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Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is an open-source organization under the Linux Foundation that promotes the development and adoption of cloud-native technologies. It serves as a hub for projects that enable scalable, resilient, and portable applications in modern cloud environments.

227 projects

604,173 contributors

$24B

Kubernetes

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Contributors

121,636

Organizations

22,274

Software value

$4.5B

Helm

Helm helps you manage Kubernetes applications — Helm Charts help you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application.

Contributors

28,467

Organizations

5,320

Software value

$19M

OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry makes robust, portable telemetry a built-in feature of cloud-native software. OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.

Contributors

24,567

Organizations

5,035

Software value

$230M

gRPC

gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication. It is also applicable in last mile of distributed computing to connect devices, mobile applications and browsers to backend services.

Contributors

22,652

Organizations

4,468

Software value

$138M

Argo

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.

Contributors

22,434

Organizations

5,350

Software value

$58M

Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Since its inception in 2012, many companies and organizations have adopted Prometheus, and the project has a very active developer and user community. It is now a standalone open source project and maintained independently of any company.

Contributors

21,566

Organizations

5,221

Software value

$30M

Keycloak

Keycloak is an open source Identity and access management solution aimed at modern applications and services. It makes it easy to secure applications and services with little to no code. Keycloak is based on standard protocols with an aim toward modern use cases and the flexibility to integrate with other solutions and prevent vendor lock in. Supported protocols include: OAuth2, OpenID Connect, User Managed Access 2.0 (UMA) and SAML 2.0.

Contributors

16,473

Organizations

2,457

Software value

$1.8B

Istio

Istio extends Kubernetes to establish a programmable, application-aware network using the powerful Envoy service proxy. Working with both Kubernetes and traditional workloads, Istio brings standard, universal traffic management, telemetry, and security to complex deployments.

Contributors

13,597

Organizations

2,885

Software value

$294M

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure. CNCF brings together the world’s top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences.

Contributors

13,431

Organizations

3,490

Software value

$543M

Fluentd

Fluentd is an open source data collector for unified logging layer. Fluentd allows you to unify data collection and consumption for a better use and understanding of data.

Contributors

13,336

Organizations

2,923

Software value

$131M

Podman Container Management Tool

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

Contributors

12,487

Organizations

2,935

Software value

$129M

Harbor

Harbor is an open source container image registry that secures images with role-based access control, scans images for vulnerabilities, and signs images as trusted.

Contributors

9,797

Organizations

2,101

Software value

$37M

Envoy

ENVOY IS AN OPEN SOURCE EDGE AND SERVICE PROXY, DESIGNED FOR CLOUD-NATIVE APPLICATIONS.

Contributors

9,766

Organizations

2,061

Software value

$3.2B

Kubeflow

Kubeflow project is an extendable Machine Learning (ML) platform made of multiple distinct components to address specific stages of the ML lifecycle, including: Mode Development, Model Training, Pipelines, and Multi-framework supports.

Contributors

8,954

Organizations

1,745

Software value

$352M

Flux

Flux is a tool that automatically ensures that the state of your Kubernetes cluster matches the configuration you’ve supplied in Git. It uses an operator in the cluster to trigger deployments inside Kubernetes, which means that you don’t need a separate continuous delivery tool.

Contributors

8,486

Organizations

2,159

Software value

$18M

Etcd

A distributed, reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system.

Contributors

8,233

Organizations

1,805

Software value

$66M

Backstage

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals that helps organizations streamline software development by centralizing technical documentation, APIs, services, and tools into a unified interface. It provides a microservices architecture, plugin system, and tools for service catalogs, documentation, and infrastructure management.

Contributors

7,859

Organizations

2,297

Software value

$112M

cert-manager

cert-manager is a Kubernetes add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources.

Contributors

7,685

Organizations

2,719

Software value

$30M

NATS

NATS.io is a simple, secure and high performance open source messaging system for cloud native applications, IoT messaging, and microservices architectures.

Contributors

7,622

Organizations

1,705

Software value

$78M

Cilium

Cilium is an open source software for providing, securing and observing network connectivity between container workloads - cloud native, and fueled by the revolutionary Kernel technology eBPF.

Contributors

7,223

Organizations

2,055

Software value

$867M

Distribution

A container registry project that is now a sandbox project from Docker.

Contributors

6,880

Organizations

1,313

Software value

$104K

k3s

K3s is a highly available, certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances.

Contributors

6,186

Organizations

1,917

Software value

$9.2M

Containerd

An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability

Contributors

5,760

Organizations

1,625

Software value

$95M

Jaeger

Monitor and troubleshoot transactions in complex distributed systems. As on-the-ground microservice practitioners are quickly realizing, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability.

Contributors

5,521

Organizations

1,433

Software value

$45M

Dapr

Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.

Contributors

4,875

Organizations

1,056

Software value

$46M

Score

We believe that developers shouldn’t have to fight a symphony orchestra of tech and tooling when preparing their code for its journey toward production. Instead, we advocate for a workload-centric approach to software development. This means that the platform or tools of the target environment are responsible for satisfying the workload runtime requirements rather than the other way around.

Contributors

4,552

Organizations

64

Software value

$2.2M

Open Policy Agent

Stop using a different policy language, policy model, and policy API for every product and service you use. Use OPA for a unified toolset and framework for policy across the cloud native stack. Whether for one service or for all your services, use OPA to decouple policy from the service's code so you can release, analyze, and review policies (which security and compliance teams love) without sacrificing availability or performance.

Contributors

4,416

Organizations

1,211

Software value

$325M

Rook

Rook turns distributed storage systems into self-managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services. It automates the tasks of a storage administrator: deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management.

Contributors

4,382

Organizations

1,305

Software value

$11M

Crossplane

Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that enables platform teams to assemble infrastructure from multiple vendors, and expose higher level self-service APIs for application teams to consume, without having to write any code.

Contributors

4,332

Organizations

1,261

Software value

$589M

Linkerd

Linkerd is a service mesh for Kubernetes and other frameworks. It makes running services easier and safer by giving you runtime debugging, observability, reliability, and security—all without requiring any changes to your code.

Contributors

4,214

Organizations

1,203

Software value

$90M

KEDA

KEDA is a Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaler. KEDA determines how any container in Kubernetes should be scaled based on the number of events that need to be processed. KEDA is a single-purpose and lightweight component that can be added to any Kubernetes cluster. It works alongside standard Kubernetes components like the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and can extend functionality without overwriting or duplication. With KEDA you can specify the that apps you want to scale in an event-driven way while other apps continue to function. This makes KEDA a flexible and safe option to run alongside other Kubernetes applications and frameworks.

Contributors

4,178

Organizations

1,113

Software value

$183M

Thanos

Open source, highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities.

Contributors

3,933

Organizations

1,130

Software value

$10M

Connect

Connect is a simple, cross-language framework for Protobuf RPC.

Contributors

3,836

Organizations

342

Software value

$5.6M

Knative

Knative is an Open-Source Enterprise-level solution to build Serverless and Event Driven Applications.

Contributors

3,800

Organizations

986

Software value

$655M

Atlantis

Atlantis is PR automation application that allows users to create PRs against a repository to run terraform via command comments.

Contributors

3,784

Organizations

1,009

Software value

$4.1M

Longhorn

Cloud native distributed block storage for Kubernetes

Contributors

3,550

Organizations

954

Software value

$353M

Strimzi

Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes in various deployment configurations.

Contributors

3,485

Organizations

828

Software value

$118M

Meshery

Lifecycle, performance, and configuration management across any service mesh.

Contributors

3,431

Organizations

583

Software value

$178M

External Secrets Operator

"External Secrets Operator (ESO) is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems like AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, Google Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault and many more. The operator reads information from external APIs and automatically injects the values into a Kubernetes Secret. ESO provides a user-friendly abstraction for the external API that stores the secrets for you. It allows you to manage access to the secret store for different tenants within your cluster and keeps the Kubernetes secrets in sync.

Contributors

3,323

Organizations

1,064

Software value

$6.4M

KubeVirt

KubeVirt technology addresses the needs of development teams that have adopted or want to adopt Kubernetes but possess existing Virtual Machine-based workloads that cannot be easily containerized. More specifically, the technology provides a unified development platform where developers can build, modify, and deploy applications residing in both Application Containers as well as Virtual Machines in a common, shared environment.

Contributors

3,277

Organizations

649

Software value

$2.6B

Kyverno

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes. With Kyverno, policies are managed as Kubernetes resources and no new language is required to write policies.

Contributors

3,163

Organizations

985

Software value

$68M

CoreDNS

CoreDNS is a DNS server. It is written in Go. It can be used in a multitude of environments because of its flexibility.

Contributors

3,035

Organizations

910

Software value

$1.8M

TiKV

A distributed transactional key-value database. Based on the design of Google Spanner and HBase, but simpler to manage and without dependencies on any distributed filesystem

Contributors

3,014

Organizations

705

Software value

$233M

Falco

Falco, the open source cloud-native runtime security project, is the defacto Kubernetes threat detection engine. Falco detects unexpected application behavior and alerts on threats at runtime.

Contributors

2,885

Organizations

766

Software value

$32M

Fluid Project

Fluid is an open, collaborative project to improve the user experience and inclusiveness of open source software. The Fluid community consists of an international team of partners, individuals, and institutions focused on designing inclusive, flexible, customizable, user-centered interfaces.

Contributors

2,749

Organizations

80

Software value

$80M

Notary

Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data

Contributors

2,664

Organizations

241

Software value

$21M

OpenEBS

OpenEBS is the leading storage solution for Kubernetes Kubernetes native; runs in userspace Open Source; no vendor lock-in The only multi cloud storage solution

Contributors

2,491

Organizations

659

Software value

$93M

Cortex

A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.

Contributors

2,476

Organizations

448

Software value

$88M

Cloud Custodian

Cloud Custodian enables users to be well managed in the cloud. The simple YAML DSL allows you to easily define rules to enable a well-managed cloud infrastructure, that's both secure and cost optimized.

Contributors

2,379

Organizations

411

Software value

$37M

Volcano

Volcano is a batch system built on Kubernetes.

Contributors

2,342

Organizations

294

Software value

$38M

Telepresence

Telepresence is an open source tool that lets you run a single service locally, while connecting that service to a remote Kubernetes cluster.

Contributors

2,240

Organizations

615

Software value

$5.6M

KubeEdge

KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge.It is built upon kubernetes and provides fundamental infrastructure support for network, app. deployment and metadata synchronization between cloud and edge.

Contributors

2,236

Organizations

397

Software value

$279M

Curve

Curve is a distributed storage system designed and developed independently by NetEase, featured with high performance, easy operation, cloud native. Curve is composed with CurveBS(Curve Block Storage) and CurveFS(Curve FileSystem). CurveBS supports snapshot, clone, and recover, also supports virtual machines with qemu and physical machine with nbd. CurveFS supports POSIX based on Fuse. Curve is widely used in Netease, and is also test by other users. Curve provides storage service for core business of YouDao, YanXuan, Music, Lofter, YouXi in Netease. In the past 2 years, a single Curve cluster has stored tens of thousands of volumes, with a storage capacity of PB.

Contributors

2,171

Organizations

128

Software value

$60M

CloudNativePG

A comprehensive open source platform designed to seamlessly manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments.

Contributors

2,129

Organizations

667

Software value

$75M

Vitess

Vitess is a database solution for deploying, scaling and managing large clusters of open-source database instances. It currently supports MySQL and MariaDB. It’s architected to run as effectively in a public or private cloud architecture as it does on dedicated hardware. It combines and extends many important SQL features with the scalability of a NoSQL database

Contributors

2,045

Organizations

485

Software value

$67M

Dex

Dex is an identity service that uses OpenID Connect to drive authentication for other apps.

Contributors

2,043

Organizations

867

Software value

$197K

k0s

k0s is a lightweight, all-inclusive Kubernetes distribution that is designed to be simple to install and operate. It packages all required Kubernetes components into a single binary, making it easier to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across various environments.

Contributors

1,943

Organizations

700

Software value

$14M

emissary-ingress

An open source ingress controller and API Gateway for Kubernetes.

Contributors

1,922

Organizations

652

Software value

$34M

Capsule

Capsule implements a multi-tenant and policy-based environment in your Kubernetes cluster. It is designed as a micro-services-based ecosystem with the minimalist approach, leveraging only on upstream Kubernetes.

Contributors

1,886

Organizations

149

Software value

$3M

MetalLB

MetalLB is a load-balancer implementation for bare metal Kubernetes clusters, using standard routing protocols.

Contributors

1,806

Organizations

566

Software value

$8.5M

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