The New Stack: “The First Six Months: CNCF Observations and 2021 Vision”
January 20, 2021
Joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as general manager has been an amazing journey. When I started as GM last year, my goal was to understand the needs of the community by listening and then...
TechGenix: “Top Open-Source CNCF Security Projects and Why They Matter – Part 1”
January 19, 2021
Security has long been the biggest challenge for organizations adopting cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes. However, one look at the top CNCF projects shows a lack of security-only ventures. This was especially noticeable in 2019. However, in...
The New Stack: “The Cloud Native Landscape: The Orchestration and Management Layer”
January 15, 2021
The orchestration and management layer is the third layer in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s cloud native landscape. Before tackling tools in this category, engineers have presumably already automated infrastructure provisioning following security and compliance standards...
The New Stack: “CNCF Security Whitepaper Shows the Complexity of Securing Cloud Native Operations”
January 12, 2021
In November, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation released a whitepaper that focused on the security of cloud native applications. It was large in scope, covering everything from cloud native layers, to the full lifecycle of development, to compliance (and everything...
TechGenix: “Kuma: A Modern Multizone Service Mesh for Containers and VMS”
January 6, 2021
Envoy is likely the most important open-source project in the cloud-native networking space. Without it, we wouldn’t have a service mesh like Istio. The Envoy team recently announced Envoy Mobile, which looks to manage mobile applications with...
The New Stack: “Falco: Lock Down Kubernetes from the Kernel on Up”
December 22, 2020
Want to have a really bad day? Make a security blunder that the whole world can see — Yes, we’re looking at you SolarWinds. No one wants that. That’s why even though Kubernetes isn’t the easiest system to...
The New Stack: “The Cloud Native Landscape: The Orchestration and Management Layer”
December 15, 2020
This post is part of an ongoing series from CNCF Business Value Subcommittee co-chairs Catherine Paganini and Jason Morgan that focuses on explaining each category of the cloud native landscape to a non-technical audience as well as engineers just getting started with...
Security Boulevard “CKS Certification Study Guide: Cluster Setup in Kubernetes”
December 10, 2020
As we dive into studying for the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) program, make sure to understand the test and its structure. A full blog details the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) announcement about the CKS...
DevClass: “What’s that coming over the hill? 2020’s last Kubernetes release”
December 10, 2020
The Kubernetes release cycle is back to its usual self, bringing version 1.20 to K8s aficionados young and old. The release includes stable volume snapshot operations, process ID limiting, advances in kubectl debug, and one less thing to...
InfoWorld: “What’s new in Kubernetes 1.20”
December 9, 2020
The latest release of the container orchestration system deprecates the Docker runtime in favor of its own runtime interface.