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2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
Staff Post 2024 year in review of CNCF and top 30 open source project velocity 
By Chris Aniszczyk  By consistently tracking open source project velocity, we are able to see the trends and technologies resonating with developers and end users. We have been tracking these trends since 2017; all previous blogs...
January 29, 2025
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Building AuthZed with the power of cloud native: A CNCF success story
Member Post Building AuthZed with the power of cloud native: A CNCF success story
At the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), we celebrate organizations that turn cloud native technologies into real-world impact. AuthZed, a CNCF Silver member, is one such story—a company built from the ground up on open source,...
April 22, 2025 | Jimmy Zelinskie, Cofounder at AuthZed

The Node Resource Interface says “hi” to WebAssembly
Community Post The Node Resource Interface says “hi” to WebAssembly
Community blog post by Sascha Grunert, CRI-O maintainer The Node Resource Interface (NRI) allows users to write plugins for Open Container Initiative (OCI) compatible runtimes like CRI-O and containerd. These plugins are capable of making controlled changes to containers at dedicated points in...
December 19, 2024

Kubestronaut in Orbit: Daiki Takasao
Kubestronaut Post Kubestronaut in Orbit: Daiki Takasao
Get to know Daiki This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit, Daiki Takasao, is a Japanese IT infrastructure engineer at NRI. He works with CNCF technologies to build financial IT systems and has been using Kubernetes, Linkerd, and...
September 10, 2024

A guide to modern Kubernetes network policies
Member Post A guide to modern Kubernetes network policies
Member post originally published on Bouyant’s blog by Scott Rigby In the world of Kubernetes, network policies are essential for controlling traffic within your cluster. But what are they really? And why, when and how should...
August 28, 2024 | Scott Rigby

Join us as gRPConf returns this August 27!
Community Post Join us as gRPConf returns this August 27!
Attention gRPC community! Mark your calendars for August 27th, 2024, as gRPConf returns to the Google Cloud Campus in Sunnyvale, California. The schedule is now live! This is your chance to dive deep into the world of gRPC, connect...
July 30, 2024

Announcing Vitess 19
Project Post Announcing Vitess 19
Project post cross-posted from GitHub by the Vitess Maintainers We’re thrilled to announce the release of Vitess 19, our latest version packed with enhancements aimed at improving scalability, performance, and usability of your database systems. With...
March 6, 2024 | Vitess Maintainers

Bad API observability
Member Post Bad API observability
Member post originally published on the Tyk blog by Sonja Chevre Observability has become a buzzword, and the API world is slowly catching up. But be careful when looking for content about API observability- there are...
September 27, 2023

Hello gRPC Community! The gRPConf 2023 schedule is now live!
Project Post Hello gRPC Community! The gRPConf 2023 schedule is now live!
We are excited to announce that the gRPConf 2023 schedule is now live. We have a schedule with 19 total sessions (5 keynote, 14 breakout) led by a strong group of experts that are using gRPC...
August 18, 2023

The future of API gateways on Kubernetes
Member Post The future of API gateways on Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on WS02’s blog by Pubudu Gunatilaka Key Takeaways  Introduction  The exponential growth of the Internet and cloud computing has given rise to applications that are smaller, more distributed, and designed for highly...
August 14, 2023 | Pubudu Gunatilaka

Securing GRPC on Kubernetes with mTLS identities, using Linkerd and Go
End User Post Securing GRPC on Kubernetes with mTLS identities, using Linkerd and Go
Guest post originally published on Medium by Lachlan Smith Lachlan Smith from the ZeroFlucs Engineering team takes a dive into how we use strong identities, message authentication and encryption to ensure trusted, secure and contained communication...
August 1, 2023 | Lachlan Smith

Active or passive health checks: which is right for you?
Member Post Active or passive health checks: which is right for you?
Guest post originally published on NGINX’s blog by Robert Haynes of F5 Just as regular check‑ups with a doctor are an important part of staying healthy, regular checks on the health of your apps are critical...
June 7, 2023 | Robert Haynes

Announcing Linkerd 2.13 with circuit breaking, dynamic request routing, FIPS, health monitoring, and more
Member Post Announcing Linkerd 2.13 with circuit breaking, dynamic request routing, FIPS, health monitoring, and more
Guest post originally published on Buoyant’s blog by William Morgan Today we’re thrilled to announce the release of Linkerd 2.13, a significant milestone for the CNCF’s only graduated service mesh! This release introduces dynamic request routing based on...
April 27, 2023 | William Morgan

Fast and effective tools for CNCF and open source project websites
Staff Post Fast and effective tools for CNCF and open source project websites
By Patrice Chalin Why some top-velocity projects use Hugo and Docsy to publish technical documentation Some of CNCF’s top-velocity projects — such as Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry and gRPC — use Hugo as their static website generator. Why?...
January 19, 2023

KubeEdge: Design and implementation of the next-generation cloud native edge device management standard DMI
Member Post KubeEdge: Design and implementation of the next-generation cloud native edge device management standard DMI
Guest post by Zhao Ran (Huawei Cloud), Wang Zilong (DaoCloud) With the maturity of technologies such as 5G, AI, and distributed cloud, concepts such as Internet of Everything (IoE), digital twin, and ubiquitous compute are extending,...
October 5, 2022 | Zhao Ran + Wang Zilong

10 critical Kubernetes tools and how to debug them
Member Post 10 critical Kubernetes tools and how to debug them
Guest post originally published on the Rookout blog by Gedalyah Reback, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Rookout Kubernetes is both revolutionary and “diffusionary.” It is a complete restructuring demanding a whole new slew of companion and...
September 15, 2022

Announcing Vitess 14
Project Post Announcing Vitess 14
Project cross-post by the Vitess Engineering Team We are pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 14. Major Themes # In this new release, major improvements have been made in several areas of Vitess, including usability and...
June 28, 2022

Breaking the multi-cloud barrier in a regulated industry
End User Post Breaking the multi-cloud barrier in a regulated industry
Guest post originally published by Kasper Borg Nissen, Lead Platform Architect at Lunar How Kubernetes and Linkerd became Lunar’s multi-cloud communication backbone At Lunar, a Scandinavian online bank, we embraced cloud native tech early on. We’ve...
June 9, 2022 | Kasper Borg Nissen

Ada Logics: CRI-O holistic security audit engagement
Community Post Ada Logics: CRI-O holistic security audit engagement
Community post originally on the Ada Logics blog by David Korczynski, Security Research & Security Engineering and Adam Korczynski, Security Engineering & Security Automation, Ada Logics Ada Logics Ltd. recently performed a holistic security audit of CRI-O....
June 6, 2022 | David Korczynski + Adam Korczynski

SPIRE now runs on Windows!
Project Post SPIRE now runs on Windows!
Project post originally published on the SPIRE blog by the SPIRE maintainers At its heart, the SPIRE project aims to solve the problem of securely issuing workload identities at scale, no matter where the workload is...
May 18, 2022

How do you integrate Emissary Ingress with OPA
Member Post How do you integrate Emissary Ingress with OPA
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Tayyab Jamadar API gateways play a vital role while exposing microservices. They are an additional hop in the network that the incoming request must go through in order...
May 6, 2022 | Tayyab Jamadar