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We’ve received notice from Salesforce that our Slack workspace WILL NOT BE DOWNGRADED on June 20th. Stand by for more details, but for now, there is no urgency to back up private channels or direct messages. The...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Linux Foundation Education are excited to announce the launch of the Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate (CNPA) certification! Why CNPA, and why now? At recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon,...

To our incredible open source community, Today, we’re announcing the sunset of the CNCF Community Cluster at the end of 2025. As Equinix Metal sunsets its offering, support for community initiatives like ours is also being...

Updated May 1, 2025: CNCF and Synadia have come to an agreement to ensure that NATS continues to thrive as a healthy open source project within CNCF, with Synadia’s continued support and involvement. Please see our...

We are thrilled to announce the addition of three esteemed industry leaders to our Technical Advisory Board (TAB): Ahmed Bebars from The New York Times, Ben Somogyi from Lockheed Martin, and Kenta Tada from Toyota. Their...

The last day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 dawned bright and sunny again, with attendees streaming in to learn the latest about cutting edge topics including LLMs, 5G and 6G, and more. Here’s a snapshot...

Over 12,000 attendees streamed into the ExCel Arena for the second day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, enjoying yet another sunny day in London and primed to hear real world stories of cloud innovation. Here’s...

On a bright sunny London day, attendees from all over the world flocked to the ExCel Arena for the first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025. Here’s a quick recap of the keynotes. The crowd was...

Faseela Kundattil is one of those people who just seems to do a lot of things: Cloud Native Developer, project maintainer, CNCF Ambassador, LFX mentor, Technical Oversight Committee member, new mom, and now KubeCon + CloudNativeCon...

Help us defeat a patent troll claiming methods for “manipulation of complex hierarchical data” and “analysis of hierarchical data” were invented in 2005. We’re excited to launch 2 additional Cloud Native Heroes Challenge contests in which...

The CNCF community is truly global; our contributors, members and ambassadors span the world. We invest heavily in community-driven initiatives to fuel sustained momentum, expansion, growth and adoption. Importantly, we continued to support DEI initiatives to...

London’s calling and our local CNCF Ambassadors have answered with some great ideas of things to do close to the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 venue. Cross the river Since our event is going to be...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) are thrilled to introduce Open Source SecurityCon 2025—a premier event focused on strengthening cloud-native and open source software security. This one-day conference, set...

We’re thrilled to share that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has once again been accepted as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization for 2025! This program is a fantastic opportunity for new contributors—especially students—to...

The global cloud native community thrives on diversity and collaboration, bringing together contributors, users, and enthusiasts worldwide. As we continue to grow and expand, we are committed to creating an inclusive and effective environment for learning...

Phippy and Friends have long been a beloved part of the cloud native ecosystem, making complex technologies more approachable through storytelling. As interest in these books grows, CNCF is introducing new guidelines to better support, distribute,...

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Kubescape as a CNCF incubating project.  Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security project designed to offer comprehensive security coverage throughout the entire development and deployment lifecycle....

By Chris Aniszczyk  By consistently tracking open source project velocity, we are able to see the trends and technologies resonating with developers and end users. We have been tracking these trends since 2017; all previous blogs...

Get their best advice on beating patent trolls at their own game We’re delighted to announce the winners of our first Cloud Native Heroes Challenge! In that first challenge, we asked participants to find prior art...

Help us defeat a patent troll claiming “network isolation with cloud networks” was invented in 2017 We’re excited to launch another Cloud Native Heroes Challenge contest in which you can earn swag, a ticket to attend...