Cloud Native Computing Foundation Archives

Cloud Foundry Foundation Moves Closer to Kubernetes

The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) is moving to bridge the divide between Kubernetes and its open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment with the launch of two additional projects. Eirini, proposed by IBM, is ...

Mike Vizard | October 31, 2018 | Cloud Foundry Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, kubernetes, platform as a service

Prometheus, kubernetes, CNCF Promotes Prometheus Container Monitoring

CNCF Promotes Prometheus Container Monitoring Project

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today at a PromCon 2018 conference that the open source Prometheus container monitoring software project has officially become the second project to graduate, following the ...

Mike Vizard | August 9, 2018 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Container Monitoring, open source, Prometheus

CNCF Explains Role of Serverless Computing Frameworks

Just about every serverless computing framework of any consequence make use of containers as the enabling technology on which an event-driven architecture gets built. To help IT organizations get a better handle ...

Mike Vizard | February 16, 2018 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation, functions as a service, serverless computing

CNCF Stabilizes Key Kubernetes APIs

The latest version of Kubernetes announced today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 conference makes generally available some key functionalities that promise to make Kubernetes easier to manage, in addition to making ...

Mike Vizard | December 8, 2017 | APIs, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, conference, container orchestration engine, container orchestration platform, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, kubernetes

SUSE Advances Kubernetes Integration with Cloud Foundry

The rise of Kubernetes has kicked off a furious debate over to what degree a platform-as-a-service environment such as Cloud Foundry should be redesigned to take advantage of a platform designed from ...

Mike Vizard | November 29, 2017 | Cloud Foundry, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, container, container as a service, kubernetes, platform as a service, SUSE

CNCF Launches Kubernetes Certification to Increase Interoperability

Giving containerized app developers standard APIs and protocols is easy enough. How do you actually ensure they follow them? That’s the question the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) aims to answer through ...

Christopher Tozzi | November 20, 2017 | certification, Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, cncf, conformance, container orchestrator, docker, interoperability, kubernetes, open source

CNCF Delivers Robust Prometheus Container Monitoring

While every IT administrator intuitively accepts the idea that monitoring adds the value, the cost of instrumenting and monitoring every application has proven to be prohibitive. As a result, only a small ...

Mike Vizard | November 10, 2017 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation, containers, microservices, monitoring, Prometheus

CNCF Adds 2 Projects to Better Secure Containers

At the Open Source Summit Europe 2017 conference today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced it is adding two projects to its portfolio to address the security of container images and ...

Mike Vizard | October 24, 2017 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation, cncf, containers, notary, open source, Open Source Summit Europe 2017, security, The Linux Foundation, The Update Framework

Cloud Foundry Embraces Kubernetes Runtime Environment

The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), at a Cloud Foundry Summit Europe conference, announced it will make the Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (CFCR) the default runtime for deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters, using ...

Mike Vizard | October 11, 2017 | CaaS, CFF, Cloud Foundry Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, cncf, containers, containers as a service, kubernetes, microservices, open source, PaaS, platform as a service, runtime

Kubernetes 1.8 Brings Additional Security, Stability

The latest release of the Kubernetes container orchestration engine, which arrived this week, has something for almost everybody in the container community. In general, new Kubernetes 1.8 features fall into two broad ...