Quo vadis Cloud Native - The step in the second decade.pdf

A decade ago, Kubernetes started a revolution. This year, the CNCF—the foundation that nurtured it into a global standard—turns ten. The CNCF evolved to hosting most of the largest Open Source projects in the world. Let's take a look at what happened in the past decade of Cloud Native and how it helped to shape a whole tech ecosystem.

Also with the reforming of the Technical Advisory Groups we are looking into a new era of support from the community for the Community. Let’s find out how you can help TAGs and what you can gain from them.

The first 10 years only have been the beginning of an exciting journey. Join me as we look forward, exploring the next massive force set to redefine our fast-moving world: Artificial Intelligence.

1. Quo vadis Cloud Native
The step in the second decade
Mario Fahlandt
CNCF Ambassador
TAG Operational
Resilience Chair
David Palilonis
CNCF Membership
Development
Robert Kielty
CNCF Developer
Relations

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation or 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.


What is CNCF?
Continuous Integration &
Delivery
Container
Registry
Cloud Native
Network

Scheduling &
Orchestration

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1,200,000+ pull requests
made
18,800,000+ contributions
3,350,000+ code commits275,000+ contributors
and
Kubernetes is the highest velocity project outside of Linux
github.com/cncf/velocity
In the past 10 years,
Across 232+ Projects and 190+ countries
1,200,000+ pull requests

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10 Years of CNCF! #cTENcf

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Where it all started.

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Containers
Cloud
Native
Flagship Project: Kubernetes
Cloud native computing uses an open source
software stack to:
○segment applications into microservices,
○package each part into its own container
○and dynamically orchestrate those
containers to optimize resource utilization
Open
Source
IaaS
PaaS
Open
Source
PaaS
Virtualiza-
tion
2000 2001 2006 2009 2010 2011
Non-
Virtualized
Hardware
2013 2015
IaaS

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Application to AI Workloads
2000
Keynote: Building the Infrastructure
that Powers the Future of AI - Vicki
Cheung & Jonas Schneider
Eight years ago
OpenAI presented
on the KubeCon +
CloudNativeCon
stage about their
reliance on
Kubernetes to
train what
eventually
became ChatGPT.

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Security
Networking
Cloud
Automotive
Blockchain
Edge/IoT
Web
AI
Film
CI/CD
Energy
Hardware
Standards

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The Linux Foundation provides unparalleled ecosystem support

Support and Resources
Provides infrastructure, legal help in intellectual property, and
financial assistance for open-source project management.

IT Beyond Version Control
Offers CI/CD platforms, testing frameworks, and collaboration
tools beyond version control, with support in security, scalability,
and performance.

Marketing Programs
Assists in marketing, event organizing, media outreach, and
community engagement for projects..

Technical & Research Content
Supports creating and sharing technical and research content
like white papers, and organizing webinars and workshops.

Training
Offers training and certifications in Linux administration and
advanced cloud technologies through online and instructor-led
courses.

Developer Recruitment and Relations
Helps projects in developer recruitment and retention,
organizing networking events, hackathons, and offering
mentorship platforms.

Neutral Management
Functions as a neutral body to maintain project independence
and transparency, providing democratic and inclusive
governance frameworks.

Value
Accelerates innovation, supports sustainable project growth,
and fosters cross-industry collaboration for a robust, secure
open-source ecosystem.

10. CNCF
Projects

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Incubating Projects
We host ~210 open source projects at different stages of maturity
Projects Hosted by CNCF Today
Graduated Projects

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Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Sandbox Projects

13. Robert Kielty
CNCF Projects Team
Onboarding CNCF Projects
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Native
Computing
Foundation

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The onboarding
process to bring
a Project into
the CNCF
Sandbox
What
Projects
maintainers
and CNCF Staff
work together
Who Where
Agenda
sandbox.cncf.io

15. Project Maturity Model

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CNCF project maturity levels

17. Joining the CNCF Project
Sandbox

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Onboarding - ‘Live’ Demo
https://sandbox.cncf.io

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Why watch projects onboard?
Project
Maintainer
Or
Company
Contributo
r


Find a new
challenge!
End User

What’s new
Who’s new
How
Maturity
Works
It’s your job!Learn about
donating a
project

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Resources

LFX Insights sandbox.cncf.io CLOmonitor LFX Mentorship

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CNCF Structure
Marketing
Committee
•Responsible for marketing and
strategic direction
•Budget decisions
•Works with TOC to set overall scope
for CNCF
Governing
Board

Technical
Advisory
Groups


•Leads cloud native community
•Approves projects & defines
architecture
•Maps user feedback to projects

Technical
Oversight
Committee
End User TAB
and User
Groups
•Gives feedback on usability,
reliability & performance
•Shares insights on ecosystem gaps
& priorities
•Boosts visibility of end user
adoption
End User
Technical
Advisory
Board
CNCF Staff

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Technical Oversight
Committee (TOC)
Technical
Advisory
Groups
(TAGs)
TAG Developer Experience
TAG Workloads Foundation
TAG Infrastructure
TAG Operational Resilience
TAG Security and Compliance
Initiatives
Subprojects
Project Reviews Subproject
Contributor Strategy Subproject
Artificial Intelligence Initiatives

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TAG Developer Experience
Microservices, Streaming, Messaging,
API Management, Dev Frameworks
TAG Workloads Foundation
Containers, OS, Runtime, Virtual
Machines, Serverless, Web Assembly,
Databases, Batch, Scheduler,
Orchestrator, Deployment, Dynamic
Scaling, CI/CD
TAG Infrastructure
Data, Storage, Network, DNS, Compute,
Service Mesh, Infrastructure-as-Code,
Edge, Sovereignty, Load Balancing
TAG Operational
Resilience
-Observability
-Management
-Business
Continuity
-Resource
Optimization
-Cost Efficiency
-Energy
-Performance
-Troubleshooting
-Reliability
-Day 2 Ops
TAG Security
and
Compliance
-Security
hygiene
-Policy-as-code
-Compliance
-Auditing
-Threat
Modeling
-Secure
Software
Supply Chain

24. CNCF Membership

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CNCF LEVELS OF ENGAGEMENT
Leveraging CNCF Projects for your Business Strategy
Consumer
Participant
Leader

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From Consumers to Leaders: Why Join CNCF
●Gain a seat at the table: Shape the future of the ecosystem powered by
Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, OTel, and 210+ CNCF projects

●Protect what you depend on: Ensure sustainability and security for the
open source infrastructure you rely on

●Raise your profile: Elevate your work and gain visibility as a cloud native
leader

●Invest Intelligently: Pool resources on shared infrastructure and focus
your teams on differentiation

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Strategic Impact of CNCF Membership
●Expand opportunities: Cloud native technologies open new solutions,
services, and business models

●Shape industry platforms: Projects like Kubernetes, Envoy, and
Prometheus set the direction of modern infrastructure

●Reduce costs: Shared development lowers duplicative R&D on
undifferentiated infrastructure

●Unlock new markets: Cloud native drives growth in security, AI/ML, and
edge computing
Devs shape CNCF projects / Membership shapes the ecosystem

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Let’s connect this week, on Slack, and
LinkedIn
David Palilonis
Membership Development
Manager
[email protected]
CNCF Slack
https://communityinviter.com
/apps/cloud-native/cncf
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/
in/david-palilonis

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CNCF has the largest end user network of any open
source software foundation…

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Gold Members
Platinum Members
With 750+ Members…

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…and 580+ Silver Members…and Growing

32. community.cncf.io

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CNCF Ambassadors

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Code of Conduct
committed to making participation in the CNCF
community a harassment-free experience for everyone,
regardless of age, body size, caste, disability, ethnicity,
level of experience, family status, gender, gender
identity and expression, marital status, military or
veteran status, nationality, personal appearance, race,
religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, tribe,
or any other dimension of diversity.
TL;DR: Be excellent to each other!

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Core Principles (To Live By)
1.Defer To Open

2.It’s A Marathon, Not A Sprint

3.Assume Positive Intent

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-CNCF hosts a developer first job
board
-Everyone can post their jobs
-Encourages open source
contribution percentage information


Visit: https://gitjobs.dev/
Jobs?

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Why Contribute to Open
Source?
●Enjoy helping others
●Continued education and
learning
●Desire to solve a problem
…often out of sheer stubbornness
●Good for your career

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Why businesses should
contribute to open
source?

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We estimate the supply-side value of widely-used OSS
is $4.15 billion, but that the demand-side value is much
larger at $8.8 trillion. We find that firms would need
to spend 3.5 times more on software than they
currently do if OSS did not exist.

Hoffmann, Manuel and Nagle, Frank and Zhou, Yanuo, The Value of Open Source
Software (January 1, 2024). Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper
No. 24-038, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4693148 or
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4693148
Value Based On Academics (And Math)

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The Demanding User

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Open source maintainers owe you
NOTHING!

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Asking the Maintainers
Polled maintainers had three views:

-Put them on the backlog, triage as normal.
-Company should contribute!
-Company should pay to have the maintainer prioritize their issue.

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The Corporate
Contributor
-Gets to work on OSS as part of their
$dayjob
-Drives features that are important to
the company
-Can rapidly fix bugs, or provide
enough information to get them
fixed
Corporate Contributors

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So… Benefits?
-Mitigate the risk of relying on an Open Source project
-Develop in-house expertise
-Foster community relations within projects
-Up-level engineering talent
-Reduced engineering effort by not re-inventing a wheel

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Cyber Resilience Act

Manufacturers

Bear primary responsibility for product
compliance
Required to perform due diligence on
OSS components
Subject to conformity assessments
Liable for security over product life
cycle

Open Source Software Stewards

Lighter regulatory regime
Focus on documented cybersecurity
policies
Voluntary vulnerability reporting
Cooperation with market surveillance
authorities

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Get Started - Too Long, Didn’t Listen
1.Tell your company about the benefits of contributing to open source
2.Choose the project you want to contribute to. All of them are in need of
more hands!
3.Join project community spaces. Participate and contribute your initial
expertise as a user.
4.(Visit https://clotributor.dev and pick your first issues)
5.…
6.Profit!

47. Thank You!