SDxCentral: "Vodafone finds containers drastically more efficient than VMs"
Telecommunications giant Vodafone Group has seen some significant efficiency gains by going smaller in terms of its cloud application management. Fran Heeran, head of network virtualization, software-defined networking (SDN), and network functions virtualization (NFV) at Vodafone,…
Computer Business Review: "Top 5 open source projects for 2018"
Kubernetes is an open source system designed for the automation of deployment, the management of containerised applications. With the seed sewn by Google, the system is now under the watchful eye of the Cloud Native Computing…
Huawei’s Kubernetes journey began with one developer. Over two years ago, one of the engineers employed by the networking and telecommunications giant became interested in Kubernetes, the technology for managing application containers across clusters of hosts,…
Huawei’s container and cloud native journey – As a user, vendor and contributor
Huawei is one of the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers in the world. It has eight data centers for its internal I.T. department, which run 800+ applications in 100K+ VMs to serve 180,000 employee users. Huawei recently…
Cloud native community’s premier event includes tracks for serverless, hardware hacking and service meshes SAN FRANCISCO – February 20, 2018 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus, today…
Diversity scholarship series: KubeCon – endless opportunities and the connections you’ll make
CNCF offered 103 diversity scholarships to developers and students to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017. In this post, our scholarship recipient Cheryl Fong, student at University of New Hampshire (UNH)majoring in Computer Science, shares…
ZDNet: "Servers? We don't need no stinkin' servers!"
CNCF created the WG to “explore the intersection of cloud native and serverless technology.” The first output of the group was a summary of serverless computing projects. These include Apache OpenWhisk, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions,…
The CNCF takes steps toward serverless computing
By Swapnil Bhartiya The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Serverless Working Group (WG) has announced a whitepaper and serverless landscape that marks their first output since the working group was created in 2016. Why it matters…
Harvard Business Review: "How cloud computing is changing management"
By Quentin Hardy Google now runs about 2 billion containers a week on its in-house version of Kubernetes. Open source Kubernetes is managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which counts among its members Google Cloud,…
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Vitess as the 16th hosted project, alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy, Jaeger, Notary, TUF and Rook. Vitess has been accepted as…