The Cloud Native Glossary is a project led by the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee. Its goal is to explain cloud native concepts in clear and simple language without requiring any previous technical knowledge. We are in the process…

By Priyanka Sharma Our mission at CNCF is to make cloud native ubiquitous, and we are well on the way to achieving this. Security is one of the most important and fast-growing areas in the ecosystem but is…

In line with our goal of providing velocity updates every six months or so, below are the charts showing open source project velocity over 2022. Thanks to the insights we can glean from these charts, we are able…

Guest post originally published on Mia-Platform’s blog In an increasingly sustainability‑conscious world, cloud software, services, and infrastructure are no longer evaluated only in terms of performance, resilience, scalability, and reliability, but also according to their environmental impact. So,…

Guest post originally published on Medium’s blog by Dotan Horovits TL;DR Key updates: We Just celebrated 10 year birthday to Prometheus last month. Prometheus was the second project to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after Kubernetes in 2016, and has quickly become…

It’s a watershed moment in the evolution of cloud native: Argo and Flux, which let teams declaratively deploy and run applications and workflows on Kubernetes using GitOps, have left CNCF’s incubation phase. In graduating, the pair demonstrated advanced…

Guest post originally published on DevOps.com by Chris Munford In the world of DevOps, only two things really matter:  The measures used to achieve these twin goals should work together seamlessly–otherwise, you’re inefficient. But software development and IT…

Guest post by Dave McAllister, Sr OSS Technical Evangelist at NGINX Observability is key when running cloud‑native apps. In cloud native, app functionality emerges from the interaction between numerous microservices running in multiple locations. The loosely coupled nature…

Guest post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Atulpriya Sharma We’ve all heard the phrase – Change is the only constant. That holds true for everything around us. Traditionally applications were released in a waterfall-based model where…

Guest post originally published on Solo.io’s blog by Lin Sun and Daniel Hawton While there was not much new in Istio 1.15, Istio 1.16, led by our own release manager Daniel Hawton, has a lot of improvements. Interestingly, with…