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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...

Computing: “Going cloud native at the FT. An interview with tech director Sarah Wells”
Computing: “Going cloud native at the FT. An interview with tech director Sarah Wells” October 2, 2020
Few sectors have had to change more rapidly or more frequently than news media, where the move to online, the plethora of free competitive content available on the web, and the precipitous fall in advertising revenues...

ITOps Times: “ITOps Times Open-Source Project of Week: SPIFFE”
ITOps Times: “ITOps Times Open-Source Project of Week: SPIFFE” October 2, 2020
SPIFFE stands for the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone. The project aims to define a framework and standards for identifying and securing communications between app services.

The New Stack: “How Kubernetes is Becoming the Universal Control Plane for Distributed Applications”
The New Stack: “How Kubernetes is Becoming the Universal Control Plane for Distributed Applications” October 1, 2020
Kubernetes is emerging as one of the best control planes in the context of modern applications and infrastructure. The powerful scheduler, which was originally designed to deal with the placement of pods on appropriate nodes, is...

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TechRepublic: “How to transition a developer career into Kubernetes” September 28, 2020
Even developers who do well know new skills can help them negotiate a pay rise and make them more attractive to other companies. And the hot tech to learn now? Kubernetes.

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...

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...

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...