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…
CNCF Welcomes 12 New Silver Members Emphasizing a Growing Need for Observability and Automation
New global members join CNCF to strengthen community contributions in observability, cloud infrastructure, and cloud native AI SAN FRANCISCO, CA – December 17, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for…
Building platforms using kro for composition
Recent industry developments, such as Amazon’s announcement of the new EKS capabilities, highlight a trend toward supporting platforms with managed GitOps, cloud resource operators, and composition tooling. In particular, the involvement of Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro)—a…
Exploring AI, observability and community at OSS Summit Korea 2025
Attending OpenSearchCon, OpenSSF Day, and the Open Source Summit in Seoul was a truly memorable experience, especially because this was the first-ever Open Source Summit hosted in South Korea. I have previously attended two KubeCons in…
My first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon: A journey through community, inclusivity, and neurodiversity
Stepping into my first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, held this year in November in Atlanta, Georgia, felt like entering a world I had been following from afar for years; a world full of brilliant minds, bold ideas,…
Announcing Kyverno release 1.16
Kyverno 1.16 delivers major advancements in policy as code for Kubernetes, centered on a new generation of CEL-based policies now available in beta with a clear path to GA. This release introduces partial support for namespaced…
Kgateway is an open source implementation of the Kubernetes Gateway API that unifies ingress, API gateway, service mesh, and AI gateway capabilities in a singular modular control plane. Built for performance and flexibility, it secures and…
OpenFGA Becomes a CNCF Incubating Project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenFGA as a CNCF incubating project. What is OpenFGA? OpenFGA is an authorization engine that addresses the challenge of implementing complex access control at scale in…
Your Complete Guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 is just days away, and we want to help you make the most of it! Whether you’re joining us for the first time or you’re a veteran, a little preparation…
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Graduation of Crossplane
Graduation marks Crossplane’s readiness for widespread use and its evolution from a control plane framework to groundwork for intelligent, secure, and scalable cloud operations and platform engineering Key Highlights: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – November 6, 2025…