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CNCF projects

CNCF technology projects are cataloged with a maturity level of Sandbox, Incubated, and Graduated, in ascending order.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.cncf.io/projects/ |title=Project Services and Maturity Levels |website=Cloud Native Computing Foundation |access-date=17 February 2020 |ref=cncf_projects The defined criteria include rate of adoption, longevity and whether the open source project can be relied upon to build a production-grade product.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://thenewstack.io/how-a-project-graduates-from-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation/ |title=How a Project Graduates from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation |date=2018-12-26 |website=The New Stack |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20

CNCF's process brings projects in as incubated projects and then aims to move them through to graduation, which implies a level of process and technology maturity.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/kubernetes-graduates-cncf-incubator-debuts-new-sandbox.html |title=Kubernetes Graduates CNCF Incubator, Debuts New Sandbox |website=serverwatch.com |date=6 March 2018 |access-date=2020-01-20 A graduated project reflects overall maturity; these projects have reached a tipping point in terms of diversity of contribution, community scale/growth, and adoption.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=http://social.techcrunch.com/2018/08/09/prometheus-monitoring-tool-joins-kubernetes-as-cncfs-latest-graduated-project/ |title=Prometheus monitoring tool joins Kubernetes as CNCF's latest 'graduated' project |website=TechCrunch |date=9 August 2018 |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20 |archive-date=2022-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124032018/https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/09/prometheus-monitoring-tool-joins-kubernetes-as-cncfs-latest-graduated-project/ |url-status=dead

The CNCF Sandbox is a place for early-stage projects, and it was first announced in March 2019. The Sandbox replaces what had originally been called the "inception project level".Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/open-metrics-project-comes-to-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation.html |title=Open Metrics Project Comes to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation |website=serverwatch.com |access-date=2020-01-20 |archive-date=2020-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927012655/https://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/open-metrics-project-comes-to-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation.html |url-status=dead

In July 2020, Priyanka Sharma stated that CNCF is looking to increase the number of open source projects in the cloud native ecosystem.Error: File not found: Cite web|last=Vizard|first=More from Mike|date=2020-07-08|title=CNCF Looks to Increase Open Source Sandbox Projects|url=https://devops.com/cncf-looks-to-increase-open-source-sandbox-projects/|access-date=2020-07-20|website=DevOps.com|language=en-US

= Graduated projects

Cilium

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Cilium provides networking, security, and observability for Kubernetes deployments using eBPF technology. It joined the CNCF at incubation level in October 2021Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/10/13/cilium-joins-cncf-as-an-incubating-project/ |title=Cilium joins CNCF as an incubating project |date=2021-10-13 |website=CNCF Blog |language=en-US |access-date=2023-11-13 and the CNCF announced its graduation in October 2023.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/12/cilium_graduated/ |title=Cilium leaves incubator, gets the nod from Cloud Native Computing Foundation |date=2023-10-12 |website=The Register |language=en-US | access-date=2023-10-13

containerd

containerd is an industry-standard core container runtime. It is currently available as a daemon for Linux and Windows, which can manage the complete container lifecycle of its host system. In 2015, Docker donated the Open Container Initiative|OCI Specification to The Linux Foundation with a reference implementation called runc. Since February 28, 2019 it is an official CNCF project.Error: File not found: Cite web | url=https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2019/02/28/cncf-announces-containerd-graduation/ | title=Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces containerd Graduation| date=28 February 2019 Its general availability and intention to donate the project to CNCF was announced by Docker in 2017.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.docker.com/blog/cncf-containerd-1-0-ga-announcement/ |title=Announcing the General Availability of containerd 1.0, the industry-standard runtime used by millions of users |date=2017-12-05 |website=Docker Blog |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-donates-containerd-to-cncf/ |title=Docker to donate containerd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation |date=2017-03-15 |website=Docker Blog |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20

CoreDNS

CoreDNS is a Name server|DNS server that chains plugins. Its graduation was announced in 2019.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/24/cloud_contender_coredns/ |title=CoreDNS is all grown up now and ready to roll: Kubernetes network toolkit graduates at last |last=Claburn |first=Thomas |date=2019-01-24 |website=The Register |access-date=2020-01-20

Envoy

Originally built at Lyft to move their architecture away from a Monolithic system|monolith, Envoy is a high-performance open source Edge computing|edge and service proxy that makes the network transparent to applications. Lyft contributed Envoy to Cloud Native Computing Foundation in September 2017.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://eng.lyft.com/envoy-joins-the-cncf-dc18baefbc22 |title=Envoy joins the CNCF |last=Klein |first=Matt |date=2017-09-13 |website=Medium |language=en |access-date=2020-01-20

etcd

etcd is a distributed key value store, providing a method of storing data across a cluster of machines.Error: File not found: Cite journal|last1=Kirpes|first1=Benedikt|last2=Roon|first2=Micha|last3=Burgahn|first3=Christopher|date=2019|title=Distributed Data Validation for a Key-value Store in a Decentralized Electric Vehicle Charging Network|journal=Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management|publisher=SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications|pages=356–363|doi=10.5220/0008363703560363|isbn=978-989-758-382-7|doi-access=free It became a CNCF incubating project in 2018 at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America[https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2018/ KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America] in Seattle that year.Error: File not found: Cite web|title=The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds etcd to its open-source stable|url=http://social.techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/the-cloud-native-computing-foundation-adds-etcd-to-its-open-source-stable/|access-date=2020-01-21|website=TechCrunch|date=11 December 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=2022-03-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331021525/https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/the-cloud-native-computing-foundation-adds-etcd-to-its-open-source-stable/|url-status=dead

Harbor

Harbor is an "open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content."Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/2018/07/31/harbor-accepted-as-cncf-hosted-project/ |title=Harbor Accepted as CNCF-Hosted Project |date=2018-07-31 |website=Cloud Native Apps Blog |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-21 It became an incubating project in September 2019Error: File not found: cite web |date=2019-09-23 |url=https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-management/harbor-container-registry-project-advances/ |title=Harbor Container Registry Project Advances |language=en-US |website=Container Journal |access-date=2020-01-21 and graduated in June 2020.Error: File not found: Cite web|date=2020-06-23|title=CNCF Graduates Harbor Container Registry|url=https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-management/cncf-graduates-harbor-container-registry/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Container Journal|language=en-US

Helm

Helm is a package manager that helps developers "easily manage and deploy applications onto the Kubernetes cluster." It joined the incubating level in June 2018 and graduated in April 2020.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2020/04/30/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-helm-graduation/ |title=Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Helm Graduation |website=cncf.io |date=30 April 2020 |language=en |access-date=2020-05-01

Jaeger

Created by Uber Engineering, Jaeger is an open source distributed tracing system inspired by Google Dapper paper and OpenZipkin community. It can be used for tracing Microservices|microservice-based architectures, including distributed context propagation, distributed transaction monitoring, root cause analysis, service dependency analysis, and performance/latency optimization. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation Technical Oversight Committee voted to accept Jaeger as the 12th hosted project in September 2017Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.enterpriseai.news/2019/11/01/jaeger-emerges-as-meister-of-cloud-monitoring/ |title=Jaeger Emerges as Meister of Cloud Monitoring |date=2019-11-01 |website=EnterpriseAI |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20 and became a graduated project in 2019.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://thenewstack.io/jaeger-graduates-cncf-sees-a-future-without-native-jaeger-clients/ |title=Jaeger Graduates CNCF, Sees a Future Without Native Jaeger Clients |date=2019-11-04 |website=The New Stack |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20 In 2020 it became an approved and fully integrated part of the CNCF ecosystem.Error: File not found: Cite web|title=Kubernetes' Helm gets full Cloud Native Computing Foundation approval|url=https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/680540/kubernetes-helm-gets-full-cloud-native-computing-foundation-approval/|access-date=2020-07-06|website=ARN

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source framework for automating deployment and managing applications in a containerized and clustered environment. "It aims to provide better ways of managing related, distributed components across the varied infrastructure."Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-kubernetes |title=An Introduction to Kubernetes |website=DigitalOcean |language=en |access-date=2020-01-20 It was originally designed by Google and donated to The Linux Foundation to form the Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Kubernetes as the seed technology.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=http://social.techcrunch.com/2015/07/21/as-kubernetes-hits-1-0-google-donates-technology-to-newly-formed-cloud-native-computing-foundation-with-ibm-intel-twitter-and-others/ |title=As Kubernetes Hits 1.0, Google Donates Technology To Newly Formed Cloud Native Computing Foundation |website=TechCrunch |date=21 July 2015 |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20 |archive-date=2022-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331021525/https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/21/as-kubernetes-hits-1-0-google-donates-technology-to-newly-formed-cloud-native-computing-foundation-with-ibm-intel-twitter-and-others/ |url-status=dead The "large and diverse" community supporting the project has made its staying power more robust than other, older technologies of the same ilk.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/3118345/why-kubernetes-is-winning-the-container-war.html |title=Why Kubernetes is winning the container war |last=Asay |first=Matt |date=2016-09-09 |website=InfoWorld |language=en |access-date=2020-01-20 In January 2020, the CNCF annual report showed significant growth in interest, training, event attendance and investment related to Kubernetes.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-ecosystems/cncf-annual-report-shows-kubernetes-growth/ |title=CNCF Annual Report Shows Kubernetes Growth |date=2020-01-21 |website=Container Journal |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-22

Linkerd

Linkerd is CNCF's fifth member project, and the project that coined the term “service mesh".Error: File not found: cite web |title=A Brief Introduction to Linkerd |url=https://glasnostic.com/blog/an-introduction-to-what-is-linkerd-service-mesh |website=Glasnostic blog |publisher=Glasnostic |access-date=2019-01-22 Linkerd adds observability, security, and reliability features to applications by adding them to the platform rather than the application layer,Error: File not found: cite web |title=Linkerd: A Different Kind of Service Mesh |url=https://vmblog.com/archive/2021/01/05/linkerd-a-different-kind-of-service-mesh.aspx#.YHn7n6lKhqs |website=VMblog.io |publisher=VMblog.io |access-date=2021-01-05 and features a "micro-proxy" to maximize speed and security of its data plane.Error: File not found: cite web |title=Why Linkerd doesn't use Envoy |url=https://linkerd.io/2020/12/03/why-linkerd-doesnt-use-envoy/ |website=Linkerd.io |publisher=Linkerd.io |access-date=2020-12-03 Linkerd graduated from CNCF in July 2021.Error: File not found: cite web |last=Morgan |first=William |date=2021-07-28 |url=https://linkerd.io/2021/07/28/announcing-cncf-graduation/ |title=Announcing Linkerd's Graduation |department=Blog |website=Linkerd |access-date=2022-02-08

Open Policy Agent

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is "an open source general-purpose policy engine and language for cloud infrastructure."Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://securityboulevard.com/2019/10/fugue-adopts-open-policy-agent-opa-for-its-policy-as-code-framework-for-cloud-security/ |title=Fugue Adopts Open Policy Agent (OPA) for its Policy-as-Code Framework for Cloud Security |last=Schalm |first=Deb |date=2019-10-08 |website=Security Boulevard |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-21 It became a CNCF incubating project in April 2019.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/04/open-policy-agent-cncf/ |title=Open Policy Agent Accepted as CNCF Incubation Level Project |website=InfoQ |access-date=2020-01-21 OPA graduated from CNCF in February 2021.Error: File not found: cite web |date=2021-02-04 |url=https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2021/02/04/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-open-policy-agent-graduation/ |title=Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Open Policy Agent Graduation |department=Announcements |website=Cloud Native Computing Foundation |access-date=2022-02-08

Prometheus

A Cloud Native Computing Foundation member project, Prometheus (software)|Prometheus is a cloud monitoring tool sponsored by SoundCloud in early iterations. In August 2018, the tool was designated a graduated project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Rook

Rook is CNCF's first cloud native storage project.Error: File not found: Cite web|last=Lyons Hardcastle|first=Jessica|date=29 January 2018|title=CNCF's First Cloud-Native Storage Project Is Rook|url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cncfs-first-cloud-native-storage-project-rook/2018/01/|url-status=live|website=SDXCentral|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625163135/https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cncfs-first-cloud-native-storage-project-rook/2018/01/ |archive-date=2018-06-25 It became an incubation level project in 2018Error: File not found: Cite web|date=2018-01-29|title=Rook, an open-source project adding storage to Kubernetes, joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation|url=https://www.geekwire.com/2018/rook-open-source-project-adding-storage-kubernetes-joins-cloud-native-computing-foundation/|access-date=2020-01-21|website=GeekWire|language=en-US and graduated in October 2020.Error: File not found: Cite web|date=2020-10-13|title=CNCF Graduates Rook to Automate Kubernetes Storage Tasks|url=https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-ecosystems/cncf-graduates-rook-to-automate-kubernetes-storage-tasks/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=Container Journal|language=en-US

The Update Framework

The Update Framework (TUF) helps developers to secure new or existing software update systems, which are often found to be vulnerable to many known attacks. TUF addresses this widespread problem by providing a comprehensive, flexible security framework that developers can integrate with any software update system. TUF was CNCF's first security-focused project and the ninth project overall to graduate from the foundation's hosting program.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://devclass.com/2019/12/19/the-update-framework-becomes-ninth-project-to-graduate-cncf/ |title=The Update Framework becomes ninth project to graduate CNCF • DEVCLASS |last=Schmidt |first=Julia |date=2019-12-19 |website=DEVCLASS |language=en-GB |access-date=2020-01-20

TiKV

TikV provides a distributed key value database.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.eweek.com/cloud/kubernetes-development-infrastructure-moving-out-of-google-control |title=Kubernetes Development Infrastructure Moving Out of Google Control |website=eWEEK |date=29 August 2018 |access-date=2020-01-21

Vitess

Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, first created for internal use by YouTube. It became a CNCF project in 2018 and graduated in November 2019.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/vitess-earns-vernerable-cncfs-graduate-distinction/2019/11/ |title=Vitess Earns Venerable CNCF's Graduate Distinction |last=Sawaya |first=Sydney |website=SDXCentral |date=6 November 2019 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527212134/https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/vitess-earns-vernerable-cncfs-graduate-distinction/2019/11/ |archive-date=2020-05-27

= Incubating projects

Contour

Contour is a management server for Envoy that can direct the management of Kubernetes' traffic. Contour also provides routing features that are more advanced than Kubernetes' out-of-the-box Ingress specification. VMWare contributed the project to CNCF in July 2020.Error: File not found: Cite web|date=2020-07-27|title=VMware Hands Control of Kubernetes Ingress Project Contour Over to CNCF|url=https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/vmware/vmware-hands-control-kubernetes-ingress-project-contour-over-cncf|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Data Center Knowledge|language=en

Cortex

Cortex offers horizontally scalable, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus and works alongside Amazon DynamoDB, Google Bigtable, Cassandra, S3, GCS, and Microsoft Azure. It was introduced into the ecosystem incubator alongside Thanos in August 2020.Error: File not found: Cite web|last=Schmidt|first=Julia|date=2020-08-20|title=Prometheus, isn't it? CNCF rounds off community shindig by slipping Thanos and Cortex into incubator • DEVCLASS|url=https://devclass.com/2020/08/20/cncf-incubator-thanos-cortex/|access-date=2020-09-07|website=DEVCLASS|language=en-GB

CRI-O

CRI-O is an Open Container Initiative (OCI) based "implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface".Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://landscape.cncf.io/ |title=CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape |website=CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape |language=en |access-date=2020-01-21 CRI-O allows Kubernetes to be container runtime-agnostic.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-cri-o-10 |title=Introducing CRI-O 1.0 |website=redhat.com |language=en |access-date=2020-01-21 It became an incubating project in 2019.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-native-computing-foundation-adopts-kubernetes-friendly-container-runtime/ |title=Cloud Native Computing Foundation adopts Kubernetes-friendly container runtime |last=Vaughan-Nichols |first=Steven J. |website=ZDNet |language=en |access-date=2020-01-21

Falco

Falco is an open source and cloud native runtime security initiative. It is the "de facto Kubernetes threat detection engine".Error: File not found: Cite thesis |last=Patel |first=Akash |title=INCORPORATING PRIVACY AND SECURITY FEATURES IN AN OPEN SOURCE SEARCH ENGINE A Project Report Presented to |year=2014 |publisher=San Jose State University Library |doi=10.31979/etd.ye8d-rxuw|doi-access=free It became an incubating project in January 2020.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/falco-soars-from-cncf-sandbox-to-incubation/2020/01/ |title=Falco Soars From CNCF Sandbox to Incubation |last=Sawaya |first=Sydney |website=SDXCentral |date=8 January 2020 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527212123/https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/falco-soars-from-cncf-sandbox-to-incubation/2020/01/ |archive-date=2020-05-27

gRPC

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gRPC is a "modern open source high performance Remote procedure call|RPC framework that can run in any environment."Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.grpc.io/about/ |title=About gRPC |website=grpc.io |access-date=2020-01-20 The project was formed in 2015 when Google decided to open source the next version of its RPC infrastructure ("Stubby").Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://opensource.com/bus/15/3/google-grpc-open-source-remote-procedure-calls |title=Google shares gRPC as alternative to REST for microservices |last=Ibanez |first=Luis |date=2015-03-03 |website=Opensource.com |access-date=2020-01-20 The project has a number of early large industry adopters such as Square, Inc., Netflix, and Cisco Systems|Cisco.

Istio

KubeEdge

In September 2020, CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) announced that KubeEdge was accepted as an incubating project. The project was created at Futurewei (a Huawei partner). KubeEdge's goal is to "make edge devices an extension of the cloud".Error: File not found: Cite web|title=CNCF Approves Kubernetes Edge Computing Platform KubeEdge as Incubating Project|url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/09/cncf-kubeedge-kubernetes/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=InfoQ|language=en

Kuma

In June 2020, API management platform Kong announced that it would donate its open-source service mesh control plane technology, called Kuma, to CNCF as a sandbox project.Error: File not found: Cite web|title=Kong donates its Kuma control plane to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation|url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/kong-donates-its-kuma-control-plane-to-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation/|access-date=2020-07-06|website=TechCrunch|date=30 June 2020|language=en-US|archive-date=2022-03-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331021533/https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/kong-donates-its-kuma-control-plane-to-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation/|url-status=dead

Litmus

In July 2020, MayaData donated Litmus, an open source chaos engineering tool that runs natively on Kubernetes, to CNCF as a sandbox-level project.Error: File not found: Cite web|date=2020-07-01|title=MayaData Donates Chaos Engineering Tool for Kubernetes Apps to CNCF|url=https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-ecosystems/mayadata-donates-chaos-engineering-tool-for-kubernetes-apps-to-cncf/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=Container Journal|language=en-US

NATS

NATS consists of a collection of open source messaging technologies that "implements the publish/subscribe, request/reply and distributed queue patterns to help create a performant and secure method of InterProcess Communication (IPC)."Error: File not found: Cite news |url=https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/03/15/cncf-to-host-nats/ |title=CNCF to Host NATS |last=Evans |first=Kristen |date=2018-03-15 |website=Cloud Native Computing Foundation |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-21 It existed independently for a number of years but gained wider reach since becoming a CNCF incubating project.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://itnext.io/getting-started-with-nats-b752cbb17f74 |title=Getting Started With NATS |last=Juggery |first=Luc |date=2019-12-13 |website=Medium |language=en |access-date=2020-01-21

Notary

Notary is an open source project that enables widespread trust over arbitrary data collections.Error: File not found: Citation |title=Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data: theupdateframework/notary |date=2020-01-19 |url=https://github.com/theupdateframework/notary |publisher=The Update Framework (TUF) |access-date=2020-01-20 Notary was released by Docker in 2015 and became a CNCF project in 2017.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://thenewstack.io/cncf-brings-security-cloud-native-stack-notary-tuf-adoption/ |title=CNCF Brings Security to the Cloud Native Stack with Notary, TUF Adoption |date=2017-10-24 |website=The New Stack |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20

OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is an open source Observability (software)|observability framework created when CNCF merged the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/05/opentelemetry-merger-of-opencensus-and.html |title=OpenTelemetry: The Merger of OpenCensus and OpenTracing |website=Google Open Source Blog |access-date=2020-01-20 OpenTracing offers "consistent, expressive, vendor-neutral APIs for popular platforms"Error: File not found: Citation |last=Gonzalez |first=Brandon |title=Source code for OpenTracing |date=2016-02-29 |url=https://github.com/bg451/opentracing.github.io |access-date=2020-01-20 while the Google-created OpenCensus project acts as a "collection of language-specific libraries for instrumenting an application, collecting stats (metrics), and exporting data to a supported backend."Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/instrument-opencensus-opentracing-and-openmetrics/ |title=Performance monitoring with OpenTracing, OpenCensus, and OpenMetrics |last=Mooney |first=Mallory |date=2019-02-06 |website=Datadog |access-date=2020-01-20 Under OpenTelemetry, the projects create a "complete telemetry system [that is] suitable for monitoring microservices and other types of modern, distributed systems — and [is] compatible with most major OSS and commercial backends."Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://medium.com/opentracing/a-roadmap-to-convergence-b074e5815289 |title=A Roadmap to Convergence |last=Young |first=Ted |date=2019-05-21 |website=Medium |language=en |access-date=2020-01-20 It is the "second most active" CNCF project.Error: File not found: Cite web|last=Schmidt|first=Julia|date=2020-10-22|title=Former rivals at OpenTelemetry lock in tracing specification, to focus on metrics next|url=https://devclass.com/2020/10/22/opentelemetry-tracing-spec-rc/|access-date=2020-10-26|website=Devclass|language=en-GB In October 2020, AWS announced the public preview of its Software distribution|distro for OpenTelemetry.Error: File not found: Cite web|title=AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Available for Public Preview|url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/10/aws-distro-otel-public-preview/|access-date=2020-11-02|website=InfoQ|language=en

Thanos

Thanos enables global query views and unlimited retention of metrics. It was designed to be easily addable to Prometheus deployments.

CNCF Initiatives

CNCF hosts a number of efforts and initiatives to serve the cloud native community, including:

= Events

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CNCF hosts the co-located KubeCon and CloudNativeCon conferences, which have become a keystone events for technical users and business professionals seeking to increase Kubernetes and cloud-native knowledge. The events seek to enable collaboration with industry peers and thought leaders.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.itproportal.com/features/five-things-the-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2019-run-up-reveals-about-kubernetes-and-cloud-native/ |title=Five things the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 run-up reveals about Kubernetes and Cloud Native |last=Aniszczyk |date=2019-05-16 |first=Chris |website=ITProPortal |language=en |access-date=2020-01-20 The North America event was moved to an entirely remote model for its 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Error: File not found: Cite web|title=KubeCon 2020 preview: Session guide for Kubernetes beginners|url=https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/feature/KubeCon-2020-preview-Session-guide-for-Kubernetes-beginners|access-date=2020-11-02|website=SearchITOperations|language=en
{| class="wikitable"
|+List of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
!Event
!Date
!Place
!Ref.
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|CloudNativeCon + KubeCon 2016
|Nov 8–9, 2016
|Seattle, Washington, United States
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|-
|CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017
|March 29–30, 2017
|Berlin Congress Center, Berlin, Germany
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|-
|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017
|Dec 6–8, 2017
|Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, United States
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|-
|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018
|May 2–4, 2018
|Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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|-
|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018
|Nov 14–15, 2018
|Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing, Shanghai, China
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|-
|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018
|Dec 11–13, 2018
|Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington, United States
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|-
|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019
|May 20–23, 2019
|Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain
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|-
|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019
|Jun 25–26, 2019
|Shanghai Expo Centre, Shanghai, China
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|-
|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019
|Nov 18–21, 2019
|San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, United States
|Error: File not found: Cite web|last=Morales|first=Alexa Weber|title=Oracle BrandVoice: Kubernetes-Hungry Businesses Recruit To Fill Their Skill Gaps At KubeCon|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2019/12/10/kubernetes-hungry-businesses-recruit-to-fill-their-skill-gaps-at-kubecon/|access-date=2020-01-20|website=Forbes|language=en
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|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020
|March 30-April 2, 2020
|VirtualThe originally planned place was RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre|RAI Amsterdam Convention Center, Amsterdam.
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|-
|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020
|Nov 17–20, 2020
|VirtualThe originally planned place is Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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|-
|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021
|May 4–7, 2021
|Virtual
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|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021
|Oct 12–15, 2021
|Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
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|-
|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022
|May 16–18, 2022
|Feria Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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|-
|KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023
|November 6–9, 2023
|McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois United States
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|}

= Diversity scholarships and stance on equity and inclusion

=
CNCF's Diversity Scholarship program covers the ticket and travel to the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://siliconangle.com/2018/10/30/new-kubecon-co-chair-scaling-kubernetes-community-womenintech/ |title=How the new KubeCon co-chair is scaling up the Kubernetes community |date=2018-10-30 |website=SiliconANGLE |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20 In 2018, $300,000 in diversity scholarships was raised to enable attendees from diverse and minority backgrounds to make the journey to Seattle for KubeCon and CloudNativeCon.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/01/kubecon-cloudnativecon-2018/ |title=KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2018 Summary: Kubernetes 1.13, Envoy Update, and New Hosted Projects |website=InfoQ |access-date=2020-01-20

In August 2020, Priyanka Sharma stated that CNCF stands "in solidarity" with the Black Lives Matter movement. Sharma also stated that she was "personally involved in a project to eradicate racially problematic terminology from code" and that the foundation is "actively working to improve the gender and racial balance inside the cloud native ecosystem" while remaining committed to creating spaces and opportunities for LGBT|LGBTQIA+, women, Black and Brown people, and differently-abled people, specifically in regards to KubeCon.Error: File not found: Cite web|title=KubeCon EU, CNCF Community, and the Role of the Cloud during the Pandemic: Q&A with Priyanka Sharma|url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/08/gm-priyanka-sharma/|access-date=2020-08-16|website=InfoQ|language=en

= Kubernetes certification and education

=
One path toward becoming a Kubernetes-certified IT professional is the vendor-agnostic Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) accreditation, which is relevant to admins who work across a range of cloud platforms.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/tip/Study-tips-to-ace-the-CNCFs-CKA-exam |title=Study tips to ace the CNCF's CKA exam |website=SearchITOperations |language=en |access-date=2020-01-20 There are tens of thousands of Certified Kubernetes Administrators (CKA) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developers (CKAD) worldwide.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2019/05/25/5-exciting-facts-about-kubernetes-on-the-eve-of-its-5th-anniversary/ |title=5 Exciting Facts About Kubernetes On The Eve Of Its 5th Anniversary |website=Forbes |language=en |access-date=2020-01-20

= Kubernetes software conformance and training

=
CNCF's Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program (KCSP) enables vendors to prove that their product and service conformant with a set of core Kubernetes APIs and are interoperable with other Kubernetes implementations. At the end of 2018, there were 76 firms that had validated their offerings with the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.eweek.com/cloud/6-key-metrics-driving-growth-at-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation |title=6 Key Metrics Driving Growth at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation |website=eWEEK |date=13 February 2019 |access-date=2020-01-20

In 2017, CNCF also helped the Linux Foundation launch a free Kubernetes course on the EdX platformError: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-foundation-offers-free-introduction-to-kubernetes-class/ |title=Linux Foundation offers free Introduction to Kubernetes class |last=Vaughan-Nichols |first=Steven J. |website=ZDNet |language=en |access-date=2020-01-20 — which has more than 88,000 enrollments.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-kubernetes |title=Introduction to Kubernetes |website=edX |language=en |access-date=2020-01-20 The self-paced course covers the system architecture, the problems Kubernetes solves, and the model it uses to handle containerized deployments and scaling. The course also includes technical instructions on how to deploy a standalone and multi-tier application.

= Cloud Native Landscape

=
CNCF developed a landscape map that shows the full extent of cloud native solutions, many of which fall under their umbrella.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.linux.com/news/beginners-guide-cncf-landscape/ |title=The Beginner's Guide to the CNCF Landscape |date=2018-11-28 |website=Linux.com |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20 The interactive catalog gives an idea of the problems facing engineers and developers in deciding which products to use. This interactive catalog was created in response to the proliferation of third-party technologies and the resulting Decision fatigue|decision-fatigue engineers and developers often experience when selecting software tools. In addition to mapping out the relevant and existing cloud native solutions, CNCF's landscape map provides details on the solutions themselves including open source status, contributors, and more.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.techradar.com/news/bigger-than-linux-the-rise-of-cloud-native |title=Bigger than Linux: The rise of cloud native |last=Thornett |first=Chris |date=2018-05-12 |website=TechRadar |access-date=2020-01-20

The landscape map has been the subject of various jokes on Twitter due to the CNCF ecosystem's expansiveness and visual complexity.Error: File not found: Cite web|date=September 10, 2020|first=Veronica|last=Combs|title=Take a look at the cloud native landscape if you dare|url=https://www.techrepublic.com/article/take-a-look-at-the-cloud-native-landscape-if-you-dare/|access-date=2020-09-14|website=TechRepublic|language=en

= Cloud Native Trail Map

=
CNCF's Cloud Native Trail Map outlines the open source cloud native technologies hosted by the Foundation and outlines the recommended path for building a cloud native operation using the projects under its wing. The Cloud Native Trail Map also acts as an interactive and comprehensive guide to cloud technologies.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=https://www.geekwire.com/2018/graduation-day-kubernetes-hits-key-milestone-cncf-lays-cloud-native-road-map/ |title=Graduation day: Kubernetes hits key milestone as CNCF lays out a cloud-native road map |date=2018-03-06 |website=GeekWire |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20

= DevStats

=
CNCF's DevStats tool provides analysis of GitHub activity for Kubernetes and the other CNCF projects. Dashboards track a multitude of metrics, including the number of contributions, the level of engagement of contributors, how long it takes to get a response after an issue is opened, and which special interest groups (SIGs) are the most responsive.Error: File not found: Cite web |url=http://social.techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/google-remains-the-top-open-source-contributor-to-cncf-projects/ |title=Google remains the top open-source contributor to CNCF projects |website=TechCrunch |date=17 January 2019 |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-20 |archive-date=2022-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124032537/https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/google-remains-the-top-open-source-contributor-to-cncf-projects/ |url-status=dead

= CNCF Technology Radar

=
In June 2020, CNCF published the inaugural issue of the CNCF Technology Radar, an "opinionated guide to a set of emerging technologies" in the form of a quarterly paper.Error: File not found: Cite web|last=Schmidt|first=Julia|date=2020-06-15|title=CNCF debuts own tech radar, looking into continuous delivery • DEVCLASS|url=https://devclass.com/2020/06/15/cncf-tech-radar-continuous-delivery/|access-date=2020-07-06|website=DEVCLASS|language=en-GB

Notes

External links

* Error: File not found: Official website|https://www.cncf.io/
* Error: File not found: GitHub|cncf|Cloud Native Computing Foundation

External links

Fair Use Sources

Fair Use Sources:
* github>CNCF Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects on GitHub
* ddg>CNCF Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects
* https://cncf.io/projects

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