What is the Cloud Native Maturity Model (and why do I care)?
Community Post What is the Cloud Native Maturity Model (and why do I care)?
Community post by Robert Glenn, CNCF Cartografos Working Group Founding Member at Accenture The maturity model is an emerging concept and requires some explanation to ensure clarity of our usage in the Cloud Native Maturity Model (CNMM). To...
January 20, 2023 | By Robert Glenn

Cloud Native Ambassadors 2.0
Staff Post Cloud Native Ambassadors 2.0
CNCF is excited to unveil the updated version of the organization’s immensely popular Cloud Native Ambassadors program. As dedicated community leaders promoting cloud native technologies, CNCF Ambassadors play a critical role in fostering an open and welcoming community...
January 20, 2023

The five laws of cloud native authorization
Member Post The five laws of cloud native authorization
Guest post originally published on Aserto’s blog by Omri Gazitt Overview In a microservices world, each service needs to verify that a subject (user or machine) has permission to perform an operation on a resource that the service...
January 19, 2023 | By Omri Gazitt

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

SD Times: “Report: Majority of open source contributors wish their company paid for their contributions”
SD Times: “Report: Majority of open source contributors wish their company paid for their contributions”
Nearly four-fifths of developers (79%) believe that contributing to open source projects has helped further their careers, but 78% still say that companies should pay them for the time spent on contributions. 
January 18, 2023

Datanami: “Fluentd Rides Wave of Roll-Your-Own Observability”
Datanami: “Fluentd Rides Wave of Roll-Your-Own Observability”
Companies that want to collect gobs of observability data but process the data in multiple places while keeping it free from analytic tool vendor’s proprietary formats may be interested in Fluentd, an open source data collector that decouples...
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

Trends for DevOps engineering in 2023
Member Post Trends for DevOps engineering in 2023
Guest post originally published on Traceroute42’s blog DevOps movement is still an evolving field and is influenced by a variety of factors such as technological advances, industry trends, and organizational needs. That makes it difficult to make specific...
January 17, 2023

What is a sovereign cloud and what is its importance?
Member Post What is a sovereign cloud and what is its importance?
Guest post originally published on Coredge’s blog The term “sovereign cloud” describes a cloud architecture to provide security and data access while adhering to local laws and regulations around data privacy and security. Depending on where the cloud...
January 16, 2023 | By Coredge