incubating and Sandbox...
November 1, 2021
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Phippy and friends: bringing cloud native concepts to the masses
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America last week, we welcomed Hazel the Hedgehog and Linky the Lobster to the Phippy and Friends family, thanks to the Helm and Linkerd project teams. Hazel and Linky not only represent the...
October 19, 2021
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Cilium joins CNCF as an incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Cilium as a CNCF incubating project. Cilium provides networking, security, and observability for cloud native environments by acting as a CNI and enhanced networking layer for Kubernetes using...
October 13, 2021
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Diversity in Cloud Native: Results from our first-ever community survey on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
CNCF recently conducted its first microsurvey to better understand the state of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in our community. This informal survey was designed to create a window into community perspectives on DEI, a core tenet of...
October 13, 2021
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CNCF’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon diversity scholarship will now be named the Dan Kohn Diversity Scholarship
We are honored to announce that Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon scholarship program will now officially be named the Dan Kohn Diversity Scholarship. Dan was a titan of the open source community with a brilliant mind...
October 13, 2021