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InfoQ: “CNCF Approves Kubernetes Edge Computing Platform KubeEdge as Incubating Project”
InfoQ: “CNCF Approves Kubernetes Edge Computing Platform KubeEdge as Incubating Project” September 26, 2020
The CNCF Technical Steering Committee (TOC) announced the acceptance of KubeEdge as an incubating project. KubeEdge is a platform that aims to provide “infrastructure support for network, application deployment and metadata synchronization between the cloud and edge devices”...

BuiltIn: “What is Cloud Native and Why is it Important”
BuiltIn: “What is Cloud Native and Why is it Important” September 25, 2020
When Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) general manager Priyanka Sharma has to explain what she does to someone at a dinner party, she starts by asking if they’ve heard of Kubernetes: CNCF’s primary open-source software project, which helps organizations manage their cloud...

InfoQ: “Focused on Observability: CNCF Publishes Latest Technology Radar”
InfoQ: “Focused on Observability: CNCF Publishes Latest Technology Radar” September 21, 2020
CNCF released their second quarterly technology radar focused on Observability. The goal of the radar is to “share what tools are actively being used by end users, the tools they would recommend, and their patterns of usage” when...

DevClass: “What’s the point: Qt, Qbs, cri-o, HashiCorp Sentinel, and a new CNCF radar”
DevClass: “What’s the point: Qt, Qbs, cri-o, HashiCorp Sentinel, and a new CNCF radar” September 16, 2020
A second edition of the CNCF end user technology radar has been released and this time, the CNCF end user community took a long, hard look at observability. As in the first edition, members of the end user...

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Container Journal “etcd data store project key to scaling Kubernetes clusters” September 8, 2020
The etcd distributed key/value store is starting to play a key role in the management of fleets of Kubernetes clusters in the enterprise. Currently an incubation-level project being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation...

SiliconANGLE: “TiKV graduates from the CNCF, enabling persistent storage for container applications”
SiliconANGLE: “TiKV graduates from the CNCF, enabling persistent storage for container applications” September 2, 2020
TiKV is now the latest project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, an initiative that’s meant to help advance Kubernetes and other container technologies.

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Container Journal: “CNCF adopts database project” September 2, 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is now hosting an open source distributed transactional key-value database optimized for stateful applications running in a container. Based on concepts put forward by Google in the form of a Spanner database...

InfoQ: “KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary”
InfoQ: “KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Keynote Summary” August 30, 2020
The annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event ran as a virtual conference in August this year, five months later than planned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Key takeaways included: the cloud native community strives to be inclusive, and...

Forbes: “Why Is The Open Source Community Excited About K3s Project Joining CNCF?”
Forbes: “Why Is The Open Source Community Excited About K3s Project Joining CNCF?” August 28, 2020
Hot on the heels of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, Rancher Labs announced the acceptance of K3s by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It’s joining the likes of OpenTelemetry, Network Service Mesh, Longhorn and 30 other projects in the Sandbox.

The Register: “Kubernetes moves to end ‘permanent beta’ for some APIs”
The Register: “Kubernetes moves to end ‘permanent beta’ for some APIs” August 28, 2020
The Kubernetes project has decided the time has come to stop existing in a state of permanent beta. The decision, included in the Changelog for version 1.19 of the container-wrangling code and explained in a blog post, reflects...