The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is at the forefront of modern software innovation, driving the adoption of cloud-native technologies across industries. Here's a look at the graduated and incubating projects shaping our cloud-native future, categorized by their focus areas:
Graduated CNCF Projects ??
App Delivery
- Argo: Workflow automation and orchestration tool for Kubernetes.
- CloudEvents: A specification for describing event data in a common way.
- Dapr: A portable runtime for building microservices.
- Flux: Continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes.
- Harbor: Cloud-native container image registry.
- Helm: Kubernetes package manager for defining, installing, and upgrading applications.
Networking
- Cilium: eBPF-based networking and security for containers.
- CoreDNS: Flexible and extensible DNS server.
- Envoy: High-performance proxy for cloud-native applications.
- Istio: Service mesh for secure service-to-service communication.
- Linkerd: Lightweight service mesh for observability, reliability, and security.
Observability
- Fluentd: Unified logging layer for data collection and processing.
- Jaeger: Distributed tracing system for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices.
- Prometheus: Monitoring system and time series database.
Runtime
- Containerd: Industry-standard container runtime.
- CRI-O: Lightweight container runtime for Kubernetes.
- KubeEdge: Framework for running Kubernetes at the edge.
- Kubernetes: Open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
- Keda: Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaler.
Security
- Cert-Manager: Automates the management and issuance of TLS certificates.
- Falco: Runtime security tool for detecting anomalous behavior.
- Open Policy Agent (OPA): Policy engine for enforcing fine-grained controls.
- SPIFFE: Framework for workload identity in distributed systems.
- SPIRE: API and runtime for managing SPIFFE identities.
- The Update Framework (TUF): Framework for securing software update systems.
Storage
- CubeFS: Cloud-native distributed file system.
- etcd: Distributed key-value store for configuration and state management.
- Rook: Storage orchestrator for running file, block, and object storage in Kubernetes.
- TiKV: Distributed transactional key-value database.
- Vitess: Database clustering system for scaling MySQL.
Incubating CNCF Projects ??
App Delivery
- Artifact Hub: Central repository for discovering and sharing Kubernetes packages.
- Backstage: Developer portal platform for managing infrastructure and tools.
- Buildpacks: Framework for building container images from source code.
- Keptn: Automated operations and continuous delivery control plane.
- KubeVela: Application delivery platform built with Kubernetes resources.
- KubeVirt: Virtualization management on Kubernetes.
- OpenKruise: Extends Kubernetes with advanced workload capabilities.
- Strimzi: Apache Kafka on Kubernetes for event-driven architectures.
Networking
- Contour: High-performance ingress controller for Kubernetes.
- Emissary-ingress: Kubernetes-native API gateway and ingress.
- gRPC: High-performance RPC framework.
- NATS: Lightweight messaging system for microservices and IoT.
Observability
- Chaos Mesh: Chaos engineering platform for testing system resilience.
- Cortex: Scalable, multi-tenant Prometheus-compatible monitoring.
- Litmus: Chaos engineering tool for Kubernetes.
- OpenCost: Cost monitoring and optimization for Kubernetes.
- OpenFeature: Open standard for feature flag management.
- OpenTelemetry: Observability framework for collecting metrics, logs, and traces.
- Thanos: Highly available Prometheus setup for long-term storage.
Runtime
- Cloud Custodian: Policy-as-code engine for managing cloud infrastructure.
- Crossplane: Open-source framework for building cloud-native control planes.
- Dragonfly: P2P-based image and file distribution system.
- Karmada: Multi-cluster management for Kubernetes.
- Knative: Framework for building serverless and event-driven applications.
- Kubeflow: Machine learning workflows on Kubernetes.
- Volcano: Batch processing and high-performance computing on Kubernetes.
- wasmCloud: Framework for building applications with WebAssembly.
Security
- in-toto: Framework for ensuring the integrity of supply chains.
- Keycloak: Identity and access management solution.
- Kyverno: Policy engine for Kubernetes.
- Notary Project: Provides trust and integrity for container images.
These projects are not just tools; they represent the building blocks of scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native systems. From container orchestration (Kubernetes) to observability (Prometheus, Jaeger) and security (OPA, Falco), CNCF projects empower teams to innovate faster and with confidence.
?? Are you using any of these projects in your cloud-native journey? Share your experience and insights in the comments! Let's learn and grow together as we embrace the future of cloud computing.
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