Topic: cncf
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: CoreDNS
CoreDNS is an open-source DNS server that offers chaining of plugins. Individual plugins are used for tasks like Kubernetes service discovery, Prometheus metrics, rewriting queries, or serving from zone files. Other key capabilities include signing zone data on-the-fly, load balancing, enabling zone transfers, caching DNS responses, and serving as a proxy to forward queries to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Argo
Earlier this month, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the Argo project had seen 115% year-over-year growth, according to the results of its annual survey. In addition to this growth, the CNCF explained that Argo is one of the highest velocity projects in the organization. Argo provides a set of tools for running … continue reading
Report: Kubernetes is “crossing the chasm” into mainstream adoption
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has deemed 2021 as the year Kubernetes “crossed the chasm” into mainstream adoption. This is based on insights from its 2021 Annual Survey, such as the finding that 96% of organizations are using or evaluating Kubernetes. Kubernetes has seen particularly high growth over the past year, and now has … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cilium
This week’s highlighted project is one of the newest additions to the CNCF. Last week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021, the foundation announced that its Technical Oversight Committee had voted to accept Cilium as an incubating project. Cilium provides networking, security, and observability for cloud native environments. It also provides load balancing between application workloads. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: CNCF End User Technology Radar on DevSecOps, Cymulate’s new security updates, and Barracuda email protection updates
The CNCF has announced the release of its End User Technology Radar on DevSecOps, which provides recommendations on emerging technologies. It groups technologies into three categories: Assess, Trial, and Adopt. The Assess category includes Cilium, Harness, Sonatype Nexus, HashiCorp Sentinel, GitHub Actions, Linkerd, and Trivy. XRay is in the Trial category. Adopt includes technologies such … continue reading
Crossplane accepted as Incubating project at CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that the Kubernetes control plane Crossplane has been accepted as an Incubating project. “Kubernetes and cloud native projects have demonstrated that multi cloud innovation is possible and truly a reality in manproduction environments,” said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of CNCF. “The industry is ready for cross-cloud managed services … continue reading
wasmCloud joins CNCF as Sandbox project
The WebAssembly pioneer Cosmonic today announced that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted its universal application runtime for building cloud-native applications with WebAssembly that can run anywhere as its latest Sandbox project. The key features of the runtime called wasmCloud include faster development time and lower lifetime maintenance, high portability, near-native performance, a … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: MicroK8s
MicroK8s allows for low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, edge and IoT. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) certified upstream Kubernetes deployment that runs entirely on your workstation or edge device. The project automatically chooses the best nodes for the Kubernetes datastore, and when a cluster database is lost, another … continue reading
CNCF End User Technology Radar shares recommendations for multicluster management
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is trying to make it easier for companies to choose a multicluster management solution for their environments with the release of its fifth CNCF End User Technology Radar. The radar is a guide to emerging technologies that are chosen based on feedback from the CNCF End User Community. According … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021: Pixie joins CNCF, Red Hat rebrands StackRox, and more from day 1
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 kicked off today and a number of companies at the event made announcements of updates to their Kubernetes solutions. Here are a few highlights from the first day of the event: Pixie joins CNCF Pixie is an open-source observability platform developed by New Relic. In addition to contributing Pixie, New … continue reading
CNCF Technology Radar provides recommendations for tools for secrets management
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has identified top secrets management tools and trends based on its latest end user CNCF Technology Radar, which focused on secrets management in cloud-native settings. Typically CNCF’s Technology Radars gather feedback from the 140+ companies in the foundation’s End User Community to provide insights on tools used by that community. … continue reading
Open Policy Agent graduates from CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that Open Policy Agent (OPA) is graduating. Graduation from the CNCF indicates that a project has shown “widespread adoption, an open governance process, feature maturity, and a strong commitment to community, sustainability, and inclusivity,” according to the CNCF. OPA is a tool for ensuring policy across an … continue reading
