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…
InfoQ: “Buildpacks Move the Container Hardening Control Point Away from the Dockerfile”
The long-running debate over Dockerfiles vs. buildpacks has become a security argument.
Reduce, reuse, rebase: sustainable containers with Buildpacks
TAG post originally published on Cloud Native sustainability’s blog by Joe Kutner Container builds can be very wasteful. Every operating system update, new dependency version, and toolchain upgrade results in copious amounts of energy used to…
ITOps Times: “ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Buildpacks”
Buildpacks is an open-source project that converts app source code into images that can be run on any cloud.
TOC Approves Cloud Native Buildpacks from Sandbox to Incubation
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to promote Cloud Native Buildpacks to incubation from the CNCF sandbox. Since joining CNCF in 2018, the Cloud Native Buildpacks project has added more than 15 new production…
CNCF to host Cloud Native Buildpacks in the Sandbox
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB) into the CNCF Sandbox for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. The CNCF Sandbox is a home for early stage projects; for further…
Cloud Native platform sovereignty through multi-plane architecture
When people talk about cloud sovereignty, the conversation often starts with regions: where a workload runs and where its data is stored. But choosing a region is only part of the story. The architecture of the…
K8gb becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Kubernetes Global Balancer (K8gb) as a CNCF incubating project. About K8gb K8gb is an open source, cloud native Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) solution designed specifically…