CNCF WASM survey results released on KubeCon+CloudNativeCon

WebAssembly – or Wasm – has been warmly received since its first release in 2017, but our survey shows projects seem to be outstripping the capabilities of today’s tools and technologies and an… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 2 years ago

Etcd Integrates Continuous Fuzzing

Guest post originally published on the etcd blog by Adam Korczynski, David Korczynski, Sahdev Zala In the last few months, the team at Ada Logics has worked on integrating continuous fuzzing into the… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 2 years ago

E-Cloud: Large-Scale CDN Using KubeEdge – Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Project post from Ruan Zhaoyin of KubeEdge This article describes how e-Cloud uses KubeEdge to manage CDN edge nodes, automatically deploy and upgrade CDN edge services, and implement edge service… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 2 years ago

Opta: Terraform on Rails

Guest post by Ankur Dahiya, RunX Engineers today work inside a perpetual good news-bad news dichotomy. On one hand, the tools, infrastructure and capabilities at their disposal give them what an… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 2 years ago

Chaos Mesh Moves to the CNCF Incubator

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Chaos Mesh as a CNCF incubating project. Initially created as a testing platform for the open source distributed database, TiDB… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 2 years ago

CNCF Sees Record Kubernetes and Container Adoption in 2021 Cloud Native Survey

Record number of organizations are using or evaluating Kubernetes as the technology goes mainstream and users start to move up the stack SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – February 10, 2022 – The Cloud Native… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 2 years ago

WebAssembly on the Edge

Guest post by Vivian Hu and Michael Yuan from Second State with the help from Chen Jin from the OpenYurt project. Edge computing is a distributed application architecture that places computational… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 2 years ago

Longhorn brings cloud native distributed storage to the CNCF Incubator

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Longhorn as a CNCF incubating project. Longhorn is a distributed block storage system for Kubernetes, designed to run on top of… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Kubernetes Cluster API reaches production readiness with version 1.0

Today, we announce Cluster API v1.0 is production-ready and officially moving to v1beta1 APIs. To move from the maturity level of an alpha project Cluster API has demonstrated growing adoption… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Why Kubernetes Was Inevitable

Guest post originally published on Elastisys' blog by Lars Larsson Do you feel that Kubernetes is too complicated? That it’s going to be a waste of time to learn it? I know from experience that you… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes

Dedicated to all the parents who try to explain software engineering to their children. Once upon a time there was an app named Phippy. And she was a simple app. She was written in PHP and had just… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Using KubeEdge in the industrial internet big data center

Project guest post by KubeEdge Maintainers Project Background In 2018, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) of China launched a national innovation and development project to… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Cloud-agnostic third party managed Kubernetes services – unexploited opportunity

Guest post originally published on the Elastisys blog by Lars Larsson of Elastisys Let’s be honest. As InfoWorld recently humorously put it, “ no one wants to manage Kubernetes anymore”. | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Argo Rollouts 1.0 Released

Project post from Henrik Blixt and Argo maintainers It’s with great pride and excitement that we announce Argo Rollouts 1.0! The project has seen rapid adoption and production use even in it’s 0. | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

CNCF Paper Defines Best Practices for Supply Chain Security

New paper demonstrates an actionable approach to architecting a secure supply chain amidst an increase in cyber attacks SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – May 14, 2021 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation®… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

The Cloud Native Glossary

CNCF is excited to announce the new CNCF Cloud Native Glossary Project, which is intended to be used as a reference for the common terms used when talking about cloud native applications. | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Maintainer Spotlight: Kevin Wang of KubeEdge and Volcano

This month we are highlighting Kevin Wang, a contributor in the CNCF community since its beginning, leader of the cloud native open source team at Huawei, and co-founder of the KubeEdge and Volcano… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

How to build an elastic search cluster for production?

Guest post by Stanislas Girard, Site Reliability Engineering at Padok Running an elastic search cluster in production is not an easy task. You are probably working with gigabits of data coming in all… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

K3d: K3s in Docker for local development on Kubernetes

Guest post originally published on SUSE's blog by Thorsten Klein, freelance software engineer at SUSE and k3d maintainer In this blog post, we’re going to talk about k3d, a tool that allows you to run… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

What Was Observability Again?

Guest post originally published on Elastisys's blog by Cristian Klein, Sr Cloud Architect at Elastisys Imagine running a business without financial projections or even knowing how much money is left… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

CNCF Secrets Management Tools in Feb 2021 Technology Radar

Assessment of the CNCF End User Community finds widespread adoption of secrets management tools from cloud providers SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – February 23, 2021 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation®… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

CNCF announces Open Policy Agent graduation

The cloud native policy enforcement engine is used in production by organizations like Goldman Sachs, Netflix, Pinterest, and T-Mobile SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – February 4th, 2020 – The Cloud Native… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Connecting microservices – different types of communication

Guest post originally published on Softax's blog by Piotr Martyniuk, solution architect at Softax Microservices can be combined in various ways. What are the advantages and disadvantages of individual… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Why Linkerd doesn’t use Envoy

Guest post originally published on Linkerd's blog by William Morgan, CEO at Buoyant In this article I'm going to describe why Linkerd isn't built on Envoy. This is a bit of a weird article to write. | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Jd.com uses Vitess to manage scaling databases for hyperscale

China’s largest retailer, JD.com serves more than 300 million active customers with its e-commerce business. “A few years ago, it became apparent that as our data became more extensive… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Square: Vitess enables ‘near unlimited scale’ for Cash App

Four years ago, Square branched out into peer-to-peer transactions via its Cash App. After some steady growth, the app rocketed in popularity in 2016, reaching millions of users over just a few months. | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Etcd Graduation

Widely used data store solution for orchestrators has seen 200 distinct contributors in the past 12 months SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – November 24, 2020 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®)… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Cloud Native Buildpacks Enter Incubation in CNCF

Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to promote Cloud Native Buildpacks to incubation from the CNCF sandbox. Since joining CNCF in 2018, the Cloud Native Buildpacks project has… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes

Phippy is a simple PHP app, trying to find a home in a cloud native world. The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes is a simple, gentle answer a father gave his daughter when she inquisitively… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 3 years ago

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Rook Graduation

Cloud native storage tool has grown its contributor base by 260% since joining CNCF SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – October 7, 2020 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®)… | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

Policy as Code: The Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Member Blog Post Guest post originally published on the Magalix blog by Mohamed Ahmed What Is OPA? It’s a project that started in 2016 aimed at unifying policy enforcement across... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

The Falco Project (Cloud Native Runtime Security) Update from Last KubeCon

Project Post Guest post from Falco project maintainers Kris Nóva (Sysdig), Lorenzo Fontana (Sysdig), Spencer Krum (IBM), Kaizhe Huang (Sysdig), Leonardo Di Donato (Sysdig) A lot has happened in the... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

Fluent Bit v1.5: lightweight and high performance log processor

Project Post Guest post from Eduardo Silva, maintainer for Fluent Bit Fluent Bit, a sub-project under the umbrella of CNCF graduated project Fluentd, has reached its version v1.5.  One of... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

Rust at CNCF

Go may be the most widely used language for CNCF projects but it's not the only one. This post highlights the use of Rust in the TiKV and Linkerd projects. | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

With Kubernetes, the U.S. DoD Is Enabling DevSecOps on F-16s and Battleships

CNCF Staff Post Before DevSecOps came to the U.S. Department of Defense, software delivery could take anywhere from three to ten years for big weapons systems. “It was mostly teams... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

2019 CNCF Survey results are here

Today we are excited to announce the results of our annual CNCF Survey for 2019!  The survey of the community provides a better understanding of how and where cloud native... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

CNCF Survey 2019 [pdf]

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@cncf.io | 4 years ago

Service Mess to Service Mesh

Guest post by Rob Richardson, Technical Evangelist, MemSQL and Kavya Pearlman, Global Cybersecurity Strategist, Wallarm We are witnessing the rise of microservices and cloud-native technologies. However, one big challenge of... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

Using Containers and Kubernetes to Increase the Efficacy of Anomaly Detection

The maturation of the container ecosystem has coincided in parallel with the emergence of Kubernetes as the de facto orchestrator for running containerized applications. This new declarative and immutable workload... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

Linkerd 2019 Year in Review

Linkerd crossed the chasm in 2019. Read about the features, talks, podcasts, security audit, and swag that made the year epic for your fav service mesh. | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

CNCF Member Webinar: Using Machine Learning for Autonomous Log Monitoring

Logs typically record the source of truth during an incident, but their sheer volume and messiness makes incident detection and root cause analysis extremely challenging. As a result, logs are... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

AutoTiKV: TiKV Tuning Made Easy by AI and Machine Learning

Guest post originally published in Chinese by Yuanli Wang, PingCap TL;DR Modern database management systems (DBMS) are notorious for being complicated and having too many configuration options—or “knobs”— that mostly... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

Alibaba Cloud Manages 10,000s of Kubernetes Clusters

Guest post by Zhimin Tang, Xiang Li and Fei Guo of Alibaba Abstract Since 2015, the Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) has been one of the fastest growing... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces TUF Graduation

Amazon, Datadog, Google, IBM, Microsoft, VMWare and other leading cloud native companies have adopted the specification SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – December 18, 2019 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®),... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

Lesson Learned from 40K QPS and 20+bn Rows of Data in a Single Scale-Out Cluster

Guest post by Can Cui, Infrastructure Specialist at JD Cloud JD Cloud, is a full-service cloud computing platform and integrated cloud service provider. Like Microsoft Azure, we deliver comprehensive cloud computing... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

Jaeger Graduates CNCF

Distributed tracing platform is run by numerous organizations in production for using microservices at scale SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – October 31, 2019 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 4 years ago

Building a Large-Scale Distributed Storage System Based on Raft

Guest post by Edward Huang, Co-founder & CTO of PingCAP  In recent years, building a large-scale distributed storage system has become a hot topic.  Distributed consensus algorithms like Paxos and... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 5 years ago

Kubernetes RBAC Mistakes to Avoid

Guest post by Connor Gilbert, originally published on StackRox If you run workloads in Kubernetes, you know how much important data is accessible through the Kubernetes API—from details of deployments... | Continue reading


@cncf.io | 5 years ago