TOC votes to move Harbor into CNCF incubator
Harbor started in 2014 as a humble internal project meant to address a simple use case: storing images for developers leveraging containers. The cloud native landscape was wildly different and tools like Kubernetes were just starting…
CNCF to host Harbor in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted Harbor, a cloud native registry, into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Project Harbor is an open source cloud native registry that stores, signs, and…
CNCF Announces Graduation of Cloud Native Buildpacks, Advancing the Standard for Container Builds
Project reaches broad production adoption for transforming application source code into OCI-compliant container images across cloud environments Key Highlights: SAN FRANCISCO — Aug. 11, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems…
New architecture reduced AI container image pull times by 60x while automating workflows for next-generation driver assistance systems Key Highlights YOKOHAMA – KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON JAPAN — July 29, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation®…
Collaboration with CNCF reflects Broadcom’s continued investment in open source innovation, cloud native resilience and the technologies powering the next generation of AI workloads Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO, California — July 16, 2026 — The Cloud…
The weight of AI models: Why infrastructure always arrives slowly
As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organizations face a critical bottleneck that is often overlooked until it becomes a serious obstacle: reliably managing and distributing large model weight files at scale. A model’s weights serve as…
CNCF celebrates successful mentees from LFX Mentorship 2025 Term 3
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is thrilled to congratulate the 2025 Term 3 (September – November) CNCF LFX Mentorship Program mentees who have successfully completed the program! This term saw a fantastic cohort of mentees working…
Platform engineering maintenance pitfalls and smart strategies to stay ahead
Platform engineering is a discipline that aims to increase the productivity of software engineering teams by designing, building, and maintaining internal platforms that abstract underlying infrastructure complexity and provide self-service capabilities. Kubernetes-based platforms are often complex…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Dragonfly’s Graduation
Dragonfly graduates after demonstrating production readiness, powering container and AI workloads at scale Key Highlights: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – January 14, 2026 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native…
The mentorship flywheel: How CNCF is growing the next generation of cloud native leaders
A record year for mentorship, 187 graduates contributing to the ecosystem, and one engineer’s journey from “I didn’t know about Docker” to Kyverno maintainer. In 2025, the CNCF mentorship programs hit a milestone: 187 successful mentorship…