Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is one of the projects hosted by the Linux Foundation . CNCF aims to accelerate the adoption of containers, microservices, and cloud-native applications.

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CNCF hosts a multitude of projects, with more to be added in the future. CNCF provides resources to each of the projects, but, at the same time, each project continues to operate independently under its pre-existing governance structure and with its existing maintainers. Projects within CNCF are categorized based on achieved status: Sandbox, Incubating, and Graduated. At the time of this writing, a dozen projects had reached Graduated status with many more Incubating and in the Sandbox.

Graduated projects:

Incubating projects:

There are many projects in the CNCF Sandbox geared towards metrics, monitoring, identity, scripting, serverless, nodeless, edge, expecting to achieve Incubating and possibly Graduated status. While many active projects are preparing for takeoff, others are being archived once they become less active. The first archived project is the rkt container runtime.

The projects under CNCF cover the entire lifecycle of a cloud-native application, from its execution using container runtimes, to its monitoring and logging. This is very important to meet the goals of CNCF.

For Kubernetes, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation:

  • Provides a neutral home for the Kubernetes trademark and enforces proper usage
  • Provides license scanning of core and vendor code
  • Offers legal guidance on patent and copyright issues
  • Creates open source learning curriculum, training, and certification for both Kubernetes administrators (CKA) and application developers (CKAD)
  • Manages a software conformance working group
  • Actively markets Kubernetes
  • Supports ad hoc activities
  • Sponsors conferences and meetup events.

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