Service Meshes Are on the Rise – But Greater Understanding and Experience Are Required
CNCF conducted a microsurvey of the cloud native community at the end of 2021 to discover how organizations are adopting service meshes. Cloud native is driving digital transformation, with organizations keen to capitalize on the agility and flexibility it provides to their business and operations. But as more applications and services are deployed using a […]
New Training Course Explores Ethics in Open Source Development
As we build new software and other technologies, we do not often consider the ethical implications of these tools. Considerations like how a piece of code may be used by a malicious actor, whether a hardware design could be modified for a nefarious purpose, or simply how an algorithm might affect different classes of person […]
Introducing Envoy Gateway
Today we are thrilled to announce Envoy Gateway, a new member of the Envoy Proxy family aimed at significantly decreasing the barrier to entry when using Envoy for API Gateway (sometimes known as “north-south”) use cases. History Envoy was released as OSS in the fall of 2016, and much to our amazement quickly gained traction […]
CNCF Takes LitmusChaos Platform to the Incubation Level
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today it is elevating the open source LitmusChaos application testing platform to the incubation level. LitmusChaos is a chaos engineering platform donated to the CNCF by ChaosNative in 2020. Since then, it has seen adoption within production environments by more than 25 […]
DevSecOps Tech Radar Highlights Diverse Tooling Adoption
The DevSecOps Technology Radar showcases the opinions cloud-native groups have about DevSecOps tools. To review, The Technology Radar is a periodic report from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a burgeoning host for new open source projects that are becoming pivotal underpinnings to cloud-native architecture at large. Just like previous radars, the DevSecOps Technology Radar […]
Splunk Donates eBPF Telemetry Data Collector to CNCF
Splunk Inc. announced during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference that it donated a data collector to the OpenTelemetry project run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Splunk’s data collector runs as a sandbox-level program at the kernel of a Linux operating system and takes advantage of extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology […]
CNCF Adopts Meshery to Advance Service Mesh Management
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week during the ServiceMeshCon/KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference that Meshery, a service mesh management plane created by Layer5, has become a sandbox-level project. In addition, Layer5 has also donated Service Mesh Performance (SMP), a set of tools for measuring the efficiency of a service mesh, to the CNCF. […]
CNCF Advances OpenTelemetry Initiative
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as an incubating project as part of an ongoing effort to simplify instrumentation of software using open source agent software. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) that can be […]
Splunk Unveils Unified Observability Platform
Splunk today unveiled an observability platform delivered as a cloud service that captures all metrics, traces and logs in real-time without relying on sampling. Spiros Xanthos, vice president of product management for observability and IT Ops at Splunk, said Splunk Observability Cloud collects all that data via a single agent based on open source OpenTelemetry […]
Kong Integrates Service Mesh with OPA
Kong, Inc. today announced an update to Kong Mesh, built on top of open source Kuma service mesh, that adds support for Open Policy Agent (OPA) software that enables DevOps teams to manage compliance as code. Kuma and OPA are both being developed under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Kuma, unlike […]
CNCF Graduates Open Policy Agent Project to Manage Compliance as Code
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week that the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project, which many IT teams are employing to manage compliance as code, has officially graduated. Torin Sandall, co-founder of the OPA project and vice president of open source at Styra, whose compliance management platform is based on OPA, said formal […]
The Value of OpenTelemetry in Observability
As infrastructure becomes more complex, the quest for better observability continues. With increased containerization, third-party applications and generally increased network complexity, it becomes difficult for organizations to track issues of stability and performance. But OpenTelemetry can be used to improve upon observability throughout a network by enhancing and consolidating reporting throughout all applications and services. […]
Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community
Things boiled over a bit last week with the announcement that Google launched the Open Usage Commons (OUC) consortium (see Mike Vizard’s article here). The announcement and subsequent angst it has caused has upset what had been a pretty stable environment that helped open source software become the dominant force in development and IT. While […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Google Roils Open Source Community
Google this week agitated the bulk of the open source community by launching the Open Usage Commons consortium to protect the trademarks of open source projects, starting with the Istio, Angular and Gerrit projects it launched. Launched in collaboration with SADA Systems and some independent contributors, the stated goal of the Open Usage Commons is […]
CNCF Looks to Increase Open Source Sandbox Projects
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced it has simplified the process it employs to enable open source software to become a sandbox project managed under its auspices. Priyanka Sharma, general manager for the CNCF, said the organization is looking to increase the number of open source projects that make up the cloud-native ecosystem. […]
CNCF Elevates SPIFFE Spec to Secure App Services
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the open source Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) specification and the SPIFFE Runtime Environment (SPIRE) have become incubation-level hosted projects. Andrew Harding, SPIRE maintainer and a principal software engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), said the elevation of a […]
EP 3: Open Source and DevOps
In the third episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and DevOps.com’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Alan Shimel is joined by Kevin Dunne of Tricentis, Tracy Miranda of CDF and Alon Girmonsky of UP9 to answer the question: Can we have DevOps without open source?
DevOps Chats: Kubernetes is the New Compute, with Rancher Labs’ Sheng Liang
Rancher Labs is a great example of a startup that was smart enough to sense the way the market was moving and adopted a strategy to capitalize on it. And, if you know Rancher co-founder, CEO Sheng Liang, you should not be surprised. Sheng has been seeing the market and staying one step ahead for […]
CNCF Graduates TUF Project to Secure Software Updates
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that an open source specification for securing software update systems has graduated to becoming a top-level project. The Update Framework (TUF) is made up of a set of libraries, file formats and utilities that can authenticate files and images before they are downloaded from a software repository. […]
The Foundational Era of Open Source
Contrary to popular belief, software is not eating the world. Open source software is eating the world. This was very apparent at the Linux Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event recently in San Diego. Driving this phenomenon is what I call the Foundational era of Open Source. This Foundational era of Open Source has replaced what […]
CNCF Advances Jaeger Distributed Tracing Project
The open source Jaeger distributed tracing platform has officially graduated into the top tier of projects being stewarded by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Designed to be employed within any DevOps environment, Jaeger is a tool for monitoring transactions across complex distributed computing environments. It consists of a backend for trace collection and analysis […]
Identifying and Abstracting Business Intelligence from Kubernetes Workloads
In the age of big data, businesses are inundated with data points. While they know there’s an abundance of valuable resources available to them, making sense of this data to derive actionable insights is often still a challenge. CNCF industry survey data shows workload complexity and monitoring remain top challenges for enterprises in terms of […]
CNCF Advances CloudEvents Specification
In a move that portends well for future cloud interoperability initiatives, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that the open source CloudEvents specification for describing event data had achieved a version 1.0 milestone. Doug Davis, senior technical staff member of IBM and co-chair of CNCF’s Serverless WG and the CloudEvents project, said CloudEvents […]