ITOps Times: “ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Flux”
Flux is an open-source GitOps project designed to keep Kubernetes clusters in sync with configuration systems as well as automate any new changes to the configuration. It has been with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)…
CNCF TOC votes to move Flux from Sandbox to Incubation
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to promote Flux from the CNCF Sandbox to an incubating project. Since Flux entered the CNCF Sandbox in August 2019, it has defined open governance and security reporting…
Compose is a fully-managed platform used by developers to deploy, host and scale databases. Its platform streamlines spinning up and managing MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, RethinkDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RabbitMQ and etcd databases – both for single developers…
GitOps in 2025: From Old-School Updates to the Modern Way
1. Introduction: Why Everyone’s Talking About GitOps in 2025 It’s 2025, and building software is more cloud-driven than ever. Cloud computing offers incredible speed and flexibility, but it also brings complexity. Companies are expected to ship…
Introducing k0rdent v0.3.0: Smarter observability, smoother operations
In my previous blog I wrote a detailed version describing how k0rdent eases platform engineering at scale. For those of you who are unaware, k0rdent is a Kubernetes-native distributed container management environment (DCME) designed to help…
Open Source PaaS Cozystack Becomes a CNCF Sandbox Project
On February 28, members of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee completed their voting and unanimously accepted Cozystack, a platform for building private clouds and PaaS, into the CNCF Sandbox. The project is currently undergoing the onboarding…
What do we reinvent in an age of perpetual digital transformation?
What happens when technology stops evolving in silos and starts converging into something greater? The boundaries between innovations are dissolving, merging into a vast, ever-evolving digital landscape. In this reality, technologies no longer stand alone… they…
Platform engineering at KubeCon + CloudNative NA 2024 in Salt Lake City
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Mathieu Benoit, CNCF Ambassador KubeCon NA 2024 in Salt Lake City was a blast! Like always, I met with old friends, I made new friends and I had deep…
Kubestronaut in Orbit: Sathish Kumar Venkatesan
Get to know Sathish This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit is Sathish Kumar Venkatesan, an IT professional from Brampton, Canada, with over 16 years of diverse experience spanning cloud technologies, DevOps, and system administration. Currently serving as…
Platform journey map: shape your platform strategy
Member post originally published on the Mia-Platform blog by Graziano Casto, DevRel Engineer, Mia-Platform TLDR: After years of helping people adopt digital platforms, we created the Platform Journey Map, a visual game that sparks meaningful discussions on…