Foundation welcomes dozens of new members and more than 4,000 attendees to Austin for annual North American event

AUSTIN, TX – December 6, 2017 – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes® and Prometheus™, today announced that 31 new members joined the Foundation.

These new members join more than 4,000 attendees at the biggest Kubernetes event to date, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. According to the latest survey conducted by CNCF, 61 percent of organizations are evaluating and 83 percent are using Kubernetes in production. For more survey results, check out today’s blog “Cloud Native Technologies are Scaling Production Applications.”

“This week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is set to be larger than the previous four gatherings combined, with over 4,000 cloud native developers, users and experts convening for the ecosystem’s most anticipated event,” said Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. “CNCF is thrilled to welcome 31 new members that are all committed to accelerating the adoption of cloud native technologies and enhancing the customer experience.”

About the newest Silver Members:

About the newest End-User Members & Supporters:

Cruise, Olark, Pinterest, SAP Concur, Showmax, Spredfast and WP Engine join other end user companies including Box, Capital One, eBay, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, NCSOFT, Ticketmaster, Twitter, Vevo and Zalando in CNCF’s End User Community. This group meets monthly and advises CNCF Governing Board and Technical Oversight Committee members on key challenges, emerging use cases and areas of opportunity and new growth for cloud native technologies.

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About Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of cloud native software stacks including Kubernetes, Fluentd, linkerd, Prometheus, OpenTracing, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy, Jaeger, Notary and TUF. CNCF serves as the neutral home for collaboration and brings together the industry’s top developers, end users and vendors – including the six largest public cloud providers and many of the leading private cloud companies. CNCF is part of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about CNCF, please visit: https://www.cncf.io/.

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