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The Register: “Ever wondered what exactly is going on in those containers? OpenTelemetry edges toward GA, emits tracing specification release candidate”
The Register: “Ever wondered what exactly is going on in those containers? OpenTelemetry edges toward GA, emits tracing specification release candidate” October 22, 2020
The OpenTelemetry community has taken another step toward General Availability with the first release candidate of the tracing specification. It’s quite the milestone for the project, which modestly describes itself as the second most active (behind...

InfoQ: “Q/A with Creator of Envoy and Lyft Engineer Matt Klein”
InfoQ: “Q/A with Creator of Envoy and Lyft Engineer Matt Klein” October 14, 2020
EnvoyCon 2020 is scheduled as a virtual event this week. Envoy which was the third project to graduate from CNCF behind Kubernetes and Prometheus was originally created at Lyft. It’s a high performant edge/middle/service proxy well...

ProgrammableWeb: “Understanding the Essentials of gRPC”
ProgrammableWeb: “Understanding the Essentials of gRPC” October 14, 2020
In this installment, we’re going to take a more detailed look at gRPC. We’re going to briefly review the basics we discussed prior. We’re going to cover the essentials of gRPC architecture in terms of specification...

CNCF Media Coverage
Container Journal: “CNCF Graduates Rook to Automate Kubernetes Storage Tasks” October 13, 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has graduated Rook, an open source storage orchestrator for Kubernetes clusters, at a time when the number of stateful applications being built and deployed using containers is starting to increase....

DevOps.com: “OpenTelemetry and the Future of Monitoring Instrumentation”
DevOps.com: “OpenTelemetry and the Future of Monitoring Instrumentation” October 13, 2020
The project, OpenTelemetry, was officially started in May 2019. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and came out of the merger of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing projects. They’ve since expanded their goal to...

The New Stack: “The Most Popular Cloud Native Storage Solutions”
The New Stack: “The Most Popular Cloud Native Storage Solutions” October 12, 2020
Storage is one of the most critical components of a Containers-as-a-Service platform. Container-native storage exposes the underlying storage services to containers and microservices. Like software-defined storage, it aggregates and pools storage resources from disparate mediums. Container-native...

CNCF Media Coverage
DevClass: “What’s the point: Rook, Kong, Docker Hub, Elixir, Sumo Logic, and Sonatype” October 9, 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has gained another graduate project. Accepted into the CNCF in 2018, storage project Rook is now mature enough to fall into one category with cloud native bedrocks Kubernetes and Prometheus.

SiliconANGLE: “Rook graduates from the CNCF, enabling persistent storage for Kubernetes apps”
SiliconANGLE: “Rook graduates from the CNCF, enabling persistent storage for Kubernetes apps” October 7, 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which houses the open-source Kubernetes project and other cloud-native technology initiatives, said today that Rook has become its latest project to graduate. Rook is an open-source, cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes,...

GCN: “Famed spy plane gets AI upgrade via Kubernetes”
GCN: “Famed spy plane gets AI upgrade via Kubernetes” October 7, 2020
The Air Force has equipped a legacy U-2 surveillance aircraft with machine learning thanks to Kubernetes, an open-source container-orchestration system that automates the application deployment, scaling and management. Tested on a local training sortie on Sept....

VentureBeat: “CNCF’s Priyanka Sharma on building an open source movement during a pandemic”
VentureBeat: “CNCF’s Priyanka Sharma on building an open source movement during a pandemic” October 5, 2020
When Priyanka Sharma took the reins at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this summer, it was hard to say whether her timing was auspicious or ominous. As general manager of the organization that oversees the...