Enterprise Tech: "cloud-native group promotes rules for serverless computing"
February 14, 2018
A white paper on serverless technology released this week by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), seeks to establish some ground rules for the nascent market. “Serverless is the natural evolution of cloud-native computing,” said Chris...
ZDNet: "Servers? We don't need no stinkin' servers!"
February 14, 2018
CNCF created the WG to “explore the intersection of cloud native and serverless technology.” The first output of the group was a summary of serverless computing projects. These include Apache OpenWhisk, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions,...
SDxCentral: "Open source storage system Vitess joins CNCF"
February 13, 2018
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted its second cloud-based storage project, Vitess, just a week after voting in its first storage project Rook. The second storage project – and CNCF’s 16th hosted project – is...
The New Stack: "CNCF’s Vitess scales MySQL with the help of Kubernetes"
February 9, 2018
A technology developed by YouTube to shard large MySQL databases across multiple servers, Vitess, has become the 16th hosted project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. .
Harvard Business Review: "How cloud computing is changing management"
February 9, 2018
By Quentin Hardy Google now runs about 2 billion containers a week on its in-house version of Kubernetes. Open source Kubernetes is managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which counts among its members Google Cloud,...
InformationWeek: "10 things you need to know about Kubernetes"
February 6, 2018
Several different analysts and tech journalists have proclaimed that 2017 was the year of Kubernetes. But if you’re not involved in the day-to-day management of cloud workloads, you can be forgiven for not understanding what the...
Container Journal: "CNCF adds Vitess database orchestration project"
February 6, 2018
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week has decided to accept Vitess as a new project. Vitess is a database orchestration system developed at YouTube that automatically shards instances...
GeekWire: "Rook, an open-source project adding storage to Kubernetes, joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation"
January 29, 2018
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has agreed on the 15th project to grace its roster: Rook, a storage-oriented plugin for Kubernetes. .
Software Engineering Daily: "The gravity of Kubernetes"
January 13, 2018
Kubernetes has become the standard way of deploying new distributed applications. Most new internet businesses started in the foreseeable future will leverage Kubernetes (whether they realize it or not). Many old applications are migrating to Kubernetes...
Virtualization & cloud review: "Important announcements made at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017"
January 9, 2018
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 was held in Austin, Texas, at the beginning of December 2017. It’s one of the largest (if not the largest) container-centric events of the year. Due to its size and importance, many...