KubeEdge brings Kubernetes into new industries, including aerospace, intelligent transportation, and smart energy

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – October 15, 2024 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the graduation of KubeEdge.

KubeEdge is an open source edge computing project built on Kubernetes, which expands the cloud native ecosystem to scenarios and industries outside of data centers. It extends Kubernetes’ native container orchestration and scheduling capabilities to the edge and provides capabilities such as edge application management, cloud-edge metadata synchronization, and edge IoT device management. 

KubeEdge was open sourced by Huawei Cloud in November 2018. It was accepted as the first cloud native edge project in the CNCF Sandbox project in 2019 and was promoted to an incubating project in September 2020.

Since joining CNCF, the project team has grown to include maintainers from 15 organizations and has attracted over 1,600 contributors from more than 35 countries and 110 organizations. Contributing organizations include Huawei Cloud, DaoCloud, HarmonyCloud, China Unicom, Inovex, ARM, QingCloud Technology, BoCloud, China Mobile, Inspur, Sony, China Telecom, Zhejiang Lab, SEL Laboratory of Zhejiang University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

“KubeEdge started with a vision to extend cloud native technology to the edge and foster a robust edge-cloud computing ecosystem. Today, it has been adopted across numerous innovative and unforeseen fields. This achievement is a testament to the incredible creativity and dedication of our contributors, whose efforts have driven the project’s success,” said Kevin Wang and Yin Ding, KubeEdge TSC members. “Graduation marks a new beginning, and we are excited to explore even greater possibilities for the entire cloud native ecosystem.”

KubeEdge has been widely applied in various industries, including CDN, intelligent transportation, smart energy, smart retail, smart parks, automobiles, intelligent logistics, finance, power, and blockchain. It has been deployed in industry-leading projects such as the largest cloud native cloud-edge collaborative highway toll station management project, the first cloud native satellite-ground collaborative satellite, the first cloud native electric vehicle, and more.

“Kubernetes was born through usage across massive data centers but has evolved, just like Linux, for new environments and has become a leading platform in edge computing,” said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF. “KubeEdge has been at the forefront of this transformation, bringing Kubernetes into new frontiers from electric cars to outer space. We look forward to seeing where the KubeEdge project goes next as a graduate project.”

Supporting Quotes:

Huawei

“Since it was open sourced, KubeEdge has received the attention and support of industry partners and end users. It has achieved breakthrough innovative practices in industry fields such as intelligent transportation, finance, energy, electric vehicles, robotics, and logistics. The graduation of KubeEdge will further promote the cloud native digital transformation of enterprises and release greater industrial value. As a pioneer and popularizer of cloud native technology, Huawei Cloud will continue to cooperate with CNCF and the community in the future to jointly promote the development of the cloud native industry.”

– Bruno Zhang, CTO, Huawei Cloud

DaoCloud

“The graduation of KubeEdge marks a significant milestone in the field of Cloud Native Edge computing. As the official first edge computing project of CNCF, KubeEdge provides robust computing and management support for resource-constrained edge devices, and its graduation signifies the technological maturity and industry recognition of Cloud Native Edge computing. Since the launch of the KubeEdge project, the DaoCloud team has actively participated, and contributed our extensive expertise on project governance/core tech development and customer promotion in manufacturing and retail sectors. In the future, we will continue to collaborate with the KubeEdge community to provide more flexible, secure, and efficient solutions to global enterprises and developers, and shape a new era of smart edges.”

– Hongbing Zhang, COO, DaoCloud

HarmonyCloud

“Congratulations on the successful graduation of KubeEdge open source project! As a member of KubeEdge Technical Steering Committee (TSC) team, it has been a pleasure to witness the journey of KubeEdge from incubation to graduation. From discovery, trial use and issue raising, pull request raising, feature raising, application and promotion, KubeEdge is an important component in the core technology framework of the cloud edge computing team to provide customers with edge computing product delivery. We have edge computing landing cases in telecommunication, finance, transportation, energy, bridges, logistics, military and other fields. KubeEdge has always kept its design clean and architecture clear, thanks to every open source contributor, bringing great flexibility to applications across the edge computing industry. In the future, HarmonyCloud will also continuously participate in the KubeEdge community and jointly promote the development of the cloud native edge computing industry to release the ubiquitous value of cloud native!”

– Huan Wei, Senior Director & Head of Edge Computing, HarmonyCloud

QingCloud

“Since it was open sourced, KubeEdge has led the trend of cloud native edge computing with its unique architecture, exerting huge influence and demonstration effect. While promoting the application of cloud native technology, it also promotes the development of edge computing. With the adoption of increasingly heavyweight industry users and the participation of numerous community contributors worldwide, it is an honor to witness the entire process of KubeEdge from incubation to graduation as a member of the KubeEdge Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Congratulations to the KubeEdge project on becoming the first edge computing project to graduate from CNCF! As the core maintainer of KubeSphere, while deeply participating in the KubeEdge project, QingCloud Technology has also been actively promoting the implementation of KubeEdge in various industries. We aim to promote the development of edge computing together with many domestic and foreign counterparts and community users!”

– Benjamin Huo, Lead of  Observability and Edge Computing, QingCloud

ByteDance 

“It is a great pleasure to witness the graduation of KubeEdge from CNCF. This milestone not only embodies the collective efforts of the community but also signals that cloud native edge computing has entered a new stage of maturity. In the future, we will continue to closely cooperate with global developers and partners to promote the innovation and application of edge computing technology and accelerate the digital transformation of various industries.”

– Tina Tsou, KubeEdge Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Member, ByteDance

BoCloud

“KubeEdge is the longest-lasting and most active project of edge computing architecture software. It has an extremely profound influence on the industry and has been widely adopted in the intelligent transformation of industries such as industry, transportation, and equipment manufacturing, making positive contributions to the promotion of the intelligent manufacturing plan. The KubeEdge community has attracted many open source contributors and cooperation projects with an active and open attitude. The open source edge network and storage components such as FabEdge and Carina from BoCloud have achieved good compatibility and project applications, and multiple project practices of cloud-edge-end AI model transfer, model conversion and loading have been implemented. The graduation of KubeEdge indicates the arrival of the mature stage of edge computing technology and the period of rapid industrial development. It is believed that the project will definitely gain more practical applications in the future. BoCloud is willing to jointly promote industrialization development with the project community and support the implementation of more scenarios.”

– Ji Cui, Vice President, BoCloud

Sony

“It is the most exciting news to see the graduation of KubeEdge from CNCF, which shouts out production-ready Kubernetes edge solutions. KubeEdge extends the orchestration capability down to edge environments to provide unified cluster management and sophisticated edge-specific features.

We are confident to see KubeEdge be applied to many more use cases in the near future, especially for edge computing such as robotics distributed systems, and AI/ML application deployment at edge. Not only development but also community engagement and growth are really important for open source based activity. KubeEdge also has been doing great work to encourage the developers and users to be engaged in the community, that really works to design the KubeEdge that can support broad use cases and requirements at edge environment and business logics. We will continue to engage and support KubeEdge development and community.”

– Tomoya FUjita, Software Engineer, Sony Corporation of America

NIO

“As a platform specifically developed for cloud-edge collaboration, KubeEdge can effectively address the challenges such as computing resource limited, a vast number of edge nodes, and differences in operating environments that the automotive field faces when applying the cloud native technology stack. After extensive research work, we have built NIO’s entire vehicle-cloud collaboration platform with KubeEdge as the core and used it in mass-produced vehicle models for the first time, bringing significant improvements in development and delivery efficiency, team collaboration, and so on. It will also achieve ultra-large-scale vehicle management. Hereby, we congratulate KubeEdge on its graduation. We also look forward to having deeper cooperation with the community, continuing to promote the development of the KubeEdge community, and continuously building innovative applications of cloud native solutions in the revolutionary EV field.”

– Saint Jiang, Architect of Digital Systems, Strategic New Business, NlO

Zeblok

“With KubeEdge’s graduation from CNCF, the edge computing landscape reaches a new frontier. At Zeblok Computational Inc., we’re thrilled to incorporate KubeEdge into our Ai-MicroCloud, delivering cutting-edge AI capabilities directly to the edge. This synergy drives innovation where real-time intelligence matters most.”– Vikarna Tathe, Platform Engineering Lead, Zeblok Computational Inc.

OEHI

“KubeEdge officially reaching the next level of maturity at CNCF is a strong recognition of the successful development efforts around this technology. The Open Edge and HPC Initiative (OEHI) strongly believes in the potential of KubeEdge as a key element of upcoming compute continuum infrastructures. To train people for this new paradigm of computing infrastructure design, OEHI co-organised a tutorial at ISC HPC 2024 where participants could get first-hand experience with KubeEdge. In the future, we will continue to promote this technology.” 

– Dirk Pleiter, Chair, OEHI

SF Technology

“The graduation of the KubeEdge is exciting. It is a rising star in the field of cloud native edge computing. SF Technology has been deeply involved in the logistics field for many years. KubeEdge is like a powerful assistant for us to move towards intelligence. From the efficient operation of logistics sorting to the full life cycle processing of transportation links, the edge computing capabilities provided by KubeEdge help us create a smarter and more efficient logistics system. In its development process, we have witnessed its growth and transformation, and we have also actively integrated it into our business scenarios. SF Technology looks forward to walking hand in hand with KubeEdge and continuously exploring new possibilities in the future, pushing the intelligence of the logistics industry to a new height and allowing edge computing to play a greater value in the circulation of every package.”

– Panggang Cheng, Lead of Edge Cloud Container Product, SF Technology

In the future, the KubeEdge community will keep the open governance model as well as the collaborative concept, and will further improve the user experience, providing a more reliable and stable experience for users. Meanwhile, KubeEdge will continue to explore new areas, such as cloud edge collaborative AI, cloud edge collaborative robots, and edge cluster management.

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry’s top developers, end users, and vendors and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world’s largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.

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