The Cloud Native Computing Basis (CNCF) is internet hosting KubeCon + Cloud Native Con this week in Salt Lake Metropolis, UT, and through the occasion, it introduced the commencement of two of its initiatives: cert-manager and Dapr.
Cert-manager is an open supply certificates administration platform that helps builders automate issuance and renewal of Transport Layer Safety (TLS) and Mutual Transport Layer Safety (mTLS) certificates.
It was created in 2017 at Jetstack (now owned by Venafi, a CyberArk firm), accepted into the CNCF Sandbox in November 2020, and moved to the CNCF Incubators in 2022. On the time of its commencement, cert-manager had over 450 contributors, 200 releases, and 500 million downloads per 30 days.
“By making it simpler for builders to acquire, handle, and automate safety certificates, cert-manager helps guarantee purposes stay safe all through their lifecycles, making the ecosystem safer as a complete,” mentioned Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the CNCF. “We’re thrilled to see the venture attain this milestone and sit up for it persevering with to enhance the cloud native safety house.”
The opposite graduated venture, Dapr (Distributed Software Runtime), is a runtime for constructing distributed purposes. It was created by Microsoft in 2019, and accepted into the CNCF Incubator in November 2021. As we speak, it has over 3,700 contributors and has over 70 million downloads.
“In right now’s aggressive setting it’s extra vital than ever for organizations to have the ability to ship dependable and scalable purposes rapidly,” mentioned Aniszczyk. “Dapr supplies a complete answer for creating edge and cloud native purposes, saving builders precious time and releasing them to give attention to innovating.”
Each initiatives combine with many different CNCF initiatives, comparable to Envoy, Istio, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and SPIFFE.
Jaeger v2 launched
Moreover, the distributed tracing platform Jaeger — one of many first initiatives to ever graduate from the CNCF — has reached a serious milestone with the discharge of v2.
This launch marks an vital architectural change in that the platform is now based mostly on the OpenTelemetry Collector. Based on the CNCF, this architectural change made sense as a result of there was already some overlap and each Jaeger and OpenTelemetry Collector usually utilized one another’s code.
“Collector helps receivers for legacy Jaeger codecs carried out by importing Jaeger packages. And Jaeger reuses Collector’s receivers and information mannequin converters. Due to this synergy, it’s been our objective for some time to carry the 2 initiatives nearer,” the Jaeger maintainers wrote in a weblog publish.
Some key options and advantages led to in Jaeger v2 embody:
- Native assist for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) information format
- Batch information processing
- Implementation of the identical configuration and deployment mannequin because the OpenTelemetry Collector
- All core options of the OpenTelemetry Collector, like auth, cert reloading, inside monitoring, and z-pages
- Entry to OpenTelemetry Collector extensions
- The flexibility to carry out tail-based sampling