Welcome to CNCF

Building sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure. CNCF brings together the world’s top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences. CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation.

CNCF serves as the vendor-neutral home for many of the fastest-growing open source projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy.

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In Memoriam: Dan Kohn

November 20, 1972 – November 1, 2020
Former Executive Director of CNCF

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CNCF collaborates with more than 550 members, including all of the world’s largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups. Join your peers in helping build and shape the cloud native ecosystem.

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Upcoming events

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“CNCF events are without exception the smoothest (from the attendee side), highest value, and most welcoming I have attended in over thirty years of doing this.”

– Roger Klorese, SUSE

Latest announcements

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Cloud Native Computing Foundation Shares Schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 – Virtual
March 3, 2021
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Welcomes 47 New Members at the Start of 2021
February 24, 2021
CNCF Provides Insights into Secrets Management Tools with Latest End User Technology Radar
February 23, 2021

Latest blog posts

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Kubernetes at Scale on the Public Cloud: Q&A with Forrester Research
March 5, 2021
Case Study: How Fidelity Investments built its multi-cloud strategy with cloud native technologies
March 4, 2021
What was observability again?
March 2, 2021

CNCF in the news

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SiliconANGLE: “OpenTelemetry attracts major enterprise interest in drive to set common observability standard”
March 1, 2021
ITOps Times: “CNCF Technology Radar provides recommendations for tools for secrets management “
February 24, 2021
DevClass: “Vault for secret keeping? CNCF End User Technology Radar spots surprising interest “
February 24, 2021
SiliconANGLE: “OPA’s graduation from CNCF signals growing interest in unified authorization solution”
February 10, 2021
Forbes: “Why Enterprises Must Embrace The Most Recently Graduated CNCF Project – Open Policy Agent”
February 8, 2021
ITOpsTimes: “Open Policy Agent graduates from CNCF”
February 8, 2021

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Join the CNCF End User Community

CNCF’s End User Community includes over 140 top companies and startups that depend on cloud native technologies and are committed to collaborative infrastructure development. The End User Community is an active participant in key technology decisions by CNCF-hosted projects.

Dave Zolotusky of Spotify and Alena Prokharchyk of Apple are the End User representatives to the Technical Oversight Committee.

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End User case studies

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Fidelity Investments

CNI CoreDNS
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Envoy Fluentd
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Jaeger Kubernetes
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Your career pathway through cloud native

Training

Linux Foundation Training

Certification

CKA and CKAD Certifications

Latest cloud native jobs

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Upcoming webinars

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