Contribution Guides to the CNCF Ecosystem

Welcome! Are you interested in contributing to one of CNCF hosted projects? This repository should help you. It contains information and guidelines about contributions to CNCF projects.

CNCF offers multiple ways to start contributing to the CNCF ecosystem, including either foundation-wide and project-wide opportunities.

Projects

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects are listed below, together with the brief information on contributing to them.

Graduated Projects

Project Name	Focus	Primary Language
Kubernetes	Orchestration	Go
Prometheus	Monitoring	Go
Envoy	Service Mesh	C++
CoreDNS	Service Discovery	Go
containerd	Container Runtime	Go
Fluentd	Logging	C, Ruby
Jaeger	Distributed Tracing	Go
Vitess	Storage	Go
TUF	Software Update Spec	-
Helm	Package Management	Go
Harbor	Registry	Go
Rook	Storage	Go
TiKV	Key/Value Store	Rust
Linkerd	Service Mesh	Scala,Go

Incubated Projects

Project Name	Focus	Primary Language
OpenTracing	Distributed Tracing API	Go
gRPC	Remote Procedure Call	Go
CNI	Networking API
Notary	Security	Go
NATS	Messaging	Go
etcd	Key/Value Store	Go
Open Policy Agent	Policy	Go
CRI-O	Container Runtime	Go
CloudEvents	Serverless	-
Falco	Container Security	C++
Argo	CI/CD	Go
Dragonfly	Image Distribution	Go
SPIFFE	Identity spec	Go
SPIRE	Identity	Go
Contour	Networking	Go
KubeEdge	Edge	Go
Buildpacks	Packaging Spec	Go

Sandbox Projects

Project Name	Focus	Primary Language
Telepresence	Tooling	Python
OpenMetrics	Security	Go
Cortex	Monitoring	Go
Virtual Kubelet	Nodeless	Go
Keptn	Event-driven orchestration	Go, Angular
Brigade	Scripting	Go
Network Service Mesh	Networking	Go
OpenTelemetry	Telemetry Spec	Go
OpenEBS	Storage	Go
Thanos	Monitoring	Go
Flux	GitOps	Go
in-toto	Security	Python
Strimzi	Kafka Operator	Go
KubeVirt	VM Operator	Go
Longhorn	Storage	Go
ChubaoFS	Storage	Go
KEDA	Event-driven autoscaling	Go
Service Mesh Interface	Service Mesh	Go
Volcano	High Performance Workloads	Go
Litmus	Chaos Engineering	Go

Working groups (WG’s) are the community-driven groups with the goal of continuous collaboration in the specific areas. CNCF WG’s are created and curated by the CNCF TOC and driven by the community members. CNCF TOC repo provides more details on the purpose and goals of WG’s, together with the list of them.

TOC Contributors

The recommended way to start contributing to CNCF TOC - acting as a TOC Contributor. Here are more details on goals and purpose of the initiative.

Community Engagement

Ambassadors

Cloud Native Ambassadors (CNAs) are individuals who are passionate about Cloud Native Computing Foundation technology and projects, recognized for their expertise, and willing to help others learn about the framework and community.

Successful ambassadors are people such as bloggers, influencers, evangelists who are already engaged with a CNCF project in some way including contributing to forums, online groups, community events, etc.

Details on the Ambassadors program, and information on how to join CNCF as an Ambassador is available here.

Meetups

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation supports the worldwide community of the Cloud Native meetups. They are listed on meetup.com website.

CNCF is currently working on expanding the Cloud Native community around the globe, and we are happy to accept the new meetup communities to join our network, and become one of the official CNCF meetups.

Details on the Meetups program, together with the best practices on running CNCF Meetups is available here.

Mentorship Programs

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation participates in various mentoring programs, including:

LFX Mentorship (previously known as Community Bridge) by the Linux Foundation;
Google Summer of Code (GSoC);
Google Season of Docs (GSoD);
Outreachy

CNCF is a great place to spend a time learning, coding, participating and contributing. We are an exciting open source foundation with a vibrant community of projects, and we look forward to your application and your project ideas!

CNCF and SoC information is available here.