The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is hosting KubeCon + Cloud Native Con this week in Salt Lake City, UT, and during the event, it announced the graduation of two of its projects: cert-manager and Dapr. Cert-manager is an open source certificate management platform that helps developers automate issuance and renewal of Transport Layer Security … continue reading
Building a career as a software developer can be valuable, but can be a competitive field to break into, especially in 2024 when over 130,000 layoffs have occurred at tech companies already. While not all 130,000 may have been software engineers, they have not been immune from the cuts. One way developers can set themselves … continue reading
The Linux Foundation had a lot of news to share during the first day of its Open Source Summit in Vienna, Austria. Several new subgroups have been formed within the organization to support popular technologies and practices. Here are some highlights from Day 1: Announcing the Developer Relations Foundation The organization announced plans to form … continue reading
The first piece of open source code was published just over 70 years ago, and now open-source software finds itself in almost every application that exists today. A 2024 report from Synopsys found that the average application has over 500 open source components in it, and most recent industry reports show that over 95% of … continue reading
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has recently approved OpenFeature as an incubating project within the CNCF. OpenFeature is an open specification designed to provide a vendor-neutral, community-driven API specifically for feature flagging. Feature flagging is a method used in software development where teams can switch features or code paths on or off, or modify … continue reading
Notary, the CNCF project that provides cross-industry standards for supply chain security, has announced a major release. This brings both the Notary Project and Notation Project to version 1.0.0. Notation is a sub-project that implements Notary specifications. Included in this release are an OCI signature specification, OCI COSE signature envelope, OCI JWS signature envelope, OCI … continue reading
Observability has really taken off in the past few years, and while in some ways observability has become a bit of a marketing buzzword, one of the main ways companies are implementing observability is not with any particular company’s solution, but with an open-source project: OpenTelemetry. Since 2019, it has been incubating at the Cloud … continue reading
Nearly four-fifths of developers (79%) believe that contributing to open source projects has helped further their careers, but 78% still say that companies should pay them for the time spent on contributions. This is according to a new survey from the CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy (TAG CS), which is a group within the CNCF … continue reading
Cybersecurity company Armo has announced that an open-source project it developed is being donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project. Kubescape is an end-to-end security platform for Kubernetes, and is the first security scanner under the CNCF umbrella, according to Armo. “ARMO’s commitment to open source means ensuring Kubescape is … continue reading
The Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and Ethical Intelligence have all partnered up to create a free online course on ethics in open-source development. It is designed for developers looking to apply ethics to their coding practice, and for product managers looking to incorporate ethics-by-design technology into their workflows. According to the Linux … continue reading
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to accept a new platform for building developer portals as an incubating project. Backstage enables developers to bring together their organization’s tooling, services, apps, data, and documentation into a single UI. The project has its origins at Spotify. In 2016 the company was growing quickly and struggling … continue reading
The Linux Foundation and The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced a new Cloud Native Developer Bootcamp. The Cloud Native Developer Bootcamp works to provide developers, cloud architects, and others who are new to cloud native technologies with the tools needed to be successful in designing, building, and deploying cloud native applications According to … continue reading
