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Purpose of cloudevents

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Streaming & Messaging

Standardizing common eventing metadata and their location to help with event identification and routing.

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Purpose of Linkerd

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Service Mesh

Ultra light, ultra simple, ultra powerful. Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to Kubernetes, without the complexity.

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Purpose of in-toto

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Security & Compliance

in-toto is a framework to protect supply chain integrity.

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Purpose of CoreDNS

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Coordination & Service Discovery

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

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Purpose of Spire

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Key Management

The SPIFFE Runtime Environment

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Purpose of OpenKruise

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Continuous Integration & Delivery

Automated management of large-scale applications on Kubernetes

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Purpose of Jaeger

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Observability

CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform

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Purpose of Knative

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Scheduling & Orchestration

developer-focused serverless application layer

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Purpose of fluentd

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Observability

Unified Logging Layer

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Purpose of OpenYurt

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Automation & Configuration

An open platform that extends upstream Kubernetes to Edge

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Purpose of Helm

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Application Definition & Image Build

The Kubernetes Package Manager

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Purpose of KubeVela

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Application Definition & Image Build

The Modern Application Platform

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Purpose of Cert Manager

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Security & Compliance

Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

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Purpose of OpenCost

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Continuous Optimization

provides visibility into current and historical Kubernetes spend and resource allocation

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Purpose of Crossplane

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Scheduling & Orchestration

Crossplane is the cloud native control plane framework that allows you to build control planes without needing to write code.

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Components of Knative

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Autoscaling container runtime - Knative Serving
CloudEvents-over-HTTP routing later - Knative Eventing
Dev focused framework - Knative Functions

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Purpose of Chaos Mesh

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Chaos Engineering

A Chaos Engineering Platform for Kubernetes

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Purpose of Longhorn

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Cloud Native Storage

Cloud-native distributed storage for Kubernetes

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Purpose of Cortex

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Observability

A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.

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Purpose of Backstage

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Application Definition & Image Build

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals

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Purpose of cri-o

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Container Runtime

Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface

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Purpose of Thanos

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Observability

Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities

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Purpose of Vitess

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Database

MySQL-compatible, horizontally scalable, cloud-native database solution.

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Purpose of Contour

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Service Proxy

Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy

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Purpose of Spiffe
Key Management
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Purpose of KeyCloak
Security & Compliance open-source identity and access management solution
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Purpose of Dapr
Application Definition & Image Build portable runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge, combining event-driven architecture with workflow orchestration.
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Purpose of Strimzi
Streaming & Messaging Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes
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Purpose of KubeVirt
Application Definition & Image Build Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines
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Purpose of gRPC
Remote Procedure Call C++ based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
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Purpose of Litmus
Chaos Engineering Litmus helps SREs and developers practice chaos engineering in a Cloud-native way
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Purpose of Volcano
Scheduling & Orchestration A Cloud Native Batch System
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Purpose of Cilium
Cloud Native Network eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
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Purpose of Kubeflow
Scheduling & Orchestration dedicated to making deployments of machine learning workflows on Kubernetes simple, portable and scalable
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Purpose of Buildpacks.io
Application Definition & Image Build CLI for building apps using Cloud Native Buildpacks
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Purpose of CNI
Cloud Native Network Container Network Interface - networking for Linux containers
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Purpose of Harbor
Container Registry An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.
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Purpose of Kubernetes
Scheduling & Orchestration Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications
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Purpose of etcd
Coordination & Service Discovery Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
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Purpose of KEDA
Scheduling and Orchestration KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes
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Purpose of Falco
Security & Compliance Cloud Native Runtime Security
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Purpose of CubeFS
Cloud Native Storage cloud-native distributed storage
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Purpose of Flat Car
Certified Kubernetes - Distribution A community Linux distribution designed for container workloads, with high security and low maintenance
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Purpose of Dragonfly
Container Registry open source P2P-based file distribution and image acceleration system
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Purpose of Karmada
Scheduling & Orchestration Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration
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Purpose of Cloud Custodian
Automation & Configuration Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
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Purpose of Open Policy Agent
Security & Compliance Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
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Purpose of Kyverno
Security & Compliance Cloud Native Policy Management
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Purpose of Notary Project
Security & Compliance A CLI tool to sign and verify artifacts
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Purpose of TiKV
Database A distributed transactional key-value database. Based on the design of Google Spanner and HBase, but simpler to manage and without dependencies on any distributed filesystem
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Purpose of keptn
Continuous Integration & Delivery Cloud-native application life-cycle orchestration. Keptn automates your SLO-driven multi-stage delivery and operations & remediation of your applications
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Purpose of NATS
Streaming & Messaging Enables apps to securely communicate across any combination of cloud vendors, on-premise, edge, web and mobile, and devices
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Purpose of wasmCloud
Scheduling & Orchestration enables teams to build, manage, and scale polyglot apps across any cloud, K8s, or edge
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Purpose of Kubescape
Security & Compliance open source security and compliance platform that scans clusters, Kubernetes manifest files (YAML files, and Helm charts), code repositories, container registries and images
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Purpose of Envoy
Service Proxy Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
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Purpose of Argo
CI/CD Kubernetes-native tools to run workflows, manage clusters, and do GitOps right
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Purpose of Operator Framework
Application Definition & Image Build SDK for building Kubernetes applications. Provides high level APIs, useful abstractions, and project scaffolding
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Purpose of Emissary-Ingress
API Gateway open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
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Purpose of Flux
CI/CD Open and extensible continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes. Powered by GitOps Toolkit.
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Purpose of OpenTelemetry
Observability High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability
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Purpose of Rook
Cloud Native Storage Storage Orchestration for Kubernetes
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Purpose of ArtifactHub
Application Definition & Image Build Find, install and publish Cloud Native packages
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Purpose of Istio
Service Mesh Simplify observability, traffic management, security, and policy with the Istio service mesh.
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Purpose of KubeEdge
Automation & Configuration Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework (project under CNCF)
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Purpose of containerd
Container Runtime An open and reliable container runtime
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Purpose of Prometheus
Observability Monitoring system and time series database.
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Purpose of TUF
Security & Compliance Python reference implementation of The Update Framework (TUF)

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