Advance Container Technology with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

Introduction

• The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is an open source software that promotes the adoption of cloud-native computing. 
• The CNCF, a subsidiary of the Linux Foundation created in 2015, aims to establish a vendor-agnostic community of developers, end users and IT technology as well as service providers to collaborate on open source projects.
• The CNCF defines cloud-native computing as the use of open source software, containers, microservices and service mesh to develop as well as deploy scalable applications on cloud computing platforms.
• The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a Linux Foundation project that was founded in 2015 to help advance container technology and align the tech industry around its evolution. 
• The founding members include Google, CoreOS, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Twitter, Huawei, Intel, Cisco, IBM, Docker, Univa, and VMware.

CNCF Project

• CNCF technology projects are cataloged with a maturity level of Sandbox, Incubated, and Graduated, in ascending order. 
• CNCF projects include Kubernetes, a container orchestration platform; Prometheus, a systems monitoring and alerting tool; and Envoy, a service proxy for service-oriented architectures and cloud-native apps.
• The CNCF maintains the available technologies' brands and ensures that community members appropriately use them. 
• The CNCF created a centralized continuous integration (CI) dashboard to ease the testing and management of multiple projects across cloud and bare metal platforms.
• A graduated project reflects overall maturity; these projects have reached a tipping point in terms of diversity of contribution, community scale/growth, and adoption.
• The CNCF Sandbox is a place for early-stage projects, and it was first announced in March 2019. 

CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Tools

• Containerization - The CNCF recommends that an enterprise begins its journey by packaging an application and its dependencies into containers.
• CI/CD - A CI/CD pipeline will automate code rollouts and testing, and streamline the creation of new containers.
• Orchestration and Application Definition - Orchestration enforces a workflow for automated tasks. For containers, Kubernetes is the leading orchestration platform.
• Observability and Analysis - Enterprises must monitor, log and trace an application's progress. For this step, the CNCF recommends projects such as Prometheus.
• Networking and Policy - For more flexible networking, the CNCF recommends a network project, such as Calico or Weave Net, that is compliant with the Container Networking Interface, another CNCF project aimed at configuring network interfaces in Linux containers.
• Distributed Database and Storage - At this step, the CNCF recommends enterprises run databases at a greater scale to support cloud-native apps. Vitess, a clustering system for MySQL databases, is a suggested project.