Topic: cncf
CNCF announces new certifications, training initiative in Africa
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced a number of new ways for cloud native developers to build their skill sets. It is announcing the first two in a series of certifications related to platform engineering, the Certified Cloud Native Platform Associate and the Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer. The former is a multiple … continue reading
Cloud Native Computing Foundation announces KubeEdge graduation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today announced that KubeEdge, an open-source edge computing project built on Kubernetes, has achieved graduation status. KubeEdge, according to the CNCF, expands the cloud native ecosystem to scenarios and industries outside of data centers by bringing the container orchestration and scheduling capabilities of Kubernetes to the edge. Further, it delivers edge … continue reading
Dapr – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Dapr is a collection of APIs for building microservices that takes care of security, resiliency, and observability so that developers can focus on other aspects of building their applications. Dapr provides building blocks that are based on best practices for building microservices, and those building blocks can then be incorporated into the application using whatever … continue reading
Kubernetes v1.31 released; 11 new features now in GA
Some 11 features have graduated to stable in today’s release of Kubernetes v1.31, the first since the project celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. The release’s theme, here in the dog days of summer, is Elli, a playful pup meant to reflect the spirit and joy of the community of contributors. Among the highlights of … continue reading
Kubernetes at 10: Where it began, and where it’s going
Ten years ago, the Kubernetes project was first announced, and then soon after, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was formed to become the home for it. Chris Aniszczyk was the founding executive director at the time, and has been around for the project’s entire history once it was donated by Google to the CNCF. … continue reading
Kubernetes – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
When we first started the ITOps Open Source Project of the Week series, Kubernetes was already such a large and popular project that no one needed us to tell them about it, so it’s never actually been featured in this series. But given that the project is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this month, we … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Vineyard
Vineyard is an in-memory data manager designed specifically for data-heavy analytics. It uses shared memory to efficiently share data across different systems without needing to do serialization and deserialization. It employs a zero-copy method for sharing, which helps to avoid I/O overhead costs. According to the project maintainers, Vineyard is ideal for complex cloud-native environments, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Eraser
Eraser is an open source tool for cleaning up unused Kubernetes images in a cluster. “When deploying to Kubernetes, it’s common for pipelines to build and push images to a cluster, but it’s much less common for these images to be cleaned up. This can lead to accumulating bloat on the disk, and a host … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Xline
Xline is an open-source management system for metadata stored in organizations with multiple data centers. According to the project maintainers, one of the big challenges related to multi-data center architectures is maintaining data consistency and high performance. Xline was created to help solve that problem by allowing distributed storage and management. “This project aims to … continue reading
8 reasons why Crossplane is the ideal engine for internal developer platforms
Crossplane is a Kubernetes-native framework that allows organizations to manage anything using a consistent API and runtime, making it an ideal foundation for Internal Development Platforms (IDPs). Organizations typically run a complex mix of cloud and on-premise resources like databases, virtual machines and network policies. IT teams must support multiple platforms to provision and manage … continue reading
Falco graduates from CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the graduation of Falco. Falco is a cloud-native security tool for Linux systems and has become a commonly used engine for detecting threats within Kubernetes environments. This milestone marks a significant achievement for Falco, emphasizing its importance and effectiveness in cloud-native security, according to the CNCF. “Real time … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Strimzi
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Strimzi as a CNCF incubating project. Strimzi simplifies the deployment and management of Apache Kafka clusters on Kubernetes, leveraging the operator pattern to ease installation, upgrades, and security tasks. Apache Kafka, known for its scalability and fault tolerance, is widely used for building event-driven architectures … continue reading
