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DevOps.com: "CNCF provides Jaeger distributed tracing update"
DevOps.com: "CNCF provides Jaeger distributed tracing update" August 10, 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has made available a report detailing the progress being made around the open source Jaeger distributed tracing software. Among other things, the report notes there are now more than 300...

The New Stack: "Introducing Contour: routing traffic to applications in Kubernetes"
The New Stack: "Introducing Contour: routing traffic to applications in Kubernetes" August 7, 2020
We’re excited to share the news that Contour is now an incubation-level hosted project with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This is a very proud moment and on behalf of the other project maintainers we...

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ContainerJournal: "The CNCF etcd project reaches a significant milestone with completion of security audit" August 5, 2020
This week, a third-party security audit was published on etcd, the open source distributed key-value store that plays a crucial role in scaling Kubernetes in the cloud. For etcd, this audit was important in multiple ways....

DevClass: "What’s the point: Vitess, Cloudflare Workers Unbound, Kuma, New Relic, GitHub, and Oso"
DevClass: "What’s the point: Vitess, Cloudflare Workers Unbound, Kuma, New Relic, GitHub, and Oso" August 4, 2020
Database clustering system and CNCF graduated project Vitess has recently become available in version 7.0, improving SQL support and stability amongst other things. The tool, which originated at YouTube, now sports VExec and Workflow commands to...

The New Stack: "Google’s management of Istio raises questions in the Cloud Native Community"
The New Stack: "Google’s management of Istio raises questions in the Cloud Native Community" July 28, 2020
When the Istio service mesh was first proposed to be included in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in November 2017, it was still v.02, had only been around less than six months, and yet it...

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TechRepublic: "Linux Foundation offering Kubernetes certifications courses and exams as demand spikes" July 24, 2020
With more than 40 million Americans filing for unemployment benefits since the coronavirus pandemic cratered the economy, dozens of states and organizations are looking for ways to reskill people as they look for new lines of...

ZDNet: "The Linux Foundation offers Advanced Cloud Engineer Bootcamp program"
ZDNet: "The Linux Foundation offers Advanced Cloud Engineer Bootcamp program" July 22, 2020
Cloud jobs are hotter than hot. Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Indeed.com reported that between October 2015 and October 2019, cloud computing jobs increased by 55%. By 2022, Gartner predicts the public cloud services market alone...

TheServerSide: "How TUF can secure software systems from update vulnerabilities"
TheServerSide: "How TUF can secure software systems from update vulnerabilities" July 17, 2020
A new open source technology to secure software system updates called The Update Framework, has become the first specification and security project to graduate from the CNCF incubation process. This complements other tools to secure various...

HelpNetSecurity: "The Linux Foundation develops certification to enable cloud native pros demonstrate competence"
HelpNetSecurity: "The Linux Foundation develops certification to enable cloud native pros demonstrate competence" July 17, 2020
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced a new certification, the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)...

TechTarget: "Google's OUC play muddies Istio service mesh outlook"
TechTarget: "Google's OUC play muddies Istio service mesh outlook" July 16, 2020
Google launched Open Usage Commons last week and donated the trademark for its Istio service mesh project to the new organization, deepening ongoing industry debate about the project’s governance and long-term future.