We’re excited to announce that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) community has reached an important milestone: more than 300,000 contributors have participated in CNCF hosted projects across nearly 800 organizations from 190 countries.
This incredible metric reflects the collective efforts of those who contribute code, documentation, reviews, testing, issue triage, design, and community support across the CNCF project landscape. It also represents continued participation across projects at every stage, from sandbox to graduated, and showcases the scale of collaboration that is the foundation of cloud native open source.
A community-driven cloud native ecosystem
CNCF projects are built and maintained by a global community of contributors working in the open. Reaching more than 300,000 contributors is the result of years of open collaboration across many communities who have given their time and effort to help build the cloud native ecosystem. Contributors participate in different ways and at different levels, but all contributions help projects evolve, improve reliability, and remain responsive to user needs.
Contributions across the project lifecycle
CNCF hosts projects at different stages of maturity, each with its own contributor dynamics:
- Sandbox projects explore new ideas and early-stage innovation.
- Incubating projects show growing adoption and contributor activity.
- Graduated projects demonstrate long-term sustainability and broad community involvement.
Across all stages, contributor participation is essential to project health, and the growth highlights ongoing engagement across this full lifecycle.
Thank you to the community
This milestone belongs to the entire community; everyone who has opened a pull request, reviewed a change, filed an issue, improved documentation, or supported others along the way.
As CNCF projects continue to grow and evolve, community participation remains central to their success. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and continues to contribute on a daily basis.
To explore contributor activity and learn how to get involved, visit the CNCF Project Metrics page.