Cruising through the 'C's: Cloud Native Storage and CI/CD

We’ve officially entered the third phase of our A-to-Z journey! After an insightful look at the ‘B’ projects like Backstage and Buildpacks, we are now diving into one of the most content-rich letters in the entire landscape: C.

The letter ‘C’ is a powerhouse. It houses some of the most fundamental pillars of cloud native computing, including:

• Cloud Native Storage: High-performance, distributed storage solutions that make stateful applications possible on Kubernetes.
• CI/CD: The engines of modern software delivery—Argo, Flux, and Tekton all fall under this umbrella (under the ‘A’, ‘F’, and ‘T’ letters respectively, but often categorized together with ‘Cloud Native’ tools).
• Container Runtimes: The core technology that allows us to run isolated applications.

Featured Projects this Fortnight

Over the next two weeks, we’ll be highlighting several key projects:

1. Cilium: Revolutionizing networking, observability, and security with eBPF.
2. CloudEvents: A specification for describing event data in common formats, providing interoperability across services.
3. Containerd: An industry-standard container runtime used by Docker and Kubernetes.

Stay tuned as we release deep-dive tool pages for each of these over the next 14 days!