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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
CNCF Shares Schedule for Open Observability Summit North America, Gears Up for Inaugural Event
The event will unite observability leaders, developers, and end users to drive progress in observability tools and best practices SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the full schedule for Open Observability Summit. Announced last month, the new event will take place June 26, 2025 in Denver, Colorado as a co-located event at Open Source Summit North America. Running alongside OTel Community Day, Open Observability Summit will convene observability practitioners, developers, and contributors to explore vendor neutral best practices, align on standards, and examine emerging trends like AI-powered observability. "Observability is a necessity at cloud native scale," said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF. "In a fast-paced, competitive environment, organizations cannot afford downtime, blind spots, or fragile systems. This event creates a vendor neutral space for the open source observability community to come together, collaborate and foster innovation." The schedule features keynotes, sessions, and lightning talks designed to support observability practitioners, developers, and maintainers working together to innovate. Attendees will gain insight into end-to-end observability strategies, understand how leading teams are using OpenTelemetry and AI to manage complexity, and connect with peers tackling similar challenges across industries. Highlighted sessions include: Building Composable OTel Pipelines: CI/CD, Testing, Team-First, and Scalable Design - Anil Kuncham & Joe Canuel, DoorDash Faster Insights and Improved Accuracy: Spotify's Prometheus Upgrade - Lauren Roshore, Spotify Weaving Legacy and OpenTelemetry: A Schema Strategy With Weaver - Andrew Wang, Comcast Cable Telemetry Showdown: Fluent Bit Vs. OpenTelemetry Collector - A Comprehensive Benchmark Analysis - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace Observability-First DevSecOps: Building Resilient Multi-Cloud Pipelines With OpenTelemetry and GitOps - Ravindra Bhargava, UPS The sessions reflect the community's top priorities, from scaling telemetry pipelines to integrating observability into platform engineering workflows. Building on the momentum from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, where observability dominated discussions, Open Observability Summit offers a timely opportunity for organizations to address growing operational complexity, boost system reliability, and connect with the practitioners and contributors driving innovation across the ecosystem. Datadog has joined Chronosphere and the OpenSearch Foundation as a Strategic Partner sponsor, further highlighting continued investment in growing a vibrant, standards-based observability ecosystem. As a leading observability platform, DataDog provides end-to-end visibility across infrastructure, applications, and logs, and plays an active role in promoting open standards. Sponsorship opportunities will remain available until May 27. Review the prospectus here. Learn more about Open Observability Summit and to view the full schedule registration is live and offered at US$249 through June 10, which represents a savings of US$150. A reduced registration rate is available for current full time students and faculty. Learn more here. Members of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact pr@ Additional Resources CNCF Newsletter CNCF Twitter CNCF Website Learn About CNCF Membership Learn About the CNCF End User Community About Cloud Native Computing FoundationCloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry's top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Media ContactKaitlin ThornhillThe Linux Foundationpr@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sign in to access your portfolio
Forbes
01-04-2025
- Science
- Forbes
CNCF Launches Golden Kubestronauts Into Cloud-Native Orbit
American astronaut Joseph Tanner waves to the camera during a space walk as part of the STS-115 ... More mission to the International Space Station, September 2006. (Photo) Certification is uncertain. Not every software engineer manages to achieve a sanctioned level of certification in any given technology in order to validate their skillsets and competencies, but almost all techies do hanker after these affirmations. Worn rather like a badge of honor, technology practitioners want to achieve certification to show their prowess among their peer groups, to appease any management level requests that might be in place encouraging staff to get certified and to learn more. Certification also generally enables software developers and other technical workers to earn more, but that consideration is usually secondary to them simply wanting to prove to themselves that they know their technical onions inside and out. Now elevating its Kubestronaut certification program to a shiny new level, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has launched the Golden Kubestronaut program. This certification is designed to act as distinguished recognition for technology professionals who have demonstrated the highest level of expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies and Linux administration. Kubernetes data protection and disaster recovery platform company Portworx suggests that more than three-quarters of organizations plan to build most of their new applications on cloud-native platforms within the next five years. Its Voice of Kubernetes Experts report 2024 offers an idea into how many organizations face challenges in Kubernetes adoption due to a shortage of skilled personnel. "As more companies utilize cloud native technologies for their most critical projects, continuous learning is essential," said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF. 'The Golden Kubestronaut program recognizes the most dedicated professionals who have achieved the broadest possible expertise across Kubernetes, Linux, cloud native security, observability, and platform engineering. By setting a new benchmark, this program strengthens both the CNCF community and the industry's trust in certified cloud native professionals.' Aniszczyk and the CNCF team say that their new golden-level certification builds on the existing program. First launched last year, there are now some 1500 Kubestronauts who can qualify as gold members if they complete all 13 CNCF certifications available to date, as well as the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator certification to ensure strong foundational Linux skills. As certifications evolve and new ones are added, individuals will not lose their distinction, ensuring they are recognized for their dedication and expertise in cloud native technologies. The hope here is that this strengthens the CNCF certification ecosystem and supports the continued growth of the cloud-native space in general. By incentivizing professionals to pursue the full range of CNCF certifications, the certification is intended to expand the certified talent pool and increase engagement in CNCF's training and events. All of which brings into question then, what technology trends are actually shaping the rise to cloud-native software and, crucially, are organizations really driving their IT departments to cloud in the first instance for any new technology deployment? In an age when virtual desktop services are on the rise, but (arguably) far from standarized de facto deployment options, just how always-on is our always-on-ness? The CNCF says that its market analysis of last year provides it with some clear signs. A user survey conducted with Linux Foundation Research suggests that there may be a shift or two occurring. The foundations say that while security was once the top hurdle, cultural and operational shifts now take precedence. Although those cultural and operational changes are not fully defined here, we can safely assume that this comment refers to the rise of so-called platform engineering i.e the practice of running enterprise software with streamlined platforms, toolchains and capabilities that run at a higher-level to achieve reusable and composable developer self-service functions. We mentioned security and this is actually improving, with 60% of organizations now 'vetting' open source projects for active communities and 57% using automated tools to detect vulnerabilities. Additionally says the CNCF, the popularity of continuous integration and continuous deployment has surged 31% year-over-year. We know that CI/CD (as it is known) is fundamental to the always-on world of cloud-native, so this is perhaps a solid trend showing that businesses are moving beyond simply adopting cloud-native tools and are now optimizing how teams collaborate, automate and scale their operations. 'Organizations are facing cultural and operational hurdles as they scale adoption. Security remains vital, but the focus has shifted to automation and best practices that enable faster, more reliable software delivery. Companies prioritizing both technical and cultural transformation will gain a competitive edge,' said Aniszczyk, who also notes that Kubernetes adoption continues to grow, with 80% of organizations running it in production, up from 66% in 2023. Always in the frame for discussion, artificial intelligence and machine learning adoption on Kubernetes remains in its early stages. Just less than half of organizations are yet to deploy AI/ML workloads using a Kubernetes cloud container orchestration service as the backbone for the new world of automated intelligence. However, early adopters are using leveraging Kubernetes primarily for batch data processing jobs (ones that often happen overnight rather than in real-time environments, model experimentation, real-time model inference and data pre-processing (9%). Aniszczyk and team propose that these use cases suggest that while Kubernetes is beginning to play a role in AI/ML workloads, challenges remain in fully 'operationalizing AI' in cloud-native environments. With a cultural transformation to embrace alongside a technology shift to cloud-native Kubernetes that must now validate its ability to deliver for AI, the CNCF and the Linux Foundation clearly have a lot of their collective plate. Given the rapidly changing technology ecosystem that is still growing here, the above-noted Kubestronaut program may help to cement not just skills…. but also future platform direction for technologies that are essentially always open source from first principles. This stuff could really take off, pun quite definitely intended.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Akamai Delivers Infrastructure Support to Ensure Uninterrupted Linux Kernel Development
Akamai picks up the hosting of bringing long-term stability to development and maintenance of the open source Linux operating system CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Development work on the Linux kernel — the core software that underpins the open source Linux operating system — has a new infrastructure partner in Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. The company's cloud computing service and content delivery network (CDN) will support the main distribution system for Linux kernel source code and the primary coordination vehicle for its global developer network. Akamai signed a multi-year agreement with the Linux Kernel Organization to provide infrastructure services to the project and its global cohort of developers. The work of these engineers — many of whom work as volunteers — is critical to maintaining the security and performance of the world's most widely deployed open source operating system. Linux and its derivatives are used by most if not all governments, research laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and corporations globally. It powers smartphones, industrial devices, consumer products, and the data centers that enable cloud computing. It also runs most of the internet, all of the world's top 500 supercomputers, and the world's stock exchanges. The Linux kernel is massive — approximately 28 million lines of code. Since 2005, more than 13,500 developers from more than 1,300 different companies have contributed to the Linux kernel. Additionally, there are many kernel versions, and developers update the code constantly, distributing that code to developers who are working on various distributions of Linux. Akamai now delivers the infrastructure that these developers and their users rely on, at no cost, supporting the Git environments developers use to access kernel sources quickly, regardless of where they're based. "Like the rest of the world, Akamai depends on Linux. By supporting we're giving back to the community, just as we've done via our commitments to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)," said Alex Chircop, Chief Architect, Akamai Cloud, and member of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee. "The foundation of our cloud platform is built on a long history of Linux and open source technologies. It's the Lin in Linode. By providing stable, secure, and unwavering support for we're doing our part to contribute to the preservation of the world's most widely deployed open source software, Linux." "Akamai has deep roots in the open source community," said Chris Aniszczyk, Chief Technology Officer of CNCF. "As an important member of CNCF, they have actively contributed to key projects, including OpenTelemetry, Argo, and Prometheus, and donated US$1 million in infrastructure credits for compute infrastructure projects. The support they are providing the Linux kernel further showcases the company's long-standing stewardship and commitment to the people and software who make open source projects what they are today." Akamai is a Gold Member of the CNCF and a Platinum Sponsor of KubeCon — and, earlier this year, Akamai pledged US$1 million to CNCF projects. Akamai developers have contributed to the Linux kernel to make it more secure, are active contributors to several CNCF-hosted projects, and have participated in projects that have won the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography. In 2022, Akamai acquired Linux cloud pioneer Linode, followed by Ondat in 2023, a cloud-based storage technology provider with a Kubernetes-native platform for running stateful applications anywhere at scale. The cloud company is certified as part of CNCF's Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program. Its Linode Kubernetes Engine is a fully managed K8s container orchestration engine for deploying and managing containerized applications and workloads. Akamai also announced that it is providing infrastructure and delivery support for Alpine Linux, one of the most popular Linux distributions. About AkamaiAkamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai's full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world's most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at and or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn. About The Linux Kernel OrganizationThe Linux Kernel Organization is a California Public Benefit Corporation established in 2002 to distribute the Linux kernel and other open source software to the public without charge. Recognized as a 501(c)3 private operating foundation, the Linux Kernel Organization is managed by The Linux Foundation, which provides full technical, financial, and staffing support for running and maintaining the infrastructure. ContactsAkamai Media Relationsakamaipr@ Akamai Investor Relationsinvrel@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Akamai Technologies, Inc. Sign in to access your portfolio
