A guide to untangling the CNCF cross-community relationships
Guest post from Diane Mueller, Director of Community Development at Red Hat The adoption of CNCF technology and continuous growth in terms of projects, contributors, and end users has created one of the most active, dynamic open source ecosystems…
TOC approves Operator Framework as Incubating Project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept the Operator Framework, which is made up of two main components Operator SDK and Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) as an incubation-level hosted project. The Operator Framework is an…
TOC accepts Contour as Incubating project
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Contour as an incubation-level hosted project. Contour is a high-performance ingress controller for Kubernetes that provides a control plane for Envoy. “One of the most important steps for…
TOC Approves SPIFFE and SPIRE to Incubation
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept SPIFFE and SPIRE as incubation-level hosted projects. The SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone) specification defines a standard to authenticate software services in cloud native environments through…
TOC votes to move Dragonfly into CNCF incubator
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Dragonfly as an incubation-level hosted project. Dragonfly, which was accepted into the CNCF Sandbox in October 2018, is an open source, cloud native image and file distribution system….
TOC welcomes Argo into the CNCF incubator
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Argo as an incubation-level hosted project. The Argo Project is a set of Kubernetes-native tools for running and managing jobs and applications on Kubernetes. Argo was created in 2017 at…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation announces schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020
Experts from around the world will join over 8000 attendees in Amsterdam SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – January 29, 2020 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the schedule…
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) annual report for 2019 is now available. The report highlights the growth of the community, events, projects, and more, over the past year. As CNCF celebrated its fourth birthday in 2019, we…
Since 2005, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program has accepted thousands of university students from around the world to spend their summer holiday writing code and learning about the open source community. This year GSoC accepted 1,276 students from 63 countries…
TOC approves CNCF SIGs and creates security and storage SIGs
Earlier this year, the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to create CNCF Special Interest Groups (SIGs). CNCF SIGs are currently being bootstrapped in various focus areas and primarily led by recognized experts and supported by contributors. They report directly…