CoreDNS

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

CoreDNS was accepted to CNCF on February 27, 2017, moved to the Incubating maturity level on February 26, 2018, and then moved to the Graduated maturity level on January 24, 2019.

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Health Score

Healthy (76)

Total contributors

18,681

+9% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

4,759

+8% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

15,206

+9% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

3,405

+10% vs. previous year

Software Value

$4.2M

First commit

March 18, 2016

CoreDNS case studies

LY Corporation

LY Corporation


600 application projects supported by 1 multi-tenant cluster

May 13, 2025

How LY Corporation is leveraging Kubernetes as the foundation of its large-scale internal PaaS

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Meltwater

Meltwater


Massive Scale 2+ petabytes of data, 200+ billion documents

August 17, 2023

Meltwater's Live Migration to Cilium for Richer Features

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Recorded CoreDNS programs

CNCF On-Demand Webinar: Building Resilience with Chaos Engineering

CNCF On-Demand Webinar: Building Resilience with Chaos Engineering

Presented by: Harness
February 23, 2023 1,934 views
Introduction to CoreDNS

Introduction to CoreDNS

Presented by: CoreDNS
July 20, 2017 6,513 views