CNCF Ambassador’s reflections on 10 years of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Posted on November 6, 2025 by Dotan Horovits CNCF projects highlighted in this post Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Dotan Horovits “Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a new open standardization initiative recently formed under the Linux Foundation with the mission of providing standard reference architecture for cloud native applications and services, based on open-source software (OSS). ” That’s how I started my blog post 10 years ago , in August 2015 (back then I blogged on WordPress). And the momentum carried on. Eight months later I was excited to share that Prometheus joined The CNCF. Prometheus has since become a de-facto standard for cloud-native monitoring, and recently reached an important milestone with the long-awaited 3.0 major release. More projects have followed suit and joined the CNCF to augment Kubernetes with needed capabilities for running critical production workloads and managing them at scale, addressing aspects such as observability, security and networking. This ecosystem has fortified Kubernetes as the de-facto standard for container orchestration (remember that 10 years ago we had also Docker swarm, Mesos, Nomad?). In fact, just last year we celebrated 10 years to Kubernetes (or as we called it in the CNCF: kuberTENes). Since then the CNCF has grown to over 200 projects in various maturity stages, including over 30 graduated project. The domains have also expanded from Kubernetes and its immediate circle in the DevOps domain, into far wider topics, ranging from FinOps to Platform Engineering and chaos engineering. In fact, looking at the CNCF landscape these days could be somewhat overwhelming. I got to escort OpenTelemetry, second most active project in the CNCF, since its foundation.