CNCF Archives the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) Project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to approve archiving the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) project. SMI was created to provide a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes and a basic feature set for the most…
Beginner’s guide to Kuma service mesh
Guest post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Sonali Srivastava The concept of service mesh emerged as a response to the growing popularity of cloud native environments, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes. It has its roots in the three-tiered…
Cloud Native Now: “Istio Service Mesh Officially Reaches CNCF Graduation Level”
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that the open source Istio service mesh, originally developed by Google and IBM, has now officially graduated to become a top-level project alongside Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies that the consortium helps…
6 open source projects to boost your cloud-native API management game
Guest post originally published on Tyk’s blog by Sonja Chevre and Ahmet Soormally We were very excited to be invited as speakers at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon+CloudNativeCon in Amsterdam this year! Our KubeCon special edition stickers were…
Introduction to the Linkerd Service Mesh
Guest post originally published on the Bouyant blog by Michael Levan When you deploy a pod, do you know if your application is running how you want it to? Is its traffic encrypted? Is your application performing as…
Testing Kafka-based asynchronous workflows using OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on the Signadot blog by Arjun Iyer and Scott Cotton Introduction Asynchronous architectures are common in cloud native applications as it decouples services and improves the scalability and reliability of the system. A message…
Multi-cluster at scale: why Timescale chose Linkerd for its service mesh framework
Guest post by Nick Calibey, Senior Cloud Engineer, Timescale When we launched Timescale Cloud in 2020, our team supported a single cloud in a single region. As we grew, it became clear that we wouldn’t be able to…
Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan It’s been a good year for Linkerd. Although much of the software industry has struggled through an economic downturn, Linkerd adoption has only been growing. In fact, log…
Kitex proxyless practice: traffic lane implementation with Istio and OpenTelemetry
Guest post originally published on CloudWeGo’s blog by CoderPoet and Guangming Luo This blog mainly introduces the realization of traffic routing based on Kitex Proxyless and the bookinfo demo rewrote with Kitex and Hertz. The purpose is to…
A look at the 2022 velocity of CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top 30 open source projects
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…