CNCF

CNCF stewards a portfolio of open-source projects that advance through sandbox, incubating, and graduated maturity levels under the technical direction of its Technical Oversight Committee. Projects keep their existing maintainers and governance while the foundation contributes ecosystem services such as marketing, legal, and community infrastructure, pursuing its charter mission of making cloud native computing ubiquitous. The portfolio spans containers, orchestration, networking, storage, observability, security, and related cloud native infrastructure.

Beyond project stewardship, the foundation runs the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference series, offers training and certification programs for Kubernetes and cloud native skills, and supports end-user communities, case studies, and local community groups. As a Linux Foundation sub-foundation, CNCF sits between project maintainers and the vendor and end-user community as the neutral governance layer for cloud native infrastructure.