

In 2019, CNCF grew by 50% since the previous year with 173 new members and nearly 90% growth in end-users. In January 2020, the CNCF annual report for the previous year was issued and reflected significant growth to the foundation across membership, event attendance, training, and industry investment. Since its creation, CNCF has launched a number of hosted sub-projects. In August 2018 Google announced that it was handing over operational control of Kubernetes to the community. Sharma describes CNCF as "a very impactful organization built by a small group of people but a very large ecosystem" and believes that CNCF is entering into a "second wave" due to increased industry awareness and adoption. The foundation announced Priyanka Sharma, director of Cloud Native Alliances at GitLab, would step into a general manager role in his place. ĭan Kohn (who also helped launch the Core Infrastructure Initiative) led CNCF as executive director until May 2020. In order to establish qualified representatives of the technologies governed by the CNCF, a program was announced at the inaugural CloudNativeDay in Toronto in August, 2016. Today, CNCF is supported by over 450 members. Founding members include Google, CoreOS, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Twitter, Huawei, Intel, Cisco, IBM, Docker, Univa, and VMware. It was announced alongside Kubernetes 1.0, an open source container cluster manager, which was contributed to the Linux Foundation by Google as a seed technology. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation ( CNCF) is a Linux Foundation project that was founded in 2015 to help advance container technology and align the tech industry around its evolution.
