BuiltIn: “What is Cloud Native and Why is it Important”
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 manage their cloud…
You can handle pods, but what about clusters?
Member Blog Post Guest post originally published on DoiT International’s blog by Joshua Fox Kubernetes makes it easy to orchestrate the pods that run your applications. But what about the clusters that the pods run on? These need…
Container Attached Storage is Cloud Native Storage (CAS)
Guest post by Evan Powell, CEO at MayaData Or, how can cloud services not be cloud-native? KubeCon EU was great in many ways. One pleasant surprise is that because KubeCon was a virtual event, this led to me…
Calling all Mentees: CNCF CommunityBridge Projects for the Fall 2020 Program
Like we mentioned in our previous blog post, CNCF is thrilled to participate in the Fall 2020 CommunityBridge Program and have 22 project ideas from 12 Graduated, Incubating and Sandbox available to mentees. Similar to Google Summer of…
How to Create Ephemeral Environments using Crossplane and ArgoCD?
Guest post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Suraj Banakar What if you could just spin up a temporary cluster to test your application and set it to delete it after a certain time period automatically, all…
16 CNCF Interns Graduate from Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020!
Having participated in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) since 2017, CNCF is thrilled to announce that this year, 16 interns working on the Foundation’s projects have graduated from the program. Interns this year got to be a…
Member Post Guest post originally published on the Volterra blog by Pranav Dharwadkar, VP of Products at Volterra This blog describes a key challenge of web application performance faced by online enterprises around the world. This blog describes…
The road ahead for Linkerd2-proxy, and how you can get involved
Guest post originally posted on the Linkerd blog by Oliver Gould The past few months have seen a continued interest in Linkerd’s data plane “micro-proxy”, Linkerd2-proxy. Last month, William Morgan wrote about some of the decisions that first went into…
TOC Approves KubeEdge as Incubating Project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept KubeEdge as an incubation-level hosted project. KubeEdge is an open source system for extending containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at the edge. It is built on top…
Top 7 challenges to becoming cloud native
Guest post originally published on the CloudOps blog Cloud native applications take full advantage of the cloud’s operational model, driving business value by being auto-provisioning, scaling, and redundant. By breaking down monolithic applications into independent but connected containers,…