Topic: cncf
Argo graduates from CNCF Incubator following massive community growth
Just a week after it announced the graduation of the Flux project, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed that another of its incubating projects is graduating: Argo. Argo is a set of Kubernetes-native tools for deploying and running applications using GitOps. It was first created at Applatix, which was later acquired by Intuit. The … continue reading
Flux graduates from the CNCF Incubator
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the Flux project, which is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes, graduated from the CNCF Incubator. Graduating from the Incubator is an important milestone for any project, as it signifies that the project is now part of the CNCF-hosted projects and is officially … continue reading
CNCF brings Istio in as Incubating project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that its Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept the service mesh Istio into the foundation as an Incubating project. Istio provides a way to secure, connect and monitor services in cloud-native applications. It offers features like zero-trust networking, policy enforcement, traffic management, load balancing, and … continue reading
SPIFFE and SPIRE projects graduate from CNCF Incubator
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that SPIFFE and SPIRE are now graduated projects. Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) provides a secure identity to workloads in modern production environments and SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment) is the code that implements the SPIFFE specification on a wide variety of platforms. SPIRE exposes the … continue reading
CNCF and Linux Foundation announce the Prometheus Certified Associate exam
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and The Linux Foundation today announced their new exam to test foundational knowledge and skills using Prometheus, the Prometheus Certified Associate exam (PCA). The PCA is a pre-professional certification intended for engineers or application developers that have an interest in observability and monitoring within the Prometheus ecosystem. The exam … continue reading
Istio applies to join the CNCF
The service mesh Istio has officially applied to become a part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Istio is the most popular service mesh according to a recent CNCF survey. The project maintainers have stated they’re excited about this move and to work with the CNCF community on service mesh and networking. “Istio is … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Karmada
Karmada is an open-source project that provides orchestration capabilities for Kubernetes. It consists of three main parts: an API server, a controller, and scheduler. The API server offers a REST endpoint for resource templates and policies. Controller creates Kubernetes resource by watching resources in the API server and then communicating with the underlying clusters. And … continue reading
Report: Majority of companies use up to nine different tools for observability
A majority of companies are struggling with tool sprawl when it comes to observability. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), in partnership with the Observability Technical Advisory Group, recently released the results of its microsurvey on cloud native observability, and found 72% of respondents reported using up to nine different tools geared at logging, metrics, … continue reading
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
