Community and governance
Most cloud native technologies, including Kubernetes, are open source. This gives them access to large and passionate communities that develop and support them. However, strong governance is required to provide direction and order.
To address this requirement, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was founded in 2015. It defines three maturity stages projects have to pass through on their journey to “graduation”. The stages are.
- Sandbox
- Incubating
- Graduated
This three-step process helps projects mature and eventually graduate as production-grade projects that can thrive and bring value to the community. Kubernetes was the first CNCF project and graduated in 2018. Since then, more than 15 other projects have graduated, and more than 100 are either in the sandbox or incubating stages.
Projects have to prove their maturity to the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) if they want to progress through the stages. Each stage has...
