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Building A Kubernetes Platform: How And Why To Apply Governance And Policy

A Platform, sometimes called an “internal developer platform,” is a unified infrastructure that allows development teams in a company to deliver applications rapidly and consistently. Out of the box, Kubernetes is a very powerful platform, but it’s too complicated and feature-rich to put in front of development teams as an internal developer platform without having some guardrails in place. Kubernetes is a perfect foundation for building a platform, however. It offers platform engineers many tools that allow them to provide developers with a more streamlined and safe approach to running applications. So, how do you build a platform that offers a great…
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KubeCon Europe 2023 Highlights Kubernetes Explosion And Need For Instant Platform Engineering

Guest post originally published on D2iQ’s blog by Michael Neubarth The CNCF’s flagship KubeCon Europe 2023 conference in Amsterdam last week was a vibrant sold-out affair that drew more than 10,000 attendees, 58% of whom were new to the conference, with another 2,000 people on the waitlist. As Futurum analyst Camberley Bates noted, “KubeCon Europe 2023 reflects the rising importance of this new platform.” It is not just about development, said Bates, “but rather all about the drive to adapt to the digital age of applications.”  Kubernetes is the IT infrastructure that will support the new apps and new development of the digital…
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Amazon’s Quiet Open Source Revolution

After years of getting a free ride from open source projects, the company is developing its own obsession with contributing. Something has changed at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with regard to its formerly fraught relationship with open source. Though it was always incorrect to lambast AWS for “strip-mining” open source, as Daisuke Wakabayashi did in The New York Times, there was just enough smoke in that “strip-mining” fire to make the accusation seem somewhat credible. After all, a quick perusal of top open source projects with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the Apache Software Foundation, or just about anywhere would have shown that Google tended…
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Announcing A White Paper On Platforms For Cloud Native Computing

Community post by Josh Gavant and Abby Bangser, CNCF’s Platforms WG CNCF’s Platforms working group (WG) is pleased to announce the first release of a whitepaper to provide guidance and clarity on the nature and benefits of platforms for cloud-native computing. Download it now as a PDF or view it on our website. Thank you to our many contributors listed below for their ongoing input and insights! We prepared this paper because we’ve learned that platforms enable organizations to fully realize the promises of cloud computing. Platforms accelerate application and service delivery by enabling rapid integration of infrastructure and application components. They are a…
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Kubernetes Storage Is Complex, But It’s Getting Better

Introduction — what is Kubernetes Storage? Kubernetes storage is a way to manage persistent data in a Kubernetes environment. Kubernetes storage can be used to store data that is independent of the container’s lifecycle.  Kubernetes provides different types of storage, such as local storage, network-attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN), and object storage solutions. These storage methods can be divided into two categories: ephemeral storage and persistent storage. Challenges of Kubernetes Storage: Kubernetes storage can be complex due to several reasons:  The complexity continues with configuration. Storage has not been classed as easy for the last 15+ years, and…
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Three Ukrainian-Language Linux Foundation Courses Are Now Available

In partnership with the Veteranius project, the Prometheus platform will host three Ukrainian-language Linux Foundation Training courses. In October 2022 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, we announced that the Linux Foundation and the CNCF partnered with Razom for Ukraine on Razom’s Project Veteranius to provide access to technology education for Ukrainian veterans, their families, and Ukrainians in need. As part of this support, Linux Foundation has made three of LF’s training courses available in Ukrainian, which are hosted by the Prometheus platform (not to be confused with CNCF’s Prometheus project).  The three courses being offered in Ukrainian are as follows: Introduction to Linux | Основи…
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Why Are Enterprises Moving On Multi-Cloud/Hybrid Strategies?

There has been a lot of discussion about the rising trend of businesses using private, public, and hybrid cloud services in their multi-cloud strategy. The architecture of multi-cloud allows enterprises to benefit from scalability and cloud economics from the start without compromising on data sovereignty. There are several advantages to vendor lock-in and enhancing performance and acquisitions. To ensure that assets are adequately distributed throughout the user’s cloud hosting environment, businesses should choose a multi-cloud strategy. Companies can access a range of possibilities through a multi-cloud strategy, including enhanced upload speeds, customization options, cost-effective service level agreement terms, and many…
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2023 Cloud Native Predictions

I hope everyone had enjoyed the holidays with loved ones! The CNCF recently released its annual report on all the work we accomplished last year. I recommend everyone take an opportunity to go through the report as we spent a lot of time cataloging all the amazing work that the community does. Also, it’s been a couple years since I posted my annual predictions so I apologize for the delay and hopefully you enjoy the list this year! Cloud [Native] IDEs Become Normalized Recently, GitHub Codespaces came out of beta and while we don’t have a lot of public usage data from GitHub, there…
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Fast And Effective Tools For CNCF And Open Source Project Websites

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? Because Hugo is feature-rich, flexible, and fast — even for large sites. How fast? It takes Hugo less than 30 seconds* to generate the 5600+ pages of technical documentation (written in 15 natural languages) of the kubernetes.io website, providing a delightful experience for all contributors. Docsy: a theme for technical documentation Most Hugo-enabled CNCF projects use the Docsy Hugo theme because it provides key features in support…
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Cloud Sustainability And The Path To Green Software

In an increasingly sustainability‑conscious world, cloud software, services, and infrastructure are no longer evaluated only in terms of performance, resilience, scalability, and reliability, but also according to their environmental impact. So, considering cloud sustainability means tools impact on the environment needs to be observed. Towards sustainable development Sustainability is one of the great pillars of contemporary society. It is a universal and systemic goal, involving people, communities, organizations, and institutions at every level. The paradigm to strive toward is that of Sustainable Development: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In enterprise,…
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