TOC votes to move Rook into CNCF incubator
By Jared Watts Rook, an open source cloud native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, was the first storage project accepted into CNCF back in January of this year. Today, roughly 8 months later, we are excited to announce…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation welcomes Hortonworks as Gold Member
Leading global data management platform provider increases commitment to cloud native solutions for big data SAN FRANCISCO – September 25, 2018 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which sustains and integrates open source technologies like…
FaaS functions on Kubernetes are increasingly popular for writing short-lived stateless applications. We’ve often covered the developer productivity advantages, such as the time to create a useful application from scratch without learning a lot about Kubernetes….
CNCF to host Cortex in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced acceptance of Cortex, a multitenant Prometheus-as-a-Service, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Developed to scale Prometheus in a multitenant fashion,…
Edge Computing: It’s not just a bunch of small clouds
You’re probably in a room with at least a dozen objects that are connected to the internet. And if you’re not, it won’t be long before you are. All that connectivity, and all of those devices,…
GSoC 18: Kata Containers support for containerd
Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program 2018 has come to an end and we followed up with CNCF’s seven interns previously featured in this blog post to check in on how their summer project progressed. Over the summer,…
Northwestern Mutual: Focus on risk management, built on cloud native
For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has maintained its industry leadership in part by keeping a strong focus on risk management. For many years, the company took a similar approach to managing its technology and…
When it was founded in 2000, Ocado was an online-only grocery retailer in the U.K. In the years since, it has expanded from delivering produce to families to providing technology to other grocery retailers. The company…
Announcing the final four keynotes for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China, taking place on November 13-15 in Shanghai, has added the final four new keynotes to its line-up. With the rapidly growing interest in cloud native technologies in Asia, the event provides a…
Data Center Dynamics: "Who’s afraid of cloud native?"
The world of IT is changing at breakneck speed, and much of it is down to just one technology – application containers, and Kubernetes in particular. Designed for cloud computing, this approach has given birth to…