CNCF Remains Focused as Cloud Native Interest Soars

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) might not be the largest open source organization or even the largest group under the broader Linux Foundation umbrella, but it has been one of the fastest growing thanks to such hosted projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF was established within the Linux Foundation in mid-2015. Its initial backers included 22 vendors and organizations, including AT&T, Cisco, the Cloud Foundry Foundation, Goldman Sachs, Google, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Twitter, and VMware. Its focus was on supporting the adoption of open source technologies for building cloud native applications and services.CNCF really took off in early 2016, when its technical oversight committee (ToC) accepted Google’s Kubernetes container orchestration platform as CNCF’s first hosted project. That move was followed by the acceptance of the Prometheus monitoring platform.