CNCF, what is it and how do I use it?

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Hey everyone, I did a search on cloud native stuff on the forum but I didn't find all that much. I understand what cloud computing is, but I don't particularly understand what this tech is supposed to do, like kubernetics etc. can you dumb it on down for me? Thanks.
 


You'll likely want to ask more specific questions than that.

Some might say that it's a ploy to get you to host your stuff on computers that don't belong to you.

Of course, there are some times when that does make sense.

Also, if you take that first complaint as valid then if you want to host a website then you must of course do so yourself which means building your own datacenter, redundant bandwidth set up, leasing IP blocks, etc...

That's an absurd amount of work just to host a blog about cats.
 
You'll likely want to ask more specific questions than that.

Some might say that it's a ploy to get you to host your stuff on computers that don't belong to you.

Of course, there are some times when that does make sense.

Also, if you take that first complaint as valid then if you want to host a website then you must of course do so yourself which means building your own datacenter, redundant bandwidth set up, leasing IP blocks, etc...

That's an absurd amount of work just to host a blog about cats.
Ok, what I'm trying to get involved in is a community project for p2p cloud computing where providers of distributed cloud services are also it's clients. I have been talking to the Dev team and asking what I can learn to be of use to the community in question. Their suggestion for overcoming the project bottlenecks was that I learn Calico for security and network policies for Kubernetes containers. So that's what I'm trying to learn now.
 
That's more like it. Asking questions that can come with answers is a good thing. It will help you in the long run. Truth be told, it's not easy to ask good questions.
 
evThat's more like it. Asking questions that can come with answers is a good thing. It will help you in the longrun. Truth be told, it's not easy to ask good questions.
Thanks, I didn't have much information at all to start with. When I asked that question that was all I had to go off of! I appreciate your patience, I had no idea at all how much there was going on, asking what CNCF is, is pretty much asking what Linux is or what it's for.

I was waiting for a response from the dev team and had no idea what I was getting myself into at all.

Anyone here work with calico? I get the feeling it is straight forward enough to use, when my Internet is back up I'll be making a lab on my own machine to get a better feel for what is going on.
 
We don't have much cloud expertise in our collective, but you may find someone willing to help and who knows. We do have some professionals that work in the industry, so maybe they can help you out.

Our collective expertise tends to skew in the 'home user' direction, that is the desktop user that's a hobbyist user. Some of us are involved in various projects, but that's where our collective knowledge seems to be focused.

Again, it's not easy to ask a good question. It takes quite a bit of thought. Otherwise, you end up with people asking how long is a piece of string. We see a lot of XY problems as well.

Hmm... To elaborate:

"How can I use X to achieve Y?"

When really, the question should be, "How do I achieve Y?"
 


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