Top CNCF Projects to look out for in 2023

Web And Application Servers Web Servers Monitoring Tools

Thanos.io Landing Page
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Thanos.io

Open source, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Thanos belongs in Observability and Analysis / Monitoring as it is based on Prometheus, a monitoring CNCF project. It makes it easier to scale Prometheus horizontally and obtain a global view of data from several Prometheus servers. Thanos promises high availability and virtually unlimited historical data storage. This year, it got in the top 5 CNCF projects with the most contributors.

#Dev Ops #Cloud #DevOps Tools 29 social mentions
Istio Landing Page
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Istio

Open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices
Pricing:
- Open Source
Istio is an Orchestration & Management / Service Mesh project. With a service mesh, traffic between services is handled at a platform level. This way, reliability, observability, and security features can be tackled here and provided uniformly across all services, instead of being delegated to developers to include in their code. Istio has become the second Incubating CNCF project with the most stars and with most contributors this year.

#Developer Tools #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers 46 social mentions
gRPC Landing Page
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gRPC

Application and Data, Languages & Frameworks, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and Service Discovery
Pricing:
- Open Source
gRPC is the Incubating project with the most GitHub stars and the only CNCF project in the category of Orchestration & Management / Remote Procedure Call (RPC). RPC is a way of handling communication between services. It allows for bandwidth-efficient communications and many programming languages enable RPC interface implementations.

#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 86 social mentions
Cilium Landing Page
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Cilium

API-aware Networking and Security
Pricing:
- Open Source
Cilium is in the category of Runtime / Cloud Native Network, which means that it provides networking functionalities to containerized applications. It uses eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter), a revolutionary kernel technology, for providing, securing, and observing network connectivity between container workloads. It is getting a lot of action with 500+ contributors, making it into the top 10 of CNCF projects with the most contributors.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #DCIM Software 15 social mentions