Member post by Sergey Pronin, Percona Kubernetes launched in June 2014 – since then, it has played a huge part in popularizing cloud-native application designs and supporting more microservices deployments. The growth of container deployments is massive, and ..read more

Member post originally published on the Mia-platform blog by Graziano Casto The information and communication technology sector alone contributes around 1.4% of global emissions, making sustainability a critical issue in today’s tech industry. Gartner predicts that within the next two years ..read more

Member post originally published on the Kubesimplify blog by Kunal Verma With the increase in software complexity and as digital threats evolve (as discussed in our previous blog) in today’s digital age, the organizations are facing a massive increase in number of security vulnerabilities. According to the Coalition Cyber Threat Index 2024, we can expect a 25% rise in Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), reaching almost 34,888 this year – which is an astounding number! Such a rise in CVEs presents a significant challenge for IT professionals who must constantly identify, prio ..read more

We’d like to take a moment to welcome and introduce (or reintroduce) Bob Killen, CNCF’s new Senior Technical Program Manager! Bob has been a member of the cloud native community for some time now and is probably familiar to many of you for his work on Kubernetes and SIG Contributor Experience. We’re excited that he’s bringing that experience to CNCF to focus on improving project governance processes and finding engaging ways to bring end users and maintainers together. For those who aren’t already familiar, or those who are and want to hear it again, we’ve asked Bob to share his story and what ..read more

Member post originally published on the Cerbos blog by Omu Inetimi Authentication vs Authorization: Understanding the Difference In recent times, security in modern applications cannot be overemphasized. It is extremely important to ensure our applications have proper security measures to prevent sensitive data from getting into the wrong hands. In doing so, two particularly relevant concepts come to mind: authentication and authorization. They are both referred to in shorthand as “Auth” and are frequently used hand in hand when building secure applications, and as a result, their meanings can ..read more

Community post by Andrés Vega, M42 and CNCF TAG Security Recent events involving CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software have underscored a critical lesson across the industry: the importance of having a robust, secure release process. Such incidents serve as reminder of the consequences that can result from issues in software updates. These consequences can affect a wide range of critical industries and services, from government agencies and financial institutions to healthcare systems and emergency services. The Incident On July 18, 2024, a buggy update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon security softwa ..read more

The Cloud Native Glossary is a project led by the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee. Its goal is to explain cloud native concepts in clear and simple language without requiring any previous technical knowledge. We are in the process of localizing the English version of the Glossary into as many languages as possible. This week we focus on Turkish and the team that localized the Glossary for Turkish speakers!  About Turkish and the Turkish Glossary Turkish is spoken by 100 million speakers and is the most widely spoken language of the Turkic language family that is spoken by 200 million spe ..read more

The Reason for Implementing Interval Trees In a recent refactoring of Xline, we identified a performance bottleneck caused by two data structures on the critical path: the Speculative Pool and the Uncommitted Pool. These two data structures are used for conflict detection in CURP. Specifically, the protocol requires for each processed command, it is necessary to find all the commands that conflict with the current command. For instance, in the KV operations put/get_range/delete_range, we need to consider the possible conflicts between these operations. Since each KV operation covers a ra ..read more

Get to know Eleni This week’s Kubstronaut in Orbit, Eleni Grosdouli, brings diverse experiences to her role as a DevOps Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems. She’s the go-to person for DevOps and Kubernetes Automation, with a passion for networking, security, endpoint management, and endpoint security, If you’d like to be a Kubestronaut like Eleni, find more details on the CNCF Kubestronaut page.  When did you get started with Kubernetes–what was your first project? My journey started back in 2019. At the time, I was a network consulting engineer involved in network automation projects. A ..read more

KCD post originally published on Social Maharaj by Atulpriya Sharma Being a food and travel blogger, I often attend a lot of food meet-ups where I get to experience different dishes and meet new people as well. But did you know there are a lot of tech events too? Yes, if you asked me a couple of years ago, I would have stared at you like a wall. But today, things are different.  Looking at the cloud native landscape, there are a lot of local, regional, national and international conferences and meet-ups that are organised. Locally, we have CNCF Hyderabad meet-ups that ..read more