In 2020, we thought it would be beneficial to share more frequent updates on various happenings in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem: community news, projects, releases, demos, recordings of community meetings, must-read articles, and other interesting finds within the community. Expect brief round-ups like this every two weeks going forward. We hope you find this useful and interesting - feedback welcome!
From The Last Few Weeks:
- cf cli v6.49.0 was released: https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-dev/topic/cf_cli_v6_49_0_is_available/69541640?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,69541640
- cf routing v0.197.0 was released: https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-dev/topic/routing_release_0_197_0/69741399?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,69741399
- Quarks project released CF Operator v1.0: https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-bosh/topic/cf_dev_cf_bosh_project/68858276?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,68858276
- The CAB call was held on Jan 15, where KubeCF was demo’ed by SUSE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCOlAquyUmNM-AQnekCOXiwhLs6gveTxAcduvDcW_xI/edit#heading=h.mewn94q54hla
- From Jan 7 Runtime PMC meeting: The Release Integration team has launched bi-weekly schedule for cf-deployment minor releases with early positive feedback.
- Interesting writeup of cloudnativebuildpacks.io: https://devstack.in/2020/01/03/introduction-to-cloud-native-buildpacks-with-kubernetes/
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call videos from January are up:
Jan 7 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2DZNetyV5U&feature=youtu.be
Jan 21 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hob5Qj8Gaso&=&feature=youtu.be
Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call – 8:30 AM on Feb 4
- Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting – 10:30 AM on Feb 4
Interesting Finds from Around the Web:
- SUSE released v0.1.0 of KubeCF: https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-dev/topic/kubecf_0_1_0/69269395?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,69269395
- A cool video from IBM putting Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes in context published back in October: https://youtu.be/oUpqXxmr6oU
- Google Cloud Next will be April 6 to 8 in SF: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/join-us-at-google-cloud-next-2020
- Harness.io wrote a bit about how CI/CD and PaaS are better together: https://harness.io/2020/01/platform-as-a-service-series-part-3-3-paas-and-harness-better-together/
- Neat writeup about cloud.gov and the concept of “Government as a Platform”: https://cloudbestpractices.net/cloud-gov/
- Congratulations to Resilient Scale: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exciting-times-resilient-scale-steve-greenberg/
- Setting up App Autoscaler using Stark and Wayne’s Genesis https://starkandwayne.com/blog/setting-up-cf-autoscaler-using-genesis/
- Running Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes using kubecf https://starkandwayne.com/blog/running-cloud-foundry-on-kubernetes-using-kubecf/
- CF Summit promotional video https://youtu.be/ZcJRvW5E7wo
Who’s hiring?
|
|
Dr Nic Williams <drnicwilliams@...>
Thanks Chris for compiling this!
Nic
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 11:12 am, Chris Clark < cclark@...> wrote:
In 2020, we thought it would be beneficial to share more frequent updates on various happenings in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem: community news, projects, releases, demos, recordings of community meetings, must-read articles, and other interesting finds within the community. Expect brief round-ups like this every two weeks going forward. We hope you find this useful and interesting - feedback welcome!
From The Last Few Weeks:
- cf cli v6.49.0 was released: https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-dev/topic/cf_cli_v6_49_0_is_available/69541640?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,69541640
- cf routing v0.197.0 was released: https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-dev/topic/routing_release_0_197_0/69741399?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,69741399
- Quarks project released CF Operator v1.0: https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-bosh/topic/cf_dev_cf_bosh_project/68858276?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,68858276
- The CAB call was held on Jan 15, where KubeCF was demo’ed by SUSE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCOlAquyUmNM-AQnekCOXiwhLs6gveTxAcduvDcW_xI/edit#heading=h.mewn94q54hla
- From Jan 7 Runtime PMC meeting: The Release Integration team has launched bi-weekly schedule for cf-deployment minor releases with early positive feedback.
- Interesting writeup of cloudnativebuildpacks.io: https://devstack.in/2020/01/03/introduction-to-cloud-native-buildpacks-with-kubernetes/
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call videos from January are up:
Jan 7 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2DZNetyV5U&feature=youtu.be
Jan 21 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hob5Qj8Gaso&=&feature=youtu.be
Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call – 8:30 AM on Feb 4
- Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting – 10:30 AM on Feb 4
Interesting Finds from Around the Web:
- SUSE released v0.1.0 of KubeCF: https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-dev/topic/kubecf_0_1_0/69269395?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,69269395
- A cool video from IBM putting Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes in context published back in October: https://youtu.be/oUpqXxmr6oU
- Google Cloud Next will be April 6 to 8 in SF: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/join-us-at-google-cloud-next-2020
- Harness.io wrote a bit about how CI/CD and PaaS are better together: https://harness.io/2020/01/platform-as-a-service-series-part-3-3-paas-and-harness-better-together/
- Neat writeup about cloud.gov and the concept of “Government as a Platform”: https://cloudbestpractices.net/cloud-gov/
- Congratulations to Resilient Scale: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exciting-times-resilient-scale-steve-greenberg/
- Setting up App Autoscaler using Stark and Wayne’s Genesis https://starkandwayne.com/blog/setting-up-cf-autoscaler-using-genesis/
- Running Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes using kubecf https://starkandwayne.com/blog/running-cloud-foundry-on-kubernetes-using-kubecf/
- CF Summit promotional video https://youtu.be/ZcJRvW5E7wo
Who’s hiring?
-- Dr Nic Williams Stark & Wayne LLC +61 437 276 076 twitter @drnic
|
|
This month, the Cloud Foundry Foundation celebrated our 5th birthday! We thought we’d treat ourselves to something nice, like this spectacular webpage commemorating this event, a laudatory video, and a blog post; it was a virtual bubble bath of self-reflection and community love.
Abby had this to say about the milestone here: https://medium.com/@ab415/and-yet-its-still-early-days-for-cloud-5-years-at-cloud-foundry-foundation-e697003e7de7
Chip had this to say about the ever changing platform: https://thenewstack.io/from-bystander-to-cto-my-five-year-journey-with-the-cloud-foundry-foundation/
From The Last Few Weeks:
Community Updates:
All Things Cloud Foundry Summit:
- Call for proposals for Cloud Foundry Summit is open (closes March 20): https://lists.cloudfoundry.org/g/cf-dev/topic/cloud_foundry_summit_is_back/70059069?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,70059069
- Help choose a date for The Unconference at #CFSummit North America 2020 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchuPoBPALrYrYp55G9zTOoKE1uOWU2Ia8_uYJpXM105A6-QQ/viewform
Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call – 8:30 AM on March 3
- Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting – 10:30 AM on March 3
Interesting Finds from Around the Web:
|
|
Hope you’re all healthy, relaxed and washing your hands regularly. Many events are being canceled, as you’ve *probably* noticed. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe (originally set for March 30 to April 2, 2020) has been postponed to July or August 2020. Unfortunately, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China in July has been canceled altogether. Read more here.
From the Last Few Weeks:
- The CF community is looking for a handful of volunteers to help reconstitute a multi-member vulnerability management team for CFF projects. Message here.
- The Services API team has been working on a model for the Cloud Controller V3 API for Service Instances. You can view the proposal here. Also, they have an opening for project lead. VMware has nominated Miguel Luna for the role. Message here.
- Re: Bosh Openstack CPI, the cf-openstack-validator and bosh-openstack-environment-templates repos are now unmaintained and will be moved to the attic. Message here.
- Cf CLI v6.50.0 was released. Message here.
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call video from March 3 is up. This focused heavily on Networking, Routing, and Service Mesh in CF-for-K8s, and there are some notes on this here. Video here.
- CF CAB call video from Feb 19 is up here. Folks from Rijkswaterstaat and T-Mobile shared their Smoke Tests Suite.
Community Updates:
- Have a question for the staff at Cloud Foundry Foundation? Want to stay current with updates for the Foundation? Join the new #cff-forum channel on the community slack.
All Things Cloud Foundry Summit:
Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call – 8:30 AM on March 17
- Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting – 10:30 AM on March 17
- CAB call – 8:00 AM on March 18
Interesting Finds from Around the Web:
Who’s hiring?
Looking for an industry event to attend or to submit a speaking proposal? We put together a helpful calendar of events for 2020.
|
|
It is an understatement when we say “these are unprecedented times.” During these times of uncertainty, the Cloud Foundry Foundation wants to offer an open zoom “break room” for our community. Please feel free to “walk” into this break room and hang out with others. (Please do remember: Code of conduct applies here as well.)
From the Last Few Weeks:
- KubeCF released v1.0 AND v1.0.1! Message here. Blog post here. Press release here.
- Stratos released v3.0! Message here.
- CF routing v0.199.0 was released. Message here.
- Miguel Luna has taken over as project lead of the Services API project.
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call video from March 17 is up. Focus on container to container networking. Video here.
- CF CAB call video from March 18 is up here. Nice update and demo of CF-for-k8s!
Community Updates:
- Have a question for the staff at Cloud Foundry Foundation? Want to stay current with updates for the Foundation? Join the new #cff-forum channel on the community Slack.
All things Cloud Foundry Summit:
Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):
- CF Operators Sig Meeting – 8:00 AM on March 25
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call – 8:30 AM on March 31
- Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting – 10:30 AM on March 31
Interesting Finds from Around the Web:
Who’s hiring?
Looking for an industry event to attend or to submit a speaking proposal? We put together a helpful calendar of events for 2020: https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=Y2xvdWRmb3VuZHJ5Lm9yZ181Yjg2a2dobzkwdmNqOWtncDE3cjljYjh1c0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t
|
|

Swarna Podila
Hi all, Chris is on PTO this week; so here's this edition of bi-weekly roundup from me.
Hope you’re safe, sane, and comfortable out there. Some exciting new changes at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, just announced: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cloud-foundry-foundations-cto-steps-into-executive-director-role: Abby Kearns is moving on from the Foundation. Chip Childers has been appointed the new Executive Director. While we’re going to miss Abby tremendously, we are very grateful to have had such tremendous leadership here at the CFF for the past few years, and also that we are fortunate enough to be left in Chip’s capable hands going forward. Read Chip’s post here and Abby’s post here. Join a community AMA tomorrow, Thursday, April 9th, from 8-10 AM PST on Cloud Foundry Slack in the #cff-forum channel to discuss this transition.
From the Last Few Weeks:Chip Childers is now the Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation. Paul Fazzone has been named new chairman of the CFF Board. We’re launching a new tutorials website! Content creation is happening now, and we’d love your input, contributions, and feedback!. Please reach out in the #cloudfoundry-tutorials slack channel if you’d like to get involved. Official launch is scheduled for a few weeks from now. The Release Integration team is requesting review for cf-deployment V13 scope. Google steps up to Platinum membership in the CFF! Read more here. Nice blog post here on Project Quarks and KubeCF. The BOSH PMC is making a few changes outlined here, most notably moving the BOSH project to a distributed committer model. Cloud Foundry Volume Services team has shipped the first alpha version of their SMB volume service. CF for Kubernetes SIG call video from March 31 is up. Video here.
Community Updates:Have a question for the staff at Cloud Foundry Foundation? Want to stay current with updates for the Foundation? Join the new #cff-forum channel on the community Slack. Do you miss the water cooler conversations? Hop on to the Cloud Foundry Break Room if you would like to hang out with your peers from the community. Please note that the Cloud Foundry Code of Conduct applies here as well.
All things Cloud Foundry Summit:Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):CF for Kubernetes SIG call - 8:30 AM on April 14 Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting - 10:30 AM on April 14 CAB call - 8:00 AM on April 15
Interesting Finds from Around the Web:
-- Swarna Podila (she/her) Senior Director, Community | Cloud Foundry FoundationYou can read more about pronouns here, or please ask if you'd like to find out more.
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:27 PM Chris Clark < cclark@...> wrote: It is an understatement when we say “these are unprecedented times.” During these times of uncertainty, the Cloud Foundry Foundation wants to offer an open zoom “break room” for our community. Please feel free to “walk” into this break room and hang out with others. (Please do remember: Code of conduct applies here as well.)
From the Last Few Weeks:
- KubeCF released v1.0 AND v1.0.1! Message here. Blog post here. Press release here.
- Stratos released v3.0! Message here.
- CF routing v0.199.0 was released. Message here.
- Miguel Luna has taken over as project lead of the Services API project.
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call video from March 17 is up. Focus on container to container networking. Video here.
- CF CAB call video from March 18 is up here. Nice update and demo of CF-for-k8s!
Community Updates:
- Have a question for the staff at Cloud Foundry Foundation? Want to stay current with updates for the Foundation? Join the new #cff-forum channel on the community Slack.
All things Cloud Foundry Summit:
Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):
- CF Operators Sig Meeting – 8:00 AM on March 25
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call – 8:30 AM on March 31
- Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting – 10:30 AM on March 31
Interesting Finds from Around the Web:
Who’s hiring?
Looking for an industry event to attend or to submit a speaking proposal? We put together a helpful calendar of events for 2020: https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=Y2xvdWRmb3VuZHJ5Lm9yZ181Yjg2a2dobzkwdmNqOWtncDE3cjljYjh1c0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t
|
|
Hello, everyone. We’ve launched a new Tutorials website to serve as a hub for learning in our community! The hub includes an interactive hands-on lab for first-time Cloud Foundry users to experience how easy the platform makes deploying applications to Kubernetes and is open for the community to contribute. Read the release.
Special thanks to Steve Greenberg at Resilient Scale for the heavy lifting to make this happen! Expect more news on this soon, and if you’re interested in contributing/feedback, please let us know.
Also, CF Summit is going virtual. Here’s the full story. From the Last Few Weeks:Community Updates:Have a question for the staff at Cloud Foundry Foundation? Want to stay current with updates for the Foundation? Join the #cff-forum channel on the community Slack. Looking for a job? Don’t hesitate to check out the #jobs channel in our community slack; folks are stepping up and sharing the job openings in our community.
(And if you are hiring, please do share the info in that channel.) All things Cloud Foundry Summit:Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):CF for Kubernetes SIG call - 8:30 AM on May 12 Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting - 10:30 AM on May 12 AMA Monthly call - 8:00 AM on May 19 CF CAB call - 8:00 AM on May 20
Interesting Finds from Around the Web:
Who’s hiring?
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:30 AM Swarna Podila < spodila@...> wrote: Hi all, Chris is on PTO this week; so here's this edition of bi-weekly roundup from me.
Hope you’re safe, sane, and comfortable out there. Some exciting new changes at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, just announced: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cloud-foundry-foundations-cto-steps-into-executive-director-role: Abby Kearns is moving on from the Foundation. Chip Childers has been appointed the new Executive Director. While we’re going to miss Abby tremendously, we are very grateful to have had such tremendous leadership here at the CFF for the past few years, and also that we are fortunate enough to be left in Chip’s capable hands going forward. Read Chip’s post here and Abby’s post here. Join a community AMA tomorrow, Thursday, April 9th, from 8-10 AM PST on Cloud Foundry Slack in the #cff-forum channel to discuss this transition.
From the Last Few Weeks:Chip Childers is now the Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation. Paul Fazzone has been named new chairman of the CFF Board. We’re launching a new tutorials website! Content creation is happening now, and we’d love your input, contributions, and feedback!. Please reach out in the #cloudfoundry-tutorials slack channel if you’d like to get involved. Official launch is scheduled for a few weeks from now. The Release Integration team is requesting review for cf-deployment V13 scope. Google steps up to Platinum membership in the CFF! Read more here. Nice blog post here on Project Quarks and KubeCF. The BOSH PMC is making a few changes outlined here, most notably moving the BOSH project to a distributed committer model. Cloud Foundry Volume Services team has shipped the first alpha version of their SMB volume service. CF for Kubernetes SIG call video from March 31 is up. Video here.
Community Updates:Have a question for the staff at Cloud Foundry Foundation? Want to stay current with updates for the Foundation? Join the new #cff-forum channel on the community Slack. Do you miss the water cooler conversations? Hop on to the Cloud Foundry Break Room if you would like to hang out with your peers from the community. Please note that the Cloud Foundry Code of Conduct applies here as well.
All things Cloud Foundry Summit:Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):CF for Kubernetes SIG call - 8:30 AM on April 14 Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting - 10:30 AM on April 14 CAB call - 8:00 AM on April 15
Interesting Finds from Around the Web:
-- Swarna Podila (she/her) Senior Director, Community | Cloud Foundry FoundationYou can read more about pronouns here, or please ask if you'd like to find out more.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:27 PM Chris Clark < cclark@...> wrote: It is an understatement when we say “these are unprecedented times.” During these times of uncertainty, the Cloud Foundry Foundation wants to offer an open zoom “break room” for our community. Please feel free to “walk” into this break room and hang out with others. (Please do remember: Code of conduct applies here as well.)
From the Last Few Weeks:
- KubeCF released v1.0 AND v1.0.1! Message here. Blog post here. Press release here.
- Stratos released v3.0! Message here.
- CF routing v0.199.0 was released. Message here.
- Miguel Luna has taken over as project lead of the Services API project.
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call video from March 17 is up. Focus on container to container networking. Video here.
- CF CAB call video from March 18 is up here. Nice update and demo of CF-for-k8s!
Community Updates:
- Have a question for the staff at Cloud Foundry Foundation? Want to stay current with updates for the Foundation? Join the new #cff-forum channel on the community Slack.
All things Cloud Foundry Summit:
Dates To Remember (All times US Pacific):
- CF Operators Sig Meeting – 8:00 AM on March 25
- CF for Kubernetes SIG call – 8:30 AM on March 31
- Bi-Weekly CF App Runtime PMC meeting – 10:30 AM on March 31
Interesting Finds from Around the Web:
Who’s hiring?
Looking for an industry event to attend or to submit a speaking proposal? We put together a helpful calendar of events for 2020: https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=Y2xvdWRmb3VuZHJ5Lm9yZ181Yjg2a2dobzkwdmNqOWtncDE3cjljYjh1c0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t
-- Chris Clark Technical Operations Manager Cloud Foundry Foundation
|
|