CNCF is an open source software foundation dedicated to making cloud native computing ubiquitous. Since we were founded in 2015, we've pioneered cloud native technologies - hosting and growing some of the world's most successful open source projects including Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, ContainerD, and many others.

Today we are a powerhouse for visionary projects and people, hosting 157 projects with over 178,000 contributors representing 189 countries, and there are no signs of this growth slowing down.

This year we welcomed our community safely back to in-person events. At the same time, CNCF continued to double down on digital, offering virtual access to all our major events to provide opportunities for collaboration, learning, and networking from every corner of the globe.

In response to the cloud native community's evolving needs in different regions, CNCF strengthened the Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) program this year. KCDs are community-organized events that gather adopters and technologists to learn, collaborate, and network, with a goal of furthering the adoption and improvement of Kubernetes and cloud native technologies around the world.

We also implemented additional measures to help support our KCD communities and organizers to ensure program success:

• Our organizer terms and conditions in the KCD GitHub repository were updated to include new provisions in addition to the pre-existing requirement of organizers to take the Inclusive Open Source Community Orientation. The new terms are as follows:
  • Agree to ensure the final program schedule is diverse (e.g., not all speakers of one gender, one culture, or age)
  • To assure a diverse lineup, you must send a copy of your program to kcd@cncf.io for review and approval before publication.
  • Organizers will ensure the speaker lineup is diverse in terms of companies represented.
• We encourage KCD organizers to consider and include talks that are non-technical and non-code contributions.
• In July, we started hosting a one-hour monthly organizer meeting with topics to help guide organizers during their planning process. August's topic was “How to Curate a Diverse Lineup.” This meeting featured resources and recommendations for organizers on how to build and recruit diversity within their schedules. We provide slides, as well as recording the session.

When we returned to having in-person events, both the number and severity of Code of Conduct incidents increased. Our increased focus on Code of Conduct highlighted the need to modernize our processes, which had previously been entirely foundation-managed, by including community representation and providing greater transparency. As a result, this year:

• We launched a Code of Conduct Working Group to develop an updated structure and set of procedures. Their work is ongoing, and anyone in the community is welcome to participate and contribute. Visit the working group's repository to participate, view progress, and learn more.
• We also launched an Interim Code of Conduct Committee - composed of both community members and staff-to adjudicate incidents while a more permanent structure is under development by the working group. The Incident Resolution Procedures that the committee is operating under were published earlier this year and finalized after a public comment period.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Valencia was the first time we'd gathered #TeamCloudNative in Europe for three years and the atmosphere felt electric. In fact, we had a lot of firsts in Valencia. Boeing joined us as a platinum member - the first aerospace organization to join CNCF. We hosted Cloud Native Telco Day for the first time, gathering huge players like Deutsche Telekom and Orange who are advancing the industry. Plus, we hosted our first CTO Summit where we discussed how organizations achieve resiliency in multi-cloud strategies.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America marked the first time we'd gathered in such big numbers in the Midwest, and Detroit was a wonderful host city. We launched a number of new initiatives, including Security Slam, in partnership with Sonatype. There were also some special surprises at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, including welcoming our Senior Developer Advocate Ihor Dvoretskyi back in-person, who was granted short-term leave from serving in the Ukraine military.

This year we launched the Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) - a certification that demonstrates and engineers foundational knowledge of observability and skills using Prometheus, the open source monitoring and alerting toolkit.

A new set of credentials were also launched this year: SkillCreds. These allow learners to gain credentials on specific topics related to their experience. Two of the first SkillCreds include Developing Helm Charts (SC104) and Open Data Formats: YAML (SC101). These micro-credentials are short, topic-specific, and cost effective.

The importance of training and certifications, and the regard that CNCF courses are held in, was highlighted this year in China where foreign nations are able to apply for visas for Beijing if they earn a CKA certification.

CNCF conducted a number of open source security audits throughout 2022, in strategic partnership with the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF). A number of projects completed security audits, resulting in 132 security fixes and improvements, 45 CVE's fixed, and 51 security tools built. We also announced the inaugural CloudNative SecurityCon, which will launch in 2023, and bring application developers and modern security experts not just propose solutions that incrementally improve what has come before, but to give room to cutting edge projects and advances in modern security approaches.

Furthermore, CNCF funded fuzzing audits for a variety of projects that have resulted in hundreds of bugs being found.

CNCF's footprint in the Telecom domain increased throughout 2022. In May, the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Certification Program (beta) was announced to help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) validate how well their vendors' products follow cloud native principles, and to advise vendors on following cloud native best practices. This is supported by CSPs like Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and DISH Wireless, and guided by best practices from the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Working Group and runs certification tests on the CNF Test Suite.

Significant progress has been made in 2022 towards the goal of 100% conformance test coverage of the Kubernetes API, managed through APISnoop - a community-driven project spearheaded by long-time CNCF contributor and community leader Hippie Hacker, which tracks the testing and conformance coverage of Kubernetes by analyzing the audit logs created by e2e test runs.

At the same time 26 endpoints have been identified as being ineligible for conformance testing and move to the ineligible endpoints list. By the end of 2022 only 10 endpoints (2.5%) remain untested. We anticipate cleaning up the last technical debt by Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023.

The automation for CNCF Kubernetes Conformance Certification repo has been updated for an enhanced user experience with improved functionality under the hood. The CNCF-CI bot also gives more detailed explanations of requirements when a submission fails and supporting documentation has also been improved. These changes help to reduce the complexity of reviewing and approving Kubernetes conformance submissions.

Projects increase their maturity level by demonstrating to the TOC that they have attained end user and vendor adoption, established a healthy rate of code commits and codebase changes, and attracted committers from multiple organizations.

From a humble PHP app, Phippy has gone on to help thousands of folx take their first steps to understanding cloud native computing - from containerisation to automation. Today, Phippy and Friends' mission is to demystify cloud native computing and explain complicated concepts in a compelling, engaging and easy-to-understand manner.

This year CNCF helped launch two documentary films that supported our mission to humanize developers by telling their story of development in this dynamic medium. In January 2022, The Origins of Kubernetes debuted on YouTube. The two part documentary has since garnered a combined 463,000 views and continues to attract viewers from across the world.

Inside Prometheus debuted in October 2022 at Prometheus Day North America as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA and has so far garnered 59,000 views on YouTube. Both films succeed in giving a voice and face to the forward-looking engineers who tackled adversity and technical challenges in their quest to change the way we work and live today.

Now in their sixth year, the CNCF Community Awards highlighted the most active ambassador and top contributor across all CNCF projects. The awards included:

Chop Wood & Carry Water awards

To recognize contributors who spend countless hours completing often mundane tasks, CNCF created the “Chop Wood and Carry Water” awards. CNCF was proud to acknowledge the amazing efforts of five individuals for their outstanding contributions in 2022:

2022 saw the cloud native community switch from the Meetup platform to Cloud Native Community Groups and the new platform has taken off. It has become the singular place where meetups, online programs, project office hours, and community events are run. The platform now hosts over 31,500 unique chapter members and we are excited to see this platform continue to grow.

The Cloud Native Glossary is a project led by the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee. Its goal is to explain cloud native concepts in clear and simple language without requiring any previous technical knowledge.

CNCF proudly supported more than 100 individuals through various mentoring and internship opportunities in 2022, including the LFX mentorship platform, Google Summer of Code (GSoC), Google Summer of Docs (GSoD) program, and Outreachy. These programs are important catalysts for internships to have an impact on future technologies that we all depend on.

In August, the TAG Contributor Strategy approved a Mentoring Working Group. The primary goals of this Working Group are to have the community administer CNCF mentorship initiatives and, by doing so, to help provide the capacity needed to grow and add new mentorship programs.

Internally, we employ 41 people from various backgrounds and locations; 61% women, 39% men. CNCF's Governance Leadership, comprising the Governing Board and Technical Oversight Committee, is 20% women and 80% men.

CNCF's revenue is derived from four primary fundraising sources, including membership, event sponsorship, event registration, and training.

A basic premise behind CNCF, our conferences (including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon), and open source, in general, is that interactions are positive-sum. There is no fixed amount of investment, mindshare, or development contribution allocated to specific projects. Equally important, a neutral home for a project and community fosters this type of positive-sum thinking and drives the growth and diversity that we believe are core elements of a successful open source project.